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  • SCOTUS Weighs If States May Tax Catholic Charities, Religiously Affiliated Groups

    ย Getty Images In a case that critics claim could jeopardize the unemployment benefits of over a million US workers, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday regarding whether states can mandate that religiously affiliated organizations, such as Catholic Charities, pay unemployment taxes. The Catholic Charities Bureau and four affiliate organizations claim that Wisconsin violated…

  • Comey Interviewed By Secret Service After Posting Trump โ€˜Threatโ€™ Online

    ย Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey has gotten himself into a sticky predicament, and now he has to come face-to-face with the Secret Service. The former FBI director quickly fell under investigation for an Instagram post in which he showed seashells arranged to say โ€œ86 47.โ€ It is presumed that โ€™86โ€™ was used in…

  • House Republicans Examining Bidenโ€™s Use Of Autopen For Pardons

    ย Getty Images House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced Friday that the committee has launched an investigation into former President Joe Bidenโ€™s use of an autopen to authorize a series of controversial last-minute pardons. โ€œSo our newest investigation at [the] Oversight Committee is weโ€™re investigating the autopen, and I think weโ€™ve identified the stafferโ€…

  • Trump Responds After Supreme Court Blocks Deportation of Venezuelan Migrants

    ย Getty Images President Donald Trump has responded on social media following Fridayโ€™s unsigned ruling by the Supreme Court blocking his administration from deporting Venezuelans in the country illegally who have been identified as members of a gang deemed by him to be a terrorist organization. The high court ruled 7-2 against Trumpโ€™s invoking of the…

  • GOP Senator Asks Patel To Have FBI Investigate Comey

    Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) has formally requested that FBI Director Kash Patel launch an investigation into former FBI Director James Comey, following a cryptic social media post reading โ€œ86 47,โ€ which was widely interpreted by some as a potential threat against President Donald Trump. Comey, who served as FBI director after being…

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