Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
Source: Time BY David Johnson Updated: Apr 21, 2017 5:30 PM ET | Originally published: Apr 19, 2017 At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned […]
Donald Trump’s first 100 days: The madder he gets, the more seriously the world takes him
Now the ‘flexible’ and ‘pragmatic’ US President is sending a naval battle group to threaten North Korea Robert Fisk @indyvoices The more dangerous America’s crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard […]
‘It’s About Facts.’ Thousands Protest and Make Friends in the Rain at the March for Science
Source: Time BY Haley Sweetland Edwards When Dennis and Christina Dorward awoke to their alarm at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, there wasn’t a question of whether they would get out […]
Lawmaker Says Female Genital Mutilation Case Is Reason To Vote For Anti-Sharia Bill
Source: The Huffington Post Even though, as one scholar put it, “FGM has nothing to do with Islam, and Islam has nothing to do with FGM.” By Christopher Mathias 290 […]
Artist Shares Poignant Portrait Series On #BeingBlackAndMuslim
Source: The Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A portrait series inspired by a Twitter hashtag on being black and Muslim is exploring the challenges many people face at the intersection […]
Supreme Court Shows Soft Spot For Church Denied Public Funding For Playground
Source: The Huffington Post Even some of the more liberal justices signaled the state of Missouri may have gone too far against a religious school. By Cristian Farias WASHINGTON — […]
Step Inside The Technicolor World Of The International Church Of Cannabis
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg HELEN H. RICHARDSON VIA GETTY IMAGESA photo of the interior of the International Church of Cannabis. 670 At Denver’s newest church, the aim is to […]
Advocates Really Want Giraffes to Be Included on the Endangered Species List
Source: Time BY Lisa Marie Segarra Apr 21, 2017 Five wildlife groups are pushing for giraffes to be included on the endangered species list through a petition that was sent to […]
US to honour ‘dumb’ Australia migrant deal
Source: BBC The United States has confirmed it will be going through with a migrant resettlement plan made with Australia. US President Donald Trump once called the deal, which was […]
How Bill O’Reilly used religion to fuel fear — and his show
Source: The Washington Post By Christopher Hale April 20 at 2:01 PM Bill O’Reilly attends the Hollywood Reporter’s 2016 35 Most Powerful People in Media at Four Seasons Restaurant on […]
Defense Department expands its list of recognized religions
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) Humanist? Deist? No religion? No problem. The Department of Defense announced a near doubling of its list of recognized religions. It will now formally […]
How the Catholic Priesthood Became an Unlikely Haven for Many Gay Men
Source: Slate Back in March, Pope Francis sparked a wave of headlines when he hinted at the possibility of ordaining married men as priests. Since there’s no evidence that church […]
Were Trump’s Syrian missile strikes morally justified? 5 religious experts respond
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)It’s rare for President Donald Trump to mention God, and rarer still for him to name-drop the Almighty three times in a […]
US accuses Iran of ‘alarming provocations’ amid nuclear tensions
Source: BBC The US secretary of state has accused Iran of “alarming ongoing provocations” aimed at destabilising the Middle East and undermining America’s interests. “An unchecked Iran has the potential […]
Facebook team working on brain-powered technology
Source: BBC BY Dave Lee North America technology reporter Facebook says it is working on technology to allow us to control computers directly with our brains. It is developing “silent speech” […]
West to East
Source: Medium By Alex Hacillo The US continues to flag as the world’s last superpower, and critics fret that China is poised to take over the reins. Should its perceived […]
Pence tours Southeast Asia’s biggest mosque, talks trade in Indonesia
Source: Reuters By Roberta Rampton | JAKARTA U.S. Vice President Mike Pence toured Southeast Asia’s largest mosque on Thursday during a visit to Indonesia, calling the Muslim-majority nation’s tradition of […]
Audio: This Islamic school teaches how to be Muslim, and American
Source: NPR By TOM GJELTEN Like any good fifth-grade teacher, Mike Matthews wants to make his social studies unit on the American West as exciting as possible. So he’s planning […]
‘Allahu akbar’: We have a double standard when it comes to religion and violence
Source: The Washington Post By Qasim Rashid April 19 at 2:58 PM A collection of guns and rifles, displayed at a news conference in Brooklyn. (Colleen Long/Associated Press) Three people […]
Emirates to cut US flights after Trump travel restrictions
Source: BBC Emirates will reduce flights to five US cities from next month, after new security rules targeted travellers from the Middle East. The Dubai-based airline said the change was […]