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Today's Breaking News
Around the World
Israel, Hamas and Egypt form unlikely alliance against Islamic State affiliate
The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt is staging increasingly sophisticated and daring attacks, officials and analysts say, prompting Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to form an unlikely alliance against the terrorist group.
Iran to Build Seven New Nuke Plants By 2020
Iran is offering to help the global community construct nuclear power plants, according to a top official, who said that Iran would be home to seven new nuclear plants by 2020, according to recent remarks.
Sons of Hezbollah commanders sent to Europe to evade Syria fighting
Senior commanders in Hezbollah are smuggling their sons to Europe to prevent the Lebanese terror organization from recruiting them to fight in Syria against the rebel factions, the Egyptian news site Arabi 21 reported Monday.
Europe's First Islamic Constitution?
Calls by a top member of the ruling party of Turkey for an Islamic constitution to replace the secular basic law in place in the country, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally, have been rejected by politicians from all stripes, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself a pious Muslim. But as Erdogan is trying to avoid a debate that could harm him politically, the question remains: How should the relationship between state and religion be defined in a country with a 99 percent Muslim population?
Shiite cleric's speech sparks protesters to storm Green Zone, Iraqi Parliament
Protesters inflamed by a Shiite cleric's speech about government inaction and corruption stormed the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday and invaded the Iraqi Parliament building.
Turkey PM, Hamas chief meet as Ankara inks defense deal with Qatar
Turkish President Ahmet Davutoglu met Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in Doha on Thursday during a state visit to the Gulf emirate of Qatar.
Islamic Jihad delegation visits Iran to 'discuss ways to strengthen intifada'
Islamic Jihad representatives are visiting Iran to discuss ways to strengthen the intifada in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.
Russians 'barrel roll' over another U.S. Air Force plane
A Russian SU-27 conducted a 'barrel roll' Friday over the top of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 which was flying a reconnaissance mission in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Defense Department said.
Kerry urges Assad regime to quit bombing contested Aleppo
Secretary of State John Kerry urged Syrian government forces Saturday to stop bombarding the city of Aleppo as it moves in to retake it.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Dead Sea area contains oil worth NIS 1.2 billion
A new report released Sunday by Israel Opportunity Energy Resources LP and filed with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange claimed an oil reservoir near the Dead Sea is worth NIS 1.2 billion ($320 million).
Arab rioters on Temple Mount hurl stones at police
Police and Border Police officers were attacked on Friday by Palestinians throwing stones after Friday prayers in the Old City.
Inside the United States
Arrests in Seattle as May Day marchers take to streets
Seattle police used pepper spray to disperse black-clad anti-capitalist protesters authorities say threw rocks, flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails at officers during a rowdy May Day gathering.
Puerto Rico won't make $370 million in debt payments Monday
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced that Puerto Rico's government will not make nearly $370 million in bond payments due Monday after a failure to restructure or find a political solution to the U.S. territory's spiraling public debt crisis.
Poll: Not a Single White House Reporter Is a Republican
Not a single member of the White House press corps is a registered Republican, according to survey results recently published by Politico.
U.S. Politics
Southern Baptist Leader Russell Moore Calling on Evangelicals to Stop Trump
Russell Moore, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is leading the evangelical charge against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Christian News
China's President Outlines Effort to Restrict Religion
Chinese president Xi Jinping is asking leaders in the country to work to reassert the Communist Party of China as the controlling religion in the country.
Police: 2 US missionaries found slain in rural Jamaica
Police in Jamaica say two U.S. missionaries have been found slain in a rural area of the Caribbean island that has long struggled with high rates of violent crime.
Around the World
Israel, Hamas and Egypt form unlikely alliance against Islamic State affiliate
The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt is staging increasingly sophisticated and daring attacks, officials and analysts say, prompting Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to form an unlikely alliance against the terrorist group.
