RNS Opening Budget — Wednesday, November 18, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-Muslim-Pro: Muslim Pro, a popular prayer times app, stops providing user data to firm selling to US military (RNS) – The popular Islamic lifestyle app Muslim Pro, which has nearly 150 million downloads around the world, says it will stop selling its users’ location data to a tech firm that sells the information […]

NEWS STORY
RNS-Muslim-Pro: Muslim Pro, a popular prayer times app, stops providing user data to firm selling to US military
(RNS) – The popular Islamic lifestyle app Muslim Pro, which has nearly 150 million downloads around the world, says it will stop selling its users’ location data to a tech firm that sells the information on to the U.S. military. By Aysha Khan. 609 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Claiborne-Oped: William Barr and the politics of death
(RNS) — Until this year, the United States went 17 years without a single federal execution. In 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, we have had more executions than in the past 50 years combined.  No president, Republican or Democrat, has executed this many people since Harry Truman was in the White House. And even Truman didn’t kill this many people in a single year. Even with just over 60 days left in power, this administration has set three more execution dates. By Shane Claiborne. 1,029 words. (category: k)