(SRN NEWS)- ( ) Two companies are settling religious discrimination claims involving Christian and Muslim employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the firms agreed to pay 130,000 dollars combined. A Georgia supermarket fired a Christian employee for requesting Sundays off and a detective agency in North Carolina fired…
(SRN NEWS)-According to a new analysis by Open AI, the popular artificial intelligence assistant receives about 70 million queries on matters of faith every week. About 45% of those questions have to do with Islam, 34% concern Christianity and most of the rest are about…
(SRN NEWS)- The Buckley Institute has released its annual survey of young men and women on America’s campuses and it reveals that 45% of respondents “believe that physical violence can be justified to stop what they see as hate speech.” 40% of college students say speech that…
(SRN NEWS)-The National Health Service — the country’s massive, state-run healthcare system — says it will no longer place men who are living as women in womens-only hospital wards. Under new guidelines issued this month, the NHS must deal with each patient according to their…
By Marta Serafinko Oct 22 (Reuters) – Anyone who has watched a manta ray glide over a reef knows how unhurried these marine animals can look. Yet researchers working off Costa Rica found their movements are varied, with juveniles staying nearby and close to shore…
QUITO, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Ecuador’s former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez has been arrested, the head of the leftist Citizens Revolution party, Gabriela Rivadeneira, said on Thursday. Gonzalez, an ally of former President Rafael Correa, is under investigation over alleged irregularities in political financing and…
By Christy Santhosh Oct 22 (Reuters) – AbbVie said on Thursday its experimental drug significantly reduced inflammatory lumps and abscesses in patients with a chronic skin disease, meeting the main goal of a late-stage study. AbbVie is betting on the drug, lutikizumab, to broaden its…
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it plans to award $389 million in research and development funding to four companies working on power semiconductor devices and critical materials, with the government receiving minority equity stakes. The department in recent months…
Oct 22 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian national has been arrested in the German state Brandenburg on suspicion of spying for Russia, a statement by federal public prosecutors said on Thursday. Germany has stepped up efforts to counter what it sees as escalating hybrid attacks from…
By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The nephew of Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said he was forced to remove several pieces of art documenting youth protests from his exhibition at a government-run cultural centre in New Delhi this week, as they were…