TORONTO – A team of French and Canadian scientists have identified preserved embryos within the eggs of a tiny shrimp-like creature believed to have lived over 500 million years ago, raising questions about both the development of the creatures’ brooding abilities and the likelihood of such delicate materials surviving for thousands of millennia. Waptia fieldensis […]
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas mother says that she intends to continue to fight to have a state law repealed that allows hospitals to stop providing life-sustaining treatment to patients after her son passed away last week just days before doctors planned to pull the plug. As previously reported, Christopher Dunn, 46, had been in Houston […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of nearly $600,000 that the group had been receiving for its HIV prevention and testing program. “We have the discretion to extend the contract and elected not to,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told reporters. “The […]
NEW YORK — The New York City Commission on Human Rights has announced new guidelines under the city’s Human Rights Law that may impose fines on employers who use masculine pronouns for male workers who wish to identify as women and vice versa. The Commission released its interpretive guide to the law on Monday, which includes a […]
HAWKINS, Texas — Officials in a Texas city have voted to sue a local church over land that it purchased to help protect a “Jesus” sign from being removed following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. As previously reported, the situation centers around a sign in Hawkins, Texas that reads, “Jesus welcomes you […]
HOUSTON, Texas — Controversy is stirring over Bruce Jenner’s recent visit to a megachurch in Texas, where he prayed with a pastor who stood against an ordinance allowing men who identify as women to use womens’ restrooms and vice versa. According to reports, the former Olympian visited Ed Young, Sr.’s Second Baptist Church of Houston last week […]
ALPINE, Texas — A prominent professing atheist group is seeking to stop a Texas sheriff from placing cross decals on his deputy vehicles out of its assertion that doing so violates the U.S. Constitution. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) wrote to the Brewster County Sheriff’s Office on Monday after learning of Sheriff Ronny […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal judge in Utah has ruled that the state may strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of its funding while the organization proceeds with a lawsuit over being defunded. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups, nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush, reversed an earlier decision calling for […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its final guidance on allowing homosexual men to donate blood, stating that men should be allowed to do so if they have been abstinent for at least one year. As previously reported, the FDA first announced its intent to loosen its restrictions on blood donations from […]
LANSING, Mich. — The Satanic Temple held a ceremony on the steps of the Michigan capitol building on Saturday to decry what it called the “siren song of the religious right.” “Hail Comrades. Hail sisters and brothers. Hail Satan,” Director Jex Blackmore said as she opened the gathering, being met with the response of “Hail […]