Category: Recuitment

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that vulnerable adults and not just children can be victims of abuse when they are unable to freely consent .

With the update, Francis made permanent temporary provisions that were passed in 2019 at a moment of crisis for the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy. The law was criticized at the time for laying out precise mechanisms to investigate complicated bishops and religious superiors, even though it amounted

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Saturday announced a congressional investigation into the local prosecutors reportedly preparing to indict former President Trump.

Driving the news: Trump said in a Truth Social post on Saturday he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as part of a Manhattan District Attorney investigation into hush money payments he allegedly made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

What they’re saying: McCarthy accused Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg of “an outrageous abuse of power” and of “pursu[ing] political vengeance against President Trump” in a tweet posted Saturday morning.

• “I’m directing the relevant committees to immediately investigate

If adopted, the new bill would deny the right to seek refugee protection to people arriving irregularly in the UK, such as those risking their lives to cross the English Channel in small boats.

Instead, these asylum-seekers would face detention and deportation, without having their individual circumstances examined.

“This would be a clear breach of the Refugee Convention and would undermine a longstanding, humanitarian tradition of which the British people are rightly proud,” UNHCR said.

The UK is one of the original signatories of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which recognizes that refugees may have to enter a country of asylum

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge overseeing a high-stakes case that could threaten access to medication abortion across the nation asked lawyers for the “courtesy” of not publicizing upcoming arguments, according to a court record released Tuesday that reveals new details of a move experts say is outside the norm for the US judicial system.

US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — who was appointed by former President Donald Trump and is known for conservative views — told attorneys during a status conference by telephone on Friday that because the case has prompted death threats and protests, “less advertisement of

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA — A new prosecutor has joined the US Attorney’s Office to assist with the increasing criminal caseload in the Eastern Panhandle.

United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced the addition of Daniel Salem to his Martinsburg office. Salem has been a prosecutor for nine years, first with Harford County (MD), then with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney, and finally with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General. He handled a heavy caseload of homicides, drug trafficking, and organized crime, and led wiretap investigations in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic OCDETF Task Force.

“Dan Salem is a tremendous addition to

A lawyer representing American Iron and Metal Inc. (AIM) was in court Monday morning in Saint John, NB, asking for more time as the company faces four charges following a workplace death.

The company is now due back in provincial court on April 11 to enter pleas.

Worker Darrell Richards, 60, died last July after he was injured at AIM’s west-end scrapyard.

As he cut into a roll of material, the roll decompressed, lacerating his leg and causing bleeding, his daughter-in-law told reporters at an AIM-organized news conference last summer.

Following a WorksafeNB investigation, the Crown charged the company under

Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman said on Wednesday the government’s proposals to stop almost all migrants ever claiming asylum were legal despite warnings that the legislation would break international laws and be challenged in the courts.

Lawyers and charities said the plans would breach the United Nations convention on refugees, introduced after many countries turned Jewish refugees during World War Two.

Braverman wrote on the first page of the draft law that the plans could break the government’s Human Rights Act but said she included that statement “out of an abundance of caution.”

“We are confident that we are complying