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Americans are increasingly living together before marriage, and more women who cohabit are having children than in years past, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A listing of hot cultural items from the the Internet, music, television and movies.

Here’s the secret: moms and dads aren’t perfect.

Kidnappers are targeting Christians in Egypt's southern Minya province, and church leaders say the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood is partly to blame.

A federal judge has ruled that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger.

He has been Pope Francis for less than a month, but the former archbishop of Buenos Aires is a hit with American Catholics -- at least for now.

Edith Schaeffer, co-founder of L'Abri Fellowship, author of 17 books and widow of pastor/author Francis Schaeffer, died Mar. 30 at age 98.

A Pakistan court this week threw out the 2007 conviction of a Christian man sentenced to death for offending Islam.

The May edition of Reader’s Digest features a breezy article titled "Is Your Marriage Normal or Nuts?"

According to a new study from the American Heart Association (AHA), a whopping 80 percent of American teenagers are eating foods that will make them prime candidates for heart disease.

A portrait of Jesus that had adorned a southern Ohio public school district building since 1947 has been taken down after officials decided they could not risk losing a lawsuit to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nearly half of women ages 15 to 44 say their "first union" was cohabitation rather than marriage, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The last few weeks, Matt Lauer has been mercilessly roasted with calls for his replacement. I’ve never seen anything like it.

North Korean church leaders are asking Christians worldwide to pray for their country amid increased war threats and combat preparation by North Korean military officials.

Incited by calls from mosque loudspeakers after a dispute between Muslim and Christian youths, a Muslim mob attacked a Christian neighborhood in Gujranwala, Pakistan, injuring at least five Christians and damaging a church and dozens of shops and vehicles.

A Florida Planned Parenthood official made a case for post-birth abortions last week at a hearing for a state bill requiring abortionists to provide medical assistance to a baby born alive.

A new poll shows that 55 percent of African-American adults do not agree with the LGBT community's claim that gay rights are the same as civil rights.

According to a new study, teens who had trouble connecting well with their peers in early adolescence had difficulty establishing close friendships in young adulthood.

The World Evangelical Alliance's human rights ambassador has warned that Christians are being "chased from their homes" in Syria.

In honor of the opening of the baseball season this week, I thought I’d share some “Yogi-isms” with you. There’s a little Yogi in all of us, or at least there should be.