Boy with epilepsy finds ‘normal life’ with cannabis oil
Source: Aljazeera Bruno Delgadillo, a young boy in the US state of Florida, suffered as many as 300 epileptic seizures per day but according to his mother a daily intake […]
‘We the People’: Five Years of Online Petitions
Source: Pew Research Center BY PAUL HITLIN During President Obama’s first full day in office on Jan. 21, 2009, he issued a statement committing his administration to pursue “an unprecedented […]
Video: President Obama’s Optimistic New Year Message
Through diplomacy @POTUS:Shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program ✓Opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba ✓https://t.co/UldBhTwM1T — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 31, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Source: The Atlantic By CANDICE NORWOOD In 2016, long simmering tensions over race and identity in America boiled over. Years of conflict between police and minority communities, clashing views concerning abortion […]
Bears Ears and Gold Butte: Obama creates two nature preserves
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has unilaterally designated two new “national monument” nature preserves in the western US states of Nevada and Utah. The Bears Ears National Monument and the […]
American Jews Divided Over Strain in U.S.-Israel Relations
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NAGOURNEY and SHARON OTTERMAN For Rabbi Gerald Sussman of Temple Emanu-El on Staten Island, the Obama administration’s recent confrontation with Israel was a […]
Inauguration speaker Franklin Graham: God allowed Donald Trump to win
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) The Rev. Franklin Graham isn’t sure which Scripture he’ll read at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The evangelist and head […]
Future of US relationship with UN in doubt
Source: CNN By Stewart Patrick Stewart Patrick is the senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. The views […]
Russia-US row: Putin rules out tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out a tit-for-tat response after the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats amid a row over hacking. He said Russia would not “stoop” […]
NYPD allows Sikh and Muslim officers to grow beards
Source: Aljazeera In a move aimed at inclusion, the New York Police Department also agrees to allow Sikhs to wear turbans. NYPD Sikh officers will be allowed to wear turbans […]
Reporting while Muslim: how I covered the US presidential election
Source: The Guardian By Sabrina Siddiqui “We should exterminate them.” The words rolled off the voter’s tongue as though he was merely discussing a pest invasion in his home. He was […]
How the U.S. came to abstain on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung December 28 at 8:11 PM On Dec. 21, amid his morning workout, an afternoon round of golf and a family dinner with friends, […]
On the front lines of the fight for the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa
Source: The Washington Post By Liz Sly TAL SAMAN, Syria — “Raqqa we are coming” say the words spray-painted in Kurdish at the entrance to this empty little town, which […]
New York’s Sikh police officers to replace hats with turbans
Source: BBC The New York Police Department said the turbans must be navy blue and have the NYPD insignia attached. Under the new rules, religious members of the force are […]
John Kerry, in a Final, Pointed Plea, Will Outline a Vision of Mideast Peace
Source: The New York Times By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — In a last-chance effort to shape the outlines of a Middle East peace deal, Secretary of State John Kerry […]
Secular Hollywood Quietly Courts the Faithful
Source: The New York Times By BROOKS BARNES The Rev. Roderick Dwayne Belin, a senior A.M.E. Church leader, stood before a gathering of more than 1,000 pastors in a drafty […]
President Obama: I Could Have Beaten Donald Trump
Source: Time By Tessa Berenson Despite the twists and turns of the 2016 election, and the punishing defeat for his Democratic Party at the hands of Donald Trump, President Obama thinks […]
Blizzards and Ice Storms Wreak Havoc Across the U.S. Northern Plains
Source: Time A National Weather Service meteorologist’s advice to travelers: “Stay put” (CHICAGO) — Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains […]
Israel’s Humbled Benjamin Netanyahu Places Hopes in Donald Trump
Source: Time BY Josef Federman / AP Israel has been at odds with outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama over its settlements in occupied territory. JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government’s furious […]
ISIS issues hit list of U.S. churches for holiday attacks
Source: RNS By John Bacon (USA Today) The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according […]