YORK. S.C. — A South Carolina teenager has been arrested on charges that he attempted to provide material support to the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Zakaryia Abdin, 18, of Ladson was arrested on Thursday by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) as he was about […]
An American pastor who has been imprisoned in Turkey since last October is pleading for President Trump and his administration to work more fervently for his release. “I plead with my government—with the Trump administration—to fight for me. I ask the State Department to impose sanctions. I appeal to President Trump: Please help me. Let […]
A prominent Creation science group is pushing back after their website was included on a widely-shared list of allegedly untrustworthy sources and described as “junk science.” After “fake news” became a subject of national discussion during the 2016 presidential election, Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication at Merrimack College, compiled an online document that […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indiana Senate has passed a bill meant to protect religious expression in public schools. H.B. 1024 passed 44-5 on Thursday despite opposition from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “House Bill 1024 only puts prayer back into schools. It does not mandate or force students to participate in it,” […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Members of Southard Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio are grieving after learning that their pastor had been found dead in his home on Tuesday. “It was definitely a homicide,” Columbus Police Detective David Sicilian told the Columbus Dispatch. “He was killed at the hands of someone else.” Joseph McDowell, 81, was found […]
Two U.S. women were sentenced on Friday for allegedly raising funds for the terror group al-Shabaab online. Muna Osman Jama, 36, of Reston, Virginia, and Hinda Osman Dhirane, 46, of Kent, Washington, were sentenced to 12 and 11 years in prison on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization. According to a press […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California attorney general who charged the pro-life investigator behind the 2014-2015 undercover Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies this week had previously been praised by the abortion and contraception giant and received campaign donations from the organization for many of his House re-election bids. Democratic Congressman Xavier Becerra had been appointed by Gov. […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A judge appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama has issued a temporary injunction against the enforcement of a compliance order that would result in the closure of the last abortion facility in Kentucky. “Plaintiffs have laid out specific facts in their verified complaint showing that the rights of their patients would […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon judge has granted a man’s request to be identified as “genderless” and to have no last name. Multnomah County Judge Amy Holmes Hehn granted Patrick Abbatiello a “General Judgment of Name and Sex Change” on March 10, allowing him to be listed as “a-gender” and to legally change his name […]
MUNCIE, Ind. — An Indiana man broke a police officer’s hand during a scuffle as he was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly strangled a thrift store employee who sought to intervene as he went berserk in his quest to convert those present to Islam. Reports state that he repeatedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he fought being […]