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New research finds that President Trump's support from evangelicals has never been higher. About 75 percent have a favorable view of him. (Associated Press)

Evangelical support for Trump at 'all-time high'

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In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, file photo, a sex offender registry board image of designated Level 3 sex offender Charles D. Clark Jr., is passed from Detective Tracy Duda, right, to a member of the media in a car in Springfield, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

Sex-offender registries under attack for violating ex-offenders' constitutional rights

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, joined at left by Vice Chairman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., announces the new farm bill, officially known as the 2018 Agriculture and Nutrition Act, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 12, 2018. The bulk of the bill's spending goes toward funding SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Faith leaders skew Bible to oppose SNAP reform

FILE In this Wednesday, May 6, 2015 file photograph, members of the New Jersey Supreme Court, left, listen as Jean P. Reilly, center at podium, with the New Jersey Attorney General's office presents the stance of Gov. Chris Christie's administration on a 2011 law that overhauled the state public worker pension system, in Trenton, N.J. On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, New Jersey's top court has sided with Gov. Chris Christie in a fight with public worker unions over pension funds. The state Supreme Court overturned a lower-court judge's order that told the Republican governor and the Democrat-controlled Legislature to work out a way to increase pension contributions for the current fiscal year. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file) **FILE**

New Jersey Supreme Court rules churches ineligible for renovation grants

Students at Roosevelt High School take part in a protest against gun violence Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Seattle. Politicians in Washington state are joining students who walked out of class to protest against gun violence. It was part of a nationwide school walkout that calls for stricter gun laws following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school. (AP Photo file/Manuel Valdes)

Student walkouts, teacher strikes compete as protest culture infiltrates schools

The Return Of "Old-Fashioned" Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The return of the 'old-fashioned'

JUULing sends a rush of nicotine into the system from the company's unique liquid formula. (Associated Press/File)

63 percent of teens, young adults, don't believe JUUL e-cigarettes contain nicotine, survey shows

Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush are interviewed by host Maria Bartiromo, not pictured, on the "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Dallas. Bush spoke about his mother, Barbara Bush, the wife of former President George H.W. Bush, who died Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

Former President George W. Bush says his mother did not fear death; he also talks on trade, Russia

In this file photo from Friday, March 18, 2005, former first lady Barbara Bush listens to her son, President George W. Bush, as he speaks on Social Security reform in Orlando, Fla. The wife of former President George H.W. Bush is in "failing health," a Bush family spokesman said Sunday, April 15, 2018, following a recent series of hospitalizations and after consulting with her family and doctors, the 92-year-old former first lady has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Barbara Bush, wife and mother of presidents, dies at 92

This Dec. 19, 2017 file photo shows Tom Evans and Kate James, the parents of seriously ill Alfie Evans, in England. (Philip Toscano/PA via AP, file)

Alfie Evans case: U.K. court rules against parents who want treatment for son

Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to obtain an abortion, outside of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite File)

Judge: Feds must inform all immigrant children in custody of right to abortion

Rebecca Hagelin

The gift of life

Former first lady Barbara Bush, the mother of Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, stands outside of Eastlan Baptist Church, a polling location in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)

Barbara Bush in failing health, won't seek additional treatment

A sign for Black Heritage Day is displayed before a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Colorado Rockies at Nationals Park Sunday, April 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Congressman Lewis 'honored and blessed' to throw out first pitch

People walk past a new Chick-fil-A restaurant, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 in New York. The Atlanta-based privately held franchise company has more than 1900 restaurants in 41 states and Washington, D.C. The New York franchise, located a few blocks from Times Square, opens Saturday, Oct. 3, marking its push to become a bigger national player. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New Yorker magazine bemoans Chick-fil-A's 'creepy infiltration'

In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski, center right, and Alice Gerstel Weit hold hands as they tour the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. After the Nazis invaded Belgium, they hid together in the Gronowski family's home before the Gerstel family fled on a perilous journey that eventually led them to the United States. Gronowski's family stayed behind, and his mother and sister died at Auschwitz. For 76 years Gerstel Weit didn't know Gronowski was the family's only survivor. Her son Dann Netter is at left; his grandson Romain De Nys at right. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Emily Blunt, left, and Millicent Simmonds in a scene from "A Quiet Place." (Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures via AP)

'A Quiet Place' rare horror movie to shun sex and gore, embrace family

A proposed demonstration against abortion on April 11 will mirror last week's national school walkout against gun violence following last month's Parkland, Florida, shootings. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS) **FILE**

Media black out pro-life walkout after pushing anti-gun protests: Study

In this photo dated Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Pope Francis arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience. In an extraordinary letter published Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Pope Francis has admitted he made "grave errors" in judgment in Chile's sex abuse scandal and invited the abuse victims he had discredited to Rome to beg their forgiveness. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope Francis' letter to Chile a 'spiritual state of emergency'

