Women who say they experienced harm from abortion pill push Blanche to settle suit on FDA policy July 9, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Ahead of an upcoming hearing on his nomination to lead the Department of Justice, a national pro-life group urged Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to side with states challenging a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail.
Supreme Court strikes down some Trump priorities, but expands presidential power July 8, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2025-2026 term with major rulings striking down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, and upholding West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their self-identified gender.
Ezra Jin Mingri, Chinese prisoner of conscience, released to US July 7, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Ezra Jin Mingri, founder and pastor of an underground church in China and a prisoner of conscience in that country, was released from imprisonment and reunited with his family in the U.S. shortly before Independence Day, U.S. officials said.
Planned Parenthood to receive Medicaid funds again as defunding provision expires July 6, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year expired July 4, allowing the nation’s largest abortion provider to regain access to hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding.
Vance calls the Vatican’s views on immigration ‘troubling’ July 1, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Vice President JD Vance said during a June 30 interview that he sees some of the Vatican’s views on immigration as “troubling.”
Supreme Court finds Trump executive order on birthright citizenship unconstitutional July 1, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship on June 30, finding the order violated the 14th Amendment.
Supreme Court says Title IX permits Idaho, West Virginia transgender sports bans June 30, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Sports, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their self-perceived gender identity.
Religious Liberty Commission draft report recommends DOJ guidance on Establishment Clause June 30, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission on June 26 presented a draft of its report to President Donald Trump, in the Oval Office
Supreme Court allows policy permitting asylum-seekers to be turned away at US-Mexico border June 26, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on June 25 ruled that the Trump administration can reimplement a policy of turning away asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border before they enter the country, known as “metering.”
Trump cancels plans to sign housing bill, demanding Congress pass voter ID bill June 24, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News President Donald Trump on June 24 canceled his plans to sign bipartisan legislation aimed at addressing the rising cost of housing, demanding that Congress pass a voter ID bill that lacks a clear path to passage in the Senate.
USCCB and pro-life leaders: Abortion pills remain key post-Dobbs challenge June 24, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference and pro-life leaders pointed to abortion pills as among key challenges for the cause of protecting the right to life of unborn children.
Despite land transfer, Apache Stronghold continues effort to protect sacred Arizona site June 23, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear its case and the land has been transferred, an Indigenous coalition seeking to protect its sacred site at Oak Flat in Arizona from destruction by a copper mining giant continues its legal efforts, the group’s lawyer told OSV News.
