They call themselves simple believers — viruiuchi prostaky, in Ukrainian — or just believers. They strive to live by biblical law and remain apart from the modern world. (Shyvala, The New York Times)
Read MoreCalifornia public schools can’t keep parents in the dark if their children express a gender identity that doesn’t align with their sex recorded at birth, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. (Romoser, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreZia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, has called [churches becoming mosques] “incendiary” and pledged to change planning laws to prevent Christian places of worship from being adopted as Islamic ones, pointing to 41 instances listed on Wikipedia. (Burgess, The Times UK)
Read More“It’s something that’s available to all of us.” Proponents call the “something” the “success sequence.” The steps are simple: Graduate from high school. Find a full-time job. Get married before having kids. (Lumpkin & Somasundaram, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA Gallup poll released late last summer showed that only a little more than half of adults — 54 percent — were drinking. That’s down four percent from 2024. (Hudak, Rolling Stone)
Read MoreThe death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after almost 37 years in power raises paramount questions about Iran’s future. The contours of a complex succession process began to take shape the morning after Khamenei’s killing in an airstrike campaign by the United States and Israel. (Gambrell, AP News)
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