Many agencies that offer donated embryos, including most of those supported by federal grants, are affiliated with Christian or anti-abortion rights organizations.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/health/embryo-adoption-donated-snowflake.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

With 21 months until Election Day 2020, Republicans are trying to paint Democrats as left-wing radicals on the economy, abortion and Israel.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/republicans-democrats-messaging.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Efforts to grant elements of nature legal rights have been around for decades. It’s a legal strategy Toledo voters will weigh as they think about Lake Erie.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/lake-erie-legal-rights.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

One state, South Dakota, has for 25 years failed to provide the required coverage for abortion in cases of rape or incest, a government report says.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/politics/states-abortion-coverage-medicaid.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Mr. Sanders had a weak showing with black voters in his race against Hillary Clinton. A frayed relationship with his own outreach group was part of the problem.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-black-voters-outreach.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

After hundreds of messages between the activist and a police lieutenant were made public, the mayor sought to “review the existence of bias” in the Portland Police Bureau.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/portland-police-patriot-prayer-texts.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

For years, an anonymous narrator extolled the Islamic State’s brutality in videos seen around the world. “I don’t regret it,” a Canadian captured in Syria says.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/world/middleeast/isis-islamic-state-narrator.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would find out whether officials at the F.B.I. and the Justice Department tried oust President Trump.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/politics/lindsey-graham-face-the-nation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Participants in the Zulu parade, mostly black but some of them white, wear blackface and grass skirts. Now some are questioning whether the tradition should continue.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/zulu-parade-new-orleans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/it-is-not-a-closet-it-is-a-cage-gay-catholic-priests-speak-out.html?partner=rss&emc=rss