OB-GYN to Congress: Repeal the Hyde Amendment, Not Obamacare
Source: Time By Kristyn Brandi Sept. 25, 2017 The rule is 41 years old this week and must be eliminated As an obstetrician-gynecologist, I love bringing essential care to the women […]
Jews around world alarmed by far-right breakthrough in Germany
Source: Reuters BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Europe and the United States expressed alarm at the success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s parliamentary election and urged other parties not to form alliances with it. But a leading member of the AfD, which won 12.6 […]
New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
Source: The New York Times By MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, […]
Where Psychiatric Care Is Scarce, Religious Institutions Are Stepping In
Source: Huffington Post “We don’t have the resources to meet the demand through the public system of care. I wish we did.” By Lindsay Holmes, Beth Shelburne 09/20/2017 05:46 am […]
President Trump Has a New Travel Ban
Source: Time By Jill Colvin and Matthew Lee / AP Updated: 4:53 AM ET | Originally published: 7:55 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing […]
‘Homosexual Conduct Should Be Illegal,’ and 5 Other Things GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Has Said
Source: Time BY Nash Jenkins Sep 22, 2017 Republicans in Alabama will go to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s candidate for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions […]
Donald Trump Called for NFL Players to Be Fired for National Anthem Kneeling — And They Responded
Source: Time BY Aric Jenkins Updated: Sep 23, 2017 6:28 PM ET President Donald Trump has three suggestions to fix the NFL: stop disciplining players for hard hits, boycott games when […]
US bombers stage North Korea show of force
Source; BBC News US bombers have flown close to North Korea’s east coast to demonstrate the military options available to defeat any threat, the Pentagon says. It said the flight […]
North Korea: Trump and Kim call each other mad
Source: BBC News Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal […]
Deep racial, partisan divisions in Americans’ views of police officers
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANNAH FINGERHUT While a large majority of Americans rate police officers positively on a 0-to-100 “feeling thermometer,” whites and blacks differ widely in their views, including […]
Proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution seldom go anywhere
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER U.S. politicians say they revere the Constitution, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have plenty of ideas for changing it. Since 1999, 742 proposed amendments […]
5 facts about government debt around the world
Source: Pew Research Center BY ABBY BUDIMAN AND DREW DESILVER Public debt has increased sharply in many countries in recent years, particularly during and after the Great Recession. Globally, the total amount of […]
How the U.S. Hispanic population is changing
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANTONIO FLORES The Latino population in the United States has reached nearly 58 million in 2016 and has been the principal driver of U.S. demographic growth, accounting for […]
Americans see men as the financial providers, even as women’s contributions grow
Source: Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER AND RENEE STEPLER In about a third of married or cohabiting couples in the United States, women bring in half or more of the earnings, a […]
People in the Philippines Still Favor U.S. Over China, but Gap Is Narrowing
Source: Pew Research Center Duterte and his war on drugs are seen positively by most Filipinos BY JACOB POUSHTER AND CALDWELL BISHOP Rodrigo Duterte claimed the presidency of the Philippines in May 2016, […]
Science News and Information Today
Source: Pew Research Center A majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science BY CARY FUNK, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED AND AMY MITCHELL […]
Hurricanes: A perfect storm of chance and climate change?
Source: BBC News BY Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The succession of intense and deadly tropical cyclones that have barrelled across the Atlantic in recent weeks have left many people wondering if a […]
GAMA Collective reclaims the Muslim narrative
By Ilaf Esuf | Senior Staff “If we don’t push Muslim creatives into the space, who’s going to write our story? Are we just going to let someone else write our narrative?” Abbas Mohamed, one of the GAMA (Gathering All Muslim Artists) directors, asked the sold-out crowd at Alena […]
If Donald Trump is going to use WW2 to justify his UN speech, it would be good if he got his facts right
Source: Independent By Robert Fisk I do recall another man who used the ‘Free French’ resistance parallel from the Second World War. He was trying to prove that Muslims had the right to resist the United States. His name was Osama bin Laden When, oh when, will our politicians/statesmen/dictators – mad […]
On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish communities try repenting for gun violence and racism
Source: Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The synagogue members hammered stakes into the ground on a hot September afternoon, then draped each one with a t-shirt bearing the name of a […]