AP News, by Sarah El Deeb and Bassem Mroue: Lebanon on Friday mourned seven people killed in gunbattles on the streets of Beirut the previous day, a confrontation that erupted over a long-running probe into last year’s massive port blast…

News•in-24, by Janice: The Hessian state government under Volker Bouffier (CDU) has passed new corona rules. The 2G option was expanded to include the entire retail sector. This means: even supermarkets and grocers can decide to only let in those…

Los Angeles Times, by Michael Hiltzik: There’s something unquestionably alluring about claiming religious exemptions from government mandates and employer policies. For one thing, religious beliefs are almost impossible to disprove. Courts have said that they don’t have to conform to…

End Time Headlines, by Ricky Scaparo: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has reportedly struck just south of the Big Island of Hawaii at 2:48 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, according to the USGS. According to KTLA News, The quake struck at a…

End Time Headlines, by Ricky Scaparo: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska early Monday in what the Alaska Earthquake Center called an aftershock of an 8.2 quake from late July. According to the Associated Press, Monday’s…

AP News, by Sylvie Corbet: Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first….