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(SRN NEWS)-Sweden is the country where the most people think homosexual unions are a good thing — 92%.  The Netherlands comes in 2nd at 89%, Spain checks in at 87%.  On the other end of the spectrum, opposition to gay marriage is strongest in Nigeria — where the population is split between Muslims and Christians — 97%.  It’s also very unpopular in Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia. Brought to you by […]

(SRN NEWS)- The question is, should public schools display the Decalogue in classrooms?  Turns out the country is pretty evenly split on the issue — 50% say yes, 48% say no.  White Evangelical Protestants are the group most likely to favor posting the Commandments in the schools — 83% like the idea.  Black Protestants come next at 64% followed by Catholics at 56% and then White Mainline Protestants at 52%. Brought […]

(SRN NEWS)-  A bipartisan group of lawmakers has sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, urging him to monitor the 13 states where it is legal for a person to take their own life with the help of a doctor.  The y say “There are grave informed consent issues within physician-assisted suicide.  Less than one percent of patients receive mental health referrals.”  Republican Senator […]

The middle of the American League standings has turned into a medicore mess. It might make for a fascinating playoff race. There are seven teams fighting for the final AL wild-card spot and all of them have a record below .500. The Baltimore Orioles would make the playoffs if the season ended Sunday, sporting a 61-63 record. Right behind them: The Texas Rangers (61-64), Toronto Blue Jays (61-65), Detroit Tigers […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday. This is Congo’s 17th and largest Ebola outbreak. The toll eclipses […]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — Thunderstorms, heavy rain and flash flooding continued to threaten a swath of the U.S. from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic Monday, extending a deadly stretch of unsettled weather. The National Weather Service said repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms would continue for one more day before a cold front sweeps the weather pattern off the East Coast on Tuesday. In the meantime, much of West […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others. […]

TUNIS, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The charity rescue ship, EMERGENCY, rescued 50 migrants from an wooden boat in international waters off Libya on Monday, while seven others were found dead, the charity said. Two people are in critical condition and suffering from suffocation and needed urgent medical evacuation, EMERGENCY said in a statement sent to Reuters, without giving further details. The survivors said they had left the Libyan coastal town […]

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Israeli flags planted on a main coastal highway in southern Lebanon are a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said on Monday, urging all sides to avoid “provocative actions”. Israel’s military invaded a swathe of southern Lebanon during a war with Hezbollah earlier this year, establishing a self-declared security zone it says aims to shield northern Israel from […]