Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will face off against Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the race for governor this November after the two candidates won their respective primaries last night, per AP.
Texas has announced a 60% reduction in abortions in the state since its September 1, 2021 implementation of a “heartbeat bill” which bans abortion from about six weeks’ gestation, the Washington Times reports.
Canadian police detained protesters Friday to break the three-week “Freedom Convoy” by truckers and others angry over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, including vaccine mandates.
A public university in Texas has officially changed its policies to allow Christian student clubs to require that their leaders be practicing believers, Just the News (JN) reports. The University of Houston-Clear Lake made the changes after the Ratio Christi Christian student club filed suit asserting that the school had denied its recognition because it requires leaders to be Christians.
A tense stand-off continued Thursday after Canada’s prime minister said ongoing mass protests by truckers against COVID-vaccine mandates must stop.
A Christian nurse practitioner in Texas filed a letter of complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday, after a national drugstore chain terminated her employment for refusing to dispense contraception, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Abortions in Texas declined by 60% in the first month after a law restricting the procedure went into effect, according to data released by the state’s Health and Human Services.
Tongan Christians have publicly given thanks to God for saving their South Pacific island kingdom when a massive volcanic eruption, which NASA experts say was hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, poured over the tiny nation on January 15, Christianity Today (CT) reports. Given the intensity of the eruption and the potential for destruction, many say it is a miracle that the number of casualties was not exceedingly higher than three.
As talks to revive the tattered 2015 nuclear deal restarted in Vienna Tuesday, US President Joe Biden was reminded of another obstacle, this time at home, to a smooth return to the agreement.
The latest U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) terrorist advisory bulletin says Americans who express concerns about election fraud or COVID-19 restrictions could be potential threats to domestic security.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the US Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and families of victims of the 2017 mass shooting at a Baptist church in Texas, the Associated Press reports.
A Canadian movement of truckers protesting the country’s vaccine mandate has inspired a similar protest in the U.S., with a convoy expected to arrive at the nation’s capital next month. That movement, though, sparked controversy beyond its protest this weekend after a run-in with the popular online fundraiser, GoFundMe.
Winter Storm Landon is underway with a widespread mess of snow, sleet and freezing rain spreading from the Rockies to the Plains, Midwest and parts of the Northeast through Friday. The storm will create major travel headaches and could have ice accumulations heavy enough to knock out power and cause tree damage.
The Supreme Court this week announced that it would hear two cases challenging the practice by some U.S. universities of using the race of an applicant as one of the factors that affect admissions.
In a victory for the pro-life movement, Planned Parenthood has dropped a lawsuit against the largest sanctuary city for the unborn in the United States.
Just over a week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large businesses, a federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal employees Friday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday voted six to three not to hear a case challenging the Texas abortion law again.
Republicans are pushing for greater access to monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 after the federal government took over the distribution of such drugs last year.
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI are warning faith-based communities of an increasing threat of attacks.
A federal appeals court on Monday punted a case about Texas’ controversial abortion law to the state’s majority-Republican Supreme Court, dealing another setback to those opposed to the legislation that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.