Dozens of migrant children reported missing in Houston, raising alarms
Reuters Federal and local officials are scrambling to locate close to a dozen unaccompanied migrant children, after Houston police raised concerns about dozens of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city since last year, according to US Government officials and related emails reviewed by Reuters. The cases underscore the challenges for US President Joe […]
In the US, new rule would allow foster care, adoption agencies to exclude on religious grounds
RNS The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would allow adoption, foster care agencies, and other social service providers receiving taxpayer funding from the Department of Health and Human Services to refuse to serve people based on religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule essentially guts a 2016 provision enacted in the […]
White House expands birth control exemptions for employers with religious objections
RNS The Trump administration has issued new rules it says will “provide conscience protections for Americans who have a religious or moral objection to health insurance that covers contraception methods.” The final rules follow interim regulations issued a little more than a year ago by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury […]