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Oregon now allows even 15-year-olds to undergo sex change sans parental consent
A new regulation in Oregon now allows sex-change operation for those with gender dysphoria to be covered by the state health plan and 15-year-olds can have it without parental consent.
California's aid-in-dying bill withdrawn amid opposition from religious groups
Authors of the controversial aid-in-dying bill in California withdrew it from a scheduled key committee hearing on July 7 after it failed to garner enough support and amid opposition from religious groups including the Catholic church.
France: Jihadi chief jailed, had list of Jewish targets
The leader of a banned French group was sentenced to nine years in jail on Friday on terrorism charges after police raids found weapons and a list of Jewish targets in his personal files.
Why African Christians want Obama to keep quiet about gay rights
Lucinda Borkett-Jones looks at how cultural shifts in America are playing among African Christians.
Greece debt crisis: Tsipras wins backing for bailout reform plan
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won backing from lawmakers on Saturday for painful reform proposals aimed at obtaining a new international bailout
Another illegal alien accused of murdering young mother and her son in Washington
A Washington superior court has set a bail of $1 million for a 25-year-old man charged with first-degree murders in the killing of an 17-year-old and her son in Franklin County, Washington.
South Carolina governor signs law to take down 'symbol of hate' Confederate flag
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed on Thursday a bill into law that will remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds hours after the House of Representatives passed the legislation in an emotional debate.
Spanish High Court protects pharmacists' conscience right not to sell contraceptives
Spain's Constitutional Court has ruled that requiring pharmacists to sell morning-after pills can be against their belief, protecting the conscience rights of pharmacists.
President Obama places odds of reaching nuclear deal with Iran at 'less than 50-50'
US President Barack Obama has put the odds of ironing a nuclear deal with Iran at "less than 50-50," telling Democrats that he will not accept a bad deal just for the sake of having a legacy.
$5,000 bounty announced for anyone who kills Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi
The spouse of the Christian woman in Pakistan who was sentenced to death after she drank from the same vessel used by Muslim women said a bounty was set by a lynch mob over her head to kill her.
ISIS militants burn women and their sons alive in Iraq for refusal to join group
Women and children are not exceptions to the brutal terror campaign of the Islamic State as five women and their sons were burned in the Anbar Province after they refused to give their children to the jihadist group, a tribal leader who has been fighting the ISIS in Central Iraq said.
New rules allow US transgender inmates to pick housing, clothing, pronoun they prefer
Immigration officials will now allow transgender women to be detained with female inmates, in an attempt to give transgender detainees better detention conditions and protect them from sexual assault.
Surprise, surprise... Baylor University isn't OK with gay sex after all
Baylor University is a conservative institution which didn't even lift a ban on dancing until the 1990s and still retains a ban on alcohol on campus.
Pat Robertson says ISIS beheadings could be 'the best thing that ever happened to the world'
Brutal murders carried out by Islamic State could be "the best thing that ever happened to the world", televangelist Pat Robertson has claimed.
Mark Driscoll's return to high-profile ministry continues with string of public appearances
The return of controversial pastor Mark Driscoll to high-profile ministry is continuing with appearances at churches and conferences in the US and abroad.
Citing decreasing resources, US Army plans to lay off 60,000 soldiers, civilian workers
Almost 60,000 soldiers and civilian personnel in the U.S. Army are expected to lose their jobs in the next two years as the Obama administration contemplates the next move it should take against militants from the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.