(Newsweek) A convicted pedophile who was sentenced to 300 years for sexually assaulting six children has been freed from Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Colorado. Michael McFadden, 46, was released on Tuesday after the Colorado Court of Appeals decided his right to a speedy trial had been violated. McFadden’s trial, which was scheduled for 2015, […]
BLADENSBURG, Md. — A ruling declaring a veterans cross memorial in Maryland to be unconstitutional will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear the case en banc on Thursday. The vote to deny the request was 8-6. “Our holding that the State’s ongoing ownership and maintenance of […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii — Two Hawaii House committees have advanced a controversial bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. The Health and Human Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee approved H.B. 2739, also known as the “Our Care, Our Choice” bill, on Wednesday. The votes were 4-1 and 7-1 respectively. The measure allows for […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Senate has advanced a bill that would place on the November ballot an initiative that would amend the state Constitution to expressly allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public buildings and schools. S.B. 181 was approved by an overwhelming vote of 23-3 on Tuesday, and now moves to […]
(Newsweek/Yahoo News) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is developing a new generation of advanced nuclear weapons including a hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can reach almost anywhere in the world and cannot be shot down by anti-missile systems. Putin made the claim during his annual presidential address to the Federal Assembly in […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Satanic Temple of Arizona has filed a lawsuit against the City of Scottsdale for ultimately turning down its request to present an invocation at a city council meeting in 2016. The group, which is non-theistic and doesn’t actually believe in a literal Satan, but only views the fallen angel as a […]
STARKVILLE, Miss. — A homosexual advocacy group that wanted to hold a “gay pride” parade in the streets of Starkville, Mississippi has filed a lawsuit against the City for voting to deny the event application. “[T]he only objections raised against Plaintiffs’ parade were anti-LGBT religious comments directed to the parade’s LGBT content and the pro-LGBT viewpoint that […]
CHARLOTTE, NC — Former president Bill Clinton paid his respects to Billy Graham on Tuesday, traveling to North Carolina for the public viewing of Graham’s casket at his Charlotte library. Graham, who had served as a counselor to a number of U.S. presidents, considered Clinton to be a Christian, and once characterized him—despite disagreement with his stances—as being […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism opened the Iowa House and Senate with prayer to a false god on Monday. “We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky, and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and […]
(Fox News) — A woman in Nevada who reportedly carried a pickaxe as she shouted threats at a playground where hundreds of children were playing has been arrested. Kisstal Killough, 33, was allegedly carrying the hand tool and screaming threats as she climbed a chain link fence around noon on Tuesday to enter the Tom […]