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On one side was Casey Pick, advocate and lawyer for LGBTQ young people, determined to protect transgender youth who had long been “treated like a political football.” On the other was Kim Colby, who had fought for religious freedom in cases before the United States Supreme Court and was seen as “always the last to concede.” Why We Wrote This The clash between religious and LGBTQ rights is one of the most acrimonious in U.S. politics. But two women’s efforts show how mutual respect can reveal common ground and human connection. Part 3 in the Monitor’s Respect Project.

Susan Murabana bought a telescope in 2014 – and has been sharing it ever since. She and her partner, Chu Owen, cart it around Kenya to show children what stars look like up close.  In a country where few students have access to telescopes, one of the pair’s hopes is to convince young people that astronomy is a science for everyone – not just white men, whose names dominate its history. But the goals of The Travelling Telescope, as they call their organization, go beyond astronomy itself. “It’s about all the different things astronomy can teach,” Ms. Murabana says: math, engineeri...

A federal judge has dismissed the NRA’s bankruptcy case, which would have allowed the gun-rights group to move and incorporate in Texas. Instead, it will have to remain in New York, where it is facing a lawsuit that threatens to dissolve the organization.

Cyberattacks may seem an abstract threat to many Americans. But the ransomware strike that knocked offline a key gasoline pipeline last week has created concrete problems for drivers in the Southeast as fuel prices creep up and lines form at service stations in affected areas. The pipeline came back online Wednesday evening, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced. But the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline system underscores the continued vulnerability of important sections of the country’s infrastructure to foreign hackers seeking chaos or cash, or both. Many potential targets of cybe...

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was forced to cut its consular staff by 75% and limit its services to only “life-and-death” situations after an order from President Vladimir Putin that bans “unfriendly” countries from hiring local employees came into effect.