Iran’s FM mocks John Bolton with ’10-year challenge’
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has mocked the U.S. national security adviser’s calls for a strike on Iran, in a play on the viral 10-year […]
Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel BY Marcia Heroux Pounds Contact Reporter A jury has awarded a Miami hotel dishwasher $21.5 million, concluding that her employer failed to honor her religious beliefs by […]
Freedom From Religion Foundation objects to worship service included in Bill Lee’s inaugural celebration
Source: THE TENNESSEAN BY Holly Meyer, Nashville Tennessean A national group that pushes for the separation of church and state does not think a religious service should be a part […]
‘Resign Or Be Impeached’: Dems Erupt Over Trump Obstruction Report
Source: Huffington Post BY Ed Mazza The bombshell report BuzzFeed published Thursday that said President Donald Trump directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress lit up social media. A spokesman for special counsel Robert […]
Prince Whipple, the African slave who served in the U.S. army
Pince Whipple has been identified by some as the African American figure in the familiar painting of Washington crossing the Delaware River. Pic credit: Now I Know If you have […]
Trump hits back at Buzzfeed report he ‘instructed lawyer to lie’
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has hit back over a news report that he directed his then personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. Buzzfeed News said […]
Inside the GM plant where nooses and ‘whites-only’ signs hung
Source: CNN By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner This story addresses hate speech and contains offensive language that may upset some readers. The N-word is spelled out several times in this story to […]
Oregon Man Charged With Hate Crime For Alleged Attack On Sikh Store Owner
Source: Huffington Post An Oregon man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly attacking a Sikh convenience store owner and attempting to steal his turban. Police say Andrew […]
Trump Administration May Have Separated Thousands More Migrant Families Than Initially Thought
Source: Time By COLLEEN LONG AND RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR / AP (WASHINGTON) — Thousands more migrant children may have been split from their families than the Trump administration previously reported, in part […]
New York to become 15th state to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’
Source: NBC News By Dan Avery The New York State Legislature voted Tuesday to ban so-called gay conversion therapy on minors, with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo expected to sign the bill […]
Court rules against Pfizer in religious discrimination suit
Source: Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A woman who said she was fired by a major pharmaceutical company because of her religious beliefs won a court victory Wednesday when […]
Tlaib slams ‘anti-Muslim rhetoric’ after Florida official says she might ‘blow up’ Capitol Hill
Source: The Hill BY MORGAN GSTALTER Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Tuesday decried “hateful anti-Muslim rhetoric” after a South Florida official accused her of being an anti-Semite who might “blow up Capitol Hill.” “This […]
50 Jesuits, Including Some From Top-Ranked N.Y. Catholic Schools, Are Named as Abusers
Source: The New York Times By Rick Rojas The schools are among the most recognizable Catholic institutions in New York, with reputations extending far beyond the church’s followers and the city’s […]
Planning Commission votes to deny permit for Islamic retreat site near Warrenton
By James Ivancic and Jill Palermo Times Staff Writers Jan 18, 2019 The Fauquier County Planning Commission on Thursday, Jan. 17 voted to deny a special exception permit for […]
Your questions about the government shutdown, answered (part 2)
at 9:00 a.m. We recently asked readers what they wanted to know about the government shutdown. In a previous installment, we tackled questions about missed work and pay for government […]
Bernie Sanders could be US president in 2020 – and this is what it means for Israel and the Middle East
It’s one thing for a black candidate to go for the black vote in the US, but for an American Jew to go for the American Jewish vote is a […]
Ilhan Omar, the Muslim congresswoman Saudi Arabia tried to smear, secures place on powerful House committee that could stop the US from selling arms to the kingdom
Alexandra Ma Ilhan Omar, a first-year member of Congress, was chosen to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. The committee oversees bills and investigations related to […]
Trump’s plan proposes Palestinian state on most of occupied W. Bank, excluding holy sites: Israeli TV
Israeli television said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the illegally occupied West […]
Turkey scrambles to draft a roadmap for post-US troop withdrawal
Jan 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkey’s military has shifted its focus from north-eastern to north-western Syria since Al Qaeda’s Hayat Tahrir Al Sham defeated Ankara’s surrogate factions […]
How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I […]