"The First Amendment gives 'special solicitude to the rights of religious organizations' to operate according to their faith without government interference," wrote Justice Alito.
During an almost two-hour videoconference Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden tried to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to use the country’s economic influence over Russia to stop the war in Ukraine.
Health Feedback, a “fact-checking” organization, is part of a World Health Organization project called Vaccine Safety Net. It operates under the umbrella of Science Feedback, whose partners and funders include Facebook and the Google News initiative.
At Beijing’s insistence last October, Hong Kong’s Bishop-elect Stephen Chow and 15 senior Catholic priests met with the mainland’s state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples who were among those to whom she wouldn't issue marriage licenses - a refusal that sparked international attention and briefly landed her in jail in 2015.