New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his political career on Sunday after a gunman killed two police officers in an attack intended to avenge recent police killings of unarmed black men in theUnited States.
In a critique of a recently released book on the life of Billy Graham, New York Times reviewer Robert P. George offered a thorough assessment of Grant Wacker\'s \"America\'s Pastor\" with strong approval of this \"academic project in the best sense.\"\"It is not a biography, but rather a ...
Despite reports noting the lowest percentage of alcohol and tobacco use among teens since 1975, some U.S. teens are swapping traditional tobacco cigarettes for e-cigarettes that may open the door for drug use.
The U.S. government on Friday blamed North Korea for a devastating cyber attack against Sony Pictures, calling it an unacceptable act of intimidation and vowing to impose \"costs and consequences\" on those responsible.
New York City police are investigating a plainclothes officer who appears to punch a teen-aged black boy during an arrest that was captured on video and widely circulated on the Internet, the department said on Friday.
Houston City Attorney David Feldman, a key witness in the legal case involving Houston Mayor Annise Parker and the city\'s equal right\'s ordinance, announced plans Dec. 19 to resign next month -- in time to testify in the case involving five pastors who were issued subpoenas by the City of ...
Same-sex weddings may begin as soon as Jan. 6 in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court today refused to grant a stay which would have blocked them.
As protests continue Christmas week throughout the nation following grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City in the deaths of unarmed black men, prominent Christian African-American leaders Tony Dungy Jr. and Fred Luter Jr. spoke up about the need for prayer and for change. ...
The graduating class of Harding High School in 1953 gave a Ten Commandments plaque to the Marion, Ohio, school and it has been showcased on a hallway wall ever since, until last August. Next to it was the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, another significant display because in a school named after ...
The CDC\'s National Center for Health Statistics announced this month the U.S. birth rate reached an all-time low in 2013, a sixth straight year of drops since a peak in 2007.In raw numbers, there were 3.93 million babies born in the U.S. last year, down less than 1 percent from 2012, but down 9 ...
A tiny Georgia Baptist school got a Christmas miracle Dec. 9 when told by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools its accreditation had been reaffirmed after being told in June it would be removed. Brewton-Parker College\'s president says he never gave up and students still \"believed\" ...
Pastor Paul Mowry gave good news -- besides the Gospel -- to a North Bay area man who lost his home and his dog when a raging West Coast storm sunk his house boat. Steve Alioto\'s dog swam more than a mile in the San Francisco Bay to arrive at Sausalito Presbyterian Church, where Alioto sometimes ...