Iran to Build Seven New Nuke Plants By 2020
Iran is offering to help the global community construct nuclear power plants, according to a top official, who said that Iran would be home to seven new nuclear plants by 2020, according to recent remarks.
Sons of Hezbollah commanders sent to Europe to evade Syria fighting
Senior commanders in Hezbollah are smuggling their sons to Europe to prevent the Lebanese terror organization from recruiting them to fight in Syria against the rebel factions, the Egyptian news site Arabi 21 reported Monday.
Europe's First Islamic Constitution?
Calls by a top member of the ruling party of Turkey for an Islamic constitution to replace the secular basic law in place in the country, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally, have been rejected by politicians from all stripes, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself a pious Muslim. But as Erdogan is trying to avoid a debate that could harm him politically, the question remains: How should the relationship between state and religion be defined in a country with a 99 percent Muslim population?
Shiite cleric's speech sparks protesters to storm Green Zone, Iraqi Parliament
Protesters inflamed by a Shiite cleric's speech about government inaction and corruption stormed the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday and invaded the Iraqi Parliament building.
Turkey PM, Hamas chief meet as Ankara inks defense deal with Qatar
Turkish President Ahmet Davutoglu met Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in Doha on Thursday during a state visit to the Gulf emirate of Qatar.
Islamic Jihad delegation visits Iran to 'discuss ways to strengthen intifada'
Islamic Jihad representatives are visiting Iran to discuss ways to strengthen the intifada in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.
Russians 'barrel roll' over another U.S. Air Force plane
A Russian SU-27 conducted a 'barrel roll' Friday over the top of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 which was flying a reconnaissance mission in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Defense Department said.
Kerry urges Assad regime to quit bombing contested Aleppo
Secretary of State John Kerry urged Syrian government forces Saturday to stop bombarding the city of Aleppo as it moves in to retake it.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Dead Sea area contains oil worth NIS 1.2 billion
A new report released Sunday by Israel Opportunity Energy Resources LP and filed with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange claimed an oil reservoir near the Dead Sea is worth NIS 1.2 billion ($320 million).
Arab rioters on Temple Mount hurl stones at police
Police and Border Police officers were attacked on Friday by Palestinians throwing stones after Friday prayers in the Old City.
Inside the United States
Arrests in Seattle as May Day marchers take to streets
Seattle police used pepper spray to disperse black-clad anti-capitalist protesters authorities say threw rocks, flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails at officers during a rowdy May Day gathering.
Puerto Rico won't make $370 million in debt payments Monday
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced that Puerto Rico's government will not make nearly $370 million in bond payments due Monday after a failure to restructure or find a political solution to the U.S. territory's spiraling public debt crisis.
Poll: Not a Single White House Reporter Is a Republican
Not a single member of the White House press corps is a registered Republican, according to survey results recently published by Politico.
U.S. Politics
Southern Baptist Leader Russell Moore Calling on Evangelicals to Stop Trump
Russell Moore, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is leading the evangelical charge against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Christian News
China's President Outlines Effort to Restrict Religion
Chinese president Xi Jinping is asking leaders in the country to work to reassert the Communist Party of China as the controlling religion in the country.
Police: 2 US missionaries found slain in rural Jamaica
Police in Jamaica say two U.S. missionaries have been found slain in a rural area of the Caribbean island that has long struggled with high rates of violent crime.
Today's Breaking News
Around the World
Iran touts Israel invasion to recruit teenage boys to fight in Syria
Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime’s military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.
Syria's Ceasefire Has Been Blown To Pieces
Syria's ceasefire is an isn't. It has been blown to pieces by wave upon wave of airstrikes on civilian targets inside Aleppo, and exists in the minds only of foreign diplomats as a fantasy they need to hang onto with desperation.
Brain Damage in Zika Babies Is Far Worse Than Doctors Expected
Ana Gabriela do Prado Paschoal sat at a desk in a small medical exam room and began a familiar, heartbreaking ritual. Your baby's head is smaller than normal, Dr. Paschoal told the anxious mother, who had contracted the Zika virus while pregnant.
