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Christian NFL star Benjamin Watson has shared his thoughts on race relations in America and called for unity in the wake of the shooting deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and five Dallas police officers.

A transgender woman was charged in Idaho on Wednesday with voyeurism after secretly videotaping a young woman trying on swimwear in the fitting room of a Target retail store, authorities said.

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Utah to continue providing federal funds to the state branch of Planned Parenthood, handing a defeat to Republican Governor Gary Herbert, who had ordered a cutoff last August.

Instead of responding with anger after a couple refused to sit next to him and his fellow officers at a local diner, a Pennsylvania police officer reacted with kindness and picked up the tab.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a powerful prayer asking God to bring peace and healing to the United States amid the pain, anger, and uncertainty seen nationwide following the shooting deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and five police officers who were gunned down in Dallas, Texas.

In an effort to save the lives of Russian children and extend support to their mothers, the Ministry of Health in Russia has signed an agreement with the Russian Orthodox Church that includes prevention of abortion and provision of palliative care.

A trauma surgeon who cared for the police officers killed during a Black Lives Matter Protest in Dallas, TX has urged law enforcement and the black community to come together and "end all of this killing."

After five police officers were gunned down during a Black Lives Matter protest on Thursday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown shared how his Christian faith and God's "sweet, tender mercy" has given him strength despite being faced with a "beyond challenging" situation.

After five police officers were gunned down in Dallas, TX, on Thursday, Rev. Franklin Graham said he supports law enforcement "100%" and urged Americans to continue to pray for those who everyday risk their lives to protect their country.

Last week was not a good week last week for gun-related crime. Recent fatal shootings of black men in the nation sparked a peaceful protest in Dallas, and then, during the protest, a 25-year-old opened fire on police officers, killing five of them. That sniper, Micah X. Johnson, was taken out by a bomb robot that was jury-rigged to kill a suspect, which is the first time this was ever done by the police in the United States. The issue is that this is the beginning of robots being used to kill a suspect, and this could be the beginning.

Some are referencing 20-year-old brothers Khaled and Saleh al-Oraini as "the most evil twins of the Islamic world" after they stabbed their mother, father and older brother for refusing to join ISIS. The twins were arrested by Saudi authorities in Riyadh after their 67-year-old mother, Haila, died of her severe wounds.

An Iowa Church is hitting back after the state's Civil Rights Commission attempted to force the congregation to allow biological males who identify as women to use women's bathrooms, and the same for females identifying as men.

Dozens of protesters in Louisiana on Tuesday chanted slogans and held up signs demanding justice for a black man fatally shot in an altercation with two police officers hours earlier, video postings on social media showed.

The FBI will recommend to the Justice Department that no prosecution is warranted as a result of its yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said on Tuesday.

The American Family Association has once again urged Christian families to refrain from shopping at Target after a man was caught recording underage girls in a dressing room at a store in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Californians are set to decide whether to make recreational marijuana use legal, as other Western states have done, after the California Secretary of State's office said on Tuesday the issue could be put to voters in the November ballot.

Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis CEO and President of the Creation Museum, has slammed Christians who support the theory of evolution, accusing them of compromising God's word and accepting a dangerous "religion of death."

A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on religious beliefs, despite a bill passed by the state legislature intended to carve out that exception for them.

A group of clerics in Pakistan has declared marriage between transgender individuals permissible in Islam, saying they have a right to be buried in Muslim ceremonies, according to a copy of a religious edict Reuters obtained on Monday.

One of the heroic survivors of the 2012 Benghazi attack has criticized President Obama for refusing to use the term "radical Islamic terrorism" and warned that the goal of extremist groups such as ISIS is to not only destroy Western values, but eliminate Christianity entirely.

Conservative groups are pushing back against a California bill that some believe could make up to 40 Christian universities susceptible to lawsuits from homosexual and transgender students.

World-renowned gospel singer Kirk Franklin has invited the controversial Westboro Baptist Church to picket one of his concerts after accusing the group of being "hateful, ignorant and godless" for protesting the funerals of Orlando terror attack victims.

After pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, Calif., said he was upset more people hadn't died in the Orlando shooting massacre on June 12, another pastor in Fort Worth, Texas, publicly just expressed the same sentiment. "These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they're the scum of the earth," Donnie Romero of Stedfast Baptist Church said in an animated sermon posted to YouTube on Thursday.

An ancient Coptic papyrus fragment experts claimed provided proof Jesus Christ had a "wife" is almost certainly fake, the Harvard professor who discovered it has admitted.

"There is no shortcut: If we want fewer gun victims, we need fewer guns," stated The Boston Globe through an editorial published Friday (June 17). "Prayers aren't enough."