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(SRN NEWS)-Tiffany Doolan has left her post at Wylie East High School after a firestorm of controversy.  Parents expressed outrage after the school allowed a Muslim group to set up inside the building during school hours and hand out Korans and hijabs.  The district apologized and now Doolan has tendered her resignation.  A statement from the Wylie Independent School District says that “the situation should never have happened and mistakes were […]

(SRN NEWS)-The government has granted legal status to nearly 200 churches and church-affiliated buildings after years of delay. Religious freedom advocates have complained for decades about Egypt’s unusually slow process of allowing Christians to legally open houses of worship.  Christians make up about 10% of the country’s population and while they enjoy generally good relations with the government, the legal status issue has been a sore spot. Brought to you […]

(SRN NEWS)-The giant Christian relief agency has airlifted a treatment unit to the Africa country in hopes of helping stem an outbreak of the Ebola virus.  Up to 60 U.S. medical volunteers will staff the unit and ministry leader Franklin Graham tells Religion News Service “Our people know the risk, and they know how to protect themselves, and they’re ready for the task, but it’s dangerous.”  Ebola is currently spreading in […]

LONDON (AP) — Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed AI overviews and other artificial intelligence services and features for British users, regulators said Wednesday. The Competition and Markets Authority said it was ordering Google to give online publishers the option, in what it called a “world first.” The watchdog is seeking to loosen the U.S. tech giant’s stranglehold on the […]

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike Wednesday hit a car on a busy highway just south of Beirut, hours before the second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington are set to take place. The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, and it was not immediately clear if the person targeted was killed. Israel usually says it targets members of the Hezbollah militant group in these drone strikes. […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait briefly shut the country’s main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones heavily damaged it and killed one person — the latest salvo in a series of back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested a fragile ceasefire. The strikes came as semiofficial Iranian news agencies said the country had stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A prediction market reported U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Kalshi, the online prediction marketplace, referred Santos to the Department of Justice after detecting suspicious trades made by the former congressman ahead of Trump’s Feb. 24 […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a tragedy to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest over the death of a teenager who was handcuffed as he lay dying while his killer stood nearby. Police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares late Tuesday by some of the hundreds who attended a protest in the English south coast city of Southampton, where […]

Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as the Russian city hosted an annual international economic forum promoted by President Vladimir Putin. The drones flew more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to hit the terminal, Zelenskyy said on social media. Clouds of black smoke rose over the city’s port after the attack. Russian authorities said only that […]