Tesla shows off solar roof tiles
Source: BBC By Dave Lee North America technology reporter Roof tiles with built-in solar panels have been unveiled by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. The tiles, made from glass, are intended […]
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton Hit the Road Together
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 […]
How Trump Is Dividing Jerry Falwell’s University
Source: Politico By BRANDON AMBROSINO Last weekend, as more than 9,000 alumni descended on Lynchburg, Virginia, for Liberty University’s homecoming weekend, much went as expected. The carnival atmosphere was pervasive—boosters […]
National Cathedral faces calls to remove windows with Confederate generals
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) After quietly removing panes bearing the Confederate flag from its stained-glass windows, leaders of the Washington National Cathedral are now wondering what to do […]
Clinton Press Conference: She has not called FBI ‘rigged,’ ‘corrupt’ or partisan, she has just demanded evidence
US election 2016: Clinton demands details of new email probe Source: BBC Hillary Clinton has urged the FBI to explain without delay why it is carrying out a new investigation […]
Michelle Obama ‘Will Never Run for Office,’ President Says
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 […]
One-in-Five U.S. Adults Were Raised in Interfaith Homes
Source: Pew Research Center Roughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This includes about one-in-ten who say they were raised by two people, both of whom were religiously affiliated but with different religions, such as a Protestant mother […]
Liberty University Students Want to Be Christians—Not Republicans
Source: The Atlantic By EMMA GREEN LYNCHBURG, Va.—When Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University in 1971, he dreamed of transforming the United States. As he put it, “We’re turning out moral revolutionaries.” […]
Conservative Christian Women Turn Away From Donald Trump
Source: Wall Street Journal By IAN LOVETT Since becoming an evangelical Christian in college, Laura Robinson has also called herself a Republican. But after watching the video of GOP presidential […]
Why Donald Trump could lose red Utah: Mormon America has found another candidate.
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 […]
Father who lost Muslim son in Iraq berates Trump from mosque
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 […]
‘Patient Zero’ Not the Source of HIV in the U.S., Study Finds
Source: Time By Mahita Gajanan Scientists have exonerated the man blamed for setting off the AIDS epidemic Scientists using genetically-sequenced blood samples from people infected by HIV have exonerated the man known as “patient zero,” who was blamed for setting off the AIDS epidemic. A genetic analysis of stored blood samples […]
Twitter to Lay Off 9% of Workforce as Revenue Slows
Source: Time (Reuters) – Twitter Inc’s quarterly revenue growth slowed sharply in the third quarter but topped analysts’ expectations, and the company said it would cut 9 percent of its […]
Philippines’ President Duterte Says He Wants Foreign Troops Out of the Country
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 […]
Trump: Clinton’s foreign policy plan would start WW3
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 […]
Trump, who said 37 false things on Monday, calls fact checkers ‘scum’
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 […]
MY MUSLIM FATHER’S FAITH IN AMERICA
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 […]
Nearly Half of American Voters Are Stressing About the 2016 Election: Poll
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 […]
USA: The Art of the Qur’an – landmark exhibit shows holy book as text and work of art
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 […]
From the US army to al-Shabaab: the man who wanted to live under sharia law
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 […]