Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
After deadly Milwaukee police shooting, protests intensify
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2016
For a second night, protests in Milwaukee over the police shooting of an armed African-American man turned violent as demonstrators fired shots and hurled objects, injuring at least two people early Monday, police said.
Obama puts Congress on notice: Trans-Pacific Partnership is coming
Posted on Sunday, August 14, 2016
The White House put Congress on notice Friday morning that it will be sending lawmakers a bill to implement President Barack Obama's landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — a move intended to infuse new energy into efforts to ratify…
Study: Public water supply is unsafe for millions of Americans
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Millions of Americans may be drinking water with unsafe levels of industrial chemicals, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. These chemicals, known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances or PFASs, have…
Obama Former Top Intel Official: ISIS Is Already in America
Posted on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Affiliates of the Islamic State terror organization are already residing in the United States, though exact numbers are unclear due to the Obama administration’s efforts to downplay and hide information about this threat from the American public, the…
DHS grants Syrians temporary amnesty
Posted on Monday, August 1, 2016
Homeland Security granted a new temporary amnesty Monday to more than 8,000 Syrians living in the U.S. right now, saying they can remain for up to 18 months longer no matter what their legal status.
Shooting deaths of law enforcement spike in 2016, report reveals
Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Shooting deaths of law enforcement officers spiked 78 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to last year, including an alarming increase in ambush-style assaults like the ones that killed eight officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge,…
Violent crime rising in US cities, study finds
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Violent crime is on the rise so far this year in major cities across the US compared to the number of homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and shootings that occurred in the same cities by this point in 2015,…
