Source: BBC By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News Derwin Gray won’t say which way he is voting. The charismatic, former NFL-playing pastor of Transformation Church doesn’t want to upset the carefully choreographed racial balance of his evangelical congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. But as an African-American man, he sympathises with black […]
Source: Time By Stephen Braun (WASHINGTON) — Only days before the presidential election, the FBI released a 17-year-old archive of documents from a long-closed investigation into Bill Clinton’s presidential pardon of a fugitive financier, prompting questions from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign about its timing. The release comes amid the bureau’s controversially […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories on the religious beliefs of the presidential nominees. Read about the faith of Donald Trump here. (CNN)At a Catholic charity event this month, Hillary Clinton, a onetime Sunday school teacher, made a small […]
Source: BBC Harry Reid accused FBI director James Comey of violating an act which bars officials from influencing an election. News of the FBI inquiry comes less than two weeks […]
Source: BBC Hillary Clinton has urged the FBI to explain without delay why it is carrying out a new investigation into her use of emails. Americans “deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately,” she said. The FBI says it has fresh emails which may be “pertinent” to a […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell The audience in Winston-Salem, N.C., could be forgiven for forgetting which Democrat is running for President. It was Michelle Obama who had the last word at […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly President Barack Obama on Friday shut down speculation that First Lady Michelle Obama might pursue a political career of her own. The First Lady has become […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Although Mormons have traditionally been the most Republican religious group in the United States, it appears that they are fleeing this year’s […]
Source: Associated Press By BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American whose son was killed in Iraq, held back tears Wednesday as he again took on Donald […]
Source: BBC Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said his rival Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three. He also said the US should focus […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly Two weeks away from Election Day, nearly half of American voters are experiencing election-related stress, according to a new poll. The ABC News poll found that 46% of likely voters said the 2016 election is stressful. Half of those voters said it had caused them “serious […]
Source: Religion News Service By David Gushee Let’s say that the vast majority of the polls are right, and Hillary Clinton wins the presidency rather comfortably on November 8. Let’s further posit that the Democrats take the Senate narrowly and the Republicans retain the House. What happens next? What is […]
Source: Time By Haley Sweetland Edwards Donald Trump’s repeated calls for supporters to gather friends and family to monitor polling places for cases of voter fraud raises a thorny question: When, exactly, do “ballot security” measures cross the line into illegal acts of voter intimidation? “You’ve got to go out. You’ve […]
Source: Associated Press By MATT VOLZ HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Dinosaurs have roared into Montana’s race for governor with a renowned paleontologist who consulted with Steven Spielberg on the “Jurassic Park” movies saying the Republican candidate would spend taxpayer money on private schools that teach creationism and mislead children about […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller In a striking breach of decorum that upended more than two centuries of American democratic tradition, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumprefused to commit Wednesday to accept the outcome of the Nov. 8 general election. “I will tell you at the time,” Trump said midway through […]
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan President Obama delivered a series of subdued attacks against Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, who he told to “stop whining” about the unsubstantiated claims that the election will be rigged in a press conference Tuesday. “I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and try to make […]
Source: Time By Mahita Gajanan Trump tweeted that the election is rigged “at many polling places” Donald Trump refuses to back down from his claim, which has been made without specific evidence, that the upcoming election results will be rigged at polling places. The Republican nominee for President tweeted on Sunday […]
Source: Time TIME SURVEY: Voters Are ‘Scared’ BY Ryan Teague Beckwith Ryan Teague Beckwith is a senior editor in TIME’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Most voters are unhappy with the current state […]
Source: RNS By Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) It happened in West Palm Beach, Fla. — in the shadow of condo developments and gated communities that are as demographically Jewish asWarsaw was […]
Source: Aljazeera Muslim and Arab Americans, despite being only slivers of US electorate, could hurt Republican candidate’s chances. Worshippers outside Masjid-al-Aman mosque in NYC register to vote [James Reinl/Al Jazeera] […]