Christmas News: May 2018

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Do 'Safe Spaces' in the Church Oppose Christian Values?

More and more college campuses are adopting the idea of safe spaces including a Utah university, which recently built a crying closet to help students cope with the emotional stress of college exams. However, there is now a push for churches to create safe spaces for their congregants.

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Starbucks to Close Over 8,000 Stores for Anti-Bias Training

Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its tarnished image as a hangout where all are welcome.

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'Josh Is Coming Home': The Story Behind Utah Missionary's Release From One of Venezuela's Most Notorious Prisons

A Utah man is finally home after spending two years in one of Venezuela's worst prisons.

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Alberto Downgraded to Tropical Depression - Still Dumps Heavy Rains Across the South

Subtropical Storm Alberto made landfall Monday afternoon in the Florida Panhandle. Tropical rains extended to the Carolinas where a local news crew covering the storm was killed after a falling tree struck their vehicle.

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Teacher Who Stopped Shooting: ‘I Had to Save Students’

A teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student at an Indiana school said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade classroom.

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Alberto Strikes Gulf Coast with Dangerous Surf, Heavy Rains

Subtropical Storm Alberto lumbered ashore Monday on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pelting white sand beaches with blustery winds and stinging rain that kept the usual Memorial Day crowds away.

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Rescuers Seeking 1 Man Still Missing in Maryland Flooding

One man remained missing after flash flooding tore down historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland, and left a community heartbroken at seeing severe damage less than two years after another devastating flood.

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Signs of confidence return to UK households, firms - surveys

LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers and businesses turned more confident in May, a sign that the economy is recovering from a weak start to 2018, according to surveys published on Thursday.

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UK house price growth slows in May - Nationwide

LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices rose less than expected in May, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Thursday, adding to evidence of a slowing property market since the 2016 Brexit vote.

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FCA to consider capping rent-to-own prices

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog is considering capping "rent-to-own" prices and fundamentally reforming how banks charge for unarranged overdrafts to crack down on high cost credit, it said on Thursday

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UK car output ends run of declines to rise 5 percent in April

LONDON (Reuters) - British car production overturned several months of declines to rise 5.2 percent in April, boosted by new and updated models and a comparatively poor performance in the same month last year due to the timing of Easter, a car industry body said on Thursday.

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Superbike rider Kneen killed in Isle of Man TT practise

LONDON (Reuters) - Local superbike rider Dan Kneen died on Wednesday after an accident during qualifying for the Isle of Man TT races, organisers said.

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Putin critic Browder detained, then freed by Spanish police

MADRID (Reuters) - British businessman Bill Browder, a prominent Kremlin critic, was detained and then released by Spanish police on Wednesday, after a warrant from Russia for his arrest for tax evasion was found to be invalid, police said.

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Britain to tackle danger of drones near airports with new laws

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it would ban drones from flying above 400 feet and within one kilometre of airport boundaries to reduce the possibility of damage to windows and engines of planes.

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SSE to raise standard electricity and gas prices

(Reuters) - Britain's SSE said on Wednesday it would raise its standard electricity and gas prices, leading to a 6.7 percent increase on average to a typical dual fuel bill.

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Paddington Bear heads to St. Paul's in late author's last work

LONDON (Reuters) - Dressed in his red hat and blue duffle coat, Paddington Bear heads to London's St Paul's cathedral in late creator Michael Bond's last book about the much-loved children's character.

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Fourteen people injured in multiple vehicle collision in England

(Reuters) - A bus and around 25 other vehicles were involved in a road traffic incident in southeast England on Tuesday, lightly injuring 14 people, emergency services said.