MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s finding that the National Labor Relations Act and the Labor Management Relations Act’s provisions on fair representation do not apply to disputes between the teachers at Catholic schools and their unions.
Climate activists see the regulator's environmental impact report as a setback that may enable the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline to increase greenhouse gas emissions across the Pacific Northwest.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not intervene to make sure Texas brought its policies in line after it ruled seven months ago that pastors must be able to touch inmates in the death chamber.
Texas has yet to write a policy complying with a ruling from last term that says pastors can touch inmates in the death chamber.
There has been one known case to date in which a pope has defrocked a cardinal accused of abuse, the then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, an American who denied the misconduct allegations but was eventually found guilty by a church investigation of abusing adults as well as minors.
Two pastors in western upstate New York sued over the state’s ban on carrying firearms in churches, among other locations deemed “sensitive.”
Public warnings about nonspecific threats against Jewish institutions, made by a variety of groups including Christian supremacists and Islamist extremists, aren’t unusual in the New York City metropolitan area, and many turn out to be false alarms.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas appeals court upheld the conviction of a man who was arrested in a sting operation after he posed as the Sabbatic Goat deity Baphomet on an online site to try and lure a young teen girl into performing sex rituals and satanic activities with him. Exhibits depicting these activities were relevant to prove his state of mind and preparation.
Carbon dating of samples found in the monastery's foundation date between 534 and 656. Islam's Prophet Muhammad was born around 570 and died in 632 after conquering Mecca in present-day Saudi Arabia.
The Christian university claimed the state had no business demanding information about its hiring practices or interfering with its relationship with the Free Methodist church.
The church says the only way it can use its own property is to violate its beliefs against the use of alcohol.
