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(Worthy News) – In June 2017, a lawyer named Autumn Scardina asked Phillips to create a custom cake celebrating his transition from male to female. When Phillips declined, on the same grounds as he had before, Scardina filed a discrimination complaint.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission found probable cause that Phillips had again violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws.

Rather than wait for the entire process to play out, however, Phillips took the initiative and filed a federal lawsuit.

Assisted by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Phillips’ lawsuit makes four legal claims. First, he alleges that the government violated his First Amendment right to exercise his religion by targeting, showing hostility toward, and discriminating against him based on his religious beliefs and practices. [ Source: Daily Signal (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Three suspects tied to a New Mexico compound where alleged Muslim extremists reportedly trained children to be school shooters were released from custody on Wednesday, hours after a judge dismissed all of the charges against them, Fox News confirmed.

District Judge Emilio Chavez on Wednesday dismissed charges against three of the five defendants — Lucas Morton, Subhannah Wahhaj and Hujrah Wahhaj — ruling that authorities violated the state’s “10-day rule.”

Child abuse charges against them were dropped because prosecutors missed the 10-day limit for an evidentiary hearing to establish probable cause. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Saudi FM Adel Al-Jubeir said during a press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that “we have come to an agreement with Russia regarding continued coordination concerning regional developments. We made it clear that we support additional sanctions on Iran.”

He added that the Iran deal is weak and “does not refer to Iran’s support of terror and its violations of UN resolutions.” [ Source: Ynet News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Iran’s hardline government has sentenced four Christians to harsh prison terms for putting their faith in Jesus Christ.

Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram Issavi, who are ethnic Assyrian Christians, and Amin Afshar Naderi and Hadi Asgari, who are Christian converts from Islam, were sentenced to a combined total of 45 years in prison for allegedly conducting “illegal church activities” and spreading propaganda which reportedly “threaten national security.”

“These Christians were solely arrested for practicing their Christian faith, including attending Christmas gatherings and organizing house churches,” Mike Ansari of Heart4Iran, told CBN News. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday described militants in Syria’s last big rebel-held enclave of Idlib as a ‘festering abscess’ that needed to be liquidated.

Speaking after talks with his Saudi counterpart Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir in Moscow, Lavrov said militants were using civilians as a human shield.

Lavrov told reporters that there was a political understanding between Turkey and Russia on the need to distinguish between the Syrian opposition and people he described as terrorists in Idlib Province. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday that NAFTA trade negotiations with the United States were at a ‘very intense moment’ and Canada was looking for compromises that were ‘win-win’ for all sides.

“Our officials are meeting now and will be meeting until very late tonight. Possibly they’ll be meeting all night long,” she told reporters after a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Atheists who failed to remove the national motto “In God We Trust” from U.S. coins and bills following an appeals court defeat have called their loss “utterly revolting.”

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota, upheld in a 3-0 decision on Tuesday a lower court ruling from December 2016 that found that the national motto on money did not violate First Amendment free speech and religious rights.

As the New Doe Child # 1 v. The Congress of the United States case explains, 27 individuals who are atheists or children of atheists, along with two atheist organizations, declared that they “definitely do not trust in God.” [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Palestinian leaders are betting their future on President Donald Trump being impeached by Democrats following the mid-term elections, according to Arabic language comments by a senior Palestinian government leader who praised Special Counsel Robert Mueller for targeting Trump and his top allies.

Palestinian government leaders, under pressure from the Trump administration as it slashes U.S. taxpayer aid to the embattled government, say they are betting on a Democratic takeover in Congress that will stall the administration’s agenda and put the still languishing peace process on the back burner.

Muhammad Shtaya, a member of the Fatah government’s Central Committee, said regional officials are counting on Democrats winning the midterms and seizing control of Congress, a scenario the Palestinians believe would work in their favor as the Trump administration pursues efforts to isolate regional governments for their support of terrorism. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The U.S. economy grew 4.2 percent in the three months through June, slightly faster than initially reported and the most in four years.

The improvement of 10 basis points reflects more complete data than were available for last month’s calculation by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, including an improvement in commercial and industrial investments and a drop in imports, which are subtracted from gross domestic product.

The changes made up for a downward adjustment of 20 basis points in consumer spending, which along with government investment should “continue to anchor growth for the remainder of the year,” Pooja Sriram of British lender Barclays Plc said in a report. Consumer companies from cosmetics firms Estee Lauder to electronics giant Best Buy have benefited from shoppers loosening their purse strings after last year’s tax cuts, though some are cautious about the rest of 2018. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – An FBI official said Wednesday that the bureau has not found any evidence that Hillary Clinton’s email servers were compromised, after some reports suggested they were.

“The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised,” the official said.

Trump tweeted Tuesday night about a report from the Daily Caller that said a Chinese company based in Washington, D.C. was able to gain access to Clinton’s emails in real time. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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