Privacy concerns over facial recognition test program

CBS News

The Department of Homeland Security is making a new push to find immigration violators. For the next three months, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents will test facial recognition technology, but CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave says the trial has some people worried that anonymity could become a thing of the past.

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Viral ‘Charlie Charlie’ Social Media Challenge Has Kids Trying to Summon Demon With Ancient Ritual

The Blaze

It’s dubbed the “Charlie Charlie Challenge” — and it has individuals everywhere attempting to summon a Mexican demon named Charlie through the performance of a paranormal ritual.

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India heat wave tests water supply as deaths near 2,000

 

Al Jazeera

Dizzying temperatures have caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat wave to at least 1,826, officials have said.

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NASA Supports Replacing American Flag With New International Planet Earth Flag

Inquisitir.com

Since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the iconic visual of the American flag they left behind marked NASA’s success in going where no man had gone before, marking their arrival for future visitors to see. Since then, all space suits worn by Americans have been adorned with the American flag. However, NASA has been supporting a design that may replace the American flag during space travel. The new flag, called the International Flag of the Planet Earth, is expected to represent Earth as a whole, rather than segment only the United States.

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Girl Scouts Now Welcoming Transgender Boys

Charisma News

A new Girl Scouts of America policy extends membership to boys who identify as girls. In other words, this girls group is now embracing transgender boys.

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New feminie Lingerie made just for men

Home.bt.com

Men, have you ever felt frustrated at the lack of sexy men’s lingerie available? Ever hoped for something more than a pair of white Y-fronts or brightly colored boxers?If so, clear out your underwear drawer because men’s particulars are about to get sexy.

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Dino-Chicken! Scientists Create Chicken Embryos with Dinosaur Snouts

NBC News

Scientists have manipulated chicken embryos to grow snouts similar to those of dinosaurs. No, it's not a publicity stunt for the upcoming "Jurassic World." Instead, a team of Yale and Harvard scientists wanted to study how beaks appeared as dinosaurs started evolving into birds around 150 million years ago. "Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a 'dino-chicken' simply for the sake of it," Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, a paleontologist and developmental biologist at Yale, said in a statement. The study will be published on Tuesday in the journal Evolution.

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Kentucky Police Seize Ten Children of Homeschooling Off-Grid Family, Arrest Pregnant Mother

Christian News

Kentucky police have seized the ten children of a homeschooling family who lives what they call a “back-to-basics” off-the-grid life because of their simplistic living arrangement and because the children are not enrolled in school.

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Denmark moves step closer to being a cashless country

Telegraph

The Danish government has proposed getting rid of the obligation for selected retailers to accept payment in cash, moving the country closer to a "cashless" economy.

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Federal Judge Rules North Carolina Commissioners Can’t Present Prayers Only in Jesus’ Name

Christian News

A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled that commissioners in one local county can’t present prayers only in Jesus’ name even if they all are Christians because doing so isn’t “nondiscriminatory” toward other religions and elevates Christianity in government.

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Why Doesn't San Francisco Enforce Double Parking on Sundays?

KQED News

Parking in San Francisco has long been difficult, and it’s getting tougher as the city gets more crowded. But there’s one time of the week when all the parking rules strictly enforced by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority seem to go out the window — Sunday morning.

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Wiccan To Give Invocation At Iowa House Of Representatives

Huffington Post
A member of the Wiccan faith will give the opening prayer next week in the Iowa House of Representatives, a break from tradition that has raised some eyebrows in the state Capitol.

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Seventh-day Adventist Deacon charged after sex assault at church

Toronto Sun

A Deacon from a church in Downsview is accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old man earlier this year.

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Alexian, Adventist have a new name for their joint venture

Chicago Business

Meet Amita Health, the new name of the joint operating company formed by Alexian [Catholic] Brothers Health System and Adventist Midwest Health.

