Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. (Hollingsworth, AP News)
Read MoreA federal judge in Louisiana ruled Tuesday that access to a drug used in abortions can remain as it is nationally for the moment. But the 37-page ruling by Judge David C. Joseph is far from an endorsement of telehealth abortion, which has become far more common in the past few years, now accounting for more than one in four abortions in the U.S. (Simmons-Duffin, NPR)
Read MoreYou can brainwash yourself into being OK with it, but on a spiritual level you always know that there’s something darker there. You lie to yourself. (Divine, The Telegraph)
Read MoreA group of nuns who operate a nursing facility in New York are suing the state over a law that requires them to provide care for transgender patients in a way they say violates their Catholic faith. (Frank, USA Today)
Read MoreIn the nearly 250 years since the nation’s founding, technological leaps and demographic shifts transformed a scattered collection of farmers and laborers into today’s workforce of more than 150 million people. The economic evolution began with a workforce barely large enough to populate a modern-day city. (Rust, Mollica & McKee, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreOnline sports betting is more popular than ever, with Americans expected to legally wager billions of dollars on this year's March Madness basketball tournament. But a growing body of evidence reveals that the sports betting boom leads to financial strain for bettors. (Wise, NPR)
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