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Kountze High School cheerleaders paint a banner before a football game.

Texas cheerleaders’ free speech battle heads into overtime

Religious Liberty | Just when a group of Texas high school cheerleaders thought their fight for free speech was over, their school district has decided to go on offense. Kountze Independent School District has decided to appeal a state…

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.

Bachmann calls it quits in Congress

Politics |  Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a former presidential candidate and favorite of Tea Party Republicans, announced today she will not run for another term in…

Puerto Ricans protest attempts to legalize same-sex marriage in February.

Puerto Rico forces employers to hire gay applicants

Homosexuality |  Under the guise of outlawing employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation, legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated…

Nick Vujicic in Vietnam

Christian preacher gets rock star reception in Communist Vietnam

Religion |  Thousands of Vietnamese filled the soccer stadium in their Communist-ruled country, and millions more watched from home, as an Australian evangelical preacher…

Arizona state Rep. Steve Smith

‘Dear God’ do-over

Religion |  When an atheist lawmaker offered the daily prayer—if it can even be called that—at the Arizona House of Representatives, a Christian lawmaker demanded a…

Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert

Court terminates Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban

Abortion |  Arizona’s ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, absent a medical emergency, violates a woman’s constitutionally protected right to kill her unborn…

Rescue workers dig through the rubble of a collapsed wall at the Plaza Tower Elementary School to free trapped students in Moore, Okla.

Search and rescue efforts continue in Oklahoma

Disaster |  UPDATE (10:25 a.m.): Officials now say 24 people are confirmed dead after Monday's massive twister. Seven of those are children. The medical examiner blamed…

William Hunter, a Sunday school teacher from southeast Georgia, poses holding a Bible he keeps in his camper while vacationing at Fort McAllister Historic State Park.

Georgia governor orders Bibles back to state park lodging

Religion |  Looking to get away with his family, atheist Ed Buckner rented a cabin at a north Georgia state park, only to find the state-owned cabin had been…

A bottle of the abortion-inducing drug Cytotec.

Florida man charged with murder for tricking girlfriend into abortion

Abortion |  Heartbreaking and treacherous are just two words being used to describe the latest abortion story out of Florida. According to federal authorities,

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst

Texas prosecutors investigate Gosnell-like center in Houston

Abortion |  Just days after a Philadelphia abortionist learned he will die in prison for his horrific late-term abortion practices—including snipping the spines of…

A wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp near Glenrock, Wyo.

Wind farms breeze past laws protecting vulnerable birds

Environment |  It happens about once a month in Converse County, Wyo.—A golden eagle, soaring over the barren foothills of one of America’s green-energy boomtowns,

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman

Republicans challenge ‘dishonest’ IRS mea culpa

IRS Scandal |  Never has an audit from the Internal Revenue Service been so scary.  It’s “chilling,” Republicans said Sunday in reference to the news that the IRS…

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