The flying drones that can scan packages night and day
Source: BBC News By Tom Jackson Flying drones and robots now patrol distribution warehouses – they’ve become workhorses of the e-commerce era online that retailers can’t do without. It is […]
Harford County sues ‘Muslim’ community builder
Source: The Baltimore Sun By David Anderson, Contact Reporter Harford County, the defendant in lawsuit filed in federal court by the builder of a controversial 48-lot subdivision in Joppatowne, has […]
Mike Pence Promises to Defend Christians in the Middle East
Source: The Atlantic BY EMMA GREEN Want to receive exclusive insights from The Atlantic—while supporting a sustainable future for independent journalism? Join our new membership program, The Masthead. Vice President Mike […]
Former NPR executive got to know Missouri evangelicals and found a way out of his liberal comfort zone
Source: The Kansas City Star BY KEN STERN My seat was high in the rafters of the Edward Jones Dome, affording me a birds-eye view of the thousands of young […]
Why the Department of Health and Human Services should stop saying life begins at conception
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Richard Paulson Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from […]
Narcan Is Now Sold at Walgreens. What’s That?
Source: Time BY Alice Park Oct 26, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency Thursday, the same week Walgreens announced it […]
New Security Screenings Begin for Passengers on U.S.-Bound Flights
Source: Time BY Jon Gambrell / AP 6:28 AM ET (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — New security screenings for all passengers on U.S.-bound flights began on Thursday, with airlines worldwide […]
Half of U.S. Catholics say belief in God is not necessary to be a good person
Source: America Magazine BY Michael J. O’Loughlin For the first time, a majority of Americans—56 percent—say it is possible to be a good person without religious belief. And about half of […]
Maryland development under fire after selling homes only to Muslims
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Wm. Moyer October 24 Faheem Younus greets visitors to a mosque for a community meeting about the development. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) JOPPATOWNE, Md. — Dueling legal […]
The U.S. May Soon Declare ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Is Happening to the Rohingya in Myanmar
Source: Time BY Matthew Pennington / AP Oct 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to declare that “ethnic cleansing” is […]
The National-Security-Law Expert Who Blocked Trump’s Travel Ban
Source: The Atlantic The former federal prosecutor and deputy counsel to the Department of Homeland Security writes that the prohibition violates the Constitution. The late Justice Antonin Scalia once compared […]
Here Are All the Public Figures Who’ve Been Accused of Sexual Misconduct After Harvey Weinstein
Source: Time By Samantha Cooney After dozens of women came forward with accounts of sexual harassment and assault against producer Harvey Weinstein (who denies some, but not all, of the claims), more women are speaking out about their own […]
Can Evangelicals and Academics Talk to Each Other?
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Alan Jacobs Oct. 20, 2017 10:41 a.m. ET Last year, as the fire and fury of the presidential election were intensifying and people all […]
All 5 Former U.S. Presidents Team Up to Raise $31 Million for Hurricane Victims
Source: Time BY Aric Jenkins Oct 22, 2017 All five of the former living U.S. presidents made a rare appearance together in the name of hurricane relief Saturday night. They […]
Donald Trump: The End of the Islamic State ‘Is in Sight’
Source: Time (STERLING, Va.) — President Donald Trump says the end of the Islamic State “is in sight” after the militant group was driven out of Raqqa, its self-declared capital […]
Five former US presidents unite for hurricane relief concert
Source: BBC News Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama appear together at a concert to raise funds for hurricane-hit areas. The past leaders […]
Feds secure rare hate crime conviction for mosque threat
Source: Associated Press By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates said it […]
Two months after explosion, Bloomington mosque leaders desperate for justice
Source: Star Tribune By By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune Leaders of an Islamic center in Bloomington remain concerned about their safety and desperate for justice, more than two months after an explosion destroyed […]
An Alternative to Burial and Cremation Gains Popularity
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH OCT. 19, 2017 Photo An alkaline hydrolysis unit at a funeral home in Windom, Minn. This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains using the method. CreditJoe Wilson What do you want done with your […]
I Am A Proud American Muslim Woman, And Arizona Is Ready To Send Me To The Senate
Source: Huffington Post By Deedra Abboud, who is an attorney and expert on the art and science of finding solutions, not fault – at work, at home, and in the […]