By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) - The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which will come up for a cloture vote in the Senate today, mandates that employers in the United States permit men to dress as women at work and women to dress as men as long as they otherwise adhere to “reasonable dress or grooming standards.” […]

CBS Chicago - Mike Krauser With an expected vote on same-sex marriage in Springfield next week, African-American clergy members campaigning against the issue are threatening to unseat lawmakers who vote in favor, reports WBBM’s Mike Krauser. Bishop Larry Trotter, of Sweet Holy Spirit Church in Chicago, is vowing that there will be consequences for those lawmakers who […]

BBC Security forces have arrested and questioned a number of suspects over the deaths of two French journalists in northern Mali, officials say. Radio France Internationale’s Ghislaine Dupont, 57, and Claude Verlon, 58, were kidnapped and killed on Saturday after interviewing a local leader in Kidal.

BBC Egypt’s ousted leader Mohammed Morsi has gone on trial in Cairo, telling the judge the case is illegitimate as he remains president. He and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood figures face charges of inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace in 2012.

BBC The deaths of two French journalists in northern Mali have been described by France’s foreign minister as “cold and calculated assassinations”. Laurent Fabius said the journalists were killed on a desert track 12km (seven miles) east of Kidal. One received two bullets, the other three.

BBC The Taliban in Pakistan are continuing discussions on who should be their next leader after Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a drone strike on Friday. Reports on Saturday that they had made their choice were later denied.

BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for an end to all violence in Egypt and urged moves to full democracy on his first visit to the country since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted. “History has demonstrated that democracies are more stable, viable and prosperous than any alternative,” he told a news conference.

The Hill - Julian Pecquet An explosion of violence in Iraq risks turning the troubled country into a political liability for President Obama. During last year’s reelection campaign, the president managed to both earn credit for withdrawing all U.S. troops and avoid blame for the deteriorating security situation.

The Hill - Julian Hattem A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels religious freedom. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court — ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting […]

The Telegraph - Con Coughlin To stave off Islamists and liberals at home, the royal family is willing to lose old allies The inhabitants of the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia are not renowned for their sense of humour. In a country where public executions by beheading are commonplace, and even relatively minor transgressions such as drinking […]

The Telegraph - Cristina Odone Interview: Ukip leader Nigel Farage says he wants voters to see the real him as he puts his policies in spotlight The boardroom at the UK Independence Party offices at the top of a smart Mayfair town house has a flip chart showing the party’s agenda. The marching orders are […]

BBC Two French journalists have been killed after they were kidnapped in the northern Mali town of Kidal, France’s foreign ministry has confirmed. The ministry said in a statement that Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont, journalists for the French radio station RFI, “were found dead in Mali”.

CNN - Bill Mears Linda Stephens has lived in her upstate New York community for more than three decades and has long been active in civic affairs. But as an atheist, those views have put her at the center of a personal, political, and legal fight that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

BBC Pakistan’s interior minister has said the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has destroyed the country’s nascent peace process. “This is not just the killing of one person, it’s the death of all peace efforts,” Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.

the guardian Legislation was drafted after woman who wore a burqa had a false statement conviction quashed A new law requiring Muslim women to remove a burqa or niqab to prove their identity to West Australian police has been passed by the state’s parliament. The legislation was drafted in response to public outcry about the case […]

BBC Four Palestinian militants have been killed and five Israeli soldiers injured in violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian sources say. The soldiers were wounded when they were hit by a bomb as they were destroying a tunnel found last month running from Gaza to Israel.