Новости за 18.09.2019

(CNBC) — Stocks closed little changed on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve failed to signal it will cut rates again in 2019, disappointing traders. The S&P 500 ended the day just above the flatline at 3,006.73. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just 36.28 points, or 0.1% to 27,147.08. The Nasdaq Composite closed 0.1% lower […]

(CAMPUS REFORM) — Duke University’s student government senate voted to deny recognition to a Christian group on Wednesday because of its leadership team requirements, which do not allow LGBT members to be on the leadership team. Members of the student senate raised concerns about Young Life’s policy, according to The Duke Chronicle. The senate also […]

(QUARTZ) — Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being ignored? As we are sucked in ever more by the screens we carry around, even in the company of friends […]

(CAMPUS REFORM) — The Boise State Gender Equity Center and the Center For Teaching and Learning are hosting a book circle series on a work by Robin DiAngelo, titled, “What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy” — and offering a reward to those who attend. DiAngelo has published two other books […]

(LAFAYETTE JOURNAL & COURIER) — WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue will stand by its plans to bring a Chick-fil-A fast food franchise to campus, despite protests from some faculty on the University Senate and Purdue’s student body president over the company CEO’s record on LGBT issues, according to a statement released from the university Friday […]

(CAPITOL HILL SEATTLE) — The ladybug red and spots are gone. The ladies are gone, too. Starting Friday the 13th, Broadway’s only drive-thru bikini coffee shack is stuffed with men. “We tried to do the bikini thing but unfortunately it just didn’t work,” a representative for the Ladybug Espresso bikini barista chain tells CHS, “even […]

(STUDY FINDS) — ATHENS, Ga. — Mahjong, a tile-based game developed in China in the 19th century, is now played all over the world by millions. Usually contested between four people, Mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and a little bit of luck. Besides being a fun & challenging hobby, a new study finds […]

(KIRO) — BELLEVUE, Wash. – The pastor at a Bellevue church is warning the community to be alert after a scam cost some of her parishioners hundreds of dollars. Bellevue police say the thieves obtained an email address very similar to the one belonging to Pastor Vonna Thomas at Newport Presbyterian Church. The person who […]

(AP) — PROVO, Utah — The leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reaffirmed the religion’s opposition to gay marriage Tuesday, while explaining that leaders lifted a short-lived ban on baptisms for children of gay parents because they felt the “heartache” it caused. Church president Russell M. Nelson’s remarks in a speech […]

(FOX NEWS) — Kanye West sounded a lot like a preacher testifying about Jesus during his most recent Sunday service held in an Atlanta, Ga., megachurch. Regular attendees at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant pastors, were treated Sunday morning to a 10-minute sermon by the hip-hop artist, FOX 5 reported. […]

(Fox News) LOS ANGELES – Ed Buck, the California Democratic megadonor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived. Buck has faced public scrutiny after two black men died from overdoses 18 months apart inside his […]

(Fox News) If, decades ago, Brit Hume had pitched the supposed bombshell story about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to his then-newspaper editors, they wouldn’t have let it anywhere near print, the Fox News political analyst said. The New York Times story – later subject of an “editor’s note” correction – should never have […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported. But a whistleblower’s complaint shows that Facebook itself has inadvertently provided […]

(Washington Examiner) O’Rourke has maintained he believes gun owners would follow the law and turn in the banned weapons because he said gun owners have come up to him on the campaign trail to say they would. He has also defended the proposal as constitutional. “This is something that we’re able to do through the […]

(Washington Examiner) A CNN report on a recent study about the perceived values of “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of a disaster questions the moral value and efficacy of praying for suffering strangers. The study, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, surveyed both religious and non-religious people who had been personally […]

(Washington Examiner) Fewer unintended pregnancies helped drive the abortion rate to a new low in 2017, according to a report published Wednesday by the Guttmatcher Institute. The rate of abortions dropped to 13.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 2017, which translates to 862,320 abortions performed that year. The number is 7% lower than it was […]

(Washington Examiner) Justice Neil Gorsuch is firing back at the critics of his judicial philosophy, some of whom sit alongside him on the Supreme Court, who believe the Constitution should be interpreted differently in the modern era. Since joining the Supreme Court in 2017, when he was nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the […]

Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame. Denver Communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks. Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages. So, where is Silicon Valley – whose top companies partner […]

(MIAMI HERALD) — The president of the Holocaust Survivors of Miami-Dade County wants to allow survivors and their families to use the courts to get payouts from European insurance companies for policies that were upended by Nazi Germany. And after years of advocacy from South Florida lawmakers, David Mermelstein might have the White House on […]

(ABC NEWS) — Russian Orthodox priests in the Central Russian city of Tver took to the skies in a small airplane to save citizens from “drunkenness and fornication,” reported a Russian local media outlet. On Sept. 11, Sobriety Day, an unofficial Russian holiday, the priests carried 70 liters (about 18 gallons) of holy water onto […]

(FLORIDA TODAY) — Bobbing amid then-Tropical Storm Humberto’s swells, a wooden wall plaque bearing Jesus Christ’s image reached the beach just as former professional surfer Bryan Hewitson and his daughter, Olivia, approached carrying bags of litter. “It was still wet. It had just washed up,” Bryan recalled from their beach cleanup walk shortly after sunrise […]

(CHRISTIAN POST) — A newly-discovered propaganda video reveals how the North Korean government seeks to silence Christianity by painting believers as “religious fanatics” and “spies” bent on undermining the stability of the hermit kingdom. The video, obtained by The Voice of the Martyrs, a Christian nonprofit that supports persecuted believers all over the world, was […]

(KFOR) — BLACKWELL, Okla. – A church’s actions are under investigation after a man said he was held down by congregants as they tried to pray away his homosexuality. Sean Cormie, 23, came out as gay in the spring. Since then, he said his family has asked him to go to church and bring his […]

A California court dismissed a small portion of the felony criminal charges against an undercover journalist who exposed the abortion industry’s profiting in the sale of baby body parts. Judge Christopher Hite of the San Francisco Superior Court dismissed one and a half of the 15 charges against Sandra Merritt, according to her Liberty Counsel […]

  Dubbing themselves “climate rebels,” activists demanding implementation of a radical Green New Deal-style plan vow to bring the nation’s capital to a halt on Monday. The Shut Down D.C. Strike Coalition declares on its website, “We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill.” The group says […]