Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
Is the NSA Phone Surveillance Program Coming to an End?
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2014
The Obama administration vowed Thursday to end bulk collection of data if Congress passes a Patriot Act reform bill winding its way through the Senate, which is designed to end the NSA phone snooping program revealed by Edward…
2 Million Enrollees of Obamacare Have Data Problems
Posted on Thursday, June 5, 2014
More than 2 million people who got health insurance under President Obama's law have data discrepancies that could jeopardize coverage for some, a government document shows.
60% of Americans Believe the ‘American Dream’ is Out of Reach
Posted on Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The American Dream is impossible to achieve in this country. So say nearly 6 in 10 people who responded to CNNMoney's American Dream Poll, conducted by ORC International. They feel the dream -- however they define it --…
Midwest Braces for ‘Land Hurricane’ (Video)
Posted on Wednesday, June 4, 2014
People in at least six states from the Plains to the Midwest are bracing for dangerous storms that forecasters say could produce hurricane-force winds, very large hail and a few "intense" tornadoes beginning late Tuesday afternoon.
Bowe Bergdahl’s Vanishing Before Capture Angered His Unit
Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start…
Obama Proclaims June as LGBT Month
Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The White House issued a proclamation by President Barack Obama calling on Americans to celebrate the 'great diversity of the American people' declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Most Americans Say Same-Sex Couples Have Right to Adopt
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2014
A clear majority of Americans (63%) say same-sex couples should have the legal right to adopt a child, the most to say so since Gallup began tracking opinions on the matter more than 20 years ago. This is…
Obama Administration Unveils New Environmental Regulations (Video)
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2014
The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030 -- despite claims the regulation will cost nearly a quarter-million jobs…
NSA Collecting Millions of Facial Images from Internet
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2014
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.
