German officials urge close look at gun laws in wake of shooting
Source: The Indian Express Senior German officials on Sunday called for further controls on the sale of guns after Friday’s deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine […]
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Read President Obama’s Full Speech To The DNC
Source: Huffington Post President Barack Obama offered a moving vision of optimism for the United States on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention and made it clear why he believes […]
Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks
Source: BBC Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our […]
India cow vigilantes held for beating up Muslim women over beef
Source: BBC Four cow protection vigilantes have been arrested for beating up two Muslim women accused of carrying beef in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The two women […]
German police raid mosque and apartments in crackdown on Salafists
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Tom Heneghan) German police have searched a mosque and eight apartments in Hildesheim that are believed to be a hotbed of a radical Salafist community, the interior minister of the northern state of Lower Saxony said on Thursday. Germany is on high […]
Turkey increases pressure on U.S. for Gulen’s extradition
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor ISTANBUL — Turkish leaders on Tuesday stepped up their calls for the United States to punish Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric living in […]
Man charged with threatening to burn Boston mosque
Source: The Boston Globe By Andy Rosen GLOBE STAFF Federal authorities have charged a man with threatening to burn Boston’s largest mosque and making menacing statements to Muslims in the area. Patrick Keogan, 44, of Wilmington, allegedly made threats on the Facebook page of Roxbury’s Islamic Society of Boston […]
Cracks showing in Democrats’ stance on Israel as many back push for Palestinians
Source: The Forward The Democratic Party has spent the first couple days of its convention projecting unity on issues from fighting racism to fair trade. But fissures are showing here on one issue that Democrats have long been united on: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their party, which has long commanded the […]
What Bill Clinton Would Do in a Hillary Clinton White House
Source: Time Philip Elliott / Philadelphia Drawing on his 40-year marriage with Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton told the nation stories Tuesday night about a remarkable partnership that could make history again—for both of them. “I married my best friend,” Clinton said of his wife, a trailblazing former First […]
French Church Attacker Used Fake Identities to Evade Police, Authorities Say
Source: Time (PARIS) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church evaded police twice using relatives’ ID cards in attempts to reach Syria. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that 19-year-old Adel Kermiche was wearing an electronic surveillance bracelet when he and another attacker […]
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in the name of […]
Dolly the sheep’s siblings ‘healthy’
Source: BBC Dolly the sheep’s “siblings” are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness. The first mammal to be cloned […]
France church attack: Priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
The fly answering our biggest questions
Source: BBC By Tom Bonnett “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” It’s a phrase loved by linguists to show how a sentence can be read in […]
Why are we all so tired?
Source: BBC By David Robson A few years ago, Anna Katharina Schaffner became the latest victim of the exhaustion ‘epidemic’. It began with a kind of mental and physical inertia […]
In Germany, secular ‘confirmation’ thrives again
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore HAMBURG, Germany (RNS) In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Kurt Neumann began digging in his garden. During the previous eight years, under the […]
5 faith facts about Tim Kaine: ‘I do what I do for spiritual reasons’
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announced Tim Kaine, the junior Democratic senator from Virginia and former governor of that state, as her vice […]
Can Hillary Clinton finally close the ‘God gap’?
Source: RNS By David Gibson (RNS) As Democrats gather for the convention in Philadelphia that will formally nominate Hillary Clinton, the party faces an extraordinarily fortuitous set of circumstances: her […]
Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others
Source: Time BY Anthea Levi Check your diet Ever notice how mosquitoes seem to frantically feast on some folks while ignoring others? It’s not just your imagination, says entomologist Joseph M. […]
Why gamblers get high even when they lose
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk No one likes to lose – even pathological gamblers. And yet they keep on betting. If the house always wins, why roll the dice again? […]