ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man who expressed his love for beheadings has been sentenced to over eight years in prison for seeking to assist the barbaric Islamic group known as ISIS. Haris Qamar, 26, of Burke had plead guilty in October to attempting to provide material support for the terrorist organization. He was arrested in July. […]
QUANAH, Texas — A prominent humanist group is demanding that a public school teacher in Texas remove her Christian-themed displays from the classroom out of its assertion that their presence violates the U.S. Constitution. The American Humanist Association (AHA) recently sent a letter to the superintendent of the Quanah Independent School District, as well as the principal […]
WASHINGTON (CBS News) — Drug overdose deaths have nearly tripled in the United States since 1999, with whites and middle-aged Americans bearing much of the brunt, a new government report shows. More than 16 out of every 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2015, compared to just over 6 in 1999, the U.S. […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a move to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to a local discrimination ordinance violates state law. Citizens in Fayetteville had voted in 2015 to approve an ordinance asserting that “[t]he right of an otherwise qualified person to be free from discrimination […]
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania school district has agreed to remove a Ten Commandments monument on its grounds as part of a settlement with a prominent professing atheist organization that had sued over the Decalogue on behalf of a local teenager and her mother. “In order to take the high road, as they say, we […]
Two former Planned Parenthood managers state that they had been disappointed after taking the job to find out that the organization didn’t really offer help for pregnant women or those needing other types of women’s health care. Ramona Trevino, who formerly managed a Planned Parenthood facility in Sherman, Texas, and Sue Thayer, who once managed Planned […]
CHARLESTON, W.V. — A lawmaker in West Virginia has introduced a bill that would make the Bible the state book. H.B. 2568 was presented by Jeff Eldridge, D-Lincoln, who serves in the state House of Delegates. It amends the Code of West Virginia to add a new section that recognizes the Bible as the state […]
VENTURA, Calif. (KTLA-TV) — A 30-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after threatening to kill a protester outside a Ventura Planned Parenthood, police said. The incident was reported about 8:40 a.m. at the facility in the 5400 block of Ralston Street, according to the Ventura Police Department. Brandon Beechum was accompanying a “female companion” to the […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration withdrew on Wednesday an Obama-era directive that required public schools to allow students to use the restroom that they feel matches their “internal sense of gender” under threat of losing federal funding. A letter issued by both the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice outlines that the guidance […]
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Wednesday that the issue of restroom use by “transgender” students is not a priority for the administration, although it is expected to release new guidelines on the matter at some point today, possibly sending the matter back to the states. “The issue of transgender […]