BASEL, Switzerland — An elderly scientist who was not terminally ill, but who said he was “not happy” as he was losing his eyesight and independence, ended his life on Thursday by lethal injection in Switzerland. The man said he had no belief in the afterlife and didn’t want a remembrance service either. David Goodall, […]
PLANO, Texas — A Texas teenager who is sympathetic to the barbaric Islamic group ISIS has been arrested over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a local shopping mall. Matin Azizi-Yarand, 17, is facing a terrorism charge for planning to attack Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, as well as criminal solicitation of capital […]
Three Americans who had been long detained by the North Korean government, including a missionary and a pastor, have been freed and are en route back to the United States with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. President Donald Trump tweeted the news Wednesday morning. He plans to meet the men when they arrive at Andrews Air […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The governor of Alabama has weighed on a recent situation in Mobile in which a public school teacher had to go home to change out her “Just Pray” t-shirt, and says that it is “unacceptable” to disallow the teacher from wearing the message on her clothing just because it encourages prayer. “Religious liberty is a cornerstone […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly 200 Congressmen have signed on to letters asking the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to amend the federal Title X regulations so as to prohibit funding to organizations that perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood. “Planned Parenthood has described abortion as ‘a necessary service that’s as vital to our mission as […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former public school teacher of 12 years who left her job in January for reasons that include the lack of discipline of students recently showed reporters a list of goals that a fifth grader wrote, number one being that he wanted to kill her. She believes that the education system is broken and that something […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Lawmakers in Oklahoma have passed a bill that protects the religious convictions of foster and adoption agencies in the state, in that they may decline to place children in certain households if the arrangement would violate the tenets of their faith. “To the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency receiving […]
MOBILE, Ala. (PEOPLE) — Trenton McKinley defied all odds. After the 13-year-old boy was severely injured in a dune buggy accident, his parents made the difficult decision to donate his organs following days of him being apparently brain dead, according to Fox 10. But after the papers were signed, he miraculously regained consciousness. The incident […]
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence, a professing evangelical, swore in openly homosexual Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to Germany on Thursday, with the man’s partner standing by his side. “Ric, I know you’ve got a lot of friends from many years here, but most importantly, you’ve got people that you cherish, and your family. […]
NEW YORK — A New York abortionist has accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of a 30-year-old woman who lost her life two years ago following an abortion. Robert Rho, 55, of the now-closed Liberty Women’s Health Care of Queens entered the plea on Friday while the jury […]