Openly Gay Former Congressman, Financial Reformer Barney Frank Dies at 86
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FIRST-PERSON: When breaking news breaks our hearts | Baptist Press
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (BP) – Breaking news is a commonly used headline for some current event that demands our attention. Many times breaking news breaks our hearts.
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Supreme Court temporarily extends access to abortion pill | Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has temporarily extended access to an abortion pill until Friday while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect as a legal challenge to the drug’s FDA approval continues.
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Ralph Yarl, teen shot in head by homeowner, gets outpouring of love and over $2.9M in donations
More than 2 9 million in donations and thousands of prayers and well-wishes have poured in from across the world through a GoFundMe campaign for Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old black teenager who survived ...
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Minneapolis Becomes First Large U.S. City to Allow Islamic Prayer Calls over Speakers
The mayor of Minneapolis on Monday signed into law a new ordinance allowing the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast on loudspeakers.
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Franklin Graham Defends Elon Musk’s Call to Jail Parents Who Sterilize Kids
The Rev Franklin Graham is defending Twitter CEO Elon Musk after he suggested that parents who let their children undergo gender transition surgeries should face prison time
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The War on Public Libraries
This issue of A Public Witness takes a look (it’s in a book) at the religious history of public libraries and the ways they help our communities go twice as high. Then it introduces us to friends to know and ways to grow as we support our local libraries.
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84-year-old white man charged with shooting black teen who rang doorbell by mistake
Andrew D Lester, a white 84-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, homeowner who shot Ralph Yarl, a black 16-year-old twice after he mistakenly rang his doorbell last Thursday, has been charged with assault ...
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Youth Pastor, 6th Grade Teacher Used Church Wi-Fi to Download Child Porn: Police
A youth pastor at Palatka Baptist Temple in Florida, who downloaded pornography images from using the church s Wi-Fi and uploaded images of himself and shared them with underage victims on several ...
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Kansas and Arizona Governors Veto Bills to Protect Babies Born Alive after Botched Abortions
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a “born-alive” infant protection bill a week after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a similar bill.
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Why Parental Anger Toward Public Schools Seems to Be Rising
Parental frustrations with public schools seem to be on a dramatic uptick, with moms and dads increasingly voicing concerns about controversial lessons and books Some even claim schools have secretly ...
