U.S. charges Tajik man living in New York with conspiring to help ISIS

Washington — A Tajik man living in New York was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to the ISIS and ISIS-K terrorist groups, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. Federal prosecutors alleged that Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajik national who was illegally living in Brooklyn, facilitated the transfer of over $70,000 to ISIS-affiliated

U.S. officials walk back plans to stop culling poultry for bird flu

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Wednesday that there are “no anticipated changes” to the current federal policy requiring poultry to be culled in response to bird flu outbreaks, which have driven up egg prices to record highs in recent months. The decision marks a rebuke of an idea floated by Trump administration officials in

DOJ Will Crack Down on Campus Anti-Semitism, Trump Nominee for Civil Rights Division Says

The Department of Justice will take aggressive action against rising anti-Semitism on college campuses throughout the United States, Harmeet Dhillon said Wednesday at her confirmation hearing for assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “We’ve seen anti-Semitism sweep the nation, and it is very problematic that many people of the Jewish faith are

Survey Shows Pause in US Decline of Christianity

Young adults also presented as far less religious than those of older generations—a fact that the study’s researchers noted could portend an eventual decline. A years-long decline in the U.S. Christian population appears to have subsided, at least temporarily, according to a new survey. The Pew Research Center’s latest Religious Landscape Study found that the