(AL.com) — Alabama lawmakers aiming to challenge abortion rights nationally are one step from their goal of putting an almost total ban on the procedure into state law. The Senate voted Tuesday night 25-6 to pass a bill to make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion. The bill is a priority […]

(The College Fix) — On Monday, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs settled a lawsuit brought by a student Christian apologetics group alleging its religious freedom had been violated when the university tried to dictate the makeup of the group’s leaders. In November, Ratio Christi sued the public university, alleging its officials refused to formally […]

(Business Insider) — Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, recently visited Jimmy Carter’s Sunday-school class in Plains, Georgia, and then had lunch with the former president. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor said he was “humbled” to meet with Carter, who has hosted other 2020 Democratic candidates such as Sens. Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar […]

 (Voice of America) — U.S. President Donald Trump called it his “great privilege” to welcome ambassadors and diplomats from Muslim-majority nations to the White House for an iftar dinner Monday marking the end of the day’s fasting observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. He highlighted Ramadan as “a time of charity, […]

(Washington Times) — On its way to Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s desk is an abortion rights bill that makes late-term legislation in New York and Virginia look conservative by comparison. The Democrat-controlled state legislature gave final approval Friday to H. 57, which would create a “fundamental right” to abortion and prohibit government entities from interfering […]

(The Daily Herald) — Harvest Bible Chapel elders say they’re taking down the “Walk In the Word” website with teachings of former Senior Pastor James S. MacDonald, who was fired in February. On Friday, links to MacDonald’s videos and audio recordings on the website, jamesmacdonald.com, led to notices that the site is undergoing scheduled maintenance. […]

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — At first glance, it looks like an abandoned dump. But this plot of land in Macon County, Alabama is described in an FBI search warrant as a “makeshift military-style obstacle course” belonging to a small group of terrorists led by Siraj Wahhaj who owned the property up a long dirt […]

(Middle East Concern) — On May 16 there will be a hearing in the case against the owner of land being used by a church in the Kabylie province of Bejaia. He has been charged with allowing unauthorized worship on his land, violating a 2006 Ordinance that regulates non-Muslim worship. The church involved is the “Ville […]

 (NBC) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a proposed abortion ban after anger erupted in the state Senate when some Republicans stripped an exception for rape and incest from the bill. Shouting broke among senators when the exemption for rape and incest was removed without a roll call vote. Democrats and […]

 (Fox News) — A Pennsylvania Democratic state representative went on an eight-minute rant, verbally harassing an elderly woman protesting outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Brian Sims recorded a woman outside Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which is in his district, telling her to pray at home, calling her an “old white lady” and lecturing her about […]