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Constitutional amendment hands Putin two more terms

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Listening to the unheard

News | The news cycle is loud, but we need to hear those who can’t shout

Lucas Boland
A cultural genocide before our eyes

China | The Uighur diaspora is speaking out as family members disappear into reeducation camps in Xinjiang, but will the world listen?

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Reasonable accommodation

Policy | The Americans With Disabilities Act, which turns 30 this month, steered Jim Terry toward a more accessible career

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Houses of death

Coronavirus | Small Belgium has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world, raising questions about restrictive protocols surrounding nursing homes

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Summer sequels

News analysis | The coronavirus spiked the movie blockbuster season, but drama is playing out in real life

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7.3.20 Washington Wednesday, Footsteps of St. Peter, and Gettysburg

On Culture Friday, Megan Basham and Myrna Brown talk to John Stonestreet about recent Supreme Court rulings and the push to tear down Confederate statues; Megan reviews the second in a series of BBC documentaries about Biblical figures, In the Footsteps of St. Peter; and J.C. Derrick visits Gettysburg to mark the anniversary of the pivotal Civil War battle. Plus: a special performance of The Star-Spangled Banner, sign language translation, and the Friday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.

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

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A conversation with Michael Matheson Miller

This week, hear an encore presentation of Warren Smith's 2016 conversation with scholar and filmmaker Michael Matheson Miller.  

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God always provided

Lifestyle | Ron and Sandra Johanesen strove to trust God—and each other—while raising a family and living on a single income

The trouble with traffic stops

Law | Multiple studies point to racial disparities in policing across the U.S.

Seattle officials clear protest zone

Police arrested more than 30 people in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood as they dismantled tents and roadblocks at 5 a.m. PDT on Wednesday.

Violence plagues Seattle protest zone

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best called the situation in the Capitol Hill neighborhood “dangerous and unacceptable” after a shooting early Monday l

Mississippi removes Confederate symbol from state flag

State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle hugged one another and spectators cheered on Sunday after the House and Senate voted to replace the la

A family history, Part 3

Family | A model of what it is to be a woman, a lady, a mother, a human being

Tech companies silence pro-child voices

Family | YouTube, Amazon don’t want to hear critiques of transgender ideology

City, state officials put spotlight on policing cases

A police chief in Arizona resigned, a New York City officer faces charges, and a 2019 case out of Colorado received new scrutiny.

Statues removed by decree and by force

The Charleston, S.C., City Council voted Tuesday to remove a statue of former Vice President John C.

Reasonable accommodation

Policy | The Americans With Disabilities Act, which turns 30 this month, steered Jim Terry toward a more accessible career

Washington keeps small business subsidies available

The Senate passed an extension to the Payroll Protection Program just hours before it was set to lapse on Tuesday. Sen.

Righting a historic wrong

First Amendment | The Supreme Court defends religious schools from discrimination

Primary results come in from Kentucky

It took a week for Kentucky to sort through mail-in ballots from its Democratic Senate primary on June 23.

Christian school students win religious liberty case

The state of Montana violated the First Amendment to the U.S.

Trump signs monument protection order

State and local law enforcement agencies could lose federal money if they don’t protect historic monuments under an

Officials deny Russia-Taliban connection

A New York Times report that Moscow offered terrorists in Afghanistan money to kill U.S.

Supreme Court overturns Louisiana pro-life law

Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the liberal wing of the court to rule against Louisiana’s health protections for women and unborn babies.

House approves D.C. statehood

Leaders of the District of Columbia have pushed for representation in Congress for years, but Friday was the first time either chamber has approved

A cultural genocide before our eyes

China | The Uighur diaspora is speaking out as family members disappear into reeducation camps in Xinjiang, but will the world listen?

Hong Kong protesters decry new security law

Thousands of demonstrators defied a police ban and gathered in the streets on Wednesday for an annual protest marking the 23rd anniversary of the f

EU reopens borders to some nations

U.S. citizens cannot travel to the European Union for at least another two weeks.

Beijing approves Hong Kong national security law

Twenty-three years after the Chinese government pledged to give Hong Kong 50 years of autonomy, the mainland has stripped the former British colony

Bad neighbors on the Korean Peninsula

International | North Korea reneges on several peace resolutions

Attack in Glasgow likely not terrorism

Police shot and killed the suspect in a stabbing in Glasgow, Scotland, on Friday that left six people wounded, including a police officer.

Delayed sanctions for China’s Uighur atrocities

Persecution | After three years of mixed signals, the U.S. government finally moves to hold China responsible for its human rights abuses against Uighurs

Pakistan discovers pilots cheated on tests

The Karachi-based state-run airline on Thursday said 150 of its pilots had other people take their licensing exams for them.

North, South Korea mark war’s 70 anniversary

South Korean military leaders on Thursday visited a national cemetery in Seoul, where about 130,000 soldiers from the Korean War are buried or hono

More than a pharmacy

Business | Looters and arson in the Twin Cities destroyed a beloved neighborhood drugstore, but owner Jim Stage is confident God works in the restoration business

Markets rally on good news

Stocks on Wall Street climbed on Tuesday despite concerns about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States.

Zoom suspends Chinese human rights activist’s account

China | U.S. lawmakers question the company’s ties to the Chinese government

The road to reopening

Coronavirus | Businesses around the U.S. are reopening after the coronavirus pandemic, but different places face different challenges

Stocks dip after surprising rally

The S&P 500 reached an overall positive gain for the year on Monday despite a confirmed recession due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Unemployment unexpectedly dips

A new report on joblessness offered hope the United States has seen the worst of the economic blows from the coronavirus shutdowns.

Inside the outbreak: Creative coronavirus help

Business | Innovative ways to be good neighbors in a crisis

Unemployment spike slows

Boeing will cut 12,000 U.S. jobs in the coming weeks, executives announced on Wednesday.

Recipe for a grocery revolution

Business | COVID-19 shutdowns spurred new cross-industry relationships and consumer demand for new delivery methods. Some changes may be permanent