Nikki Haley’s campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear her position on an issue that has tripped up many of her Republican opponents.
Historians Bond and Brekus to headline upcoming BJC events
Two historians will headline upcoming events sponsored by Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. Catherine Brekus, the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, will give BJC’s annual Walter B. and Kay W….
Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96
Barrier-smashing singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because of his rendition of a Hebrew classic, died Tuesday at his longtime Upper West Side home. He was 96.
In rural Texas, spending taxpayer money on private schools is a hard sell
“If you will bow with me, please,” said Christopher Moran, superintendent of the Whitehouse Independent School District, after he was invited to pray to open a news conference outside the Tyler Independent School District building last month. T
Genocide resisters, long overlooked by history, step into the spotlight
The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested by the government of the Ottoman Empire in the capital Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.
Mayhem at Jewish Federations conference in Tel Aviv as protesters and panelists fight over judiciary and immigration
A panel at a major American Jewish conference here descended into pandemonium as protesters in the audience shouted down a leading far-right politician.
Texas Senate wants Ten Commandments in classrooms
The Texas Senate passed a bill that would require public schools to post the Ten Commandments prominently in every classroom.
Losing Ballot Issues on Abortion, G.O.P. Now Tries to Keep Them Off the Ballot
Voters pushed back decisively after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, approving ballot measures that established or upheld abortion rights in all six states where they appeared.
Republican presidential candidates diverge on abortion, rally religious support in Iowa
A bevy of Republican presidential hopefuls courted Iowa’s religious conservatives Saturday night, pledging their opposition to abortion and transgender medical care for minors.