Source: National Geographic Lynsey Addario talks about her experience working within these communities across the U.S. during a years-long reporting project. By Jehan Jillani and Heather Brady Photographs by Lynsey Addario PUBLISHED APRIL 17, […]
Source: Time By ALEX FITZPATRICK April 17, 2018 Starbucks is closing over 8,000 company-owned stores for racial bias training during an afternoon in May, the company announced Tuesday. The news comes as the Seattle, […]
Source: BBC News By Devon Van Houten Maldonado Museums do more than allow us to engage with history and art. They are forms in and of themselves, which, to varying degrees, enable and propagate missions and legacies through design and architecture. Perhaps no museum in recent history has created as […]
Source: CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)The area of Philadelphia where two men were arrested while waiting at a Starbucks last week has what the American Civil Liberties Union calls “the […]
Source: The Hill BY AVERY ANAPOL The Pennsylvania House on Monday passed a bill to ban abortions based on a Down syndrome diagnosis in the fetus. The GOP-backed bill passed with bipartisan support in a 139-56 vote, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote. […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By David Gauthier-Villars Updated April 16, 2018 8:38 p.m. ET An American pastor who has spent 18 months in Turkish custody appeared for the first time […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey April 16 at 10:00 AM Email the author Wheaton College. (Sarah Pulliam Bailey) About 50 top leaders of major evangelical institutions will attend an invitation-only gathering this week to discuss the future and the “soul” of evangelicalism at a time when many of them are […]
Source: Time By ARIC JENKINS Updated: April 16, 2018 7:58 PM ET On the last day of his job at a local newsroom, photojournalist Ryan Kelly took a picture that would end up winning him a Pulitzer Prize. Now, he works for a brewery. Kelly captured the award-winning image in Charlottesville, Va. on […]
Source: Associated Press By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and MEHMET GUZEL IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara. Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina, […]
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG BEIJING (AP) — The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao paid no more than three dollars for the trip that would end up costing him his freedom. For years, he and fellow Chinese Christian teachers would cross the river on a narrow bamboo raft from a […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner April 15 at 7:39 PM SAN DIEGO — Fayaz Nawabi has never met President Trump. But he credits the president with convincing him to run for […]
Source: Time By MICHAEL ZENNIE Updated: April 16, 2018 6:30 AM ET Fired FBI Director James Comey believes President Donald Trump “possibly” committed obstruction of justice by asking him to “let […]
Trump now faces Comey’s moral assault Source: CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson The former FBI director’s appearance threw into focus questions that will be at play over the next 10 days: […]
Source: Vox Lynchburg’s Red Letter Revival brought “pro-testifiers” to Jerry Falwell Jr.’s door. By Tara Isabella Burton@NotoriousTIBtara.burton@vox.com Apr 12, 2018, 3:30pm EDT SHARE Alex Wong/Getty Images Lynchburg, Virginia, became the site of a battleground over the future of American evangelicalism last weekend. On one side of the conflict was Liberty University, the […]
Source: National Geographic By Leila Fadel Photographs by Lynsey Addario This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. This story is part of Diversity in America, a National Geographic series covering racial, ethnic, and […]
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM Bill Hybels prays with President Bill Clinton on the North Portico of the White House on June 6, 1995. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Luke Frazza/Getty Images. One of the prominent leaders in American evangelicalism resigned abruptly Tuesday night in the wake of a series of accusations […]
Source: The Seattle Times BY KRISTEN HARE · APRIL 11, 2018 One Monday last June, a few teams at The Seattle Times got together to sift through about 30 ideas they’d collected from the newsroom for a hack week. america an off-white conference room with exposed ductwork and windows looking out on […]
Source: Time By LILY ROTHMAN April 11, 2018 Madeleine Albright has created plenty of history herself — as the first woman to be U.S. Secretary of State, for example — but in the last several years, a different slice of the past has caught her eye. Noticing the rise of a new trend […]
Source: Time By JULIET LINDERMAN AND JONATHAN LEMIRE / AP April 11, 2018 (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is considering a plan that would allow states to require mandatory drug testing for some food stamp recipients. If adopted, the plan would give a win to conservatives seeking to cut the safety […]
Source: Huffington Post Three Kansas men on trial in a domestic terrorism case are trying out arguments that wouldn’t fly in other terrorism cases. By Ryan J. Reilly SEDGWICK COUNTY SHERIFF Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright have been charged in a conspiracy to bomb a community of Somali […]