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BRONX, New York—Mercer Jabul sat quietly at the very top of a hill at St. Mary’s Park, huddled underneath a hooded white coat as she waited, with an estimated 18,500 others, for Bernie Sanders to arrive in the South Bronx. A black woman in her 60s, Jabul is devoted to Sanders and said she has plans to vote for him in New York’s April 19 primary. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, walks behind his spokesman, Clay Chandler, left, as reporters ask him if he will sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry, following a news conference on a.... |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, walks behind his spokesman, Clay Chandler, left, as reporters ask him if he will sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry, following a news conference on a.... |
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I N a bid to prepare the ground for the flagging off of the training of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Uhogua, Edo State, the wife of Edo State Governor, Iara Oshiomhole on Friday introduced the facilitators to the Director, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho and the students/trainees. Mrs. |
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LOS ANGELES -- A recent stream of movies with religious elements -- "Risen," "The Young Messiah," "Miracles From Heaven" and the just-released "God' s Not Dead 2" -- have been hitting theaters. There was a time when any movie that touched on religion would be lumped under the "faith-based" category. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, right, walks past reporters on his way to a meeting of a youth jobs program board, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 1, 2016. Reporters asked him if he would sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. |
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Myanmar's new Foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi chats with Vice president Henry Van Thio as they attend the ceremony to handover the country's presidency. Photo / Getty Images.
Dunedin's small Myanmar community is buzzing after one of their own went from working at an Otago freezing works to being.... |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, right, walks past reporters on his way to a meeting of a youth jobs program board, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 1, 2016. Reporters asked him if he would sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. |
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Government employees and private businesses in Mississippi could deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry under a bill passed by the House on Friday — one of numerous attempts across the country to enact so-called religious protection statutes after a Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized gay marriage. |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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A COMMUNITY cafe for cash-strapped families proved a hit on its opening day. Parents from St Luke's CE Primary, in Silverdale, have taken over the eaterie at the village's Cornerstone Community Centre. They are relying on ingredients and produce that is near to the end of its shelf life which has.... |
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The music video for “Hurt” directed by Mark Romanek took home a Grammy in 2003. Cash and I share a birthday—today, February 26. He would’ve been 84. On Cash’s distinct singing style, here’s Francis David in a titled “God’s Lonely Man”: piece from our March 2004 issue To read his obituaries, one.... |
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Nearly a half-century later, the New Ulm Diocese has publicly identified the Rev. David Roney, one of 16 priests whose names were released Tuesday as priests who have been credibly accused of abusing children. Schmit couldn't believe it took 48 years, including years in which Roney, now deceased, went on to abuse more children. |
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MS: Well, here's an interesting story. So my father, again, being a kind of straightforward person, after we--he was Methodist by heritage. And in the South it was the colored Methodist Episcopal Church, CME, that his family belonged to. But when he came out to the West, they didn't have the.... |
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(MEDIA GENERAL) – At least four officers have been shot, and three have been killed in the last 15 days. The tragic moments have been punctuated by shock, fear and sadness. Here’s what we know about the men behind the badges. Mobile, Alabama: Undercover officer shot
Motorcycle taken into evidence after a police shooting in Mobile, Alabama. |
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Two years ago this month, Thomas Piketty published his massive tome on inequality, Capital in the 21st Century . Embedded in the 696 pages of tables and analysis was a fairly simple idea: In rich countries, the distribution of wealth is more unequal than the distribution of income; wealth will.... |
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He signed a 2014 bill promoted by gay marriage opponents, saying government cannot put a substantial burden on religious practices. This year's bill is similar to the one Georgia's Republican governor vetoed Monday amid objections from businesses that said it would permit discrimination. |
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The so-called Scarsdale "Pot Mom" has reinvented herself as a devout Church Lady. Andrea Sanderlin, a real-life version of the Mary Louise Parker character from Showtime's "Weeds," is seeking a merciful sentence of probation when she's sentenced later this month for operating a massive marijuana farm in a Queens warehouse. |
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Cruz’s unapologetic brand of Christian conservatism hasn’t changed much in the last 12 months, but the political terrain of the 2016 campaign has. After meticulously building an evangelical base that delivered Cruz an opening victory in Iowa and helped him amass the second-most delegates to Donald.... |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House is sending Republican Gov. Phil Bryant a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry.
Bryant would not say Friday whether he will sign House Bill 1523. "I haven't gotten to it yet. |
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The House is sending Republican Gov. Phil Bryant a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. Bryant would not say Friday whether he will sign House Bill 1523. "I haven't gotten to it yet. |
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Bryant would not say Friday whether he will sign House Bill 1523. "I haven't gotten to it yet. As soon as it gets to us we'll look at it and decide," Bryant said as he walked away from reporters after a Capitol news conference about a youth jobs program. |
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Days before the 1960 election, Coretta Scott King received a call from then-candidate John F. Kennedy while her husband was in a Georgia jail, charged with trespassing after leading a sit-in demonstration against segregation in Atlanta. “This must be pretty hard on you, and I want to let you both.... |
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