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1 day ago | washingtonstand.com | Sarah Holliday

At this rate, New York is on track to become the 11th state to legalize assisted suicide. In an 81-67 vote on April 29, the New York Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID). This law permits terminally ill patients to end their lives with a physician’s help. The state Senate remains just seven votes shy of advancing the bill to a floor vote. But it can’t be too shocking, can it? After all, a 2024 YouGov poll revealed that at least 72% of New Yorkers support euthanasia.

2 days ago | washingtonstand.com | Sarah Holliday

The first group of white South African refugees, fleeing persecution in their homeland, has arrived in the U.S. However, for many on the Left, their asylum has sparked outrage. Forty-nine Afrikaners, including women, children, and entire families, landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar greeted the arrivals as they walked in waving American flags.

2 days ago | washingtonstand.com | Sarah Holliday

The Naples Pride organization was told they couldn’t host a drag show near a children’s playground, so instead, they dragged the city to court. Naples Pride planned to host a drag show near a children’s playground in Naples, Florida.

2 days ago | washingtonstand.com | S.a. McCarthy

One of the goals of the new pope will be to develop Catholic teaching on artificial intelligence (AI), the pope himself shared recently. Addressing the College of Cardinals on Saturday, the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV explained how he hopes to continue the work of his nominal predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and what that has to do with AI. “Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV.

2 days ago | washingtonstand.com | Ryan Foley

A newly enacted Tennessee law prohibits schools from punishing employees and teachers for referring to trans-identified students by their given name and pronouns, as public school staff in other states have faced professional repercussions for declining to use trans-identified students’ preferred names and pronouns. Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill 1270 into law Friday.