• Bill Nye Science Guy Declares Ark Encounter 'Disturbing, Every Exhibit Wrong' After Visit

  Bill Nye "The Science Guy" spoke out this weekend after his July 8 visit to Kentucky's Ark Encounter, the life-sized Noah's ark theme park built by creationist Ken Ham, calling the new Christian attraction "disturbing." Nye also argued every science exhibit on the Ark's third deck is "absolutely wrong."

  

• Pakistani Model Qandeel Baloch ‘Honor Killed’ by Her Brother Over Facebook Postings

  After Pakistani model, actress, feminist activist and social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was found dead on Saturday at her family home in the central city of Multan, her brother on Sunday (July 17) confessed to strangling her to death for "family honor" because she posted what he considered "shameful" pictures on Facebook. Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, was buried Sunday.

  

• Homeless World Cup Yields ‘Street Football’ Life Transformations, Requests for God’s Help

  Each year, Homeless World Cup leaders and a network of global street football (soccer for Americans) partners select more than 500 players to compete in the annual Homeless World Cup tournament. A total of 94 percent of participants in the annual event indicate it positively impacts their lives in permanent ways. The 2016 Cup was held July 10-16 in Glasgow.

  

• Baton Rouge: 3 Police Officers Killed in Shooting, Louisiana Governor Calling for Prayers

  Police responded Sunday (July 17) to a shooting in Baton Rouge, La., that left at least two officers and one sheriff's deputy dead and seven others wounded, said Kip Holden, mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish. Holden said reports of an active shooter came in approximately 9 a.m. East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux III said one gunman was shot dead, but that two other suspects may be at large.

  

• Mike Pence: 'Born-Again, Evangelical Catholic' Comes from Democrat to Republican

  Republican vice presidential running mate of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, has had a "strange" religious conversion narrative, according to Indiana-based author Craig Fehrman, who is working on a book about presidents for Simon & Schuster. While Pence grew up in a big Irish Catholic family of Democrats in central Indiana, serving as an altar boy, attending parochial schools and idolizing John F. Kennedy, he converted to evangelical Christianity through the influence of a nondenominational fellowship