Associated Press Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a suburb’s new law that outlaws renting to illegal immigrants, alleging the ordinance violates federal law and forces landlords to act as immigration officers. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the suit on behalf of [...]

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By Joseph Farah WASHINGTON – After 33 years of secrecy, the U.S. State Department has finally declassified a document admitting it knew the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, plotted and supervised the murders of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973, a cover-up first exposed by WND in January 2001. Yasser [...]

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DEBkafile Iranian officers take command of Palestinian Gaza missile front. But Olmert ties IDF to pinpoint fire on missile crews after two Sderot schoolboys seriously hurt The cabinet decision Wednesday ordered the IDF to stick to attacking missile crews and refrain from breaching the month-long “ceasefire,” in the course of which the Palestinians fired 70 [...]

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AFP Iran’s parliament approved a bill obliging the government to “revise its cooperation” with the UN nuclear watchdog in retaliation for Security Council sanctions slapped on Tehran. The text of the bill, which also tells the government to “accelerate” Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, was approved by an overwhelming majority in the conservative-controlled parliament, with 161 [...]

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ABCNews The impending death of one of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century has caused a morbid contest in Baghdad as Iraqis express an interest in executing Saddam Hussein. After losing a court appeal, the former Iraqi leader is scheduled for hanging in the next 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites [...]

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CNSNews President Bush has signed into a law an amendment to U.S. law protecting military funerals from protests like those staged by a controversial Kansas church that characterizes soldiers’ deaths as divine punishment for homosexuality. The new amendment prohibits protestors from demonstrating within 150 feet of a funeral and within an hour of the memorial [...]

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Associated Press House Democrats in the first weeks of the new Congress plan to establish a dedicated fund to promote renewable energy and conservation, using money from oil companies. That’s only one legislative hit the oil industry is expected to take next year as a Congress run by Democrats is likely to show little sympathy [...]

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By Catherine Levison The idea of short lessons is often approached with skepticism by parents. I understand this completely, as I was a doubter myself. I have often asked parents this question, “Do you have anything to lose by trying it? If you were to try short lessons and find they did not work for [...]

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By J. Grant Swank, Jr. “If there is a God, help me!” I kept seeing this young fellow walking up and down the jail corridors. He was dressed in the usual blue of his pod. What made him distinctive is that he always had in his hand a Bible. “Why do you carry that book [...]

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AgapePress The latest step in Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s investigation of abortion doctor George Tiller and his clinic records has been thwarted by what some pro-lifers see as a political favor to the late-term abortionist from a county district attorney. This past Friday, Kline suffered a setback in his efforts to bring Tiller and [...]

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Coloradoan The recent article in Time Magazine serves to underscore the growing interest in the relationship between science and deeper questions, an interest spearheaded by the Design movement. This movement maintains that a growing body of scientific data makes good sense if an Intelligent Agent of some kind that has been involved and no sense [...]

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AgapePress The head of a Christ-centered pro-life ministry that works with youth says public schools are becoming bolder in their efforts to censor pro-life students. Virginia high school senior Andrew Raker has sued the Frederick County School system in Winchester for barring him from wearing a pro-life T-shirt and passing out pro-life materials on campus. [...]

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CBN News HANOVER, Virginia - Imagine being born with no arms and no hands. How would you function? What would life be like? Meet 12-year-old George Dennehy. George sits first chair in the cello section of his orchestra class at Oak Knoll Middle School in Hanover, Virginia. George was born without arms and hands. He uses [...]

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King James Version I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the [...]

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