By Jim Salter - Associated Press
A lawsuit filed on behalf of several Missouri faith leaders on the 50th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision asks a court to throw out the state's abortion law, alleging that lawmakers openly invoked their personal religious beliefs in drafting the measure.
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When New York's first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the chief of the state's Office of Cannabis Management, Chris Alexander, proudly hoisted a tin of watermelon-flavored gummies above the crowd.
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For the first time in its five-decade history, the March for Life is no longer about overturning Roe v. Wade. So why march?
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Americans' opinions about abortion are largely unchanged since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling last year.
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Every three months, Israeli entrepreneur Itai Schimmel ships a bit of the Holy Land to thousands of evangelical Christians in America.
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Hamline University walked back its previous denunciations of an art history professor who showed a celebrated painting of Muhammad in class, conceding a "misstep," but the backpedaling came too late to stave off litigation.
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The Church of England said Wednesday it will allow blessings for same-sex, civil marriages for the first time but same-sex couples still will not be allowed to marry in its churches.
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Persecution of Christians is rising in sub-Saharan Africa, threatening a "vast humanitarian catastrophe" for the continent, a support group for victimized Christians said Tuesday.
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Male students who identify as female cannot wear dresses, use the girls' restroom, adopt female pronouns or play girls' scholastic sports under a newly implemented policy from the Diocese of Des Moines facing pushback from the left.
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A man was asked to remove his "Jesus Saves" T- shirt or leave the Mall of America while visiting the Minnesota shopping mecca this month.
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The U.S. is the most permissive country for child access to gender transition services, according to a study that finds European countries are renewing an emphasis on therapy and resorting to physical treatment only in exceptional circumstances.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations isn't shy about leveling accusations of Islamophobia, but not even CAIR believes that a Minnesota professor who showed medieval artwork of Muhammad crossed the line.
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The Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a religious liberty dispute over the U.S. Postal Service's requirement that workers deliver Amazon packages on Sunday, in violation of their observance of Sunday as the Sabbath.
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Students at colleges and universities operating on religious principles concerning marriage, sexual identity and gender won't be blocked from receiving federal aid, the U.S. District Court in Oregon ruled this week.
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A Roman Catholic charity has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare it a religious organization, something the state's unemployment bureau has fought for several years.
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A year after being held hostage in a Texas synagogue, Jeffrey Cohen says he and three other survivors are still recovering from the trauma of the 11-hour standoff between law enforcement and an Islamist gunman.
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The city council of Hamtramck, Michigan, which has a Muslim majority population, voted 3-2 Tuesday night to allow the religious sacrifice of animals at people's homes.
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Educators across the U.S. are sounding the alarm over ChatGPT, an upstart artificial intelligence that can write term papers for students based on keywords without clear signs of plagiarism.
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will visit Poland and Germany later this month for Holocaust remembrance events and to advance efforts to combat antisemitism, his office said Thursday.
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House lawmakers will vote Wednesday on a pair of abortion-related measures that would condemn the recent attacks on pro-life facilities and churches as well as protect infants born alive in failed abortion procedures.
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