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Ex-New Orleans priest pleads guilty to rape and kidnapping
A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975…
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Education chief demands schools show him praying for Trump
Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has said he will “absolutely” penalize schools that refuse to follow his order to show students a video of him praying…
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Superintendent can’t require students to watch prayer video
The Oklahoma attorney general’s office responded after the state’s education superintendent sent an email this week to public school administrators requiring them to show…
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Judge blocks Ten Commandments from Louisiana classrooms
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a new law passed by Louisiana legislators mandating the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom…
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Far-right Republicans now admitting Project 2025 is real
The guardrails of democracy may have buckled, but they’re not broken—yet. In the days since former President Donald Trump’s reelection, high-profile allies of the…
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In a last-minute op-ed, conservative pastor backs Harris
It is a commonly held belief in many circles that evangelical Christians — to say nothing of evangelical pastors like me — should vote Republican. The GOP…
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The Heritage Foundation’s big impact on US politics
Gallons of digital ink have been spilled in the past year about Project 2025, the sprawling far-right policy document that promises to gut LGBTQ+ rights, abolish the…