by Editor | Mar 10, 2022 | World Featured
The Perebyinis family The photograph has become a worldwide symbol of Russia’s brutality toward Ukrainian civilians. Four people lay near an intersection in Irpin, a Kyiv suburb, on Sunday. All were dead or soon would be, from the force of Russian mortars. There had...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Sports
McKINNEY, Texas — Jake Knapp is spending his weekends much differently now as a rookie on the PGA Tour, just more than two years after working security at a restaurant in his hometown that was also a late-night hotspot. A first-time Tour winner earlier this...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Sports
ARLINGTON, Texas — More than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut with the Indiana Fever in an exhibition game against the Dallas Wings on Friday night, some fans among the sellout crowd were lined up outside the arena dressed in No. 22...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Sports
Major League Baseball uniforms will have larger lettering on the back of jerseys and individual pant customization will be available to all players beginning in 2025, MLB and Nike announced Friday.MLB and Nike said the uniform adjustments will be made following...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | World
Austin, Texas – “It didn’t feel real.” That’s how Alishba Javaid, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, describes the moment when she saw roughly 30 state troopers walk onto the campus lawn.Javaid and hundreds of her classmates had gathered on the grass, in...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Religion
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (RNS) — United Methodists concluded their General Conference on Friday (May 3) by removing the last barriers to full equality of LGBTQ+ members in the life of the church.After repealing a 52-year-old declaration on Thursday that the practice...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years of efforts to revive the female diaconate in the...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Six churches are among 39 projects being awarded grants from the National Park Service to preserve historical examples of the Civil Rights activism of African Americans.The recipients of the $23.4 million in awards include the Historic Tabernacle Baptist...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Religion
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Calling the White House “a symbol of ongoing support for destruction of human lives,” Catholic Bishop John Stowe appeared at a prayer vigil outside the presidential mansion on Friday (May 3), joining a group of religious demonstrators as they urged...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Religion
LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago, it also provided physical refuge from the horrors outside.Almost 100 residents...
by News Feed Editor | May 3, 2024 | Sports
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes. But even if college sports...