BERKELEY, Calif. — A student senator at the University of California at Berkeley is facing pressure to resign after she abstained from voting on a resolution that expressed opposition to an alleged plan by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to legally define sex under Title IX of the Education Amendments of […]
TORONTO — An apostate minister with the United Church of Canada who identifies as an atheist will not be defrocked after an agreement was reached just before she was to be put on trial over her rejection of biblical orthodoxy. While the details of the settlement have not been made public, the United Church of […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Voters in Nevada elected a Republican brothel owner to the Assembly on Tuesday despite the fact that he had died a month ago. Dennis Hoff received 63 percent of the vote on Election Day, compared to 37 percent for his opponent, Democrat Lesia Romanov. County officials will now appoint a Republican […]
DENVER, Co. — Voters in Colorado have elected the nation’s first openly homosexual governor, choosing Democrat Jared Polis 52 percent over Republican challenger Walker Stapleton, who obtained 45 percent of the vote. Jared Polis, who raises two children with his partner, Marlon Reis, has been serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. He […]
PITTSBURGH (New York Times) — Armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding six others, officials said. President Trump described the shooting as a “wicked act of mass murder” that was […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld the capital punishment of a man who killed his pregnant wife in 2009, noting that under state law, “the value of the life of an unborn child is no less than the value of the lives of other persons.” In a separate concurring opinion, one of the […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A Nevada strip club owner who operated five brothels and who won the Republican primary for the state assembly seat, in part due to evangelicals who were willing to back the candidate despite his unscrupulous profession, has died. Reports state that it is likely that he will still win the election in […]
ALIAGA, Turkey — Andrew Brunson, the American pastor arrested in 2016 after being accused of espionage and having connections to those involved in a failed coup attempt against the Turkish government, is now free to leave the country after a judge sentenced him to time served. “This is the day our family has been praying […]
MAINZ, Germany (NBC News) — The last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. was deported to Germany overnight. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived in New York City for decades. He served as a guard at a Nazi forced labor camp during the Second World War. In a statement released by the White House […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University, which hails itself as the world’s largest Christian university, says that he is writing a book with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the specifics of which have not yet been announced. Carter, who has publicly expressed his support for “gay marriage” and says that […]