Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
Deadliest attacks on police in the last 100 years
Posted on Monday, July 18, 2016
Amid a month of racial conflict and gun violence, at least three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge Sunday, adding to the tally of law enforcement officials slain in the line of duty in 2016.
US Declassifies Secret 9/11 Documents Known as the ’28 Pages’
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2016
The U.S. intelligence community has officially lifted the veil on 28 classified pages from the first congressional investigation into the 9/11 terror attacks that some believe, once exposed, could demonstrate a support network inside the United States for…
CBS Mocks ‘Ignorant’ Noah’s Ark Attraction, Wonders Why It Was Built
Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2016
CBS This Morning reporter Mark Strassmann on Thursday offered a sneering, condescending look at a new biblical theme park attraction in Kentucky. Speaking of the gigantic Noah’s Ark Experience, Strassmann dismissed, “Nothing like it built before. But critics…
Snipers hunt police in Dallas: Five officers killed, 6 wounded
Posted on Friday, July 8, 2016
Eleven police officers were shot ambush-style, including four fatally, in Dallas Thursday night by at least two snipers, amid a protest against the recent police shootings of two black men, Alton Sterling in Louisiana, and Philando Castile in…
Buffett-Backed Abortion Researchers Messed With Texas and Won
Posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic abortion ruling this week was a small band of academic researchers whose trove of data and analysis was instrumental in dismantling some of the country’s toughest restrictions on the procedure in Texas…
U.S. military repeals ban on transgender service members
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2016
The Pentagon on Thursday ended its ban on openly transgender people serving in the U.S. military, formally removing the risk to an estimated thousands of U.S. troops who once could have been kicked out of the armed forces…