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Rage engulfs U.S. cities

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Police across America condemn Minneapolis officer
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Education Department condemns boys competing as girls

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China’s Wolf Warrior policy

Asia | China is getting aggressive toward adversaries in the face of coronavirus criticism

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Zooming to the White House?

Elections | As COVID-19 upends the traditional campaign season, candidates go off the trail in a reality-show era fit for a pandemic

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Reshaping the courts

Judiciary | Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have made court appointments a high priority, and their work is showing results

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California grasps for coronavirus prevention among the homeless

Homelessness | Advocates fear crowded shelters turning into outbreak hot spots

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Could vitamin D reduce severe COVID-19?

Health | New research suggests patients with vitamin D deficiency fare worse

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The Olasky Interview, Episode 12: Albert Mohler

Albert Mohler is a theologian and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On this episode of The Olasky Interview, Marvin Olasky and Albert Mohler discuss WORLD’s approach to Christian journalism. Plus, Mohler fields questions from WORLD staffers.

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Conversations with Keith Getty and Elli Oswald

Elli Oswald leads the Faith To Action Initiative, a ministry committed to the care of orphans. Keith Getty is a singer and hymn writer. On this episode of Listening In, host Warren Smith talks with Oswald about giving the church’s approach to orphan care an overhaul, and with Getty about a new hymn he and his team are producing.

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New York City prepares to reopen

New York City is the only part of the state that remains under lockdown, as the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths decrease.

Memorial Day draws crowds

The holiday weekend lured many Americans to crowded recreational areas despite coronavirus-related guidelines for social distancing.

The good stem cells

Science | Parkinson’s patient receives the first successful stem cell transplant

Green energy blues

Documentary | A new documentary from Michael Moore shines a light on environmentalism’s problems

Michigan flood displaces thousands

Floodwaters mixed with water from containment ponds at a Dow Chemical plant in Midland, Mich., after two dams failed along the Tittabawassee River

Dam failures flood Michigan town

About 10,000 people had to evacuate from communities along the Tittabawassee River in central Michigan on Tuesday.

Oregon shutdown back on, for now

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state’s coronavirus shutdown order will remain in place while all the justices take time to revie

Virus overwhelms New Mexico hospital

The evening before New Mexico closed bars and restaurants because of the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March, people in the city of Gallup turned out

The coronavirus data debate

Health | Should the U.S. mimic Sweden’s response to the pandemic?

Authorities arrest officer in Floyd death

The Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest on Monday is in custody and charged with third-degree murder and m

Minneapolis man’s death sparks violent protests

Protesters set fires and looted stores in Minneapolis late Wednesday and into Thursday morning.

Four Minneapolis police officers fired after man’s death

A video taken by a bystander showed a white Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on an African American man’s neck for several minutes duri

How to run a funeral in a pandemic

Grief & Suffering | A Brooklyn pastor says trying to help grieving congregants in the middle of the pandemic is an excruciating experience

Planned Parenthood’s sneak attacks

Abortion | The abortion giant opens surprise facility in Illinois

Babies in waiting

Family | Infants born to surrogates are stuck in Ukraine

Man who filmed Arbery shooting arrested

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested the man who videoed the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery and charged him with felony murder and c

To Hollywood, with Legos

Lifestyle | Creativity and teamwork led Tyler and Amy Clites to a Lego Masters championship

Pro-life critics say documentary’s Jane Roe bombshell is a dud

Abortion | Film claims advocates manipulated the woman who went from landmark abortion case plaintiff to pro-life activist

Trump targets social media protections

President Donald Trump has acted on concerns that social media platforms discriminate against certain political views.

U.S. cuts Iran sanction reliefs

The Trump administration will rescind all but one of the remaining waivers that allow some companies in Europe, Russia, and China to work at Irania

House Republicans ask courts to block proxy voting

WASHINGTON—House Republicans sued Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top congressional officials on Tuesday for violating the c

Trump and Twitter feud over fact-checking

WASHINGTON—Twitter on Tuesday placed warnings under two

Shuttered churches to reopen

Religious Liberty | California, Minnesota resume worship after church bans challenged

Trump threatens to move GOP convention

Charlotte, N.C., could lose the Republican National Convention if the state’s Democratic governor can’t guarantee a full-capacity venue, President

Trump visits COVID-19-modified Arlington for Memorial Day

President Donald Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a Memorial Day ceremony altered by the co

Justin Amash bids adieu

Politics | A grab-bag of politics, religion, and other news ahead of the 2020 election

United States threatens treaty withdrawal

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russia has not complied with a 1992 agreement allowing reconnaissance flights over its territory.

Getting back to school

Education | Large facilities will require significant changes, but it will be business as usual for most small schools

Parents to plead guilty in college scam

Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli will serve prison time as part of a plea deal in their

Pushing for due process on campus

Education | Updated rules about sexual assault in schools receive a mixed response

Seniors mark socially distanced graduations

The coronavirus has canceled traditional graduation ceremonies for high school and college seniors across the country, but that hasn’t stopped stud

Cal State campuses to stay closed in the fall

The largest four-year public university system in the United States will not allow students back on campus after the summer break.

Lawsuits threaten post-pandemic longevity of colleges

Education | Students demand refunds for lost in-person instruction

Education in a quarantine is full of sharp learning curves

Education | Parents, students, and teachers are helping each other grapple with coronavirus classrooms. But it’s more challenging for some than others

What does Harvard know about homeschooling?

Education | The Ivy League school draws fire from alumni for an article that calls for a home education ban

Public school exit strategies

Education | The coronavirus complicates the switch to homeschooling for some

China mandates pause on divorce

Married couples in China jointly filing for separation now must spend a month “cooling-off” before divorcing.

India battles triple disaster

Indian authorities this week deployed drones and insecticide sprayers to combat the nation’s worst locust outbreak in nearly three decades.

China approves Hong Kong national security law

China’s National People’s Congress made an expected cut to Hong Kong’s autonomy on Thursday.

Hong Kong police crack down on protests

Hundreds of riot police surrounded Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Wednesday morning as lawmakers considered whether to criminalize abuse of the

Costa Rica legalizes same-sex marriage

A yearslong battle over same-sex marriage in Costa Rica has come to an end.

Japan ends nationwide lockdown

With the number of new coronavirus cases significantly dropping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a state of emergency in the country’s la

U.S. bans travel from Brazil

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has nearly quadrupled to close to 375,000 since the end of April.

Africa’s customized response to COVID-19

International | Governments team up with the private sector to combat the disease

Cyclone Amphan recovery begins

The death toll from the superstorm that hit parts of India and Bangladesh rose to at least 95 people on Friday as officials and residents began cle