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Americans’ deep division over capital punishment made the news again last week when the Justice Department announced it would allow the use of firing squads to execute federal inmates on death row. Political and religious leaders were quick to respond, and social media exploded with comments. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the decision on…

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When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the U.S. intelligence community took the president’s remarks as a directive to prioritize spying on the Vatican. It has for years, sources tell me. The CIA has human spies working inside the Holy See bureaucracy. The NSA and CIA seek to intercept telecommunications, emails, and texts.…

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The disappearances and deaths of nearly a dozen scientists with ties to secretive U.S. scientific information have raised alarms about national security, prompting a House Oversight Committee investigation. The string of deaths and disappearances began with the death of Michael David Hicks, who worked as a scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1998…

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A fierce debate over faith, freedom, and the role of government is unfolding in Texas after a federal court upheld a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments — and one Christian lawmaker is speaking out against it. Texas State Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat and self-described Christian, is drawing national attention…
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