FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge has placed a preliminary injunction on a controversial directive from the Obama administration that required public school districts to allow male students who identify as female to use the girls’ restroom and vice versa. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor determined that the U.S. Department of Education and the […]
Turkey (MNN) — Last Thursday in Turkey, three separate explosions including car bombs killed 14 people and wounded over 220. The blasts seemed to target Turkish police, though both civilians and officers were killed. Turkish officials say it was the Kurdish militants, also known as the PKK, who carried out the blasts. Turkey considers the […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — The leader of a prominent activist organization that seeks to separate God from the military is asking that the Air Force “aggressively punish” a superior officer who has long displayed an open Bible on his desk. According to reports, Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) recently sent a letter to Col. […]
An accomplished molecular biologist with more than two decades of research experience has come out with a new book in which he describes crippling weaknesses in the theory of evolution and argues instead that life must have been invented by God. Dr. Douglas Axe is a credentialed scientist who earned a Ph.D. from California Institute […]
MOSUL, Iraq — The barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, recently executed six men accused of being spies by boiling them in tar, reports state. Iraqi News reported the information from a source residing in Nineveh, who stated that the men had been sentenced to death […]
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Officials at a public university in Arizona recently agreed to remove Gideon Bibles from the school’s hotel rooms following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter earlier this year to the CEO of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, which is part […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — A pregnancy center in North Carolina has filed a federal legal challenge after the Raleigh City Council denied its zoning request, thereby prohibiting the entity from opening adjacent to an abortion facility. Hand of Hope defines itself as “an outreach ministry of Jesus Christ through its Church” that provides women with free, […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s self-identifying pro-life governor recently agreed to end a legal fight to defend a new state law that would have defunded the abortion giant Planned Parenthood—at least for now. As previously reported, House Bill 1411 was meant to reallocate funds that abortion providers had been receiving as Medicaid reimbursement, and to prohibit the government from […]
LOS ANGELES — Under threat of a lawsuit, a pro-life pregnancy center in California has agreed to comply with a state law requiring that clients be provided with information about government programs that offer free or low-cost abortions. As previously reported, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Reproductive FACT Act into law in October, a measure that […]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration published a notice on Thursday declaring that federal buildings must allow men that identify as women and vice versa to use the restroom that correlates with their “gender identity.” “Federal agencies occupying space under the jurisdiction, custody, or control of GSA must allow individuals to use restroom facilities and related […]