Washington, D.C. Beat

The Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row for a quarter century. 

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Supreme Court will not hear a pair of cases that may have allowed sidewalk counselors and protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal judge in Maryland has halted a Trump administration policy rescinding long-standing restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests at what are seen …

The bishops conference pledged to work with the Trump administration amid instances of agreement and disagreement. Instances of both immediately materialized.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 24 considered the case of a Texas death-row inmate who is seeking to obtain post-conviction DNA testing on evidence that he claims …

Trump has signed more executive orders in his first 10 days than any recent president in their first 100 days — some may affect Catholics’ climate concerns.

(OSV News) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Feb. 19 it has started to send out guidance on “clear sex-based definitions” to government agencies, outside organizations and …

President Donald Trump’s Feb. 18 executive order on IVF is his first step toward fulfilling a campaign promise the Catholic Church warns is actually anti-life.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which the Catholic Church opposes as anti-life.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. bishops’ migration chair called recent comments by Vice President JD Vance about the church’s work with migrants “a tremendous mischaracterization” while speaking at an event …