• Designer Refusing to Work with Melania Trump a Form of Discrimination?

  Questions about a “double standard” of discrimination have arisen when the fashion designer who clothed Michelle Obama for years announced she refuses to work with future first lady Melania Trump out of her opposition to Donald Trump.

  

• New York Appeals Court Clamps Down on Any Display or Influence of Christianity from Classroom

  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan sided with a lower court’s ruling that Joelle Silver, a biology and anatomy teacher at Cheektowaga High School, should take down religious items in the classroom, such as posters, drawings and even the sticky notes with verses attached to the back of her desk.

  

• 13 Muslim Extremists Convicted of Burning Christian Couple to Death

  After two years, justice was finally served for a Pakistani Christian couple burned to death as 13 Muslim extremists were convicted and sentenced for the crime. The Pakistan anti-terrorism court sentenced five men—Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and religious leader Hafiz Ishtiaq—to death and imposed penalties of Rs200,000. The other eight were sentenced to two years in prison for their involvement in the crime.

  

• US Abortion Rate Drops to Lowest Since 1971: CDC

  A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that the abortion rate in the U.S. has decreased to its lowest level in decades, with 664,435 babies losing their lives to abortion annually.

  

• Family of Slain Soldier Who Stopped Suicide Bomber Booed in Airplane

  The family of a soldier who was killed when he stopped a suicide bomber in Afghanistan was booed in an airplane after the captain announced they should leave the plane first.