The Daily Citizen, by Paul Batura: Sitting behind his wooden desk inside his Burbank-based Suite 3H office back in 1961, Walt Elias Disney – the founder and chairman of the burgeoning company bearing his name – was asked if he…

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The Guardian: The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University…

CNS News, by Patrick Goodenough: As the issue of vaccine mandates roils politics in the United States, health fears compounded by the latest variant of the coronavirus are prompting some governments in Europe and elsewhere to go beyond employment-related mandates…

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Vatican News, by Linda Bordoni: Pope Francis has repeatedly appealed for prayers and international aid for Lebanon as its people and the millions of mostly Syrian refugees it hosts, bear the brunt of what the World Bank describes as one…

The Washington Post, by Eusebius McKaiser: Over the past few days, scenes of looting and violent protests have emerged from South Africa following the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. Yet it is a mistake to interpret what is unfolding…

The Guardian, by Philip Oltermann: At least 58 people have died and dozens more are missing in Germany after much of Western Europe was inundated by record rainfall that brought devastating floods. “Climate change has arrived in Germany,” the environment…

The Christian Post, by Michael Gryboski: Almost half of Americans consider abortion to be “morally acceptable,” the highest percentage to think so in the past 20 of surveying the question, according to a new report by Gallup. In the report…

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CNS News, by Ashlianna Kreiner: Extremist groups in Afghanistan, such as ISIS and the Taliban, are decimating religious minorities to the extent that the Sikh community faces near-extinction, according to the latest report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious…

CNS News, by John Horvat II: If shoppers have an unlimited opportunity to shoplift, the outcome is not difficult to predict. The shoplifters will prosper, and the shops will close. Elementary students could figure out the simple negative mathematical calculations…