Parents of one of the first Americans murdered by Hamas, are waging a legal battle against a Muslim advocacy group that’s protesting at the Democratic National Convention this week. Stanley and Joyce Boim are American citizens whose 17-year-old son David was killed by Hamas terrorists at a bus stop in Jerusalem in 1996. The Boims...
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday with an introduction reminding delegates how the convention is being held on land that was “forcibly removed” from Indigenous tribes. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Council Vice-Chairman Zach Pahmahmie and Tribal Council Secretary Lorrie Melchior took to the stage at the start of the convention where they welcomed...
A liberal Washington Post columnist said Vice President Kamala Harris needs to speak to the press, because her weeks-long silent treatment erodes democracy and the strategy breaks with “democratic values of treating the press as an important institution.” Columnist Perry Bacon Jr. penned a piece headlined, “Harris should talk to journalists more. Particularly the wonky...
ESPN fired reporter Sam Ponder on Thursday, citing budget cuts, but former sports reporters are pointing to her strong stance on fairness in women’s sports as evidence of their motive to cut ties. Michele Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter, who left the industry in 2022, weighed in on the firing of Ponder on “America’s...
Country music singer John Rich posed tough questions to Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson about his faith journey in an “intense” new interview. During a recent conversation on Peterson’s podcast, Rich read an old quote from Peterson where he wrestles with believing in Christianity even as he finds there’s an objective morality rooted in Biblical values....
A father of five has been detained in Egypt for over two years allegedly because of a post he made in a Facebook group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Now, he is declaring a hunger strike over the injustice he says he has experienced. Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, originally from Yemen, was part of a...
Women are leaving churches in droves after previously being the dominant group that filled them, according to a report. “Women are less inclined to be involved with churches that don’t want us speaking up, that don’t want us to be smart,” Mojica Rodríguez, the daughter of a pastor who was raised attending church frequently, said,...
NASA officials are revealing what life was like spending a year inside a Mars simulation and say the United States might reach the red planet by the “end of next decade.” Commander Kelly Haston, Flight Engineer Ross Brockwell, Medical Officer Dr. Nathan Jones and Science Officer Anca Selariu lived in a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat for...
An alum of “The Bachelorette” wants a transgender lead for the show. Josh Seiter, who appeared on “The Bachelorette” season 11 in 2015, praised the showrunners for making an effort to diversify, but said they need to do more. “It’s great that ‘The Bachelor’ franchise is finally casting a more diverse group of people (it...
Harris County, Texas leaders on Thursday approved changes to a guaranteed income program after it was challenged and struck down by the state’s Supreme Court. “Hundreds of Harris County families were counting on $500 monthly payments back in April to help lift them out of poverty, and they were left in the lurch because of...
