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Former doctoral students suing Grand Canyon Education (GCE) over its representations about the requirements of doctoral programs prevailed against a motion to dismiss and can continue their lawsuit.
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Indian authorities have allegedly “abandoned” — rather than deported — 40 Rohingya refugees in international waters near the Myanmar maritime border, forcing women, children and the elderly to swim to ...
Despite the disruptions of global economics and trade, and a couple dozen other hot disputes, let's not neglect such perennial realities as the way religion can affect politics and vice versa. As ...
A week doesn’t go by without President Donald Trump talking about “needing” to acquire Greenland. As reporters rush to cover this mysterious territory, much has been said the island’s politics and ...
That’s exactly how I feel these days when reading most mainstream news coverage of Catholic life in the age of Donald Trump. I know that it’s going to be cold, it’s going to be black and white and ...
The Bible has lots of things to say about lying. You can look it up. It’s clear that lying is a sin. This brings us to an increasingly relevant question: Can a computer lie? That leads directly to ...
Colloquially, “mamzer” apparently can also refer to anybody regarded as strange or an outsider. That would be me. In that sense I’m definitely a mamzer. And maybe that’s you, too, if you’re of a ...
The discourse around the “spiritual but not religious” person is that they are becoming a larger share of the population. But I wanted to test that really basic claim with data from the General Social ...
Many Christian families reported living in fear — facing threats of social boycott, electricity cuts and verbal abuse. Some have left their villages or publicly disavowed their faith to avoid conflict ...
Nigeria’s size, population and underdeveloped infrastructure make full and accurate data on such attacks difficult to obtain, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said at a Capitol ...
Sure, drinking and cheating songs characterize a whole lot of the country music genre, known for its roots in working-class, blue-collar American life. But faith, too, infuses many Nashville hits, as ...