Illegal immigrants in California may soon be given access to cell phone bill subsidies under a new proposal. The state’s Public Utilities Commission will vote on Sept. 26 whether California LifeLine, a subsidy program for low-income state residents, should extend eligibility to those without Social Security numbers. “If an undocumented Californian falls on hard times,...
Illegal migrants do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, a federal appealscourtin New Orleans has ruled, rejecting arguments by a Mexican man who was convicted ofillegally possessing a handgun and argued that thebanwas unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. CircuitCourtof Appealsruled on Tuesdaythat federal prohibitions on...
Pope Francis is urging countries not to turn their backs on migrants at risk of dying as they seek refuge abroad. The pontiff deviated from his catechesis series during his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter’s Square this week, instead focusing on what he called the “grave sin” of intentionally allowing migrants to die in...
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue. The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a...
A government mobile app for migrants seeking asylum at the southern border is facing scrutiny for its lack of vetting migrants. An internal watchdog within the Department of Homeland Security sent a report to Congress titled, “CBP Did Not Thoroughly Plan for CBP One Risks, and Opportunities to Implement Improvements Exist.” The report warns of...
The New York Times reported on research claiming that groups of immigrants that have “historically leaned Democratic” are being granted citizenship and voting rights at the fastest rate since the Trump Administration. Chaos at America’s southern border has been one of the key topics in recent years, including speculation about whether the Democratic Party has...
“I handed over my title as Miss Universe a good amount of years ago, and I remember walking off that stage feeling like I forgot something,” Demi-Leigh Tebow told Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview. She also survived a dramatic carjacking attempt — and felt forever changed by those experiences and others. She’s taken...
South Korea’s top court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples, a landmark verdict hailed by human rights groups. The Supreme Court said it ruled that the state health insurance agency’s refusal to provide spousal insurance coverage for gay couples was an act of discrimination...
A mass trial of dissidents in the United Arab Emirates sentenced 43 people to life in prison on Wednesday while several other defendants received long prison terms in a case that has been widely criticized by activists abroad. The sentences given by the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal came in a case described by...
In what some saw as anticlimactic,theSupremeCourt last Monday declined to decide whether Texas and Florida laws regulating social media moderation policies violatetheFirst Amendment. Butthebignews fromthese consolidated cases was whatthecourtdid say. Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion inMoody v. NetChoice(decided withNetChoice v. Paxton), made clear thattheFirst Amendment “does not go on leave when social media are involved.”...
