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Jun 19 2022
News
International Swimming Federation votes to restrict transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatics competitions
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has voted to approve a new policy that will restrict most transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatics competitions.
Swimming’s world governing body approved the new “gender inclusion” policy on Sunday, after 71.5% of FINA’s member federations voted in support at the FINA Extraordinary General Congress 2022.
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CNN (Online News)
Jun 22 2022
Opinion
The Fall of the Wall around Religious Education
If the past two years have taught us anything as a society, it is that American schoolchildren should not be held hostage by a public-education monopoly that is unable to keep schools open, safe, competent, or free of indoctrination in left-wing fads and anti-American lies. Many of the parents voting with their feet to take their children out of public schools have an additional urgent
National Review
Jun 28 2022
Opinion
The Contempt of the World
Thomas à Kempis, author of the 15th-century classic The Imitation of Christ, wrote that for the Christian, “it is sweet to despise the world and to serve God.” Pro-abortion activists have made it clear that the hatred runs both ways.
In the run-up to and the immediate aftermath of the Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, pro-abortion activists have defaced Catholic
The American Conservative
Jun 27 2022
Opinion
How overturning Roe will reverberate through America
In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has taken the momentous step of ending a federal right to abortion that has existed since 1973, a decision likely to reverberate in American life, politics, and law in unpredictable ways for years, if not decades, to come.
At the start it is almost certain to divide the nation into zones, with about half the states enacting total bans on
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 14 2019
News
Family Seeks Answers After Texas Police Kill Atatiana Jefferson at Home
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor’s call about an open front door “didn’t have time to perceive a threat” before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman’s family said. “You didn’t hear the officer shout, ‘Gun, gun, gun,’” attorney Lee Merritt said after viewing video taken from a Fort Worth officer’s
Breitbart News
Jun 24 2022
News
Supreme Court votes to overturn Roe v. Wade, paving way for state abortion bans
The Supreme Court overturned the half-century-old ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortions nationwide, giving states the power to determine limits on when a woman can terminate a pregnancy.
A majority of justices, each appointed by Republican presidents, joined the opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, ruling Mississippi
Washington Examiner
Jun 24 2022
News
Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights
The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun-carrying rights, in its most important judgement on guns in over a decade.
It expands gun rights amid a fierce national debate over the issue.
The decision, which jeopardises similar regulations in states like California and New Jersey, is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.
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BBC News
Jun 23 2022
News
Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights
The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun carrying rights.
The law required residents who want a license to prove "proper cause" to carry concealed weapons and that they faced "a special or unique" danger.
The 6-3 decision stated the requirement violates the Constitutional right to bear arms.
The ruling jeopardises similar restrictions in other
BBC News
Jun 20 2022
Fact Check
Posts misrepresent satirical story on Jan. 6 text exchanges
CLAIM: Leaked text messages obtained by CNN showed that Virginia Thomas and Mark Meadows corresponded about Venmo payments and “coup buses” amid the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While CNN has published real texts between the pair, this exchange circulating online was invented for a satirical piece published by The New Yorker, and is being
Associated Press Politics & Fact Check
Jun 09 2022
Analysis
Public education, democracy, and the future of America
From the beginning of the American republic, some Founding Fathers pushed for the establishment of an institution they thought crucial to the success of democracy: public education.
Self-government would require informed citizens, they felt. Important decisions would be in the hands of farmers and tradesmen, not courts and kings.
That meant the nation’s youth – the citizens of
Christian Science Monitor