According to a new Pew Research Center poll, the American attitude toward news media has improved of late, rising seven points in just over a year. Americans also have relented in their desire to have the government censor the press. Just after 9/11, a majority felt it was OK to censor for national security reasons. The latest Pew poll shows the opposite.
The Pentagon fulfilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise to slash the number of Religious Affiliation Codes used by the military to track the volume of members adhering to different religions and to shape the chaplain corps to support them. The change reduces the number of religions counted for such purposes…