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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson has lamented he would like to preside over a “normal Congress,” but the chamber the Republican is leading is anything but. All-night sessions. Hours of dead zones with no action on the floor. Legislation being written on the fly, behind closed doors. Sudden votes scheduled. Spectacular failures. And, as happened this week, stunning turnarounds in which the House actually passes bills. “Sometimes it’s […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli police said Friday that they arrested a 36-year-old caught on video attacking a nun in the latest incident targeting Christians near Jerusalem’s Old City. Police said the unnamed man was arrested after the attack Wednesday near David’s Tomb — a holy site outside Zion’s Gate on the southern side of the Old City — “on suspicion of a racially motivated attack,” and remained in […]

SHANGHAI, May 1 (Reuters) – Chinese EV giant BYD’s vehicle sales fell for an eighth straight month in April, down 15.5% from a year earlier and extending its longest-ever downturn as it struggles with weak demand at home. Overseas sales of passenger vehicles and pickup trucks, increasingly a source of growth for BYD, jumped 35% to 130,000 vehicles last month, according to Reuters calculations based on a Weibo post by […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed war with Iran could change the inflation outlook enough to force the Federal Reserve into “potentially a series” of rate hikes to defend the central bank’s 2% inflation target, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari said in explaining his dissent at this week’s Fed meeting. “With an extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz and potentially further damage to energy and […]

By Michael S. Derby May 1 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said Friday she dissented against the central bank holding on to an easing bias this week due to uncertainty around the economic and inflation outlooks. “Uncertainty around the economic outlook has increased in 2026 and makes the future path for monetary policy more uncertain,” Hammack said in a statement. The official said she voted […]

(SRN NEWS)-The legislation removes religious exemptions for all shots deemed mandatory by the state and is likely to be challenged in court, experts say.  The new measure contains language that states that Connecticut’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act cannot be applied to immunizations for children in public or private schools.  Some legal analysts predict an investigation of Connecticut by the Trump administration over the law. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(SRN NEWS)-A group of abortion advocates are challenging the law under Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  They argue that banning abortion is a violation of their deeply held religious beliefs in FAVOR of the procedure.  It is a novel legal trick and the state Supreme Court’s decision may impact cases elsewhere.  The justices have granted a speedy hearing, letting the plaintiffs skip over intermediate courts.  Arguments are set for September. Brought […]

(SRN NEWS)-Proverbs 22:6  says “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.”  A study released by the Pew Research Center finds that American kids who were raised with a positive experience of religion are much MORE likely to cling to that faith in adulthood.  The poll also indicates that the more religious the household a youngster was […]

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) – A man who last year tried to enter Israel’s London embassy armed with two knives and carrying a “martyrdom note” was on Friday convicted in a London court of preparing an act of terrorism. Abdullah Albadri, 34, a failed asylum seeker from Kuwait, attempted to breach the embassy’s perimeter in April 2025 because he wanted to send a message about “the killing of children”, prosecutors […]