Bank of America said Tuesday it would eliminate insufficient funds fees and cut overdraft fees from $35 to $10—the latest move from a large bank away from the practice amid years of pressure from critics who say the fees unfairly target vulnerable communities.
A three-judge panel on Jan. 4 revived a lawsuit against five pharma companies accused of helping finance terror attacks against U.S. service members in Iraq during the “War on Terror.”
In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall a good number of mock lessons covered the rise of totalitarianism.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is leaving it to state health departments to investigate deaths reported following COVID vaccines, including the June 2021 death of 13-year-old Jacob Clynick who died of myocarditis three days after his second Pfizer shot.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with Fuller Theological Seminary in a two-year battle over the school’s sexual standards policy, which states that “sexual union must be reserved for marriage … the covenant union between one man and one woman.”
A federal judge ruled Dec. 20 that the city of Anchorage, Alaska, cannot force a local faith-based women’s shelter to accept trans-identified biological males.
Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups historically victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant.
