AUSTIN, Texas — On ABC’s “This Week” broadcast, the lieutenant governor of Texas lamented the “culture of violence” in America in speaking on the deadly high school shooting in Santa Fe that took the lives of ten people and wounded more than a dozen others. “[S]hould we be surprised in this nation?” asked Dan Patrick. “We have […]
BOSTON, Mass. — The son of a Boston police officer has pleaded guilty to plotting terror attacks on locations such as college cafeterias in the name of the barbaric Islamic group ISIS. The father had alerted the FBI of his son’s concerning support of the terror group three years ago. Alexander Ciccolo, 25, who also […]
SCIOTA, Ill. — Officials at an Illinois high school recently prohibited a valedictorian from speaking about Jesus in his graduation speech. Student Sam Blackledge, 18, told the Todd Starnes Radio Show that he was called to the principal’s office at West Prairie High School last week where it was outlined by school and district officials that he […]
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A California “pastor” has resigned over controversial tweets in which he used profanity and other strong language to express frustration with the City of Palo Alto. The tweets were characterized as “vile” by the city’s vice mayor, who said that he would think twice before sending children to an event at […]
PHILADELPHIA — Several foster parents have filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia for suspending its partnership with Catholic Social Services because the organization’s religious convictions prohibit it from placing children in same-sex households. “[T]he City’s actions are creating a severe human cost,” the lawsuit states. “Available foster homes are sitting empty. Numerous foster parents […]
ARLINGTON, Va. — A Virginia doctor who spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s tea with an abortion drug will spend three years in prison, being sentenced to 20 years in prison with 17 of those years suspended. According to reports, Brook Fiske, 37, asked the court to be merciful to her former boyfriend, Sikander Imran, 32. She told […]
HOLLAND, Mich. (Holland Sentinel) — David-Olonade Segun’s story began long before the fire, but that day—the day his father was killed by terrorists—would set the course for a new chapter in his life. David-Olonade, who goes by the name David, and his wife, both of southwest Nigeria, had begun a ministry in the northern part of […]
20 attorneys general have signed an amicus brief supporting Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for altering its Title X funding criteria to prefer groups that promote abstinence and work with faith-based entities. They claim that the new standards will negatively affect the ability of women to contribute to the […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Republican governor of Kansas has signed a bill into law that protects the convictions of religious foster care and adoption agencies, in that the government is prohibited from punishing such organizations for declining to place children in certain households when doing so would violate the tenets of their faith. “The actions taken in […]
SANTA FE, Texas (Click 2 Houston) — Ten people were killed Friday in a shooting at Santa Fe High School, according to NBC News, and police are investigating explosive devices found at the scene and nearby. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a majority of those that were killed in the shooting were students. He said that […]