(BBC) — A bill to legalize abortion services in the Republic of Ireland has passed all stages in the Dáil (Irish parliament). TDs voted in favour of the legislation by 90 votes to 15, with 12 abstentions. It followed hours of debate and more than 60 amendments. The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill will […]

(Newsweek) — College men are attempting to ban pornography on campuses across the country, The Daily Beast reported. Eighty male students at Notre Dame University wrote an open letter in the school newspaper asking for a porn filter on the school’s Wi-Fi. “This filter would send the unequivocal message that pornography is an affront to […]

(ABC News) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Ebola virus disease in the country’s current epidemic. There has been a “significant increase” in […]

(The New York Times) — Thomas J. J. Altizer, one of a handful of radical theologians in the 1960s who espoused that “God is dead,” has died in Stroudsburg, Pa. He was 91. His daughter, Katharine Altizer, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Dr. Altizer, who lived in Mount Pocono, Pa., was under […]

(Fox News) — The Dutch businessman who claimed he was a “young god” when he launched a legal battle last month to officially roll back his age 20 years will remain 69. A Dutch court on Monday rejected Emile Ratelband’s request to shave off two decades from his age, saying that amending his date of […]

 (KIRO-TV) — Shilo Jama showed us the needle exchange he runs in Seattle’s University District. The supplies, including needles and naloxone, are not all that different from what he found when he visited underground supervised consumption sites in and around Seattle. Jama said his organization, the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, has no role in running […]

(China Aid) — Despite ongoing attacks from authorities, members of Early Rain Covenant Church have continued to preach on the streets. On Nov. 14, 10 Christians were evangelizing in public when police took them away. The detained were taken into custody as they handed out Christian fliers during a Bible study and were not released […]

(Bloomberg) — China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident. The capital city will pool data from several departments to reward and punish […]

WASHINGTON (New York Times) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to leapfrog federal appeals courts in several cases concerning the president’s decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military. Federal district courts have entered injunctions against the new policy, but no appeals court has yet ruled […]

(The Guardian) — Facebook has been criticized for failing to remove a viral post promoting an auction of a child bride in South Sudan, which eventually led to the payment of the largest dowry ever recorded in the civil war-torn country. The highest bidder was a man three times the age of the 17-year-old girl […]