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Vol. 33, No. 23
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Beyond platform shoes

Books | WORLD’s 2018 Books of the Year

Wizards and prophets

Books | SCIENCE: Our book of the year shows a worldview clash

War on Poverty: Nearly Won (and Lost)

Books | UNDERSTANDING AMERICA: Our book of the year focuses on the war for work

Peopling a war

Books | UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: Profiling the Syrian war’s rebels, jihadists, and casualties

Crises R Us

Books | HISTORY: Examining the Civil War, immigration, and other great divides

NPR from a Christian Worldview: Each weekday morning, enjoy daily radio news, interviews, commentary, and original features reported from the field.

Dec
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12.13.18 Opening foster homes, and Chinese tech

Nick Eicher and Dawn Hawkins discuss how many companies are limiting access to pornography; Sarah Schweinsberg reports on new federal rules aimed at opening more foster homes; and Michael Cochrane the latest Chinese technology developments that are raising ethical questions. Plus: commentary from Andre Seu Peterson.

For sharable story transcripts and audio, please visit worldandeverything.org

Insightful interviews with popular musicians, Christian thought leaders, makers of movies and television, respected authors, and key political leaders.

Dec
7
A conversation with Michael Horton

This week, Warren Smith talks with theologian, podcaster, author, professor, and magazine publisher Michael Horton.

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Jury recommends life sentence for Charlottesville murderer

A jury has recommended a sentence of life in prison plus 419 years for a man convicted of murdering a counterprotester at a white nationalist rally

Feds arrest two in separate Ohio terror plots

Federal agents thwarted two unconnected but potentially devastating terror attacks in Toledo, Ohio, the FBI and Justice Department announced Monday

Abortion on campus, Round 2

Life | California reconsiders college campus abortion bill

Winter storm buries Southeast in snow

A winter storm blanketed five southern U.S. states with snow, sleet, and freezing rain from Saturday into Monday.

Busting drugs with China

Drug Abuse | China promises to combat opioid drug sales to the United States

Accused Border Patrol vigilante faces death penalty

Prosecutors said Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for a U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to murdering four prostitutes.

Euthanasia for autism?

Life | The trial in Belgium over the killing of an autistic woman could have international repercussions

Gender agenda

Family | A Texas father is fighting his ex-wife’s claim that their son is a transgender girl

Dallas officer charged with murder in shooting

A grand jury on Friday indicted a former Dallas police officer for murder in the killing of her unarmed black neighbor in his apartment.

State of surveillance

China | The growth of surveillance technology is enabling the Chinese government’s rapid transformation into Big Brother

‘Faithful disobedience’

Persecution | An influential house church in China responds to a wave of police detentions

China confirms arrest of two Canadians

Chinese officials confirmed Thursday that they have detained a second Canadian citizen amid an ongoing rift over the arrest of a top executive of a

May to stay at the helm in the U.K., for now

British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, ensuring she will continue to play an instrumental rol

Detained Chinese pastor writes of true freedom

A letter from Wang Yi, pastor of the Chinese church that was the subject of a government crackdown Sunday, was

French police search for Strasbourg shooter

French authorities on Wednesday continued to search for a shooting suspect who killed two people and injured up to 12 others Tuesday night near a C

Huawei executive granted bail in Canada

A Canadian court on Tuesday granted bail to a top executive of a Chinese telecom company after China responded to her arrest by detaining a former

No-confidence vote set for Theresa May

The United Kingdom faced further uncertainty on Wednesday as British Conservative lawmakers forced a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Theres

Four dead, others wounded in Strasbourg attack

French officials said a shooting near the Christmas market in Strasbourg has left four people dead and close to 10 others wounded, leading to a loc

Climate faux pas

Science | Researchers messed up the math

Emergency connections

Technology | New 911 technology provides first responders with automatic info

Scientific soul-searching

Science | The revelation that a Chinese researcher produced gene-edited babies should be a wake-up call over ethics

Russian spacecraft blasts off safely

Three astronauts successfully blasted off to the International Space Station on Monday from Kazakhstan following an aborted mission in October.

Expert: Climate report stokes unwarranted fear

Science | Grim predictions are still standard, but climate models are not as definitive as they seem

China orders stop to human gene editing work

The Chinese government on Thursday ordered researcher He Jiankui of Shenzhen to halt his experiments after he told a scientific conference in Hong

Chinese scientist condemned for gene editing human embryos

A Chinese researcher continues to alarm the scientific and bioethics community with claims of being the first in the world to use gene editing

InSight lands safely on Mars

A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the Red Planet Monday.

Federal report links climate change, extreme weather

A government report on climate change released Friday said global warming is contributing to extreme weather in the United States.

Marriott data breach affects up to 500 million

Marriott on Friday announced a massive data breach that compromised the information of as many as 500 million guests at its Starwood hotels.

GM to cut 14,000 jobs

General Motors announced Monday plans to lay off up to 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and possibly close five plants.

Shoppers line up on Black Friday (and Thursday, too)

The Christmas shopping season officially kicks off with Black Friday, but early bird shoppers in stores that opened Thursday evening have already s

Nissan chairman arrested for financial misconduct

Authorities in Japan on Monday arrested Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on charges he underreported his income and misused company funds.

Amazon selects New York, Virginia for second headquarters

Amazon announced Tuesday plans to split its highly anticipated second headquarters between New York and northern Virginia.

Winning lottery ticket worth $1.537 billion

A ticket bought in South Carolina won the Mega Millions lottery on Tuesday with a final prize of $1.537 billion, lottery officials said.

Market wavers on road to recovery

U.S. stocks are tentatively recovering from a dip last week.

Sears files for bankruptcy

Once America’s retail giant, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday after 132 years in business.

Stock market recovering from rough week

World stock markets perked up a little Friday morning after heavy losses this week. Major U.S.