The next leaders at Planned Parenthood will likely take a more forceful public tone than Dr. Leana Wen, who was ousted on Tuesday after less than a year in office. Published July 17, 2019
The State Department is hosting what it calls the largest-ever international gathering on the state of religious liberty around the world, though representatives from one nearby nation were forced to stay home. Published July 16, 2019
Officials at Virginia Tech say in a new report that a slew of suspended fraternities in Blacksburg should have their status revoked by national charters, contending that their activities are a "serious threat" to the university's reputation. Published July 15, 2019
The latest season of Netflix's popular paranormal series "Stranger Things" has gotten saltier in its language, says a new report from a family video streaming service. Published July 12, 2019
An Oklahoma judge on Friday kept in place a law banning one of the most common abortion procedures used in the second trimester, upending a nationwide trend. Published July 12, 2019
Liberal Catholics are criticizing the spokeswoman for the D.C.-based U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the conservative politics she shares on her personal Twitter account. Published July 11, 2019
Rallies in more than a dozen cities across the country on Wednesday called on a powerful lobby firm to drop its foreign government clients that persecute religious minorities. Published July 10, 2019
Women seeking a greater voice in the all-male hierarchy of the Catholic church are hailing Pope Francis' announcement that women will be named to a ministerial board of the Vatican's powerful Curia. Published July 9, 2019
The Supreme Court announced Friday it would add Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue to its fall calendar for oral arguments, setting up a potentially significant gain that could allow more states to establish voucher-style programs that funnel public dollars into private education. Published June 28, 2019
The second field of 10 Democrats vying for their party's presidential nomination debated Thursday night in Miami, but one question stumped two candidates: what to do in a possible post-Roe v. Wade world? Published June 28, 2019
South Dakota education officials are wrestling with how to implement a new law requiring college campuses to support conservative and liberal thought days before it takes effect on Monday. Published June 26, 2019
Three House members have introduced a bill calling on Congress to strip Medals of Honor from 20 soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Published June 25, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal agencies can withhold from the public proprietary information about the private businesses with which they work. Published June 24, 2019
The U.S. ranks as one of the most giving nations on the planet, despite a report showing charitable donations by individual Americans declining in the past year. Published June 20, 2019
Three high school track athletes in Connecticut are tired of losing to transgender girls, and have asked the Department of Education to intervene on their behalf. Published June 19, 2019
The Education Department is investigating claims of anti-Semitic bias at a University of North Carolina academic conference that organizers said was focused on the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Published June 18, 2019
Two leading media violence researchers are asking the cable industry to adopt the Dutch system of entirely age-based ratings for TV content to curb aggression in young people. Published June 17, 2019
A nonprofit group that advocates for "freedom from religion" has missed a key deadline in its effort to end a tax exemption for ministers' housing allowances. Published June 15, 2019
Holding signs, a small group of sexual abuse survivors convened Tuesday outside a hotel at the Inner Harbor where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was holding its annual meeting. Published June 11, 2019
Barbed wire enclosures at agricultural campuses should be only for livestock, not Muslim political prisoners in China's reeducation camps, the U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom says. Published June 7, 2019
