Why vitamin supplements could kill you
Source: BBC By Alex Riley 8 December 2016 For Linus Pauling, it all started to go wrong when he changed his breakfast routine. In 1964, at the age of 65, […]
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Netherlands trial: Geert Wilders guilty of incitement
Source: BBC Dutch anti-Islam political leader Geert Wilders has been convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination. But no penalty was imposed by the court near Amsterdam on Wilders, […]
Japan tests innovative magnetic tether for slowing space junk
Source: BBC Japan has launched a cargo ship which will use a half mile- (700m)-long tether to remove some of the vast amount of debris from Earth’s orbit.The tether, made […]
Obama Orders Intelligence Report on Russian Election Hacking
Source: The New York Times By DAVID E. SANGER President Obama giving a speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Washington — […]
Veiled Bigotry in Germany
Source: The New York Times Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has been a bulwark against the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-globalization forces afflicting Western democracies. So it was dismaying when, on […]
Muslim Women in Hijab Break Barriers: ‘Take the Good With the Bad’
Source: The New York Times By KATIE ROGERS Ginella Massa, 29, a TV reporter for CityNews in Toronto, is believed to be Canada’s first anchor to wear a hijab at […]
Michael Flynn once claimed Arabic signs on southern border guide ‘radicalized Muslims’ into US
Source: CNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN)Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s pick to be his national security adviser, claimed in an August radio interview that Arabic signs were […]
APNewsBreak: Effort to stem homegrown US extremism launches
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP MARCELO FILE – In this March 31, 2015 file photo, Muslim, Christian, minority and government leaders fix… Read more BOSTON (AP) — A federally backed […]
Seminaries start Black Lives Matter courses
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Veora Layton-Robinson, a student in her final year at New York Theological Seminary, had signed up for a full load of courses when she […]
The Book of Mormon touted as fourth most influential work in American literature
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By THOMAS BURR Washington • The Book of Mormon was highlighted Wednesday as one of America’s treasured tomes at the Library of Congress, which displayed […]
She became the nation’s first Somali American lawmaker. A month later, she was harassed in a D.C. cab for being Muslim.
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt After Ilhan Omar moved to the United States in the mid-1990s — fleeing war in her native Somalia and a childhood spent in a […]
Heart-Rending Testimony as Dylann Roof Trial Opens
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN SACK and ALAN BLINDER CHARLESTON, S.C. — She recalled watching the young white man stroll into Bible study, thinking he just wanted to […]
How to stand up against hate
Source: CNN By Emily May and Kio Stark Emily May is the co-founder and executive director ofHollaback!, a nonprofit that works to fight harassment and offers bystander training webinars and […]
Japanese-Americans Imprisoned For Ethnicity Speak Out In Defense Of Muslims
Source: Huffington Post BY Jessica Prois Executive Editor at Huffington Post & Kimberly Yam Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Seventy-five years ago on Wednesday, the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. […]
Careem launches women drivers in Pakistan
Source: Tribune Yasmin Perveen, one of the pioneer women ‘captains’ of Careem, adjusts back mirror while driving her car in Islamabad, Pakistan December 7, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS Taxi-hailing service Careem […]
97 Killed as Magnitude-6.4 Earthquake Strikes Indonesia’s Aceh Province
Source: Time Zian Mustakin and Niniek Karmini / AP (MEUREUDU, Indonesia) — A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Aceh province early on Wednesday, killing at least 97 people and sparking […]
In New York, attacks on women with headscarves raise alarms
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Barbara Demick One woman is a decorated officer of the New York Police Department, commended two years ago for running into a burning building to […]
Ohio lawmakers pass ‘heartbeat’ abortion legislation
Source: Reuters By Kim Palmer | CLEVELAND Ohio lawmakers approved a bill that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after conception, clearing […]
‘Leah Remini: Scientology’ accuses church of harassment
Source: USA Today BY Erin Jensen, USA TODAY This week, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath took us to Clearwater, Fla., where a former Scientologist claimed to be on the receiving end […]
Historic Bridgeport Church to Become Mosque
Source: The Wall Street Journal By JOSEPH DE AVILA BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—One of the oldest Christian congregations in this community said it would sell its historic church to a regional Islamic […]