Supreme Court sides with high school coach who led prayer on football field
The Supreme Court's conservatives ruled on Monday for a high school football coach who was reprimanded for leading postgame prayers on the football field’s 50-yard line. The 6-3 decision marked a win for coach Joseph Kennedy in his dispute with the Seattle-area school district that placed him on paid leave for violating a policy that bars staff from encouraging students to engage in prayer. Starting in 2008, Kennedy began kneeling on the school football field after games and engaging in brief prayer. Eventually, many of his players joined him, as did members of
Read MoreJane Fonda: If Biden runs in 2024, he’ll need to ‘get better on climate’
Actress and activist Jane Fonda says that if President Biden wants to run for reelection in 2024, he needs to “get better” on the climate change issue. In an interview with the Washington Post published on Monday, Fonda told the newspaper that she is “sickened” about Biden issuing more permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands than his predecessor, former President Trump. Fonda said that Biden p
Read MoreProsecuting Trump will ruin our nation — and might not hold him accountable
One of the great acts of statesmanship in modern American history was President Gerald Ford’s pardon of his predecessor, Richard Nixon, in the wake of Watergate a half-century ago. It is remembered as an act of clemency that was, for Ford, not merely selfless but self-destructive. In the short run, it was deeply unpopular as he struggled to get footing under his fledgling, unelected administration. In the longer term, so narrowly did he lose the
Read MoreClarence Thomas signals interest in making it easier to sue media
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Read MoreNATO to significantly increase quick reaction force to over 300,000
NATO has said it will significantly increase its quick reaction force to over 300,000 military soldiers. During a news conference on Monday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that the military alliance plans to increase its forces, referred to as the “Response Force,” in battleground areas of the eastern part of the alliance. “We will enhance our battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance up to brigade-levels. We will transform the NATO Response Force and increase the number of our high
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