1,000 quakes recorded in two Kyushu prefectures in two weeks since initial jolt
More than 1,000 seismic events had been recorded as of Thursday in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures in the two weeks since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck central Kyushu, according to the Meteorological Agency.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Israel rejects French peace initiative
Jerusalem on Thursday responded to the looming French peace initiative, which is to involve an international effort forcing peace talks on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Hamas: 'There will be an explosion' unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade
Hamas threatened on Thursday that unless Israel lifts its blockade on the Gaza Strip, 'there will be an explosion,' Channel 2 reported.
Decrease in attacks - how did it happen? IDF Samaria Division Commanders speak
'The quiet isn't stable.' This is how Col. Shay Klapper, a battalion commander in the Samaria region describes the decrease in the number of terrorist attacks over the past few weeks. 'When the wave is renewed, it will be at a much higher pace will be raised a few notches. It won't return to be 13 year olds with knives,' he predicts.
Inside the United States
ICE releases 19,723 criminal illegals, 208 convicted of murder, 900 of sex crimes
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2015 decided not to deport but release 19,723 criminal illegal immigrants, including 208 convicted of murder, over 900 convicted of sex crimes and 12,307 of drunk driving, according to new government numbers.
U.S. Corporate Profits on Pace for Third Straight Decline
U.S. corporate profits, weighed down by the energy slump and slowing global growth, are set to decline for the third straight quarter in the longest slide in earnings since the financial crisis.
Illegal immigrant criminals released into U.S. despite thousands of vacant detention beds
Homeland Security is leaving thousands of detention beds empty even as it voluntarily releases thousands of murderers, kidnappers and other criminals, the chief of deportations admitted to Congress on Thursday as she faced families of those killed by freed illegal immigrant convicts.
Satanists Interrupt Pro-Life Protests Dressed as Babies
A group of Satanists interrupted pro-life protests outside of Planned Parenthood facilities in Michigan on Saturday, The Blaze reported.
U.S. Politics
Trump rallies 31,000 Californians over immigration reform
More than a dozen individuals took the stage with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump at an event in Costa Mesa, Calif., Thursday night in an unusual opening to a rally.
Protesters take to streets after Trump rally in California
Scores of protesters took to the streets Thursday night outside a Donald Trump campaign event here, drawing out police officers in riot and tactical gear and on horseback who sought to disperse the crowd.
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy views spark anger, unease abroad
Donald Trump isn't the only presidential front-runner this election cycle whose foreign policy views are sparking anger and unease in the rest of the world.
Christian News
Atheists plan billboards against Ark museum
A small group of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana atheists has launched a campaign to buy billboards mocking the message of the Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter museum and its July 7 opening.
Large Number of Pastors Don't Believe in the Rapture
End-times theology is wavering in the Christian church and a large number of Protestant pastors believe there is no rapture.
Worshipper Charged With Manslaughter in Deadly Church Shooting in Montgomery County
A Montgomery County man who opened fire on another worshipper in a packed church during Sunday service has been charged with manslaughter.
Around the World
Iran touts Israel invasion to recruit teenage boys to fight in Syria
Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime’s military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.
Syria's Ceasefire Has Been Blown To Pieces
Syria's ceasefire is an isn't. It has been blown to pieces by wave upon wave of airstrikes on civilian targets inside Aleppo, and exists in the minds only of foreign diplomats as a fantasy they need to hang onto with desperation.
Brain Damage in Zika Babies Is Far Worse Than Doctors Expected
Ana Gabriela do Prado Paschoal sat at a desk in a small medical exam room and began a familiar, heartbreaking ritual. Your baby's head is smaller than normal, Dr. Paschoal told the anxious mother, who had contracted the Zika virus while pregnant.
