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Supreme Court: Giant Cross-Shaped WWI Memorial Can Stay on Public Land
A 40-foot-tall (12 meters) cross-shaped war memorial standing on public land in Maryland does not represent an impermissible government endorsement of religion, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a major decision testing the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, overturned a lower court ruling …
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California Churchgoers Tackle Woman Who Threatened to Blow Up the Building
Churchgoers tackled a woman who held a 10-month-old baby, waved a gun and threatened to blow up the building at an Easter Sunday service in San Diego, leading to her arrest, police said. The baby and the 31-year-old woman’s 5-year-old daughter were taken into protective custody, police said. The handgun was not loaded, and a …
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CDC Reports 71 New Measles Cases in the Last Week
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 71 more cases of measles in the week since April 12. In the coming weeks, 2019 confirmed measles case numbers in U.S. will likely surpass 2014 levels. From Jan. 1 to April 19, 626 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 22 …
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Scores of Muslims Turn to Christ After ISIS Ravages Syrian Town
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The converts say the experience of war and the onslaught of a group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them towards their …
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Be Indicted in 3 Corruption Cases
Israel’s attorney-general intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three corruption cases, Israeli TV said on Thursday, citing the Justice Ministry. The reported decision, ahead of Israel’s April 9 election, deepens uncertainty over Netanyahu’s prospects in a tight race. The actual filing of the reported charges, which include bribery, fraud and breach of trust, …
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This Simple Habit Change Can Improve Your Health for Years to Come
Low fitness levels have long been tied to higher risk for heart problems. Now researchers say men’s cardiorespiratory fitness is tied to their risk for stroke as well. Researchers in Norway followed 2,014 middle-aged men for more than 20 years. Those who were unfit for the whole study period, or who started out fit but …
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Satanic Temple Settles Lawsuit Against Netflix for Using Baphomet Statue
The Satanic Temple has settled its copyright lawsuit against Netflix Inc and Warner Bros Entertainment over their alleged misuse of its goat-headed deity statue in the series “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” a Warner spokesman said on Wednesday. The settlement was amicable, and resolves a Nov. 8 lawsuit in which the Satanic Temple had sought at …
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Shocking Truth About Hollywood’s Immorality Over Last 50 Years
The MPAA is marking the 50th anniversary of its film ratings by releasing data on the breakdown of how movies have been rated over the last half century. The R rating has been placed on far and away the majority of the movies since then, more than half of the almost 30,000 titles that have …
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Gay Man: Pope Francis Says God Made Me This Way
A Chilean man who suffered clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him in a private conversation that God had made him gay and loved him that way, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The Vatican declined to comment on the report but, if confirmed, it would be a striking statement of tolerance …
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Cannibis Drug Found Effective Against Epilepsy
An experimental cannabis drug has produced promising results in a small study of children with hard-to-treat epilepsy, sending shares in its British maker GW Pharmaceuticals to an all-time high. The company, which grows cannabis under license at a secret location in Britain, is developing a range of so-called cannabinoid medicines. It already sells Sativex for …
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Barbra Streisand Raps Orthodox Jews’ Actions Against Israeli Women
U.S. entertainer Barbra Streisand on Monday took a swipe at Orthodox Jews in Israel who compel women to sit in the back of buses and assault them for following religious rituals traditionally reserved for men. “It’s distressing to read about women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of a bus or … having metal …
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Netanyahu Thanks Pope for Deepening Christian-Jewish Ties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked outgoing Pope Benedict on Monday for his efforts to shore up often troubled relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Jews, including the pontiff’s 2009 visit to the Holy Land. That trip, in which the German-born Benedict paid respects at Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, was seen by many Jews …
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Iran Says Israel Will Regret Syria Air Strike
Iran told Israel on Monday it would regret its air strike against Syria last week, without spelling out whether Iran or its ally planned any military response. “They will regret this recent aggression,” Saeed Jalili, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told a news conference in Damascus a day after holding talks there with …
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Israel Threatens to Stop Flotilla From Reaching Gaza
Israel will do everything necessary to prevent a planned international flotilla from reaching Gaza, despite the fact the ships will probably not be carrying weapons, a senior military source said.
The source, who declined to be named, said Israel's maritime blockade would only be deemed legal if it imposed a total exclusion zone around the small Palestinian enclave and urged the flotilla organizers not to challenge the navy.
"No ship will get into Gaza," the source said, adding that the military had drawn up new tactics in an effort to avoid last year's bloodshed, when Israeli marines killed nine activists after intercepting their group of six ships in international waters.
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White House: We Can Take Down Al-Qaida
The United States will aim to destroy al-Qaida's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by U.S. operations, a top White House adviser said on Tuesday.
Since the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, al-Qaida has spawned affiliated groups in the Middle East and North Africa and inspired attacks by so-called home-grown militants in Europe and the United States.
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