Washington (CNN) Vice President Joe Biden criticized Israel’s government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, warning that the current direction Israel is headed in leaves little room for Middle East […]
Source: Time By Melissa Chan Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Sunday signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, making the state the 24th in the country to authorize a comprehensive medical marijuana program. The “truly historic legislation,” the governor said, gives patients with serious medical conditions access to medical marijuana with a […]
Source: CNN By Jeanne Sahadi So, you’ve probably just finished settling up your 2015 income tax bill with the IRS. (Or at least you should have, what with the due […]
Huff Post: by Taylor Pittman — According to a new study, men are more likely to be creepy than women Good news, ladies. A new study has confirmed what you’ve probably thought all along: some men can be pretty creepy. For a study titled “On the nature of creepiness,” Knox […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ariel Edwards-Levy Staff Reporter and Polling Director, The Huffington Post No other 2016 candidate loves citing polls as much as Donald Trump, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders might […]
Source: CNBC By Javier E. David Big multinational companies that shelter overseas profit from federal taxation cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion a year by withholding more than […]
Source: The Guardian By Spencer Ackerman As Barack Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family has taken custody of nine longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees, bringing Obama closer to […]
By David Wright, CNN Source: CNN Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin mocked Bill Nye on Thursday, using the premier of a film that criticizes climate change scientists to call into question Nye’s credentials. “Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said, […]
HuffPost: by Antonia Blumberg — Based on these trends, the future of religion in America probably isn’t a church. Nearly a century after German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first proclaimed “God is dead,” TIME magazine released a controversial cover on its April 8, 1966 edition with the related provocative question: “Is […]
Source: Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio congressman said it’s unacceptable that a Bible was removed from a POW display at a military base medical center. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner sent a letter Wednesday to the top general at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base objecting to the Bible’s […]
Source: The New York Times Federal officials and the local police are investigating burglaries and hate literature that appear to be directed at Muslim students attending Idaho State University in […]
Source: The Washington Post By Susan Svrluga The Citadel is considering a request from an admitted student that she be allowed to wear a hijab in keeping with her Muslim […]
Source: Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – The governor of Tennessee vetoed legislation on Thursday that would have made the Christian Bible the state’s official book, saying it would […]
Source: BBC The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the Zika virus causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly. Hundreds of babies were born in Brazil […]
Source: Yahoo News By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is […]
Source: The Denver Post By Kirk Mitchell A federal jury trial began Monday in which JetStream Ground Services was accused of not allowing female Muslim employees to wear clothing required […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell / Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to talk about the middle class right now. He wants to talk about the poor. The Vermont Senator on […]
Source: USA Today By Gregory Korte WASHINGTON — Public health officials said Monday they’ve learned a lot more about Zika since the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion to combat the mosquito-borne […]
Source: BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken of the personal impact that his historic visit to the Hiroshima memorial in Japan has had on him. He is the first US secretary of state to ever visit Hiroshima, where around 140,000 were killed when the US dropped an […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. […]