July 5, 2017 Anti-Defamation League, Jewish centers get more threats The Anti-Defamation League and several Jewish community centers across the country got a new round of bomb threats Tuesday, adding to the scores they have been plagued with since January.
July 5, 2017 Up next for Dylann Roof: 2nd trial, long death row wait Dylann Roof's death sentence this week for killing nine black church members ends one chapter in his case, but it's far from over.
July 5, 2017 Transgender man says surgery denied at Catholic hospital A transgender man sued a Roman Catholic hospital in New Jersey on Thursday after he says it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure he said was medically necessary as part of his gender transition.
July 5, 2017 Church gunman Dylann Roof can be own lawyer, gets extra day to prep for sentencing After a judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof is competent to represent himself, the same jury that last month unanimously found him guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will return to court to begin contemplating his punishment.
July 5, 2017 Battle over Massachusetts town's proposed Muslim cemetery grows A dispute over a proposed Muslim cemetery in a small Central Massachusetts town is deepening, as the state attorney general and the U.S. attorney’s office have intervened, warning local officials they could be violating civil-rights laws.
July 5, 2017 Justice Department sues NJ town that blocked mosque The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging a New Jersey town violated federal anti-discrimination laws when it blocked an Islamic group from building a mosque on property the group had bought.
July 5, 2017 Jury selection halted in Charleston church shooting case Jury selection was halted before it began Monday in the federal case of a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners, with the judge holding a hearing closed to everyone but the defendant and his own lawyers.
July 5, 2017 Mormons preach love for LGBT members, but no doctrinal shift Mormon leaders told gay and lesbian members Tuesday that attraction to people of the same sex is not a sin or a measure of their faithfulness and may never go away, but reminded them that having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that will not change.
July 5, 2017 Orlando mosques beef up security, fearing retaliation in wake of massacre Muslims showed up warily and in reduced numbers for the first Friday prayers since the nightclub massacre here, as some mosques stepped up security and hired armed guards.
July 5, 2017 Arizona man charged with plotting terror attack also eyed Jewish center, FBI says A Tucson man charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix also expressed to an undercover FBI employee that he wanted to target a Jewish community center in his hometown in a violent attack, a federal agent testified Tuesday at a court hearing.
