An alliance of US Democratic governors met in California on Monday to discuss how to expand abortion access in their states and how to help women in Republican-led states to terminate their pregnancies if their state legislation does not allow it, the Washington Times reports.
Pentagon officials are again imploring Russian aircraft to stay away from U.S. drones after one was severely damaged on Sunday in Syria.
Russian legislators have voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted from 27 to 30, making more of them liable to serve in the army as the nation struggles with its ongoing invasion in Ukraine.
Tragedies struck several nations as a European heatwave was blamed for violent storms and wildfires in Greece as well as in Sicily, Italy, Algeria, and Tunisia, killing several people.
A new survey by Gallup shows there has been a substantial decline in religious faith among young adults over the last 20 years, with fewer than 60% now saying they believe in God, the Washington Examiner reports.
A federal judge in Oakland on Tuesday blocked a Biden administration rule that limits migrants’ access to asylum at the southern border, casting doubt on the future of a key policy aimed at limiting crossings.
The Justice Department on Monday filed a lawsuit against Texas and its Republican governor for placing buoys in the Rio Grande as part of the state’s effort to deter migrants from crossing into the United States.
Hamas agreed to join talks on forming a new unity government with the leaders of other main Palestinian factions after the Palestinian Authority on Sunday released a senior Hamas official who had been arrested on charges of slandering the PA and stirring up sectarian strife, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in the US believe they are on track to produce a “fountain of youth” anti-aging healthcare treatment based on Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, a tiny jellyfish-like, sea animal with outstanding regenerative abilities, Walla reports.
Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University have announced success in using green electricity and a biocatalyst to produce high-efficiency “green” hydrogen without creating air pollution, Techxplore reports. Hydrogen is essential for agriculture and industry, but most of this raw material is wrought from coal or natural gas and emits 9-12 tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of it produced.
Israel’s parliament adopted legislation limiting the powers of the top court despite protests and President Isaac Herzog saying that his nation is in “a state of national emergency.”
Ukrainian authorities say one person was killed and 22 wounded, including four children, in Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which also damaged a cathedral. The reported attack came ahead of a separate drone strike in Russia’s capital Moscow that the Kremlin blames on Ukraine.
The slaughter of Christians in Nigeria continues as Fulani jihadist herdsmen murdered 37 Christians during attacks carried out in Benue state over the last four weeks, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. With well over 50,000 Christians murdered since Islamic terrorists seized control of swathes of the country in 2015,
A recent report from the United Nations shows that the Al Qaeda and Islamic State terror groups have been gaining more ground and influence in Afghanistan than ever before, CBN News reports. The US State Department stated recently that both the Trump and the Biden administrations failed to adequately prepare for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
A US lawmaker has told a House Select Committee that China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) government is rewriting parts of the Bible in order to increase its power and suppress the Gospel, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Iran on Sunday began an annual air force drill in the central part of country, state media reported, as the US sends more fighter planes to the region to deter the Islamic Republic from seizing commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf area.
After 29 weeks of protests and mass public opposition that have roiled the country and divided its citizens, the Knesset gave its final approval Monday to a law that prevents the courts from reviewing the “reasonableness” of government and ministerial decisions, the first major bill of the government’s judicial overhaul to pass into law.
The center-right Popular Party (PP) beat Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists in Spain’s parliamentary elections. Still, it will need several junior parties to govern, official results showed. The outcome of Sunday’s vote was likely to spark weeks of political uncertainty in the European Union nation, analysts said.
Sen. J.D. Vance has introduced legislation that would make gender-reassignment treatments for minors a federal crime.
The Biden administration is issuing grants from a $5 billion program to expedite the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines, but pharmaceutical manufacturers are not receiving guidance about vaccine standards as the development process returns to its normally slower pace.