Steve Karnowski

U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell said that restrictions on the religious freedom of clergy to minister to detainees constitutes "irreparable harm."

Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Despite the horror carried out Aug. 27 by a shooter whose journal entries detail weeks of preparation and a fixation on harming children, stories of bravery and tragedy have emerged as families share their accounts. 

Robin Westman left behind writings that "expressed hate towards almost every group imaginable." But police found no clear motive for the attack on the church Westman once attended. 

Native American groups say hunt violates treaty rights and endangers animal sacred to them.

A Minnesota bishop who's the subject of a Vatican-ordered investigation said in sworn testimony released Tuesday that he was trying to protect the confidentiality of a man who said he was sexually abused by a popular priest when he certified to other church officials that the priest was fit for ministry and to work with children.