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HOMESCHOOLERS INTERROGATED ON GUNS, VACCINES

World News Daily

It all started with an unwanted knock on the door by a government worker and it’s being answered with a $60 million lawsuit. A New Jersey family is suing the state child-protection agency after it allegedly sent a caseworker to their home to interrogate them on everything from their son’s homeschool education to questions about vaccines and guns in the house.

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New Police Radars Are Being Used to See Inside Homes

Information Liberation

Police Departments and law enforcement agencies around the world have been using radar devices for years. But now, new technology is allowing officers to detect movement even through solid walls. The most disturbing thing about this technology is that it requires no warrant for officers to spy on you in the privacy of your own home.

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Raul Castro Says Private Meeting With Pope Francis Has Inspired Him to Return to Catholic Faith

Christian Post

Cuban President Raul Castro has suggested that a meeting with Pope Francis has inspired him to "resume praying" and return to the Roman Catholic faith. "I will resume praying and turn to the Church again if the Pope continues in this vein," Castro said after a 50-minute private audience with Francis at the Vatican on Sunday.

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Appeals court rules NSA phone-record collection is excessive

 
New York Post

The government’s program of snooping on Americans’ phone records suffered a major reversal when a federal appeals court said it wasn’t justified under the Patriot Act.

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Are religious colleges at risk if Supreme Court approves same-sex marriage?

Fox News

Same-sex marriage foes are flagging a mostly-missed moment from last week's Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of gay marriage, calling it a warning sign for religious freedom. They point to an exchange between Justice Samuel Alito and the administration's top lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Alito asked if, in the event the Supreme Court holds that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, would religious colleges risk losing their tax-exempt status if they continued to advocate for traditional marriage only.

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Louisiana bans using cash in sales of second-hand goods

 

Raw Story

In a new law that could put every trading post, Goodwill, flea market, garage sale and Craigslist merchant in the state of Louisiana out of business, a bipartisan group of elected representatives has opted to ban all cash payments for the buying and selling of used goods.

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French prime minister: 178 Catholic churches under police protection

Catholic World News

After a planned terrorist attack on two French churches was averted, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced that “specific protection” is being provided to 178 Catholic places of worship.

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Lord's Day Alliance: Sunday as a Mark of Christian Unity

 

 
Lord's Day Alliance

Put simply, nothing in the calendar unites us like Sunday. It is a day that changed the world on the very first Sunday and, I would argue, every Sunday after the first. The world was transfigured through a myriad of Sunday’s when Christians gathered in communion and heard the Gospel message. It was on Sunday when Christians learned to love their enemies and care for those in need. It was on Sunday when Christians first met to share a meal of love they called by the Greek word agape (ἀγάπη). It was, is, and shall always be on Sunday when the best hope for humanity shines forth from churches large and small and the “Eucharist after the Eucharist” travels forth from the four walls of the church and into the home and homeless shelter, the playground and the hospital, the wedding feast and the wake.

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Nepal earthquake death toll rises to 8,413

Times of India

The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Nepal has risen to 8,413, the Nepal Red Cross Society said on Thursday.

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7,000 Soldiers to Be Permanently Deployed on Streets of France

Jews News

French police have been on high alert since Islamist gunmen left 17 people dead over three days of attacks this January. French President Francois Hollande announced 7,000 of the 10,000 soldiers deployed on the country’s streets after the Islamist attacks in January will remain permanently.

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Pope Francis and Raul Castro to Meet at the Vatican

Time Magazine

Pope Francis will receive Cuba’s president Raúl Castro at the Vatican on Sunday morning, May 10, the Holy See announced on Tuesday. The meeting will be “strictly private,” according to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, and the two heads of state will meet in the study of the Paul VI Audience Hall.

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Oprah Winfrey teaching New Age Meditation to Churches

Huffington Post

Philanthropist and media icon Oprah Winfrey took to the podium at Stanford University's Memorial Church on Monday to talk about what it means to live a meaningful life.

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School district says feds forced policy that allows transgendered kids to use bathrooms of their choice

Fox News

The Fairfax County Public Schools School Board voted Thursday night to add "gender identity" to its nondiscrimination policy in spite of massive opposition from parents and the area’s religious community.

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