A US court of appeals ruled Friday that New York state cannot prevent gun owners from bringing their weapons to houses of worship as to do so would be unconstitutional, Reuters reports.
The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear its first abortion-related case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, focusing on the medication that accounts for over half of U.S. abortions.
Abortion-providing groups received $1.89 billion in taxpayer money from fiscal years 2019 to 2021, a newly released federal watchdog report shows.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week that it has approved Casgevy and Lyfgenia, two groundbreaking, gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients 12 years and older. Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders which affects around 100,000 people in the US.
Delegates at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, have approved a deal to “transition” the world away from fossil fuels.
The new governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has warned that access to cash will become harder for Australians and that banks and other users of banknotes or coins should face fees for moving it around.
Poland’s new prime minister, Israel, and the United States have condemned a far-right Polish legislator for extinguishing candles on a menorah lit for Hanukkah in the Polish parliament.
A Turkish legislator has collapsed in parliament after suffering a heart attack at the end of a speech in which he condemned Israel and said the Jewish nation wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah,” Worthy News learned Wednesday.
With the world in turmoil, Canada’s Armed Forces and other federally regulated workplaces are preparing to offer free menstrual products to workers, including in male-identified toilets.
In an effort to protect children from exposure to pornography, a Republican lawmaker in Tennessee has introduced a bill that would require distributors of online pornography to keep minors off their websites by implementing strict age-verification measures, CBN News reports.
Truth be told: It looks like an outsized donut. Yet the six-storey-high machine in a hangar in Naka, north of the Japanese capital, Tokyo, is billed as “the answer to humanity’s future energy needs.”
Israel came under more world pressure Wednesday after the United Nations General Assembly and even its ally, the United States, criticized the Jewish nation’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed opposition to the United States’ proposals to install a reformed Palestinian Authority in Gaza following the completion of Israel’s military operation to remove Hamas from the Strip.
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that following the withdrawal of competing bills to reform and extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress will opt for a temporary extension to adhere to its December 31 expiration date.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court directed former President Donald Trump to submit a response to special counsel Jack Smith’s request for an expedited decision regarding the defense’s appeal to claim presidential immunity for the charges Trump faces regarding his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
According to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report presented to Congress, the conflict in Ukraine has severely impacted Russia’s military capabilities. The report indicates that close to 90% of Russia’s prewar army has been diminished due to casualties or injuries, and thousands of its battle tanks have been destroyed, the Wall Street Journal reported.
House Republican leadership announced Tuesday that they would bring the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to the House floor, likely Wednesday, for an official vote.
Russia’s president has inaugurated two new nuclear submarines after announcing he would run for re-election in March.
Sweden has signed a defense cooperation accord with Washington that will allow the United States to use all military bases in the Scandinavian country that seeks to join the NATO military alliance.
The long-persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in China’s Sichuan Province has been subjected to further intense persecution from Chinese authorities who arrested and detained church leaders and sought to block an important online prayer meeting on 9 December 2023, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.