STOCKHOLM (New York Times) — A man drove a stolen beer truck into a crowd of people in a popular shopping district in Stockholm on Friday afternoon and then rammed it into a department store, killing four people and injuring 15 others in an attack that unleashed bloodshed and panic on the streets of another […]
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WASHINGTON (NBC News) — The Senate confirmed judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Friday in a mostly party-line 54-45 vote that reflected weeks of bruising political fighting which deepened congressional divides and changed the nature of high court appointments in the future. Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s first major court nominee, will fill the seat […]
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SAN ANTONIO (Fox News) — The driver of a pickup truck that crossed the center line and crashed into a church minibus in Texas told a witness that he had been texting while driving. Jody Kuchler told The Associated Press he was driving behind the truck and had seen it moving erratically prior to the […]
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(Washington Post) — North Carolina lawmakers retreated from the state’s controversial law that restricted which public restrooms transgender people can use, repealing it Thursday in the face of economic pressure in favor of a new bill that gay rights groups attacked as discriminatory. The legislature approved the bill Thursday and Gov. Roy Cooper (D) signed […]
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ONTARIO, Canada (BP) — A recent push in Canada to encourage euthanasia patients to donate their organs appears to be working. In Ontario, the first province to report data, 26 people who died by lethal injection decided to donate tissue or organs since the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) came into effect last June, […]
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(AFP News) — Several thousands of people took to the streets of Romania and Moldova in an anti-abortion March for Life on Saturday, including 2,000 in Bucharest, police said. According to the organisers, rallies took place in more than 300 towns across the two countries. “Women deserve better than abortion,” read one of the banners, […]
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(Evangelical Focus) — Human trafficking and sexual slavery “are not limited by geography anymore, but spread out over the borders of national states though the powerful yet dangerous platform which is the online.” “Sextortion is a new form of sexual exploitation through blackmail using sexual explicit content”, Ioana Humelnicu, Executive Assistant of Abolishion, an organization […]
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WASHINGTON (Yahoo News) — Judge Neil Gorsuch referred to the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex “marriage” decision as “settled law” on Tuesday, using a stronger phrase than he has for other legal precedents. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked Gorsuch to explain how his views on “marriage equality” have changed since 2004, when the George W. Bush […]
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(Evangelical Focus) — God’s servants are everywhere. One such man went by the name of John Harper. As the renowned steam-liner Titanic hit a deadly iceberg on the Atlantic strait that fateful night, 14th April 1912, Harper cried out for women, children and the unconverted to quickly get onto the lifeboats. He even gave his […]
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(KTLA/CNN Wire) — A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped and taken as sex slave by ISIS told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that the Iraqi government and the UN should establish an investigation in order to bring members of the brutal regime to justice. Nadia Murad, along with her counsel, international human rights lawyer Amal […]
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