Imam in Storm Harvey fake news never visited Texas
Source: BBC News By Georgina Rannard A man has reacted with surprise to seeing his photograph used in a fake story spread on social media that an Imam kept a […]
Pastors who stood by Trump after Charlottesville plead for him to show ‘heart’ for ‘dreamer’ immigrants
Source: Washington Post By Frances Stead Sellers September 4 at 6:51 PM Pastor Jentezen Franklin looked at President Trump across his desk in the Oval Office last week and made an impassioned […]
Barack Obama Offers Trump Advice In Inauguration Letter: ‘American Leadership in This World Really is Indispensable’
Source: Time BY Alana Abramson Sep 03, 2017 Barack Obama left Donald Trump four pieces of advice in a letter he put in the Oval Office as he was exiting […]
Daca: Trump ‘to scrap’ amnesty for young immigrants
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports. He will give Congress six months to draw up […]
Wildfires Across Western U.S. Force Thousands to Flee Their Homes
Source: Time By Christopher Weber and Ellen Knickmeyer / AP 4:59 AM ET (LOS ANGELES) — Wildfires forced thousands to flee their homes across the U.S. West during a sweltering, […]
Why Congress Made Labor Day a National Holiday
Source: Time BY Olivia B. Waxman Sep 01, 2017 Nowadays, many think of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., which falls on the first Monday in September, as a day for […]
North Korea says it conducts hydrogen bomb test; Trump issues trade threat
Source: Reuters By Jack Kim, Soyoung Kim, Steve Holland 8 MIN READ SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of […]
This Actress Changed Her Last Name to Get Roles in ‘Racist’ Hollywood
Source: Time BY Aurelie Corinthios / People Sep 01, 2017 Chloe Bennet is speaking out against discrimination in show business. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star posted an Instagram praising actor Ed Skrein for stepping down from playing Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after learning that in the original comic, the character is of mixed Asian […]
Obama team’s 2020 signals spark chatter among Dems
Source: MSN News BY Amie Parnes Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House […]
White House holds national security meeting, pushes harsher sanctions after North Korea’s nuclear test
BY Jason Silverstein NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, September 3, 2017, 12:11 PM The White House on Sunday rushed to take national security and economic measures against North Korea after confirming that the rogue nation had pulled off its largest nuclear weapons test yet. President Trump called a […]
U.S. public opinion on the future use of gene editing
Source: Pew Research Center BY CARY FUNK, BRIAN KENNEDY AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC The potential genetic modification of humans and its ramifications have long been debated, but a recent scientific breakthrough in gene editing […]
Everything You Need to Know About Indigenous Peoples Day
Source: Time BY Lisa Marie Segarra Aug 31, 2017 Los Angeles just became the latest city to adopt Indigenous Peoples Day in favor of Columbus Day. The holiday has been gaining […]
US approves first cancer drug to use patient’s own cells – with $475,000 price tag
Source: The Guardian BY Jessica Glenza in New York US regulators have approved the first cancer drug that uses a patient’s own cells to fight cancer. But the drug is priced […]
Why Houston Will Never Be Able to Stop Flooding for Good
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Aug 31, 2017 The scale of Hurricane Harvey is unprecedented in U.S. history: more than 50 inches of rain falling in less than a week inundating a […]
U.S. Shuts Down Russia’s Consulate in San Francisco
Source: Time BY Josh Lederman / AP Updated: Aug 31, 2017 2:57 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — In an escalating tit-for-tat, the United States forced Russia on Thursday to shutter its […]
Here’s How Low President Trump’s Approval Rating Could Drop
Source: Time BY Chris Wilson President Trump loves breaking records, even when the evidence is dubious, but here’s one he probably doesn’t want to shatter: It is conceivable that he could become the […]
Here’s why people hate Joel Osteen
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Bowler August 29 Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch transforms into shelter Lakewood Church, a 606,000-square-foot megachurch in Houston where Joel Osteen preaches, is being used as a […]
Where are the condemnations of Harvey as God’s punishment?
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area in 2012, the floodwaters in Lower Manhattan were still rising when some pastors pointed […]
The price of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Aug 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The overwhelming majority of takfiri men who in the past two years mounted attacks against civilians in France, Belgium and Spain have been of Moroccan and Tunisian origin. Their hostility is difficult to explain as these North African countries have escaped the mayhem […]
When did protest against the Assad government turn to war in Syria?
Instead of serious political advice, the West, especially the US and their proxy Arab allies in the Gulf, then poured weapons into Syria – enough arms to destroy Syria but not enough to overthrow the regime, as one ex-rebel told me Robert Fisk @indyvoices 23 comments Bashar al-Assad has clung […]