Is This the End of the Religious Right?
Source: The New York Times By SARAH POSNER FOR more than three decades, conservative white evangelicals have been a dominant force within the Republican Party, shaping presidential primary contests and […]
High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips
Source: Los Angeles Times By Zahira Torres Contact Reporter A High school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab. Bayan Zehlif, […]
Latino Muslims at country’s only Spanish-speaking mosque: ‘Islam changed my life’
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler in Houston Alfonso Flores looked relieved. Standing at the front of the prayer hall, the 29-year-old dental technician accepted hugs and handshakes from other members of […]
Baltimore archdiocese posts list of accused priests
Source: The Baltimore Sun By Alison Knezevich Contact Reporter The Baltimore Sun The Archdiocese of Baltimore has posted a list of dozens of priests and religious brothers accused of sexual abuse in a move church officials say came from listening to feedback from abuse survivors. All of the names had previously been […]
Obama to Become First Sitting US President to Visit Hiroshima
Source: ABC News By ARLETTE SAENZ President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visitHiroshima when he travels to Japan later this month, the White House announced this […]
The Surprising Reason Why the Bison Even Exists to Be the U.S. National Mammal
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman The bison has been named America’s first national mammal, after the President signed the National Bison Legacy Act on Monday, the culmination of a […]
Sadiq Khan dismisses Donald Trump’s Muslim ban ‘exception’
Source: BBC Sadiq Khan has rejected US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s offer to make the new London mayor an “exception” to a ban on Muslims travelling to the US. “This […]
A man who went undercover in a jail for 2 months discovered a disturbing truth about veterans who are locked up
Source: Business Insider By Mark Abadi It’s all too common for veterans in the US to wind up in jail. And behind bars, many of them don’t have access to the […]
Artificial skin that removes wrinkles and restores youth created by scientists
By Matt Atherton May 9, 2016 17:59 BST ibtimes.co.uk An artificial ‘second skin’ that reduces the appearance of wrinkles has been created by scientists. The synthetic skin has been shown to restore the youthful appearance of skin by temporarily tightening and protecting it − a discovery that has implications for both […]
Alabama’s top judge is suspended, and may lose job, after blocking gay marriage
Source: The Washington Post By Niraj Chokshi Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore already lost his job once. Now he’s at risk of losing it again. A state commission on Friday suspended Moore from […]
Woman blazes path to train Catholic priests
Source: Chicago Tribune By Manya Brachear Pashman Contact Reporter On the bucolic Mundelein campus that houses a theological university and the largest Roman Catholic seminary in the U.S., there are 220 […]
West Point Launches Investigation Into Raised-Fist Photo
Source: Time By Eliana Dockterman West Point has launched an investigation into whether a photo violates the military’s policy against political demonstration. The picture shows 16 black female cadets wearing their […]
Anti-Donald Trump Forces Hope to Draft Mitt Romney
Source: Time By Katie Reilly Romney met with a #NeverTrump leader to discuss the idea of an independent run William Kristol, who has been a leading voice in the#NeverTrump movement, met […]
Harvard to ban members of single-sex clubs from student leadership roles
Source: The Guardian By Alan Yuhas Harvard University will bar members of single-sex clubs, fraternities and sororities from fellowships and leadership roles on campus, college presidentDrew Gilpin Faust announced on Friday, […]
Boxer Aamir Khan k.o. in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES: Canelo Alvarez defended his World Boxing Council middleweight belt on Saturday by knocking out Amir Khan with a vicious right hand late in the sixth round of their Las Vegas title fight. The 25-year-old hard-hitting Mexican dropped Khan with a straight right over a passive left jab that sent […]
‘Racism from cradle to grave’: Texas cemetery sued for ‘whites only’ policy
Source: The Guardian By Tom Dart in Houston At San Domingo cemetery in rural south Texas, there are headstones marking the graves of people with names such as Davis, Baker, Harris […]
Muslim women kicked out of California restaurant sue for discrimination
Source: The Guardian By Sam Levin in San Francisco Seven Muslim women who were kicked out of a southern California restaurant are suing the business for discrimination, alleging that they were […]
Amish beard-cutting convictions upheld by federal appeals court
Source: Clevland By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com CINCINNATI, Ohio — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the criminal convictions against more than a dozen members of an Amish community who […]
Why So Many Americans Think They’re #Blessed
Source: New Republic BY JOSEPH P. LAYCOCK Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor […]
Should Courts Get to Define Religion?
Source: The Atlantic By MICHAEL O’LOUGHLIN Property-tax battles are rarely sexy. But a case now in front of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, about whether the 21 religious brothers and sisters […]