Will Trump speech meet ‘God’ average for inaugural addresses?
Source: USA Today By Paul Singer , USA TODAY If Donald Trump’s inaugural address is anything like his predecessors’, there will be a lot of God in it. A new interactive built […]
Muslim NYPD Chaplain On Faith, Fear And Getting Stopped By Airport Security
Source: NPR Imam Khalid Latif is one of the people profiled in The Secret Life of Muslims, a digital series about Islamophobia. He is also the first Muslim chaplain at New York University. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. My guest is the second ever Muslim […]
WHY REPUBLICANS COULD REGRET OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE
Source: The New Yorker By Eyal Press Every year around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade—January 22, 1973—protesters from across the country gather in Washington, D.C., for the March […]
Trump Renews Vow for Jerusalem Embassy, a Gift of Uncertain Value
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — It started, as it has in American presidential races for decades, as a campaign line, one that […]
AFTERMATH: SIXTEEN WRITERS ON TRUMP’S AMERICA
Source: The New Yorker Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. A DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION By George Packer Four decades […]
Homeless man suspected of torching Bellevue mosque is charged
Source: The Seattle Times A homeless man suspected of setting fire to a Bellevue mosque early Saturday morning was charged with second-degree arson Tuesday by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s […]
America’s oldest Muslim families on the Trump presidency: ‘This can’t deter us’
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler When Alyssa Haughwout heard the news that Donald Trump had become the president-elect of the United States, her first thought was about the century-old mosque […]
This Muslim-Run Clinic Offers Free Health Care To Those In Need
Source: The Huffington Post By Elyse Wanshel Associate Editor, Trends, The Huffington Post The American Muslim Community Center in Orlando, Florida, has converted an old doctor’s office into a free clinic […]
After Trump’s Election, A Nonpracticing Muslim Returns To Prayer
Source: NPR By ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH When I was a kid, Mom used to say, “You know you’ve become an infidel when you forget the Fatihah.” The Fatihah is the preamble to […]
Rabbis plan response to white supremacist threats in Montana
Source: Associated Press By MATT VOLZ Today HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Orthodox Jewish rabbis said Wednesday they will counter white supremacists’ harassment of the Jewish community in the Montana town […]
FBI probing wave of fake bomb threats to U.S. Jewish centers
Source: Reuters By David Ingram Twenty-seven Jewish community centers in 17 U.S. states reported receiving false telephone bomb threats on Wednesday, prompting evacuations and an FBI probe into the second […]
Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’
Source : The New York Times By Sopan Deb “Look at how many brown people are here!” Dean Obeidallah said to cheers after taking the stage Sunday at the Comic […]
CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online
Source: BBC About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the […]
President Obama designates historic civil rights sites including black churches
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) In one of his last official acts, President Obama has designated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other civil rights landmarks in […]
Did God choose Trump? What it means to believe in divine intervention
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (Editor’s note: Since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s election, many Christians became convinced he was chosen by God to be president even though he […]
U.S. Abortion Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since Roe v. Wade
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON The abortion rate in the United States fell to its lowest level since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, a new report finds. The report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports legalized abortion, puts the rate at 14.6 […]
Farewell to Eugene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon
Source: Time Jeffrey Kluger Gene Cernan never knew about the plan NASA approved to cut him loose in space — or at least he didn’t know about it at the […]
5 Ways America Changed During Obama’s Presidency
Source: Time BY Ryan Teague Beckwith@ryanbeckwith Chris Wilson@chriswilsondc The country that Donald Trump will assume leadership of on Jan. 20, 2017 looks vastly different from the one that President Obama […]
Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave secrets to WikiLeaks
Reuters International JAN 18, 2017 – Chelsea Manning is pictured in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013.Courtesy U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence […]
Donald Trump Promises ‘Insurance for Everybody’ With Obamacare Replacement Plan
Source: Time President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.” Trump made the comment in an interview with the Washington […]