Source: Time By Mari Yamaguchi / AP (TOKYO) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, speaking in a country that is a staunch U.S. ally and hosts 50,000 American troops, said Wednesday that he wants his country to be free of foreign troops, possibly within two years. “I want to be friends to […]
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 […]
The Republican presidential candidate has spent much of the campaign bashing the media. On Tuesday, during a frequently dishonest speech at an airport in Sanford, Fla., he singled out a specific group of journalists as “crooked as hell. thestar.com 2016/10/25 WASHINGTON—Donald Trump falsely accused his opponent of debate cheating and […]
Source: The New Yorker By Mohammed Naseehu Ali When I was growing up, in the early nineteen-eighties, most of my fellow-Ghanaians viewed America as an evil empire that was bent […]
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 […]
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium The Qur’an commissioned by Mongol ruler Uljaytu in Baghdad in the early 1300s and brought back to Istanbul by Suleiman the Magnificent. Photograph: Neil Greentree […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in Atlanta, Georgia Craig Baxam was lost. He thought he was in a town in northern Kenya called Marareme, though really he didn’t have a […]
Source: The Atlantic By DAVID A. GRAHAM ALEXANDRIA, Va.—This Democratic headquarters one warm October night could have been practically anywhere in the country. Volunteers crammed into a dingy, decrepit office suite, […]
Source: BBC A rights group in the US state of Mississippi has demanded a federal hate crime investigation after the family of a black high school student said white students […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvlla — Ilhan Omar is making waves in Minnesota. NITIKA GUPTAIlhan Omar. Ilhan Omar is a former refugee, a Somali-American activist, and a proud Democrat. On November 8, the 33-year-old is poised to become one of the few Muslim women ever elected to a state […]
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: The Guardian By Vanessa Larson The last significant survey of Islam’s holy book in the west was held at the British Museum in London in 1976. Into that void comes […]
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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: Huffington Post Ilhan Omar is making waves in Minnesota. By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Ilhan Omar is a former refugee, a Somali-American activist, and a proud Democrat. On November […]
Source: The Huffington Post Maha Sarfraz A 17 year old high school student from Baltimore, Maryland. Dear Marvel, My affixation with your superheroes began when I was seven years old. […]
Source: BBC By Zack Frank A bypassed world The Allegheny Forest region, spread across northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York, is one of the most bypassed sections of the eastern […]
Source: Time BY Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday said he will sue the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, making the announcement during a speech aimed at outlining his plans for the first 100 days of his potential presidency. “Every woman lied when they […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Cole Delbyck Entertainment Writer, The Huffington Post Here’s a fun game! If Donald Trump is the least racist person you’ve ever met, then you’ve: A) Learned to live in […]
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Dr. Tamika Cross made headlines when she posted a troubling airplane encounter in a Facebook post: that she, a young black doctor, was turned away when she tried to provide medical care to a sick passenger. “Oh no sweetie put [your] hand down, we are looking […]