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Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

4 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces while seeking aid near Gaza City, witnesses say

5:51 AM on Sunday, August 24

Witnesses say Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian aid-seekers traveling through a military zone south of Gaza City that is regularly used to reach a food distribution point

At 175, a Brooklyn church turns to film to preserve its legacy for a new generation

6:54 PM on Saturday, August 23

Berean Baptist Church in Brooklyn marked its 175th anniversary on Aug. 10 with the debut of “The Audacity of Faith: Freedom From, Freedom To,” the first installment in a six-part short documentary series tracing its history from its founding in 1850 to the present day

FILE - The Diana E. Murphy U.S. Courthouse is seen in Minneapolis, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg, File)

Judge strikes down Minnesota law banning religious tests for college credit program

3:00 PM on Saturday, August 23

A federal judge has ruled that religious colleges in Minnesota that require students to sign a statement of faith cannot be excluded from a program allowing high school students to take college courses for credit

Young Kurdish men line up to sign up to join Syrian government's General Security forces at a police station in Afrin, Syria, an area in the country's north from which Kurds were forcibly displaced years ago, Thursday Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Push to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to Syrian security forces brings hope and skepticism

2:04 AM on Saturday, August 23

A drive to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to the Syrian government's General Security Forces in the northern area of Afrin has brought hope and skepticism

In this image released by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Kilauea volcano spews lava on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. (M. Zoeller/U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

Kilauea's eruption is back as the Hawaii volcano shoots lava for the 31st time since December

10:15 PM on Friday, August 22

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has resumed its eruption by shooting an arc of lava high into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor

Samy Yawo, center, eats sweet corn at the St. Jude Catholic Church's Sweet Corn Festival as his father, Billy Yawo, right, talks with, Roger Atchou, left, a father of two from Togo, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Migrants to Iowa strike different portraits where 'American Gothic' was created

2:42 PM on Friday, August 22

In Cedar Rapids, Grant Wood painted “American Gothic,” the iconic portrait of a man and a woman standing in front of a white frame house

Fatima Igram Smejkal, whose family immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in the early 1900s, greets fellow faithful before Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Being Muslim and American in the nation's heartland

2:38 PM on Friday, August 22

The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost a century ago by immigrants from present-day Lebanon

FILE - Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya, Sunday, April 23, 2023. (AP Photo/File)

5 bodies are exhumed from shallow graves in Kenya near a doomsday cult site

6:41 AM on Friday, August 22

Authorities in Kenya have exhumed five bodies from shallow graves near a site where over 400 bodies were found two years ago

In a Tuesday, March 11, 2008 photo, Christian evangelical leader and founder of "Focus on the Family", James Dobson, listens to President Bush, not pictured, address the National Religious Broadcasters 2008 Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)

James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and key leader on the Christian right, dies at 89

9:49 AM on Thursday, August 21

James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89

Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed Al-Sukni, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks, as his mother sits at the front of the vehicle before his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Netanyahu says he will push ahead with Gaza City takeover and renewed ceasefire talks

9:06 AM on Thursday, August 21

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel’s terms

FILE - Aiden Lougee, center left, kisses his boyfriend, Rex Resa, seen between signs held by opponents to gay marriage outside of the courthouse after a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can

7:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice

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