• Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Nov 06, 2020 05:06 PM EST

    ... targeted Catholics with fervent appeals to vote based on their faith. Trump supporters said faithful Catholics should not vote for Biden because of his support for abortion rights, while Biden backers said Trump is too divisive and has failed to elevate social justice issues that are part of Catholic teaching ...

  • Amy Coney Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-LGBTQ policies

    Amy Coney Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-LGBTQ policies

    Oct 21, 2020 01:14 PM EST

    ... how she might rule in any future cases. Barrett’s position on gay rights is particularly crucial after two of the high court’s conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, this month wrote a dissenting opinion that appeared to call for the court to reconsider its 2015 same-sex ...

  • 'This is not working.' Parents juggling jobs and child care under COVID-19 see no good solutions

    'This is not working.' Parents juggling jobs and child care under COVID-19 see no good solutions

    Jul 23, 2020 08:15 PM EST

    ... assistant secretary for early childhood development at the Department for Health and Human Services who now directs the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Initiative. For years, lawmakers relied on policies to expand access and affordability for people paying for child care but paid virtually no attention to the supply ...

  • Poland's LGBTQ community feels fear and anger after election

    Poland's LGBTQ community feels fear and anger after election

    Jul 15, 2020 07:55 PM EST

    ... intensified last year following a declaration that Trzaskowski signed which promised help for LGBT youths in Warsaw who were rejected by their families. It called for sex education in schools in line with World Health Organization guidelines, rather than church teaching. The backlash included many local governments, particularly in the ...

  • A young Black pastor's Brief But Spectacular take on preaching with hope

    A young Black pastor's Brief But Spectacular take on preaching with hope

    May 28, 2020 10:20 PM EST

    ... spoke with Pastor Johnson before the pandemic. Pastor Todd Johnson: As I preach to my congregation, I am ever mindful that I am preaching and teaching to people who lived through segregation and Jim Crow, and some who participated in protest and advocated for change. So I always have in ...

  • Protesters go bananas after artwork removed from Polish museum

    Protesters go bananas after artwork removed from Polish museum

    Apr 29, 2019 07:11 PM EST

    Culture Minister Piotr Glinski has repeatedly drawn criticism for cutting subsidies to art festivals that were planning to show controversial theater plays on Catholic themes. Glinski has fired a popular theater director who criticized him as well as the director of a World War II museum, saying the exhibition did ...

  • Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum

    Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum

    Nov 25, 2018 07:26 PM EST

    ... teaching LGBT “education.” Amnesty International told the government it needs to “deliver equality and dignity.” “This result is a bitter blow and a step backwards for human rights in Taiwan,” Amnesty’s Taiwan-based Acting Director Annie Huang said. “However, despite this setback, we remain confident that love and equality ...

  • Has policing in America gone too far?

    Has policing in America gone too far?

    May 26, 2018 08:01 PM EST

    While police departments across the country address reform, community groups in cities like Chicago and New York are also teaching people about alternatives to 9-1-1 for crises that can be exacerbated by police presence. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano talked to author Alex Vitale of “End of Policing ...

  • Opinion: I am a coal miner’s daughter and a West Virginia teacher. Here's why I'm on strike.

    Opinion: I am a coal miner’s daughter and a West Virginia teacher. Here's why I'm on strike.

    Mar 02, 2018 11:41 PM EST

    ... might soon give up that job for one he/she is actually qualified for (and with any luck, in Maryland). There are currently over 700 teaching vacancies in West Virginia. Connect that to the fact that our salaries rank 48th in the nation. Gov. Jim Justice spoke to three town ...

  • Congress is chewing over several gun proposals. What’s really possible?

    Congress is chewing over several gun proposals. What’s really possible?

    Feb 27, 2018 11:50 PM EST

    ... around the country who support them are asking for a lot more than that. Lisa Desjardins: That's right. Judy Woodruff: Is there any prospect for more? Lisa Desjardins: Right. I asked Speaker Ryan about this specifically, and I think the two best potentials for more than this, one, the ...