by Nona Tepper | Jan 31, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of more than 20 people Monday that challenges President Donald Trump’s immigration ban on Muslims as a First Amendment violation for singling out one religion that...
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by Nona Tepper | Jan 30, 2017 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON — Because she was too young to vote, Kennedy Latham, 17, said she prayed that whoever won the presidential election would be sympathetic to Christian causes. Now, one week into the Trump administration, “we are getting a lot of support for the...
by Nona Tepper | Jan 26, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON—The government’s failure to fix a broken electronic immigration processing system that mistakenly approved at least 20,000 green cards could give the Trump administration justification for cutting the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. Immigration...
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by Nona Tepper | Jan 21, 2017 | Inauguration
WASHINGTON— Tiffany Brooks’s decision to come to Washington for the Women’s March on Saturday did not come lightly. It involved a 1,600-mile round trip, a 32-hour ride and leaving her husband back home in Moro, Illinois to take care of their two children. But she felt...
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by Nona Tepper | Jan 20, 2017 | Inauguration
WASHINGTON—Demetrius Palmer waited two hours in the dark early Friday to light up. Finally, at about 8 a.m. the Akron, Ohio man pushed his wheelchair across the sidewalk to be the first in a long line of protesters to receive a free joint from DCMJ, a pro-pot group...
