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anouchka/iStock(SEATTLE) — A string of attacks on houses of worship used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Washington state are under investigation. There have been four instances of arson and one shooting — spanning nine months and [Read More…]

VCG/VCG via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — American and Chinese leaders are now in an international showdown over the U.S.-orchestrated arrest of a top executive at Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom giant that has become the world’s [Read More…]

ChrisHepburn/iStock(LONDON) — The Church of England has issued new guidance saying that it “welcomes and encourages the unconditional affirmation of trans people” and offers clergy ways to help them celebrate the sacrament of baptism in [Read More…]

KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — Two nuns accused of embezzling at least $500,000 in tuition, fees and donations from a Southern California Catholic school have been removed from public ministry, according to the religious order they were [Read More…]

Michał Chodyra/iStock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — A jury recommends that the man who rammed his car into a crowd of people during the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville in 2017 should spend life in prison plus [Read More…]

Carsten Koall/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Russia on Tuesday buried the legendary human rights activist, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, whose fearless efforts to force the Soviet Union and later Russia’s government to observe its citizens’ rights made her a [Read More…]

pixinoo/iStock(STRASBOURG, France) — At least two people have been killed and several more injured in a shooting in France, according to government officials. The local prefecture in Strasbourg, about 300 miles east of Paris, wrote [Read More…]

pixinoo/iStock(STRASBOURG, France) — At least one person has been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in France, according to local authorities. The local prefecture in Strasbourg, about 300 miles east of Paris, wrote on [Read More…]

St. Joseph County Prosecutors Office(SOUTH BEND, Ind.) — A 16-year-old Indiana high school football player arrested in the stabbing death of a classmate pregnant with his child pleaded not guilty to murder charges Tuesday. Aaron [Read More…]

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) — A sheriff’s deputy and two officials from the Texas attorney general’s office were hurt in a shooting while trying to serve a felony warrant in Houston, authorities said. The “primary suspect” is “possibly [Read More…]

JodiJacobson/iStock(CLEAR CREEK, W.Va.) —  Rescue teams were exploring an underground West Virginia coal mine on Tuesday in search of two women and a man, after the fourth person in the group emerged on Monday night [Read More…]

tupungato/iStock(WASHINGTON) — In a testy exchange in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai refuted allegations that the company targeted Latino voters during the 2016 U.S. elections. During a hearing [Read More…]

Michał Chodyra/iStock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — A jury recommends that the man who rammed his car into a crowd of people during the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville in 2017 should spend life in prison plus [Read More…]

Kuhnla family(NEW YORK) — The grieving husband of a woman mysteriously killed in on vacation in Turks and Caicos is still desperate for answers two months after her death. Marie Kuhnla, 61, of Long Island, [Read More…]

BrianAJackson/iStock(PITTSBURGH) — Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh are now deciding whether or not to seek the death penalty for alleged synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, according to a new court filing. The case against Bowers, who is [Read More…]