Privacy Shield: White House makes EU spying promise
Source: BBC The EU and US have agreed the final changes to a new data protection agreement known as the EU-US Privacy Shield. The agreement is designed to replace the […]
Full text of ex-president Bill Clinton’s eulogy for Muhammad Ali
Source: Sports Illustrated BY BILL CLINTON (Editor’s note: Former president Bill Clinton was one of several dignitaries and notable figures to honor Muhammad Ali at Ali’s public memorial service in […]
Should You Eat Or Skip Breakfast? The Surprising Truth
Huff Post: by Anne Ricci – Founder of AnnesHealthyKitchen.com, helping women solve their health and weight puzzle. You may have heard that you should never skip breakfast. “Eat breakfast like a King, Lunch Like a Prince, and Dinner Like a Pauper,” as the saying goes. But what if you aren’t hungry? […]
Aziz Ansari Takes On Trump’s Xenophobia In Moving New York Times Op-Ed
Source: Huffington Post By Ryan Grenoble Reporter, The Huffington Post He may be a comedian by trade, but Aziz Ansari has something very serious to say about Donald Trump and the […]
DC’s Catholic archbishop: People ask me why religion matters today. I tell them we’d be a mess without it.
Source: The Washington Post By Cardinal Donald Wuerl A number of years ago I was invited to speak at a conference at Harvard University. At the conclusion of my presentation […]
Evangelical Christians are selling out faith for politics
Source: Washington Post By Michael Gerson Opinion writer Oh, God — and I mean the entreaty seriously — the Trump/evangelicalsummit in New York was just as bad as some of […]
1st edition Book of Mormon sells for $52,500 at NYC auction
Source: Deseret News NEW YORK — A first edition of The Book of Mormon printed in the upstate New York town linked to Joseph Smith’s establishment of the Church of […]
Dalai Lama meets with two high-level Mormon church leaders
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune The Dalai Lama met Wednesday morning with two high-level Mormon church authorities during the Buddhist leader’s two-day visit to Utah. LDS apostle D. Todd Christofferson […]
Who Is a Jew? Maybe Not Woman Converted by Esteemed New York Rabbi
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel’s chief rabbinate have long complained that scores of American converts to Judaism have trouble getting approval to […]
First trial begins in deadly New York church beating
Source: Associated Press UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — The first trial began Thursday in what New York authorities say was a 14-hour group attack during a church counseling session that killed […]
Deadlocked Supreme Court deals big blow to Obama immigration plan
Source: CNN By Ariane de Vogue and Tal Kopan, CNN (CNN)In a crushing blow to the White House, the Supreme Court announced Thursday it was evenly divided in a case […]
Report: Islamophobia is a multimillion-dollar industry
Source: Aljazeera By Ryan Rifai More than $200m was spent towards promoting “fear and hatred” of Muslims in the United States by various organisations between 2008 and 2013, according to […]
Our inaction is killing us!
Written by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Our inaction is killing us! Our inaction has allowed mass shootings to become unacceptably commonplace in our country. We have a responsibility to do […]
How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought?
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI MAGNANVILLE, France — The first time Larossi Abballa appeared on the radar of French terrorism investigators, the only act of violence they […]
A Muslim community in Virginia feels the heat of extremists’ sins
Source: The New York Times By KATIE SHEPHERD FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Women in head scarves slid off their shoes, stacked them in neat rows next to the mosque’s entrance and […]
As the nation debates the place of Islam, the CIA’s Muslim officers fight terrorism
Source: Washington Post By Missy Ryan Shortly after supporters of the Islamic State gunned down 14 people in California last year, the CIA’s deputy director assembled a group of Muslim […]
Trump: We don’t know ‘about Hillary in terms of religion’
Source: Associated Press By JILL COLVIN Clergy leaders with PICO (People Improving Communities through Organizing) Action Fund and their… Read more NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Donald Trump appeared to […]
Inside Donald Trump’s strategic decision to target Muslims
Source: The Washington Post By Jenna Johnson June 21 at 6:00 AM In the weeks between last year’s terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., Donald Trump and his closest aides began discussing an idea far outside the bounds of normal political debate: banning all foreign Muslims from entering […]
Inside Trump’s Closed-Door Meeting, Held To Reassure ‘The Evangelicals’
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON Most Donald Trump events kick off with music from Elton John or the Rolling Stones at deafening volumes. But praise choruses ruled the day Tuesday as […]
John Lewis leads sit-in on House floor over guns
Source: CNN By Deirdre Walsh, Stephen Collinson and Eugene Scott Washington (CNN) – John Lewis revived Wednesday one of the most evocative forms of protest from the civil rights movement — the sit-in — to demand House Republicans move on gun control. In a move rich with historic symbolism, the […]