While I fully support the separation of church and state that has long granted all Americans the freedom to honor and observe their own religious traditions, I also believe strongly in the power of prayer. And I am not afraid to admit that or to ask my God for help. »
In a ruling that has national implications for every athletic department in the country, a federal judge has declared that a coach has the right to take part in the age-old practice of “taking a knee.” »
Missouri House members overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment Wednesday night intended to ensure students can pray privately and voluntarily at public schools. »
ALL you mutterers with knitted brows, listen: it’s time to get happy. We’re talking $35 million worth of feel-good, throw-your-shoulders-back giddiness. The future is yours, don’t despair, things might be in the dumps but this is the land of Beethoven, Einstein and all those giggling little garden gnomes. »
A Tory MP turned lifesaver when he helped rescue a drowning man as he returned from a night out. »
It was almost inevitable New Zealand’s election would turn into a dog fight when you look at one of the country’s 2.83 million voters - Toby the Jack Russell terrier. »
Six countries have pledged almost US$150m (£80m) to a proposed new United Nations emergency fund. »
Here’s a lemon law with a sweet taste to it. »
I have a million really good reasons for 100 percent of us to vote in 2006, but before I tell you what they are, we should dispense with the holier-than-thou notion that using money as an incentive to get citizens to participate in a democracy is a disgrace and an abomination. »
Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof has repeated his desire for a million people to descend on Edinburgh for a rally against poverty. »
As a young private from Gaspe, Que., Charles Bouchard wasn’t aware just how big a piece of history he was watching unfold on May 5, 1945, when he stood guard outside the brick hotel where the Germans surrendered Holland to a Canadian general. »
Breakthrough technology allows voters with vision and hearing impairments to cast ballots without assistance. »
Some 4,350.00 Angolan citizens who as refugees in DR Congo and Zambia were last year repatriated to the eastern Province of Moxico by the UNHCR and the Government, said Wednesday the provincial director of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Reintegration (Minars), Alberto Calumbi. »
A school which has only two pupils will be allowed to stay open, it was announced today. »
In a fighting Life rays of hope are countables. »
The House yesterday unanimously approved $14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers as Congress moved a step closer to showering money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections. »
The White House agreed to tack on $887 million in hurricane aid for Florida and the Southeast as Congress worked yesterday to put the final touches on a multibillion-dollar storm and drought disaster package. »
Six-hundred-and forty-four Liberian children separated from their parents since the Liberian civil war ended in August 2003 have been reunited with their families, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. »
Recently, the House passed the Working Families Tax Relief Act, legislation that ensures that 93 million American taxpayers and their families don’t wake up to a major tax hike on Jan. 1, 2005, as a result of a sunset provision in previous tax legislation. »
Dozens of people who had been abducted by a Ugandan rebel group have flown home from Sudan to be reunited with their families. »
The International Monetary Fund agreed to extend the global debt relief program for poor countries by two years to 2006, the global lender said late on Thursday. »
The Jamaican Office of National Reconstruction (ONR) has received $1.36 billion in cash and commitments in the two weeks it has been set up to lead the restoration and relief initiative in the wake of Hurricane Ivan, which battered the island three weeks ago. »
Two female Italian aid workers freed after being held hostage in Iraq for three weeks have arrived back in Italy. »
A clergyman intimately involved in the bid to free Simona Pari and Simona Torretta has told BBC News Online how Iraqi sources revealed days ago that the pair were to be freed. »
Richmond businesses still struggling because of damage inflicted by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston are now eligible for city grants of up to $10,000 each. »
Britain plans to spend an extra 100 million pounds a year on debt relief for some of the world’s poorest countries, the Guardian has reported. »
Cancer patients will be given individual case managers to help co-ordinate treatments with different specialists, under a new Labor plan. »
A local charity group’s recent success in a regional competition for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has increased the exposure of Taiwan’s NGOs on the international stage, President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday. »
A global fund designed to shrink the technology gap between rich and poor nations is to be launched in November, said one of its key advocates. »
A former apartheid policeman who helped jail Nelson Mandela more than 30 years ago today returned to him two notebooks of letters written in prison. »