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 […]
‘Mass Hindu grave’ found in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Source: BBC News The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies […]
Conservative Roman Catholic theologians accuse pope of spreading heresy
Source: Chicago Tribune Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. In a […]
‘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 […]
It’s Been One Year Since the World Took On Superbugs. Here’s What’s Changed
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 22, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. This week marks one year since world leaders met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York […]
Islamic State on the Ropes – Two Paths Cross in the Ruins of Raqqa
Islamic State on the Ropes Two Paths Cross in the Ruins of Raqqa When Islamic State conquered Raqqa in 2014, Fadi al-Hadi fled to Germany while Nadja Ramadan abandoned her […]
UNESCO: Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)
Source: UNESCO website Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih) The Archaeological Site of Al-Hijr (Madâin Sâlih) is the first World Heritage property to be inscribed in Saudi Arabia. Formerly known as […]
Popular Indian guru arrested over alleged rape of law student
Source: BBC News A popular spiritual guru has been arrested in India for the alleged rape of a 21-year-old woman, Indian media report. Falahari Maharaj is accused of raping the […]
How ‘the invisible network’ poses a major security threat
Source: BBC News By Matthew Wall Technology of Business editor 22 September 2017 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionIf a hacker managed to switch off a life-support machine, the results could be […]
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 […]
Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe
Source: Pew Research Center National and religious identities converge in a region once dominated by atheist regimes The Cathedral of the Annunciation, a Russian Orthodox church in Cathedral Square in […]
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 […]
The World is Designed for Men
Source: Medium BY Kat Ely Designer & cofounder @cleardesignlab & @_plusfab artist, climber, and lover of new ideas and problems. Blind by Design is a series focused on addressing systemic biases within […]
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 […]
Going into election, Germans are happy with their economy and political establishment
Source: Pew Research Center BY DOROTHY MANEVICH Supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top candidate for the conservative Christian Democratic Union party in the upcoming general elections, hold up posters to […]