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Judge blocks Texas law granting in-state tuition for illegal migrants

1 day ago | wng.org | Christina Grube

A federal judge overturned a Texas law on Wednesday that offered illegal migrants in-state tuition rates for nearly 25 years. The ruling came the same day the Department of Justice sued the state over the law, alleging it unconstitutionally discriminates against legal citizens in other states who aren’t offered the same in-state tuition rate. Federal law bars schools from giving illegal migrant benefits that aren't even offered to legal U.S. citizens, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Day of prayer called for ahead of U.K. vote on assisted suicide bills

2 days ago | wng.org | Lauren Canterberry

A coalition of faith-based organizations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are urging Christians to join them on June 11 to pray against two bills aimed at legalizing assisted suicide. The Christian Institute, Affinity, CARE, the Christian Medical Fellowship, Christian Concern, and the Evangelical Alliance called for the day of prayer.
SCOTUS backs Catholic charities' discrimination claims

2 days ago | wng.org | Christina Grube

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that Wisconsin exercised religious discrimination against a group of charities run by a Catholic diocese in the state. The Catholic Charities Bureau sued the state after officials would not exempt the charities from paying into the Wisconsin unemployment tax program. The Catholic Charities Bureau argued that being run by a local diocese gave it religious exemption from paying unemployment taxes.
Trump bans travel from 12 countries, cites lax screening

2 days ago | wng.org | Lauren Canterberry

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation barring foreign nationals from 12 countries from entering the United States. The ban will take effect at midnight on Monday. Trump accused the blocked countries of not properly vetting and screening their citizens before letting them travel to the United States.
Ukraine’s deep strike

2 days ago | wng.org | Mary Reichard |Myrna Brown

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 5th of June. This is WORLD Radio. Thank you for listening. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard. MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. First up on The World and Everything in It, a surprise attack deep inside Russia. Bombers on airstrips across Russia exploded in a coordinated attack on Sunday. When the smoke cleared it wasn’t tanks or fighter jets behind the assault: it was drones.
Fighting eminent domain

2 days ago | wng.org | Lauren Canterberry

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a church fights to keep its property. Church leaders want to build shelters for the homeless in a town that doesn’t have any shelters. But the local zoning board isn’t budging. MARY REICHARD, HOST: Now, the city is threatening to seize the land using eminent domain. The church is pushing back with a lawsuit, accusing officials of stonewalling and failing to follow the law. WORLD’s Lauren Canterberry has the story.
Nebraska governor signs law protecting women's sports

2 days ago | wng.org | Christina Grube

Gov. Jim Pillen signed a bill Wednesday keeping men out of women’s sports in the state, joining more than two dozen states with similar protections. Pillen appeared alongside female athlete advocates Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Jordy Bahl, and Rebekah Allick while signing the Stand With Women Act. Pillen also signed measures modernizing in-state manufacturing and expanding family investment in children’s education, according to a Wednesday statement.
Fooling ourselves

2 days ago | wng.org | Janie B. Cheaney

Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence posed the question, What if we could create humanoid robots that were capable of love? The experimental model, named David, looks like an 11-year-old boy and is provisionally adopted into a human family. Though the mother resists at first, she decides to activate the android’s imprinting protocol, meaning David will love her forever. It doesn’t end well.
Pennsylvania sues USDA for cutting funding to $1B food aid programs

2 days ago | wng.org | Christina Grube

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture accusing the department of cancelling a $13 million, three-year contract without cause. Pennsylvania’s Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program, or LFPA, allowed low-income families and food banks across the country to access fresh, locally grown produce. The administration cut funding for the LFPA and a similar program for schools and child care centers.
Man arrested for car bombing of California fertility clinic

3 days ago | wng.org | Lauren Canterberry

The FBI on Tuesday night arrested 32-year-old Washington state resident Daniel Park in connection with a car bombing last month at American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs. Federal officials took Park into custody at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on charges related to the attack. Park stands accused of providing material support to the perpetrator of the bombing, who was the only person killed by the explosion, officials said Wednesday afternoon.