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• American Airlines pilots’ union to strike over fatigue, overscheduling -- “The labor union representing American Airlines pilots said it will begin informational picketing in coming weeks at the carrier’s major hubs to protest their work schedule, fatigue, and lack of adequate accommodation over the summer.”
• Are Christian Ministers “Reverend”? -- “In the good sense, it is true for the one God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, alone–He alone is holy and reverend.”
• Biden administration extends vaccine mandate to large U.S. companies -- “Sweeping new mandates apply to businesses with more than 100 employees, whose workers would have to be inoculated or face weekly testing. The White House estimates new policies will impact about 80 million workers, or two-thirds of the country’s workforce.”
• Chicago police superintendent pleas for the “safety of our babies” after 66 shot, including children, over Labor Day weekend -- “‘We need people in the community to come forward,’ Brown said. ‘This is beyond trusting police. This is about the safety of our babies.’”
• Christian college continues fight to keep single-sex dorms, showers protected from Biden’s LGBT policy -- “The directive, argues the college, ‘requires private religious colleges to place biological males into female dormitories and to assign them as females’ roommates.’”
• ESPN reporter won’t work football games in 2021 after choosing to not get vaccinated -- “While my work is incredibly important to me, the most important role I have is as a mother. Throughout our family planning with our doctor, as well as a fertility specialist, I have decided not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at this time while my husband and I try for a second child.”
• Evangelical families in Mexico lose access to water, services for refusing to deny their faith -- “Two evangelical families in central Mexico have been threatened with being cut off from essential services or expelled from the community if they continue to refuse to deny their faith and pay a fine illegally levied against them, according to a report.”
• Ex-Muslim Hedieh Mirahmadi reveals journey to Christ, her take on Afghanistan crisis -- “Hedieh Mirahmadi is an ex-Muslim-turned-Christian. An expert on Islam and extremism, she has a plethora of experience working in Afghanistan and in Middle Eastern affairs.”
• Hitman in Hasidic garb guns down reformed murderer in caught-on-camera execution -- “As Dixon, 47, approached his Ford Edge SUV, the suspect runs over and shoots him in the back of the head, video shows.”
• Joe Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” -- “The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work.”
• Man protecting his wife is beaten unconscious at MN State Fair, charges say -- “Witnesses...said Morgan picked the husband up and slammed him onto the ground and that Brown kicked or stomped on his head, the complaint states.”
• New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab -- “The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing the work of EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory.”
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill stopping tech companies deplatforming people based on users’ political ‘viewpoint’ -- “The bill, called HB20, bans social-media companies with more than 50 million monthly active users from censoring people because of ‘the viewpoint of the user or another person.’”
• United employees receiving COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption face unpaid leave -- “The U.S. carrier is taking a tough line on employees who decline to get vaccinated and became the first U.S. carrier in early August to announce it would mandate vaccines for employees.”
• What is the Nipah virus and why is it more deadly than COVID-19? A virus expert explains. -- “Officials in India are racing to contain a virus outbreak that has claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy and is deadlier than COVID-19 — the Nipah virus.”