Source: Time By Darlene Superville / AP (LIMA, Peru) — Warning against a rush to judgment, President Barack Obama sought Saturday to ease concerns in Latin America that President-elect Donald Trump will wipe out trade deals and create other international problems. “Don’t just assume the worst,” he said. “Wait until the […]
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis made his comments during a Vatican ceremony in which he appointed 17 new cardinals. Photograph: Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/Barcroft By Peter J Walker and agencies Pope Francis has said an “epidemic of animosity” toward religious and ethnic minorities is hurting the weakest in society, in a thinly […]
Source: Time By Errin Haines Whack / AP President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for leadership posts threaten national unity and promise to turn back the clock on progress for racial, religious and sexual minorities, civil rights leaders and others said Friday after his nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. Comments […]
Source: Time By Tessa Berenson Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end high-profile lawsuits against his eponymous and now defunct real estate seminar Trump University, the New York Attorney General said Friday, ending the legal controversy that at times dogged his campaign and threatened to force the […]
Source: Time By Matthew Daly (WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in […]
Source: The Economic Times By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury NEW DELHI: US President elect will approve a Congress bill to declare Pakistan a terror state when the legislation reaches him in […]
Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US has added ‘fuel to the fire’ of Islamophobic attacks in Florida Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US has added ‘fuel to the fire’ of Islamophobic attacks in Florida Two more prominent positions in Donald Trump’s administration were confirmed […]
Source: Religion News Service By Saeed A Khan The election of Donald Trump has been met by exactly half this country with jubilation and by the other half with extreme […]
Source: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/opinions/2016-11-18/op-ed-im-a-muslim-for-loyalty/1776425171546.html I’m a Muslim for loyalty November 18, 2016, 05:00 AM By Dania Sohail Dania Sohail On Nov. 8, Donald J. Trump was named the president-elect of the United States of America. As a young Muslim-American, I originally felt a feeling of total disbelief over these results because of the […]
Source: http://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/life/2016/11/16/thanksgiving-dinner-father-carrs-place-2b/93960770/ The annual Interfaith Festival of Gratitude begins at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grand Opera House in downtown Oshkosh. Preceding the festival there will be a potluck meal at 5 p.m. for people of all faith traditions. The meal will be at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mosque, 300 N. […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Bloomberg — This is frightening. WIKIPEDIA New York University is one of dozens of schools that have been hit by anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and racist incidents since the election. Reports of anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant incidents at schools around the country have spread rapidly in the days […]
Monday, 14 November 2016 00:00By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in US politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi […]
Source: RNS By Elizabeth Esther (RNS) In the aftermath of this presidential election, I can’t help but see striking similarities between what happened inside the religious cult of my childhood […]
Source: RNS By Steve Gorman (Reuters) The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has offered to pay $132 million to settle hundreds of child sex abuse claims against its clergy under a revised bankruptcy reorganization plan filed in court on Tuesday (Nov. 15). The archdiocese, one of 15 […]
Source: BBC A man described by a US judge as a leader of a group who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group has been […]
Source: Time By Katy Steinmetz / Berkeley, Calif By 9 p.m. on Election Night, Maya Raiford-Cohen had started sending texts to her fellow students at Berkeley High School, organizing young people […]
Source: Washington Post By Matt Bonesteel LeBron James has added to his growing philanthropic portfolio with Thursday’s news that he, his charitable foundation and business partner Maverick Carter will donate […]
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/kamala-harris-says-suspicious-of-donald-trumps-immigration-policies-4381752/ The California Senator said she would be staying in Washington DC after the orientation programme to search for a house. Indian-American Kamala Harris, who scripted history by winning a Senate seat, has said she is suspicious of president-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport 2-3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal […]
Hillary Clinton Full Children’s Defense Fund Speech – Hillary Clinton Makes First Post-Election Speech at Children’s Defense Fund Event, Admits Appearance ‘Wasn’t the Easiest.’
Thursday 17 November 2016 13.00 GMTLast modified on Thursday 17 November 2016 18.25 GMT Shares 1,366 Eeman Abbasi speaks during a protest on the University of Connecticut campus against the election of Donald Trump. Photograph: Pat Eaton-Robb/AP Guardian.com Fariha Nizam was sleepy and stressed last Thursday morning when she boarded the Q43 bus, which […]