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Oct 19, 2018
US opens federal investigation into sexual abuse in Catholic Church; issues subpoenas to dioceses of Pennsylvania
The investigation comes after the release of a sweeping US grand jury report in August that revealed credible allegations against more than 300 suspected predator priests and identified over 1,000 victims of child sex abuse covered up for decades by the Catholic Church in the state of Pennsylvania. -
Sep 21, 2018
Donald Trump's immigrant roundups increasingly target non-criminals, up 66 percent in the first 9 months of 2018
ICE arrests of noncriminals increased 66 percent in the first nine months of the 2018 fiscal year over the same period a year earlier. Arrests of convicts, meantime, rose nearly 2 percent. More noncriminals have also been deported. Among those expelled from the U.S. interior in fiscal 2017, there was a 174 percent increase from the previous year of those with no criminal convictions. Deportations of those with convictions rose nearly 13 percent over the same period. -
Sep 20, 2018
Donald Trump visits areas affected by Hurricane Florence, vows '100 percent' support for storm-battered Carolinas
Trump pledged federal assistance as the Carolinas begin the long recovery from a storm estimated to have caused billions of dollars in damage and left dozens dead. -
Sep 19, 2018
Catholic child sex abuse case: Diocese of Brooklyn reaches record settlement of $27.5 million before trial in 2019
Church officials did not immediately comment. But the settlement ends the civil complaint of the four victims, which was to lead to a trial in early 2019. -
Sep 18, 2018
Hurricane Florence continues to wrack havoc: Toll rises to 32, rescue efforts on to provide aid to stranded people
Flash flooding, triggered by Florence, was reported in most parts of North Carolina, northern South Carolina. -
Sep 04, 2018
New Yorker editor David Remnick cancels Steve Bannon invite after high profile dropouts and outrage; says he's 'changed his mind, there's a better way to do this'
Facing widespread outrage, The New Yorker has dropped plans to interview Steve Bannon during its festival next month. The former Donald Trump aide and ex-chairman of Breitbart News was supposed to be a featured guest during a prestigious gathering that over the years has drawn some of the world's most prominent artists and public figures -
Aug 30, 2018
Donald Trump government siding with Asian American students suing Harvard: 'No American should be denied admission to school because of race'
The Justice Department on Thursday sided with Asian-American students suing Harvard University over the Ivy League school's consideration of race in its admissions policy, the latest step in the Trump administration's effort to encourage race-neutral admissions practices. -
Aug 27, 2018
Race-based school criteria roils Asian-Americans enough to push for legal fight as immigration takes centerstage in US midterms
The U.S. Department of Justice is backing a 2014 lawsuit against Harvard University by Asian-American applicants, who say the Ivy League college unlawfully suppresses the number of Asians admitted. The DOJ also said last year it would investigate a May 2015 complaint filed against Harvard by a coalition of Asian-American groups. -
Aug 15, 2018
300 Catholic priests molested over 1,000 children in Pennsylvania, says report
Roughly 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children since the 1940s, according to a sweeping state grand jury report released Tuesday -
Jul 27, 2018
New Jersey's Sikh attorney general Gurbir Grewal faces 'turban man' slur before radio show hosts are kicked off air
The hosts of a popular New Jersey radio show were off the air Thursday after calling the nation's first Sikh attorney general "turban man" — the latest slur against a career prosecutor who says he faces countless "small indignities and humiliations" no matter how far he rises or how important his position.
