(SRN NEWS) – Under threat of a lawsuit, the Chester County Intermediate Unit has agreed to end a policy of helping children live as the opposite sex at school without their parents’ knowledge. Senior Counsel Tyson Langhoffer of Alliance Defending Freedom says “Schools must cease participating in thi
(SRN NEWS) – It is the work of J.D. Payne of the Southern Baptist Convention, and it draws its numbers from the U.S. Religion Census. Payne reports that Evangelical Christians are centered in the Southeast and Midwest, with Alabama coming in first, followed by Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten
(SRN NEWS) – Secretary Pete Hegseth is establishing an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon, saying that the spiritual health of America’s fighting men and women needs attention. Hegseth says the office will report directly to him and will “protect free exercise, remove policy barriers, ident
(SRN NEWS) – Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has applied his signature to four new measures designed to promote the procedure in the state. One of them will allow midwives and nurse practitioners to carry out late-term abortions. Another bill will require all California community colleges to provid
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is set to secure European Union approval for its $2.5 billion bid for German electronics retailer Ceconomy after it tweaked its remedies to address regulators’ concerns, a person familiar with the matter said. The European C
By Paula Arend Laier SAO PAULO, Oct 2 (Reuters) – BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, expects to maintain around 30% growth in assets under management in Brazil next year, regardless of the result of this month’s general election, the firm’s lead executive in the country said. In an interv
By Echo Wang and Milana Vinn NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Anthropic warned that government attitudes toward the company and its technology could have broader implications for its business, including its relationships with commercial customers and partners, according to the IPO prospectus seen by Reut
MADRID, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Spain’s leftist government faced a bruising battle in parliament on Friday after an allied party opposed its plans to tackle a housing crisis stirring public protests, particularly over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman. Junts, a Catalan region separatist centre-right pa
Oct 2 (Reuters) – Global equity funds attracted inflows for a second straight week, as optimism around AI investment and softer US inflation pushed up investor demand for stocks despite rising bond yields. Equity funds recorded net inflows of $34.76 billion in the week through September 30, down fro
By Leo Marchandon Oct 2 (Reuters) – Europe is increasingly able to source the components used in its supercomputers locally, but memory remains the biggest gap in the supply chain, the head of French supercomputer maker Bull said on Friday. Bull can now source around 70% of the components in the mac
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Amazon’s cloud computing division said on Friday it would invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in US communities where it has data centers and vowed to tackle their impacts on electricity and water usage. Data centers, which provide t
FRANKFURT, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Energy prices are approaching the European Central Bank’s “adverse” scenario, but soaring long-term borrowing costs limit just how much of this inflation can be transmitted through to the broader economy, Finnish central bank chief Olli Rehn said on Friday. Inflation has
By David Lewis LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – After months of tension, fighting has erupted in northern Ethiopia between federal troops and a rebel alliance headed by Tigrayan forces. On the surface, the clashes look like the revival of the 2020-2022 civil war that pitted the Tigray People’s Liberation F
By Waseem Sattar and Ariba Shahid KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s effort to keep supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan out of the capital has led to a pileup of shipping containers in the nation’s main port of Karachi, 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) away. Truckers are r
Oct 1 (Reuters) – Manchester City should face the “appropriate consequences” if wrongdoing is established, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Thursday, a day after he expressed concern about City’s owners potentially selling the club. City face the possibility of severe s
By Field Level Media Oct 02 (By Curt Weiler, Field Level Media) – ATLANTA — Michael Harris II, Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson homered and six Braves pitchers stifled the Philadelphia Phillies’ offense, allowing Atlanta to roll to a 6-2 victory in the decisive third game of a National League wild- card
Oct 2 (Reuters) – The military spokesperson for Yemen’s internationally recognized government said on Friday that warplanes carried out 20 strikes over the past three hours targeting Houthi movements, personnel, vehicles and military equipment in Taiz province. The strikes come amid the most serious
By Greg Torode HONG KONG, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Chinese construction of a runway on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago is well underway with analysts estimating it could be completed by mid-2027, strengthening Beijing’s military control over the disputed South China Sea. Satellite images reviewed
Oct 2 (Reuters) – A US lawmaker has called on Starbucks to close its first stores in China’s Xinjiang, calling it a “morally bankrupt decision” to do business in a region where Uyghurs face repression. China denies widespread accusations of abuses of the Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority, say
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa CAIRO/GAZA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Bissan was born because of an airstrike. Two weeks into the war in Gaza in October 2023, an Israeli attack ripped through her family’s home in Beit Lahiya near the Israeli border, killing a sister she never got to meet. The blast se
By Peter Hobson CANBERRA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Australia’s efforts to put Pacific island nations at the centre of global climate diplomacy are falling short of ambitions, with few leaders from outside the region planning to attend a gathering in Tuvalu and Fiji next week, diplomats and officials say. A
Oct 2 (Reuters) – Amazon is seeking to offload about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips to investors through a new vehicle to strengthen its balance sheet, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Amazon has held talks with investors to gauge
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – US job growth likely slowed in September and the unemployment rate is forecast to have been 4.1% for a third straight month, suggesting the labor market remained stable heading into the fourth quarter. The anticipated moderation would follow a surprise
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she signed an executive order on Thursday appointing state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case of the alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell University student. The student filed a civil law
By Diana Novak Jones Oct 1 (Reuters) – The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data on Facebook in a case that came out of the Camb
Oct 1 (Reuters) – Comcast’s NBCUniversal is cutting jobs in its global streaming technology organization, the owner of the Fast & Furious and Jurassic Park franchises said on Thursday. • The number of employees affected would depend on the outcome of consultations with employees, a source familiar w
‘Who Has a Say in the History Children Learn?’ Texas Standards Fight Draws Laurie Cardoza-Moore Cardoza-Moore says state education standards offer a powerful way to shape how millions of students learn about American history, Israel, antisemitism, and Judeo-Christian values By Felice Friedson / The
Oct 1 (Reuters) – OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details: • The Sam Altman-led co
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Iceland, Greece and Portugal next week to discuss economic and security cooperation and other issues, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday. Rubio will begin his October 5-8 trip with talks in Reykjavik with Ic
By Joe Skipper, Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday with a crew of two US astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station for a science mission devoted to huma