1,000 quakes recorded in two Kyushu prefectures in two weeks since initial jolt
More than 1,000 seismic events had been recorded as of Thursday in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures in the two weeks since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck central Kyushu, according to the Meteorological Agency.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Israel rejects French peace initiative
Jerusalem on Thursday responded to the looming French peace initiative, which is to involve an international effort forcing peace talks on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Hamas: 'There will be an explosion' unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade
Hamas threatened on Thursday that unless Israel lifts its blockade on the Gaza Strip, 'there will be an explosion,' Channel 2 reported.
Decrease in attacks - how did it happen? IDF Samaria Division Commanders speak
'The quiet isn't stable.' This is how Col. Shay Klapper, a battalion commander in the Samaria region describes the decrease in the number of terrorist attacks over the past few weeks. 'When the wave is renewed, it will be at a much higher pace will be raised a few notches. It won't return to be 13 year olds with knives,' he predicts.
Inside the United States
ICE releases 19,723 criminal illegals, 208 convicted of murder, 900 of sex crimes
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2015 decided not to deport but release 19,723 criminal illegal immigrants, including 208 convicted of murder, over 900 convicted of sex crimes and 12,307 of drunk driving, according to new government numbers.
U.S. Corporate Profits on Pace for Third Straight Decline
U.S. corporate profits, weighed down by the energy slump and slowing global growth, are set to decline for the third straight quarter in the longest slide in earnings since the financial crisis.
Illegal immigrant criminals released into U.S. despite thousands of vacant detention beds
Homeland Security is leaving thousands of detention beds empty even as it voluntarily releases thousands of murderers, kidnappers and other criminals, the chief of deportations admitted to Congress on Thursday as she faced families of those killed by freed illegal immigrant convicts.
Satanists Interrupt Pro-Life Protests Dressed as Babies
A group of Satanists interrupted pro-life protests outside of Planned Parenthood facilities in Michigan on Saturday, The Blaze reported.
U.S. Politics
Trump rallies 31,000 Californians over immigration reform
More than a dozen individuals took the stage with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump at an event in Costa Mesa, Calif., Thursday night in an unusual opening to a rally.
Protesters take to streets after Trump rally in California
Scores of protesters took to the streets Thursday night outside a Donald Trump campaign event here, drawing out police officers in riot and tactical gear and on horseback who sought to disperse the crowd.
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy views spark anger, unease abroad
Donald Trump isn't the only presidential front-runner this election cycle whose foreign policy views are sparking anger and unease in the rest of the world.
Christian News
Atheists plan billboards against Ark museum
A small group of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana atheists has launched a campaign to buy billboards mocking the message of the Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter museum and its July 7 opening.
Large Number of Pastors Don't Believe in the Rapture
End-times theology is wavering in the Christian church and a large number of Protestant pastors believe there is no rapture.
Worshipper Charged With Manslaughter in Deadly Church Shooting in Montgomery County
A Montgomery County man who opened fire on another worshipper in a packed church during Sunday service has been charged with manslaughter.
Today's Breaking News
Around the World
U.N. envoy urges Obama, Putin to save Syria truce, peace process
The United Nations mediator on Thursday called on the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to salvage the 'barely alive' two-month-old ceasefire in Syria and revitalise the damaged peace process.
Major Iranian Missile Test to Coincide With U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Iran is preparing to conduct a major ballistic missile test in February 2017, following the inauguration of the next U.S. president into the Oval Office, according to a timetable issued by the Islamic Republic.
Half Australia's Great Barrier Reef northern coral 'dead or dying': scientists
Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef, which attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year, has been untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half of the northern coral.
Egypt explorers hunt gold in the desert, following ancients
Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt's eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the Pharaohs as the 'skin of the gods' -- gold.
Spanish scientists use skin cells to create human sperm
Scientists in Spain said on Wednesday they had created human sperm from skin cells, a medical feat which could eventually lead to a treatment for infertility.
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Missile
China successfully flight tested its new high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, days after Russia carried out its own hypersonic glider test, according to Pentagon officials.
