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The Labor Department has proposed a rule that would allow more federal contractors to base employment decisions on religion, a move that rights advocates said could be used to discriminate against workers for all manner of reasons. The proposal, announced on Wednesday, seeks “to provide the broadest protection of religious …

HBO’s forthcoming His Dark Materials TV adaptation “is not an attack on religion”, the show’s executive producer has said. Jane Tranter’s comments come in the context of a backlash against the 2007 film, based on the same Philip Pullman fantasy novels, which was accused at the time of having anti-Church themes. …