(Reuters) — A Mississippi woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to trying to join Islamic State in Syria, 2-1/2 weeks after her husband entered the same plea. Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, was arrested at a Mississippi airport in August 2015 while attempting to board a flight to Turkey with her husband, Muhammad Oda […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — The new governor of Louisiana plans to rescind an executive order issued by former Gov. Bobby Jindal that provided religious liberty protections to objectors of same-sex “marriage.” Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat and Roman Catholic, plans to make the move in the “near future,” according to his press secretary, and […]
BERKELEY, Calif. — The student government body at the University of California at Berkeley has unanimously approved a resolution calling upon administrators to open an abortion facility on campus. Student Senator Aanchal Chugh had proposed the idea, stating that the facility is needed as university students are in the age bracket where the most abortions occur. “We […]
RICHMOND, Va. — The Democratic governor of Virginia has vetoed a religious freedom bill providing protections for pastors and non-profit faith-based organizations who believe in biblical marriage. Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who had just vetoed a bill stripping the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of funding the day prior, announced Wednesday that he was also putting a stop […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The attorney general of North Carolina has announced that he will not defend a recently signed law that overturned a controversial “bathroom bill” in Charlotte and banned other cities from passing similar ordinances. Roy Cooper called the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act a “national embarrassment” on Tuesday during a press conference in which […]
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz says that abortion-minded mothers shouldn’t be charged for killing their unborn children in response to comments from Donald Trump that they should face “some form of punishment”—a remark Trump later recanted. Trump had been interviewed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during a town hall event on Wednesday. “Do you believe in punishment for […]
(Reuters) — Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday vetoed a Republican-backed bill aimed at blocking state funding for Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions and provides other health services. McAuliffe, a Democrat, said the bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature would harm thousands of state residents who relied on Planned Parenthood for health care. “The fact […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The owners of a bed and breakfast in Illinois have been ordered to pay $80,000 after they declined to host a civil union ceremony for two homosexual men on the premises, and have been mandated to facilitate a celebration for the men at their facility within one year. TimberCreek Bed and Breakfast […]
CONCORD, Calif. — A California man who admitted to setting a church building on fire six years ago as he was “mad at God” because of the hardships in his life has been sentenced to over three years in prison. Following an indictment in March 2015 and a subsequent plea deal, Hugo Scherzberg, 48, plead guilty […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The Republican governor of Utah has signed into a law a bill that requires abortionists to administer anesthesia to unborn babies so that they cannot feel pain as they are being murdered. “The governor is adamantly pro-life,” a spokesman for Gov. Gary Herbert asserted in a statement on Tuesday. “He […]