“Every child deserves a loving home, and children suffer when the government excludes people of faith from foster care because of the state’s own ideological crusade,” said ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “Oregon officials turned Jessica away just because of her common-sense belief that parents should help children become comfortable with who they are instead of pushing them down a path of confusion and medicalization. We believe this settlement is a win-win that protects constitutional rights and puts children’s interests first.”
“Every child deserves a loving home, and children suffer when the government excludes people of faith from foster care because of the state’s own ideological crusade,” said ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “Oregon officials turned Jessica away just because of her common-sense belief that parents should help children become comfortable with who they are instead of pushing them down a path of confusion and medicalization. We believe this settlement is a win-win that protects constitutional rights and puts children’s interests first.”
“Every child deserves a loving home, and children suffer when the government excludes people of faith from foster care because of the state’s own ideological crusade,” said ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “Oregon officials turned Jessica away just because of her common-sense belief that parents should help children become comfortable with who they are instead of pushing them down a path of confusion and medicalization. We believe this settlement is a win-win that protects constitutional rights and puts children’s interests first.”
Among the posts drawing attention was a message Headen published on X in August 2024, shortly after then-Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. “I’m so excited! Ready for the MAGAs to die off!!” she wrote. Another post appeared to advocate an attack on US soil, specifically targeting states with large conservative populations. “I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil … preferably Alabama, Louisiana … where the stupid people live,” Headen wrote. Another post suggested Trump supporters belonged in concentration camps.
A U.S. official said the proposed package contains 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The administration has informally presented the plan to the congressional committees that review major weapons sales, but the agreement has not yet been formally announced.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced in August it would no longer allow federal funds to pay for children to receive damaging “transgender” medical procedures, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.
Barring a last-minute court-ordered injunction, Illinois’ physician-assisted suicide law is scheduled to take effect Saturday subjecting patients with terminal illnesses, depression, and disabilities to significant risks of premature death, warn pro-life advocates in the state.
A record 68,944 Jewish visitors ascended the Temple Mount during the Hebrew year 5786, continuing a steady rise in Jewish visitation to Judaism’s holiest site despite months of closures and security restrictions.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and a Christian medical practice filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Colorado law that forces healthcare professionals to participate in so-called gender transition procedures for children and adults, even when doing so violates their religious, ethical, and medical judgment.
A UC Irvine lecturer is under scrutiny after allegedly posting comments about a planned appearance by conservative journalist Nick Shirley that critics say appeared to invoke the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“We struck it twice, and when necessary, we will strike it a third time to continue thwarting the threats,” Katz said while visiting Israeli military positions on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Katz said Israel had severely damaged Iran’s strategic capabilities and would continue confronting both Tehran’s Shiite proxy network and Hamas-linked Islamist forces across the region.
Rudy Guiliani, the former mayor of New York City during the attack on the World Trade Center, also spoke against Mamdani’s planned attendance at the event. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that Sept. 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America,” Giuliani told Newsmax in an interview on Sunday. “Having lost friends there, and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming.”
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) recently issued a landmark legal opinion that fundamentally changes how the federal government interacts with faith-based organizations. The opinion declares that blocking federal funds from being used for religious purposes or by religious groups is generally unconstitutional.
“Selling immigration benefits for cash is a blatant abuse of public trust,” United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould said. “When a federal official puts a price tag on lawful status, we will intervene immediately. Public corruption will never be tolerated in the Northern District of Texas.”
Syria’s former Bashar Assad regime was secretly constructing a nuclear reactor designed in a configuration capable of efficiently producing fissile material for nuclear weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi revealed Monday.
“We grieve with his family, his congregation, and our Chin brothers and sisters everywhere. This was an extrajudicial killing, carried out without due process or trial,” Stoops said. “But grief demands action. We call on the international community, and especially the United States, to hold those responsible accountable.”
Texas-based Iran Alive Ministries, which trains house-church leaders and shines the Gospel into Farsi-speaking homes, has released a grim glimpse from its own network: In the past few months alone, Iran’s Islamist government has killed at least 33 Christian ministers and arrested approximately 131 others. Fourteen of those arrested remain in prison, with some sitting on death row.
There is a dangerous temptation in American politics to believe that every political problem can be solved by winning one more vote. If the Supreme Court issues decisions that a political party dislikes, why not simply change the number of justices and appoint new ones? Congress has the constitutional authority to determine the size of the Court, after all. Why not use that authority?
