Source: Fox News Americans have less faith in organized religion than they did nearly a decade ago, a new study shows. A staggering 21 percent of those surveyed said they don’t practice a “formal religion”— up from the 15 percent who said that in 2008, according to Gallup. “Religion is […]
Source: Time By Belinda Luscombe@luscombeland Babies born in the United States are more social and impulsive than those from some other countries, a new study has found. They’re also, according to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Hayley Miller Reporter, The Huffington Post A Minnesota woman attacked at an Applebee’s for speaking a foreign language delivered a powerful message to her assailant in court […]
Source: The Guardian The Obama administration is dismantling a discriminatory surveillance system that was used after 9/11 to keep tabs on Arabs and Muslims across the US, in a move […]
Source: BBC Image copyrightAPImage captionArctic rigs like the “polar pioneer” were never actually deployed Outgoing US President Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore oil and gas drilling in the “vast […]
Source: BBC Donald Trump has called for the US to “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear arsenal. The president-elect, who takes office next month, said the US must take such […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL Donald Trump’s Inaugural weekend will include an interfaith prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral, a customary event but complicated this year by anger over […]
Source: The New York Times By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump seemed to suggest on Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin […]
Source :The Washington Post By Kristine Guerra December 21 at 1:51 PM Karen Alexia Palma said she was fired from her job as a health educator in Texas after she […]
Source: NJ.com By Marisa Iati | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter Mayor Ras Baraka welcomes residents to the 31st annual christmas tree lighting […]
Source: Star Tribune By Paul Walsh Star Tribune A Muslim woman who was assaulted with a beer mug by a woman in a Coon Rapids restaurant told the defendant during […]
Source: Religion News Service By Eboo Patel (RNS) Imagine receiving this message on your voicemail: “Dear Mr. Gonzalez, we regret to inform you that your heart surgery has been canceled. […]
Source: Time by Katie Reilly deadline for Donald Trump to pay a $25 million settlement in the Trump University lawsuit is Jan. 18—two days before he will be sworn in as […]
Source: BBC A well-known vlogger’s post of his removal from a Delta Airlines flight has gone viral on social media. Adam Saleh told the BBC he was speaking to his […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Jacob Salem speaks six languages. Yet if he walked into a typical synagogue service in either of the countries where he grew up […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK | The Salt Lake Tribune Ryan McKnight hopes to become a Mormon version of Julian Assange, the Australian whistleblowing hacker who […]
Source: Nikkei Asian Review President-elect’s Twitter outburst sets the stage for tense relations NAOYA YOSHINO, Nikkei staff writer © Reuters WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday accused China […]
Source: The New York Times By RACHEL L. SWARNS New York Life, the nation’s third-largest life insurance company, opened in Manhattan’s financial district in the spring of 1845. The firm […]
Source: Pew Research Center 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not BY MICHAEL BARTHEL, AMY MITCHELL AND JESSE HOLCOMB In the wake of […]
Source: RNS By Ben Williamson (USA Today) At this time of year, we often see animals subjected to cruel holiday stunts or treated as living props in our confusing pageantry. […]