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(Worthy News) – A federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be “known or suspected terrorists.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued in 2016 to challenge the watchlist on behalf of Muslim Americans who say they were wrongly placed on it and suffered negative consequences as a result.

The plaintiffs argued Thursday at a hearing in Alexandria that the list is disseminated so broadly that those listed face not only travel woes at airports and border crossings but also difficulty completing financial transactions and interacting with police. They also say the standard for inclusion is overbroad and innocent Muslims are routinely listed by mistake. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Syria will not shy away from using force to reconquer “every inch” of the Golan Heights, the country’s foreign minister threatened Thursday.

“Syria will liberate the occupied Golan by all means and all choices are on the table,” Walid Muallem said at a press conference in Damascus alongside his Venezuelan counterpart.

“US President Donald Trump’s decision on the occupied Syrian Golan has a single effect, as it only enhanced the US isolation,” he said. “Our right in the occupied Syrian Golan is firm and can’t be denied by the passage of time, and every inch of the occupied Syrian territories will be liberated.” [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Rejecting a plank of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the House on Thursday invoked never-before-used powers to demand that his administration withdraw support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The Senate passed the same resolution in March with bipartisan support.

Trump is expected to issue a veto of the measure, his second as president, and Congress does not have the votes to override him. But the action was nonetheless a milestone for lawmakers, who have shown a renewed willingness to assert their war-making powers after letting them atrophy for decades under presidents from both parties.

“The president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy,” said Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. [ Source: ABC News (Read More…) ]

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A decision by Yale Law School on March 25th will cut funding for certain summer fellowships to students whose employers have a narrower definition of gender identity, according to law student Aaron Haviland.

The decision comes in the wake of a controversy that erupted after an attorney from Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) spoke at the school, drawing the ire of the law school’s LGBTQ group.

LGBTQ students requested that the law school revoke funding to students working for Christian and other conservative organizations whose hiring practices do not include non-discrimination policies for sexual orientation and gender identity.

“The law school cannot prohibit a student from working for an employer who discriminates, but that is not a reason why Yale Law school should bear any obligation to fund that work,” said the school’s Public Interest Committee, which unanimously supported the decision.

Haviland, a former marine, expressed concern about the vagueness of the decision, noting that “Yale’s only assurances that the policy will be limited to hiring practices, and not applied to policy positions”–like traditional definitions of marriage included in an organization’s statement of faith–”are private emails sent to individual students.”

Christian students noted an atmosphere of increased hostility at the number one law school in the country last year when Yale students and professors protested the nomination of alumnus Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

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(Worthy News) – The first Israeli spacecraft to journey to the moon has passed its most crucial test yet: dropping into lunar orbit one week ahead of landing.

After traveling over 5.5 million kilometers (3.4 million miles) around the Earth and drawing ever closer to the moon, the small spacecraft on Thursday finally swung into the moon’s elliptical orbit — keeping it on track for touchdown April 11.

Opher Doron, space division general manager at Israel Aerospace Industries, which worked with non-profit SpaceIL to build the spacecraft, hailed “the most significant maneuver we’ve made” on Thursday. [ Source: TIME (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits last week was the lowest in 50 years, Labor Department figures showed Thursday.

Jobless claims reached 202,000 in the final week of March — the fewest since Dec. 6, 1969. The mark was 10,000 fewer than the week before.

The numbers indicate continued strength in the employment market. Last month, the department said productivity among U.S. workers increased in the fourth quarter of 2018 at a greater pace than expected. Wednesday, ADP and Moody’s projected job growth of 129,000 for March. Official monthly government figures arrive Friday and analysts expect them to show job growth of about 170,000. [ Source: UPI (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Hundreds of Iraqi Christians detained in immigration raids are once again at risk of deportation after losing their chance to keep fighting their cases in court.

On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals closed the book on Hamama v. Adducci, a class-action lawsuit filed in June 2017 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of 1,400 Iraqi natives, including more than 100 Detroit-area Chaldean Christians, who were detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and told they would be repatriated to their home country.

After the raids two years ago, a district judge granted an injunction to protect the detainees, many of whom have lived in the US for decades, and let them present their cases in court. Last December, a Sixth Circuit panel overturned the protections, and this week the full court declined to hear further arguments, allowing the government to resume deportations as soon as next week, Michigan Radio reported. [ Source: Christianity Today (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Kentucky law that requires doctors to have a pregnant woman undergo an ultrasound, view its images, and listen to the fetal heartbeat before having an abortion.

The judges, from the 6th Circuit, ruled 2-1 that the law did not violate a doctor’s First Amendment rights to free speech, writing that the information gleaned from an ultrasound was “pertinent” to a woman’s decision-making.

“The information conveyed by an ultrasound image, its description, and the audible beating fetal heart gives a patient greater knowledge of the unborn life inside her,” wrote Judge John Bush, a nominee of President Trump. “This also inherently provides the patient with more knowledge about the effect of an abortion procedure: it shows her what, or whom, she is consenting to terminate.” [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, just days before Israel’s general elections on April 9.

In their public remarks, the two leaders discussed Russian assistance in helping to recover the body of Israeli soldier Zachary Baumel, who was killed during the 1982 Lebanon War.

“Our military, together with Syrian partners, established the place of his burial,” Putin said at the start of the meeting. “We are very pleased that at home they can give him the necessary military honors.” [ Source: JNS (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A war of words between NATO allies the United States and Turkey has intensified, with the sides disputing the readout of a meeting of the countries’ foreign ministers regarding Syria.

Washington and Ankara on April 4 also disagreed about the formation of a “working group” to settle differences over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile-defense system that U.S. and other NATO officials vehemently oppose.

The State Department said Pompeo had warned Ankara of “potentially devastating consequences” if Ankara were to launch an offensive in Syria and urged the “swift resolution” of legal cases involving “unjustly detained U.S. citizens” in Turkey. [ Source: Radio Free Europe (Read More…) ]

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