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The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the Build Back Better Act Nov. 19, voting 220-213 to approve nearly $2 trillion in spending for a host of ambitious new domestic programs, including universal pre-kindergarten, increased child care subsidies, and initiatives aimed at shifting the country away from fossil fuels.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, both Democrats and one an ordained minister, made the religious case for protecting and expanding voting rights on Thursday, championing the “sacred” right to vote in a wide-ranging discussion that also touched on whether God is Black.
A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of homicide and attempted homicide charges for his killing of two individuals, plus wounding another, at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.
Incidents include graffiti sprayed on church walls, Catholic statues beheaded or smashed, gravestones desecrated with swastikas, and arson.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that captured national attention in a debate over guns and racial justice.
It spares Barronelle Stutzman, 77, the prospect of having to pay crippling legal fees and facing possible bankruptcy.
Pro-life advocates of a Brooklyn-based church are celebrating a victory after a nearly five-year legal battle against the state of New York.
Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old retiree who was found murdered inside the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore on Tuesday, might have arrived at the church early to pray before she was killed, her pastor said. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan offered a $100,000 reward to help solve her murder.
A North Carolina diocese and a former priest have been named in a lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse involving a boy at an elementary school that spanned four years.
atholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City’s archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency — just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
