Friday, February 23, 2018

In the news, Friday, February 9, 2018


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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Shutdown averted as Trump signs budget bill
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping budget bill approved by Congress to re-open the government after it was briefly closed overnight.

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from Christian Today
News & Media Website based in London, UK

Church of England embraces unity with Methodist Church
The Church of England has embraced plans for unity with the Methodist Church, possibliy ending 200 years of schism that began with John Wesley in the 18th century. The plans for a 'new relationship of being "in communion"', which have yet to be approved by the Methodist conference, centre on allowing priests and presbyters to ministers in each other's churches. Despite warnings that the moves were 'controversial' and 'threaten the fundamentals' of the Church of England, its ruling general synod passed a report taking the plans for unity forward by an overwhelming majority.

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from Miami Herald

The GOP, led by an opportunistic narcissist, is sowing dangerous distrust of government for political gain. And it’s working.

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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  Newspaper in Seattle, WA

Judge blocks UW from billing student Republicans for Saturday campus rally
A federal judge on Friday blocked the University of Washington from billing the College Republicans an estimated $17,000 security fee for a campus rally Saturday on grounds that doing so would violate free-speech rights. “The guidelines of how the bill was calculated runs afoul (by) chilling speech,” U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman said after saying she would issue a temporary restraining order against the UW. After the student Republican group holds its event, lawyers for both sides are expected back in court for a preliminary injunction hearing to determine whether the UW’s policy for billing this and other such events are constitutional.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Toronto Sun
News & Media Website in Toronto, Ontario

59,300 part-time jobs cut in January as minimum wage jumps to $14
Ontario shed some 59,300 part-time jobs in January, the same month the province hiked minimum wage about 20% to $14 an hour — but experts say it may be too soon to know how much the two are correlated.

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from The Western Journal
Media/News Company

The three Americans heralded as heroes for thwarting a 2015 terrorist attack on a Paris bound train say God divinely orchestrated events leading up to the fateful moment. The actions of the childhood friends former U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler are the subject of Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood’s latest film “The 15:17 to Paris,” which opens this weekend.

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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Commission that attacked Christian baker faces defunding
A state commission in Colorado that punished Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips for refusing to use his artistry to promote same-sex marriage could be eliminated. Future funding for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, where one member even likened Christians to Nazis, failed in a vote in the state’s Joint Budget Committee. State Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, tweeted that the decision came down to a party-line vote that tabled plans to continue sending money to the commission.

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