Washington, D.C. Beat

The ruling sent the law back to the lower courts, saying the lower courts previously “erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.”

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A group of U.S. senators who oppose abortion sent investigatory letters to three abortion drug manufacturers seeking information about their products, as well as a similar letter …

The 118,000-square-foot shrine is located in the city’s Brookland section, affectionately called “Little Rome” for the many Catholic institutions located there.

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security cleared a key Senate hurdle this week.

President Donald Trump issued two messages marking prominent Catholic feast days, the feast of St. Joseph on March 19 and St. Patrick’s Day on March 17.

Conscience protections for health providers remain a key religious freedom concern, witnesses told the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission.

The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments in cases of Trump administration trying to end TPS for Haitians and Syrians.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed in the Senate as negotiations over new, stronger constraints on federal immigration officers stalled.  The same week, …

The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, if enacted, would revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — With American peacebuilding at a “crossroads,” amid global conflict and changes in U.S. foreign policy, a Notre Dame conference March 10 in the nation’s capital examined how …