(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 […]

(ABC News) — Netflix and Warner Bros have settled with a Satanic group that attempted to sue the production company for $50 million ($68.95 million) for images used in its new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series. On Thursday, The Satanic Temple founder Lucien Greaves released a statement that the lawsuit filed against Warner Bros and […]

(The Insider) — The 26-year-old American who police say was killed by a remote Indian tribe last week, said he believed God helped him dodge authorities and reach the isolated island he referred to as “Satan’s last stronghold.” John Allen Chau, a tourist and Christian missionary from Washington state, wrote in a final diary entry […]

(Newsweek) — Witchcraft and other pagan religious practices increased in the U.S. over the past few decades, with millennials turning to astrology and tarot cards as they turn away from Christianity and other traditionally dominant Abrahamic religions. The number of witches and Americans practicing Wicca religious rituals increased dramatically since the 1990s, with several recent […]

FUZHOU, Fujian (China Aid) — A church in the capital of China’s southeastern Fujian province has been harassed relentlessly by authorities over the past few months. Yongfu Church, located in Fuzhou, has been raided eight times in the past two months. When the church refused to make modifications to their building in order to fit […]

 (NY Daily News) — The twisted ex-Marine who gunned down a dozen people in a California bar paused to ponder his mental health in two social media posts during the deadly rampage. Ian David Long, 28, noted on Instagram that he was bored, not crazy — and wondered whether people would believe he was […]

ZHANJIANG, Guangdong (China Aid) — Government personnel in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, closed a church in China’s southern Guangdong province on Oct. 24, notifying the landlord that the property should not be used for church activities. On that evening, the members of Renew Church said they had gathered to study the Bible when local officials broke in, ordering […]

(The Christian Institute) — A Dutch man who feels his age is holding him back in business and dating has launched a legal battle to be legally recognized as 20 years younger. Emile Ratelband, was born on March 11, 1949, but because he feels he is being discriminated against by potential employers and on dating […]