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Thursday, 31 January 2019
Ebola Survivor Dr. Rick Sacra Receiving Prestigious Award to Expand Medical Mission in Liberia
Dr. Rick Sacra was exposed to the Ebola virus in 2014 while caring for pregnant women at a Christian hospital in Liberia. He narrowly survived.
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Top Pakistani Court Upholds Acquittal, Frees Captive Christian Asia Bibi
Asia Bibi is now free to leave Pakistan and join her daughters in Canada after more than eight years of prison and detention. The Islamic country's highest court has just upheld its acquittal of Bibi, clearing her of all charges of blasphemy.
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'Desecration': ISIS Behind Deadly Double Bombing that Killed 27 Churchgoers?
The Islamic State group, ISIS, has allegedly claimed responsibility for the deadly twin bombings that hit a Catholic Church in Jolo, Sulu in the southern Philippines, on Sunday morning.
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Not Safe Yet: Pakistan's Supreme Court Reconsiders Decision to Free Asia Bibi
Pakistan's Supreme Court will re-examine its decision to acquit Asia Bibi on all blasphemy charges Tuesday after Islamic extremists pressured the government to execute her immediately.
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Auschwitz Survivors Pay Homage as World Remembers Holocaust
The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, and others during World War II.
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20 Dead as Bombs Target Sunday Mass in Philippine Cathedral
Two bombs minutes apart tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 20 people and wounding 111 others during a Sunday Mass, officials said.
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40 Dead, Many Feared Buried in Mud After Brazil Dam Collapse
The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. An estimated 300 people were still missing and authorities expected the death toll to increase during a search made more challenging by intermittent rains.
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Imprisoned in China: Pastor John Cao's Appeal Hearing Delayed for Fourth Time as His Health Deteriorates
Pastor John Cao, a US permanent resident from Greensboro, North Carolina, has been incarcerated in a Chinese prison for almost two years after being convicted and sentenced by a Chinese court without any evidence against him. Now comes word that the trial court has postponed Cao's appeal hearing for the fourth time and the pastor's health is failing.
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'Lord Jesus, We Trust in Your Great Love': Latin American Christians Cry Out for God's Mercy Over Venezuela
Christians in Venezuela are taking up the fight for the country's future – in prayer.
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New York subway: new demand for accessibility after young mother's death
Just a quarter of stations in the nation’s largest transit system are accessible, leaving wheelchair users and parents with small kids struggling
New Yorkers have stepped up their criticism of the lack of elevators in city subway stations after the death of a young mother shed new light on the inaccessibility of the nation’s largest transit system.
Only a quarter of subway stations – 118 out of 472 – are accessible, leaving people who use wheelchairs, parents with small kids, and others struggling to get around the city.
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How the religious right gained unprecedented access to Trump
As the president offers a sympathetic ear – and policies to match – critics see a de facto advisory committee, violating federal law
The US health secretary sat for an interview with a man experts say is the leader of a hate group known for “defaming gays and lesbians”, just two days after Karen Pence, the US second lady, was criticized for teaching at a Christian school that bans homosexuality.
Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services, was interviewed by the Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, at an anti-abortion event called ProLifeCon in mid-January.
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'That income is gone': shutdown pain lingers for unpaid contract workers
Unlike federal employees, contractors don’t expect Congress will vote to pay them back wages for work missed
Hundreds of thousands of US government contractors went back to work early this week after the end of a record 35-day government shutdown, but Tamela Worthen, who works as a security guard at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC, wasn’t among them.
Instead, she was at home recovering from an emergency room visit on Monday after a dangerously-elevated blood pressure left her dizzy and feeling like she couldn’t breathe. Worthen has hypertension and after a month of missed paychecks, she was unable to afford her medication this month, causing the flare-up.
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'Cold as ºF': Chicago residents make best of life in 'Chiberia' during polar vortex
Residents brave the weather to post photographs on social media showing just how cold things have got
In “Chiberia” – as locals have dubbed Chicago as temperatures have plummeted to -23F (-30C) – it is cold enough to freeze an egg on the sidewalk. Or to turn a bubble blown outside into a beautiful frosty snow globe before it splinters with the cold.
A blast of polar air has swept across many cities in the US leading to the lowest temperatures in a generation. Schools and businesses have closed, flights have been cancelled and as of Wednesday evening, at least eight deaths had been linked to the system.
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Polar vortex: eight dead as Arctic air spreads across midwest
Thousands of flights canceled, schools close, and post office halts deliveries as Chicago lows approach record
Frozen Arctic winds brought record-low temperatures across much of the US midwest on Wednesday, as a blast of Arctic air known as the polar vortex unnerved residents accustomed to brutal winters.
As of Wednesday evening, at least eight deaths were linked to the system, including an elderly Illinois man who was found several hours after he fell trying to get into his home and a University of Iowa student found behind an academic hall several hours before dawn. A man was struck by a snowplow in the Chicago area, a young couple’s SUV struck another on a snowy road in northern Indiana and a Milwaukee man froze to death in a garage, authorities said.
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Manson cult: panel recommends parole for youngest member
Commissioners find Leslie Van Houten, 69, suitable for release, prompting 150-day review before governor makes decision
A California panel on Wednesday recommended that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be paroled after serving more than four decades in prison.
After a hearing at the women’s prison in Chino, California, commissioners of the Board of Parole Hearings found for the third time that the 69-year-old Van Houten was suitable for release.
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New York: woman who died after subway fall may have had pre-existing condition
Malaysia Goodson’s cause of death is still pending but she had no significant trauma, said city’s chief medical examiner
Authorities say the death of a young woman who fell down stairs at a Manhattan subway station with her one-year-old daughter appears to be related to a pre-existing medical condition.
The city’s chief medical examiner said on Wednesday the cause of death is still pending but that 22-year-old Malaysia Goodson, of Stamford, Connecticut, had no significant trauma.
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Russians leaked Mueller investigation evidence online, prosecutors say
More than 1,000 files shared confidentially appeared to have been uploaded to a filesharing site, according to court documents
Evidence gathered by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, was obtained by Russians and leaked online in an attempt to discredit his inquiry into Moscow’s interference in US politics, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Related: Mueller investigation is almost finished, says acting attorney general
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Social justice, unspoken truths, and Bradley Cooper: inside Kamala Harris's book
The 2020 candidate plays her cards close to the chest in her new book. But readers can learn a lot from what she doesn’t say
Hollywood stars never tell you what they’re actually allowed to eat, and political memoirs never tell you how a politician actually got elected.
Senator Kamala Harris’s new autobiography, released just before she announced her presidential campaign, reveals very little about the California senator’s fascinating, historic rise in Democratic politics. Campaign memoirs are not a literary exercise: they’re an excuse for a speaking tour. Like most examples of the genre, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey is a mix of copy-pasted policy papers and “relatable” personal anecdotes. Harris repeats, sometimes nearly word for word, many of the stories she has shared in speeches and interviews.
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