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New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office.

A recent survey testing Americans’ knowledge of religion found that non-Christians did better than Christians in answering questions about major faiths, while many could not even explain their own faith.

U.S. researchers in Boston say they have developed a technique that effectively converts human skin cells into stem cells, a development that could have both medical and political implications.

A pending bill that bars government funding for non-profits having religious requirements in their hiring process is a “serious assault” on faith-based charities, according to the senior vice president of the National Religious Broadcasters.

A Christian concert open to the public will be held at Fort Bragg despite protests from a national group that claims it’s a violation of the so-called separation between church and state.

A majority of Americans say public school students should have more freedom to express their religious faith in school.

A city ordinance to stop the distribution of commercial leaflets and handbills now threatens the freedoms of both speech and religion.

Rifqa Bary, the Muslim-turned-Christian convert who ran away from her parents last year fearing her life was in danger, has been granted permanent resident status in the United States, Worthy News has learned.

An appeals court Thursday decided to suspend a district court’s prohibition on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research while the court reviews whether it violates a ban by Congress on spending taxpayer money for experiments that are connected in any way with the destruction of human embryos.

U.S. forecasters have downgraded Earl to a category two hurricane, but expect it to remain a powerful storm as it closes in on the U.S. east coast.

The category four storm is on course to lash the coast of North Carolina late Thursday, before shifting to the north. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings and watches are in effect along the Mid-Atlantic coast and as far north as Massachusetts.

A U.S. Federal court issued a temporary injunction on Monday that blocks the government from funding medical research involving human embryonic stem cells saying it violates federal law.