The New York-based company Mayday.Health is advertising illegal abortion procedures in Kentucky, state Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. “These out of state activists are not only breaking Kentucky law, they seem to delight in rubbing our faces in it,” Coleman said. “We refuse to allow Mayday to taint our values and put our people at risk.”
At least one police chief in Florida thinks the three-judge panel’s decision is a dangerous miscalculation. "The courts in this case got it wrong," said Pensacola Police Chief Eric Winstrom in an interview with his local ABC television affiliate. "I realized that this is an emerging level of technology. You know, everything changes but the courts have to keep up. And in this case, they failed. "Just because technology is moving at such a fast pace doesn't mean that the courts don't have that responsibility to have to move equally fast to keep up with it.”
Investigative journalist Nick Shirley, whose reporting exposed government waste, fraud and harmful immigration policies, filed a lawsuit challenging a California law that criminalizes publishing images of or personal information about immigration support services providers.
An Illinois mother has been charged with murder following the death of her 2-year-old son in what police described as a domestic homicide at the family’s home. Neighbors expressed fears that there was a Lindsay Clancy story in their area, and indeed it was revealed that she was an avid follower of the Lindsay Clancy case.
Hundreds of families are already receiving relief through our partners on the ground in Nepal as we continue to expand our response to the devastated country. Our 767 cargo plane departed Greensboro, North Carolina, Aug. 31 and landed in Kathmandu Sept. 2 with tarps, hygiene kits, blankets, solar lights, and household water filters.
Tens of thousands of Spaniards poured into streets and public squares across the country Wednesday, protesting the government’s handling of the migrant crisis in Ceuta and demanding stronger protection of Spain’s borders.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the vote was meant to draw a clear line against court-packing efforts, warning that expanding the bench would turn the judiciary into another political battleground. “We will keep the nine,” Johnson said ahead of the vote, arguing that the nine-justice model has served the country well and should not be altered to satisfy partisan frustrations with recent Supreme Court rulings.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the public school district of Kansas City, Kans. (KCKPS) for guidelines that would facilitate student gender transitions without notifying parents, the DOJ announced Tuesday. This is the first instance of the U.S. government suing a local school district for violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) for such a policy.
Attorneys with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Alliance Defending Freedom filed their opening merits brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday on behalf of a devout Orthodox Jew suing the city of University Heights, Ohio after officials required him to obtain a permit to pray in his home with a small group of friends. The Supreme Court agreed to hear Daniel Grand’s case after lower federal courts threw out his lawsuit and said he needed to finish the permitting process before vindicating his constitutional rights.
Israel’s military is raising its readiness level amid growing concern over Turkish naval movements in the eastern Mediterranean, as tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara continue to sharpen over Syria, Gaza, and Turkey’s expanding regional posture.
California could soon add Muslim holy days Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to its list of official state holidays, with lawmakers approaching a final vote that could put the legislation on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk within days.
Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter Jonathan Skrmetti (R) plans to file “more litigation” against social media companies whose addictive platforms are harming children, he announced Thursday in an interview on “Washington Watch.” Skrmetti and his team helped lead a nationwide investigation against Meta, which resulted in the parent company of Facebook and Instagram reaching an unprecedented settlement.
Taiwan’s parliament approved a nearly $7.6 billion plan Thursday to expand the island’s military drone and other unmanned systems as it prepares for a potential Chinese attack.
Devastating flash flooding killed hundreds of people in Nepal and along the Nepal-Tibet border this week. Thousands more remain missing. An untold number of Nepali families are in need.
Mothers know this. Not all Girl Scouts of the USA troops are teaching the values your troop likely taught. Troops under the GSUSA banner are operating within Muslim mosques and institutions and incorporating Islamic religious practices and values, independent journalist Natalie G. Winters reports. There is no published nationwide count of Girl Scout troops meeting in mosques. Public records, however, document mosque-based Girl Scout troops in at least several major metropolitan areas, with more than a dozen individual troops readily identifiable from available sources. The actual number is almost certainly higher.
Luka Binniyat, a Kaduna-based journalist recognised as one of Nigeria’s preeminent voices reporting on the persecution of Christians in Southern Kaduna, has been formally cleared of criminal defamation charges after a five-year legal battle.
In the wake of Dobbs, Planned Parenthood, our nation’s single largest abortion provider, developed and released a 14-point plan directing Democrat state attorneys general to target pro-life pregnancy resource centers and promote abortion.