Oops! Rising CO2 proves beneficial to 'greening' Earth
For those who have staked their professional reputations on man-induced 'climate change' being 'settled science,' a new study that confirms rising CO2 levels are driving the 'greening' of the planet could be unsettling.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
IDF officer: Hezbollah gearing up for war, just like in 2006
An IDF battalion commander stationed on Israel’s border with Lebanon on Wednesday said the Hezbollah terror group’s recent activity was “reminiscent of what they did before the Second Lebanon War.”
Inside the United States
Cartels Help Terrorists in Mexico Get to U.S. to Explore Targets; ISIS Militant Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir Among Them
Mexican drug traffickers help Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the United States to explore targets for future attacks, according to information forwarded to Judicial Watch by a high-ranking Homeland Security official in a border state. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to information provided by JW’s government source.
Significant premium hikes expected under Obama health law
Expect insurers to seek significant premium increases under President Barack Obama's health care law, in a wave of state-level requests rippling across the country ahead of the political conventions this summer.
Megyn Kelly grills Fiorina over $500K gift from Cruz super PAC
Carly Fiorina, the recent vice presidential pick for Ted Cruz should he get the Republican nomination, said she was unaware of details regarding a $500,000 contribution a super PAC for the Texas senator gave her fundraising arm last June, according to an interview late Wednesday.
Tennessee governor signs 'therapist bill' into law
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Wednesday signed a bill into law that allows therapists and counselors with 'sincerely held principles' to reject gay, lesbian, transgender and other clients.
House unanimously passes email privacy bill
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed an overhaul of a 30-year-old electronic privacy law that would prevent the government from reading Americans' old emails without a warrant.
Oklahoma court: oral sex not rape if victim is unconscious from alcohol
An Oklahoma court has shocked local prosecutors by ruling that, according to state law, oral sex with an unconscious victim is not rape.
Former House Speaker Hastert gets 15 months in prison
Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations that he sexually abused teenagers decades ago while coaching at an Illinois high school.
U.S. Politics
Trump blasts Obama over Israel, pledges to block Iran nuke
Speaking at the Center for the National Interest, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump laid out his vision for American foreign policy on Wednesday, attacking the Obama administration for a whole host of issues, including the president's treatment of Israel and the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
Trump goes 'presidential' in speech; Cruz picks early veep
With the general election in his sights, Republican Donald Trump delivered a sober foreign policy address Wednesday aimed at easing fears about his temperament and readiness to be commander in chief. Rival Ted Cruz made a desperate attempt to jolt the GOP race by tapping Carly Fiorina as his running mate.
Christian News
Christian Counseling Student Expelled for Refusing to Counsel Gay Couples
A Christian graduate student in counseling has been expelled from the program because he declined to counsel gay couples.
Oklahoma Police Seize Money That Christian Band Raised for Charity
An Oklahoma police officer seized $53,000 in charity money from a Christian rock band after suspecting the money was drug-related.
Court-martialed for expressing faith? Court hears ex-Marine's religious freedom case
A federal appeals court on Wednesday weighed the case of a former Marine court-martialed in part for expressing her Christian faith while on the job - though the Marine's lawyer faced tough questions from judges who suggested she was 'thumbing her nose at a superior' with her actions.
Christian Baker Can Be Forced to Make Gay Wedding Cakes to Stay in Business, Colorado Supreme Court Says
Colorado's highest court declined to hear an appeal from a Christian baker who was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to service a same-sex wedding ceremony.
Around the World
U.N. envoy urges Obama, Putin to save Syria truce, peace process
The United Nations mediator on Thursday called on the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to salvage the 'barely alive' two-month-old ceasefire in Syria and revitalise the damaged peace process.
Major Iranian Missile Test to Coincide With U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Iran is preparing to conduct a major ballistic missile test in February 2017, following the inauguration of the next U.S. president into the Oval Office, according to a timetable issued by the Islamic Republic.
Half Australia's Great Barrier Reef northern coral 'dead or dying': scientists
Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef, which attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year, has been untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half of the northern coral.
