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High Blood Pressure at Age 50 Tied to Dementia Risk

High Blood Pressure at Age 50 Tied to Dementia Risk

Even levels that do not usually require medication can increase the risk. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/well/high-blood-pressure-at-age-50-tied-to-dementia-risk.html?partner=rss

Austria Closes 7 Mosques, Targets Up To 60 Foreign-Funded Imams

CNN  and the New York Times report that yesterday Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for the first time invoked the country's 2015 Islam Law (full text) (summary) to close seven mosques and expel up to 60 imams. The law aims at barring radical Islam and prohibits foreign funding of Islamic...

Suit Seeks Recognition of Non-Religious Wedding Officiants

A suit was filed last week by Center for Inquiry, a secular humanist organization, challenging the limits in Michigan law that prevent secular celebrants from officiating at weddings in the state.  CFI among other things trains individuals how to solemnize marriage ceremonies consistent with...

Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions

Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions

Numerous “crimes against humanity” have taken place in North Korea including murder, forced abortions, religious persecution and starvation, a United Nations commission found in 2014. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/world/asia/north-korea-human-rights.html?partner=rss