In this photo taken Monday, April 9, 2018, Lillian Lennon poses for a photo in Anchorage, Alaska. Lennon, a transgender teenager, was a field organizer who helped defeat a bathroom bill before Anchorage voters this month, the first-ever defeat of such a bill by voters in an election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Anchorage voters first in the nation to reject bathroom bill

In this Oct. 8, 2015, photo, Audrey Crook, center, speaks during a ninth-grade Teen Talk High School class at Carlmont High School in Belmont, Calif. Sex education in some American high schools is evolving beyond pregnancy and disease prevention to include lessons aimed at curbing sexual assaults. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Parents to pull kids from public schools to protest 'graphic, gender-bending' sex ed

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House before signing a new law aimed at curbing six trafficking Wednesday, April 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump cracks down on online sex trafficking: 'It shouldn't have been tough'

Austin Bryant celebrates his victory at tetherball with Hogan Conder during recess at Marlin Elementary School in Bloomington, Ind. (Associated Press)

Recess making comeback in public schools: 'Children do better when they have a break'

President Donald Trump waves as he leaves South Lawn following a ceremony to honor the 2017 NCAA football national champion, the Alabama Crimson Tide at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump orders top-to-bottom review of welfare programs

A screen shot of the website Backpage.com is seen Los Angeles Friday, April 6, 2018. Federal law enforcement authorities are in the process of seizing Backpage.com and its affiliated websites. A notice that appeared Friday afternoon at Backpage.com says the websites are being seized as part of an enforcement action by the FBI and other agencies. The notice doesn't characterize or provide any details on the nature of the enforcement action. It says more information on the action will be released later Friday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Seven charged with promoting prostitution as Backpage.com indictment unsealed

In this Feb. 14, 2018, photo, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., speaks to Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Tammy Duckworth has baby; 1st U.S. senator to give birth in office

Jeff Richmond, left, and Tina Fey participate in the curtain call for the "Mean Girls" opening night on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, April 8, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Tina Fey: Online bullying makes her 'Mean Girls' relevant

Pope Francis leaves St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after a Mass on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, Sunday, April 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis seeks 'saints next door'; he says defending migrants as 'equally sacred' as unborn

Child advocates ask FTC to investigate YouTube

Illustration on the internal root of criminal acts by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

'Weapons in the hand or ideas of the heart?'

In this Jan. 3, 2018, photo released by the U.S. Navy, a Naval Station vessel, right, prepares to assist the future USS Omaha (LCS 12), a 218-foot-long littoral combat ship, pier side during a brief fuel stop in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Omaha was conducting a change of homeport to San Diego, Calif. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John Philip Wagner, Jr./U.S. Navy via AP)

No foxhole for an atheist

From The Vault

A Christian worshipper attends the Christmas mass at the Saint Joseph Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic church, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017. Iranian Christians are a minority and recognized by the constitution in the Muslim country and are represented in the parliament. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

How Christmas changed the world

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., takes his seat before the start of a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Franks says in a statement that he never physically intimidated, coerced or attempted to have any sexual contact with any member of his congressional staff. Instead, he says, the dispute resulted from a discussion of surrogacy. Franks and his wife have 3-year-old twins who were conceived through surrogacy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rep. Trent Franks makes resignation immediate in latest Capitol Hill sexual harassment scandal

Denzel on fatherhood, family values

The Museum of the Bible opens Friday at a 430,000-square-foot site just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol. (Museum of the Bible)

Newest museum in nation's capital will 'tell the biography of the Bible'

Boy Scouts of America leaders say they will start developing the next generation of female leaders and allow families to participate in outdoor activities together. (Associated Press/File)

As Boy Scouts welcome girls, rival group sees expansion of 'war on boys'

The downward trend affected the white population of evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics. (Associated Press/File)

White Christians represent minority of U.S. population, but religious right says it still has might

Illustration on transsexuals in the military by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Transforming the military, one tweet at a time

Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Washington on May 11, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pence says ISIS is guilty of genocide against Christians

A state worker unfurls a rainbow flag in front of the Washington state Capitol to prepare it to be raised and then lowered to half-staff to mark last weekend's mass shooting at a central Florida nightclub, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Olympia, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee and members from the LGBT community later raised the flag in honor of Gay Pride month, before it was lowered. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside Pulse, a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, leaving at least 49 people dead in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Appeals court: 1964 Civil Rights Act protects lesbian, gay employees from workplace bias

In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom talk after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, a national organization that brings together Muslim and Jewish women, organized the gathering as part of the organization's response to President Donald Trump's travel ban. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

US Muslims and Jews strengthen bonds amid acts of bigotry

White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House says transgender students are a states' rights issue

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