“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing lifting a ban on use of tax funds for research that merges human stem cells with animal embryos, which could potentially create creatures that are part human/part animal – often…

Many of Victoria, Australia’s schools are awash in ice, a devastating illegal drug also known as crystal methamphetamine. Principles are desperate and need help, while some teachers work in pairs for safety. Here are some examples of what has happened…

Germany has completely taken on “its natural leadership role in the EU’s economic and monetary affairs,” according to the European Council on Foreign Relations. Over the past ten years, the Federal Republic of Germany has become the EU’s undisputed strongest…

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is pro-gay marriage, replaced Tony Abbott, who was against gay marriage in late 2015. Turnbull’s re-election campaign then involved promises to hold a plebiscite on gay marriage, which helped him get re-elected. But now…

Italy, which is out of step with the latest science, is considering a controversial bill to coerce parents to feed their children meat, dairy and eggs. It would impose jail terms on those who provide their children with a vegan…

Two distinguished scholars at Johns Hopkins University have released a lengthy, three-part report that concludes there is not sufficient evidence to prove homosexuals and transgenders are born in that condition. In other words, there is no “gay gene.” “The understanding…

Scores of California students may be sent home on their first day of school because of a new vaccine law that took effect this year. The new state law took effect July 1. Now, parents can no longer use personal…

Deaths in the medieval Italian towns of Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Accumoli di Rieti, and Pescara del Tronto have climbed to 268 with 387 being treated in hospitals. The devastation has made it difficult for rescuers to conduct…

One and a half million people came to Pope Francis’s farewell mass in Kraków, Poland at the end of World Youth Day. “In a time of increasing skepticism towards authority, no other world leader could draw a crowd like that….

Athens is under pressure to introduce a six-day working week as part of the stiff terms for the country’s second bailout. The supervisory “troika,” which involves the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund is insisting…

Germany is changing. In spite of its Nazi past, which has kept right-wing populist movements out on the fringes of German politics, the anti-migrant AfD (Alternative for Germany) may have muscled its way in. Because of discontent with Chancellor Angela…

Hillary Clinton claims to be a defender of religious freedom. But her definition of it is limited mostly to worship. And even houses of worship appear to be targets of “compelling government interest” when it comes to abortion and same-sex…