Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
Dow Down for the Year as Sell-Off Continues
Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2014
Stocks ended a bloody, turbulent week with a broad-based slump Friday, sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq to its worst weekly losses in 30 months and eviscerating what remained of the Dow Jones industrial average's 2014 gains.
Spread of Ebola Could Affect 1.4 Million People by Year’s End
Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2014
The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told an audience at the National Defense University, the U.S. Department of Defense reported.
Supreme Court Denies Same-Sex Marriage Appeals
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2014
The Supreme Court made history Monday, with a nondecision that effectively moved the country much closer to the day when legal gay marriage is the law of the land.
CDC Confirms First Case of Ebola in U.S.
Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas definitely has the Ebola virus. Tuesday's official determination makes the patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas the first diagnosed Ebola case in the…
Eric Holder resigns as attorney general
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., the nation’s first black attorney general, will announce his resignation Thursday, ending a turbulent, six-year tenure in which his office addressed major issues, from banking scandals and terrorism to civil-rights cases.
Obama To Deploy 3,000 Troops to Fight Ebola
Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2014
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to…
Obama Authorized Expansion of Military Campaign Against Islamic State
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2014
President Obama on Wednesday authorized a major expansion of the military campaign against rampaging Sunni militants in the Middle East, including American airstrikes in Syria and the deployment of 475 more military advisers to Iraq. But he sought…
Flooding Hits Phoenix As Region Deals With Wettest Day on Record
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2014
hoenix beat a 75-year mark on Monday and slogged through its wettest day on record — a 3-inch downpour that flooded roads, stranded drivers, closed schools, knocked out power for thousands of people, and left at least two…
Feds’ Bulletin Warns of Terrorist Threat on Border
Posted on Monday, September 1, 2014
Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other…
Is the World Prepared to be Implanted?
Posted on Monday, September 1, 2014
Is the world subtly being prepared for implantation of a microchip? This weekend, Fox News ran the headline, "Is there a microchip implant in your future?"
Florida School District Replaces Football Chaplains
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2014
A spokesperson for Florida's Orange County Public Schools has announced that their practice of having local ministers serve as volunteer chaplains for student teams has ended.
U.S. Banks Hit by Hackers
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2014
Computer hackers targeted JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and at least four other banks in a coordinated attack on major financial institutions this month.
Hundreds of Americans Fighting Alongside Islamic State
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The U.S. government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and are poised to become a major threat to…
Obama Pursuing Climate Accord Without Congress
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.
‘Three Parent Babies’ Developed in U.S. Fertility Clinic
Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2014
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were born as a result of a controversial IVF technique that produced the world's first "three-parent" embryos more than…