Egypt explorers hunt gold in the desert, following ancients
Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt's eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the Pharaohs as the 'skin of the gods' -- gold.
Spanish scientists use skin cells to create human sperm
Scientists in Spain said on Wednesday they had created human sperm from skin cells, a medical feat which could eventually lead to a treatment for infertility.
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Missile
China successfully flight tested its new high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, days after Russia carried out its own hypersonic glider test, according to Pentagon officials.
Oops! Rising CO2 proves beneficial to 'greening' Earth
For those who have staked their professional reputations on man-induced 'climate change' being 'settled science,' a new study that confirms rising CO2 levels are driving the 'greening' of the planet could be unsettling.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
IDF officer: Hezbollah gearing up for war, just like in 2006
An IDF battalion commander stationed on Israel’s border with Lebanon on Wednesday said the Hezbollah terror group’s recent activity was “reminiscent of what they did before the Second Lebanon War.”
Inside the United States
Cartels Help Terrorists in Mexico Get to U.S. to Explore Targets; ISIS Militant Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir Among Them
Mexican drug traffickers help Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the United States to explore targets for future attacks, according to information forwarded to Judicial Watch by a high-ranking Homeland Security official in a border state. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to information provided by JW’s government source.
Significant premium hikes expected under Obama health law
Expect insurers to seek significant premium increases under President Barack Obama's health care law, in a wave of state-level requests rippling across the country ahead of the political conventions this summer.
Megyn Kelly grills Fiorina over $500K gift from Cruz super PAC
Carly Fiorina, the recent vice presidential pick for Ted Cruz should he get the Republican nomination, said she was unaware of details regarding a $500,000 contribution a super PAC for the Texas senator gave her fundraising arm last June, according to an interview late Wednesday.
Tennessee governor signs 'therapist bill' into law
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Wednesday signed a bill into law that allows therapists and counselors with 'sincerely held principles' to reject gay, lesbian, transgender and other clients.
House unanimously passes email privacy bill
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed an overhaul of a 30-year-old electronic privacy law that would prevent the government from reading Americans' old emails without a warrant.
Oklahoma court: oral sex not rape if victim is unconscious from alcohol
An Oklahoma court has shocked local prosecutors by ruling that, according to state law, oral sex with an unconscious victim is not rape.
Former House Speaker Hastert gets 15 months in prison
Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations that he sexually abused teenagers decades ago while coaching at an Illinois high school.
U.S. Politics
Trump blasts Obama over Israel, pledges to block Iran nuke
Speaking at the Center for the National Interest, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump laid out his vision for American foreign policy on Wednesday, attacking the Obama administration for a whole host of issues, including the president's treatment of Israel and the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
Trump goes 'presidential' in speech; Cruz picks early veep
With the general election in his sights, Republican Donald Trump delivered a sober foreign policy address Wednesday aimed at easing fears about his temperament and readiness to be commander in chief. Rival Ted Cruz made a desperate attempt to jolt the GOP race by tapping Carly Fiorina as his running mate.
Christian News
Christian Counseling Student Expelled for Refusing to Counsel Gay Couples
A Christian graduate student in counseling has been expelled from the program because he declined to counsel gay couples.
Oklahoma Police Seize Money That Christian Band Raised for Charity
An Oklahoma police officer seized $53,000 in charity money from a Christian rock band after suspecting the money was drug-related.
Court-martialed for expressing faith? Court hears ex-Marine's religious freedom case
A federal appeals court on Wednesday weighed the case of a former Marine court-martialed in part for expressing her Christian faith while on the job - though the Marine's lawyer faced tough questions from judges who suggested she was 'thumbing her nose at a superior' with her actions.
Christian Baker Can Be Forced to Make Gay Wedding Cakes to Stay in Business, Colorado Supreme Court Says
Colorado's highest court declined to hear an appeal from a Christian baker who was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to service a same-sex wedding ceremony.