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Afghanistan frees 149 hostages held by the Taliban
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Divided by war, Korean families see each other again

Vol. 33, No. 16
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Responding to ‘the unimaginable’

Sexual Abuse | When a trusted individual sins in a way that can ruin dozens of young lives, Christian groups and communities need to respond quickly. Here’s one case study of ongoing recovery

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Papered over

Higher Education | Biblical truth-telling at college newspapers can sometimes conflict with the way administrators want to portray the school. Here’s a case study of how Liberty University handled the tension last spring

Krieg Barrie
Equal opportunity players

Homeschooling | Many U.S. homeschoolers want to participate in public school sports, but some states have resisted them

Onize Ohikere
Far away from home

Sexual Abuse | A sex and financial abuse case in Nigeria raises questions of accountability for U.S. groups funding overseas ministries

Facing waves

Culture | Early August profiles in courage and cowardice

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

Aug
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Legal Docket, and the Monday Moneybeat

Mary Reichard discusses the Equal Rights Amendment in the wake of the #MeToo movement, and Nick Eicher reports on an idea aimed at pushing big companies to think longer-term. Plus: Paul Butler covers notable events from this week in history.

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.

Aug
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A conversation with Ken Boa

This week, Warren Smith talks with author and speaker Ken Boa about how to read a movie.

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Disrupted drivers

New York | A controversial new law in New York caps the number of Uber drivers

Musk wants to take Tesla private

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants to buy up company stock and remove it from public trading.

Pot in the bottle

Drug Abuse | Big Alcohol is adding a new ingredient—marijuana—to its moneymaking brew

Apple becomes first public company valued at $1 trillion

Apple became the world’s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion on Thursday.

NBA cuts deal to share data with casino giant MGM Resorts

The NBA and WNBA will now share official data with MGM Resorts International, officials announced Tuesday, becoming the first major U.S.

Legalized sports betting gears up for NFL season

Two Atlantic City, N.J., casinos owned by Caesars Entertainment will start taking sports bets this week, while another two Ceasars operations in Mi

Facebook shares lose $119 billion in value

After Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that the company’s second-quarter growth was slower than expected, its shares plummeted 19 perce

Qualcomm deal victim of U.S.-China trade tensions

San Diego–based Qualcomm, the world’s biggest smartphone chipmaker, on Wednesday dropped its $44 billion bid to buy Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconduct

Markets slide, then recover after Trump’s latest tariff salvo

U.S.

Pope responds to latest church abuse report

In a letter to Catholics around the world, Pope Francis on Monday condemned the crime of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up by church leaders.

Far away from home

Sexual Abuse | A sex and financial abuse case in Nigeria raises questions of accountability for U.S. groups funding overseas ministries

Masterpiece Cakeshop back in court

The Colorado commission that violated Jack Phillips’ religious liberty by trying to force him to make cakes for same-sex marriages is after the bak

Grand jury report lists more than 300 ‘predator priests’ in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released Tuesday a grand jury report on sexual abuse that allegedly occurred in six of the state’s eight dioceses ov

An evening with Dennis Prager

Religion | A Jew and a Christian muse about goodness, loving God, and bacon

Willow Creek guts leadership in wake of Hybels scandal

The entire board of Willow Creek Community Church and its remaining lead pastor, Heather Larson, announced at a church meeting Wednesday night they

Catholic diocese names accused sex abusers

A Pennsylvania Catholic Church diocese on Wednesday named 71 priests and other members of the church accused of child sex abuse.

Pope Francis changes Catholic teaching on the death penalty

Pope Francis in a new policy published Thursday changed the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty, saying it is always “inadmi

Dictatorial ideologies

Culture | Hyper-sexualism and hyper-Islamism impact cultures and courtrooms an ocean apart 

Officials knew collapsed Italian bridge was weaker

An Italian news magazine reported Monday that the bridge that collapsed last week in Genoa was known to have weakened by 20 percent, but engineerin

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies

Kofi Annan, the grandson of tribal chiefs in Ghana who rose through the ranks of the United Nations to become the first black African secretary-gen

Syria’s disappearing Christian villages

International | Only 10 percent of Assyrian Christians remain along the Khabur River

Heavy rains lead to deadly flooding in India

Rescue workers in the Indian state of Kerala intensified efforts to reach people stranded by flooding after unprecedented dayslong rainfall led to

Court rejects Brunson appeal, Trump tweets support

A state-run Turkish news agency said a higher court in Turkey rejected an appeal Friday for the release of American Pastor Andrew Brunson, whose de

Accused terrorist gained refugee status

The FBI arrested a man in Sacramento, Calif., who, before he came to the United States as a refugee, allegedly committed acts of terror as an Islam

Italy blames highway company for bridge collapse

The Italian government accused a highway company of putting financial interests before safety standards after a bridge collapsed in Genoa, killing

ISIS attack on Afghan high schoolers kills 34

A suicide bomber killed at least 34 young people Wednesday in Afghanistan, many of them high school students.

Xinjiang, land of freedom?

China | Against mounting evidence, China denies the systematic detention of Uighur minorities

Jury considers Manafort’s fate

President Donald Trump on Friday defended Paul Manafort as a jury entered its second day of deliberations in the former Trump campaign chairman’s f

Sticker shock: Trump’s military parade canceled

The Department of Defense canceled a Veterans Day military parade Thursday after reports it could cost $92 million.

Ex-CIA officials condemn Trump’s treatment of Brennan

Former CIA Director John Brennan and a group of former intelligence officials accused President Donald Trump of attacking free speech by revoking B

Trump cuts off Brennan’s security clearance

President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, the White House said Wednesday.

West Virginia impeaches its Supreme Court

State lawmakers in West Virginia voted this week to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices.

Trump ally cements win in Kansas gubernatorial primary

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach secured the Republican nomination for governor when his opponent, incumbent Gov.

Transgender candidate wins Vermont primary

Democrats in Vermont chose the nation’s first openly transgender major party nominee for a statewide office Tuesday as four states held primaries t

Races to watch in Tuesday’s primaries

Voters in four states—Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Vermont—head to the polls for primary elections Tuesday.

Manafort lawyers rest case without calling witnesses

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses.