SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A judge in California has ruled that the frozen embryos of a divorced couple must be “thawed and discarded,” after the wife said she wanted them but the husband did not. Dr. Mimi Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her marriage to Stephen Findley in 2010, and so the couple […]
BAMAKO, Mali (Daily Mail) — Armed jihadists have killed at least three people in a deadly shooting rampage and taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali. Automatic weapons fire has been heard on the seventh floor of the 190-room hotel, where it is thought as many as 10 militants have been […]
PARIS — The mastermind believed to be behind the coordinated terror attacks that killed over 130 Parisians on Friday died during Wednesday’s pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in a suburb of Paris, officials have confirmed. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, was originally believed to have been in Syria, but officials were tipped that he was holed […]
PORT NECHES, Texas — Residents in a Texas city are pushing back after a prominent professing atheist group recently sent a letter demanding the removal of a cross monument from a public park. The cross at issue, a 10-foot cement monument, sits in Riverfront Park in Port Neches, and has done so for the past […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Arizon’s Grand Canyon University has announced that it has decided to grant employee benefits to homosexual staff while reiterating its belief that marriage can only be defined as the union of one man man and one woman. The university says that it made the change as federal and state governments “have recently changed […]
Nigeria (Huffington Post) — The suicide bomber exploded as truckers were tucking into dinner at the bustling marketplace where vendors urged them to buy sugar cane. At least 34 people were killed and another 80 wounded in Yola, a town packed with refugees from Nigeria’s Islamic uprising, emergency officials said Wednesday. Later Wednesday, two more […]
SAINT-DENIS, France — A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Tuesday as French police conducted a pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in an operation to locate the mastermind associated with Friday’s massacre in Paris. Police closed in on an apartment building in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, and according to reports, a woman detonated […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish court has ruled against a woman who was denied employment by three medical facilities over her convictions not to assist with abortion procedures, declaring that facilities have a right to require midwives to perform abortions. In November 2013, Höglandssjukhuset women’s clinic rescinded a job offer to new midwifery graduate Ellinor Grimmark […]
BEIRUT (CNN) — Nine people have been arrested in connection with a pair of deadly bombings in Beirut, Lebanon’s interior minister said Monday. The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the Thursday attacks that left more than 40 people dead in south Beirut, traditionally a stronghold for Hezbollah militants. CNN hasn’t confirmed the authenticity of […]
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Ohio House of Representatives has voted to advance a bill that defunds the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, reallocating over $1.3 million in funding to other health-related groups in the state that do not perform abortions. House Bill 294 was passed along party lines 62-30. The legislation was introduced by Representatives Bill Patmon and […]