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. […]
Source: Time By David Johnson Fifty years after TIME posed the question Is God Dead? on the cover of the magazine, Americans’ belief in a supreme deity appears to be declining. The article, which focused on a group of Christian theologians grappling with the idea of a world without an active […]
Source: Reuters BY ROBERTA RAMPTON President Barack Obama on Friday told donors that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were doing Democrats a “favor” by exposing extreme views […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly The President is viewed more favorably than any of the presidential candidates A new poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has increased and he […]
Source: BBC By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Two light-haired, deadly serious anchors sit behind a news desk, delivering the latest on the race for the US presidential nominations in Finnish, with […]
Source: Time By Julie Pace & Emily Swanson / AP (WASHINGTON) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the […]
Source: The New York Times By HANNAH FAIRFIELD and TIM WALLACE Republican leaders have blocked the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because they say they do not […]
Source: Reuters The Tennessee House passed a bill on Wednesday allowing mental health counselors to refuse service to patients on religious grounds, the latest in a list of U.S. state […]