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There is no known motive for the alleged attack that occurred when the suspect entered the school through an unlocked gate

A man drove onto the Stagg High School campus in Stockton, Calif., on Monday, parked, walked over to a 15-year-old girl, and stabbed her multiple times. A school district police...

A teen is dead following a stabbing at a Stockton school, officials say.

A teen is dead following a stabbing at a Stockton school, officials say.

Before putting his neck on the chopping block, King Charles I turned to his chaplain seeking personal peace after the chaos of the English Civil War.

There is a deep political divide on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the country, over the Constitution and religion. Liberals long have interpreted the establishment clause of the First Amendment as best understood through Thomas Jefferson’s metaphor that there should be a wall separating church and state. For decades, this was the approach taken by the Supreme Court, but conservatives reject this notion and believe the government violates the establishment clause only if it coerces religious p...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that indicated states must accommodate the requests of

WASHINGTON - On March 23, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 in favor of John Ramirez, a death row inmate, in his challenge to the State of Texass denial of his request that his pastor audibly pray and lay hands on him as the state executes him. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the USCCBs Committee on Domestic Justice and Hu...

Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after a Supreme Court ruling indicated states must accommodate the requests of death row inmates who want to have their spiritual advisers pray aloud and touch them during their executions.

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of a Texas prisoner who wanted his pastor to pray over him and place his hands on him in the execution chamber. It will likely impact other death-row prisoners with similar requests.