Source: Pew Research Center Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether employers who have religious objections to contraception […]
Source: Pew Research Center Major factor in candidate support: Disliking the opponent Voters who support Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offer a variety of reasons why they do so, ranging from the candidates’ issue positions to their personal backgrounds. But a major factor for both groups, beyond their candidate’s […]
Source: Pew Research Center Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness when it comes to using tech tools to pursue learning online, and many are not eager or ready to take the plunge BY JOHN B. HORRIGAN For many years concerns about “digital divides” centered primarily on whether people hadaccess […]
Source: BBC White House candidate Donald Trump’s allies have said he is a “genius” if a report is true that he paid no federal income taxes for 18 years. The […]
Source: Time By Chris Wilson See which states Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to win based on the latest polls When it comes to political warfare, the Republican party has the superior ground game—literally. “If land could vote, the Republicans would do a lot better,” says Princeton astrophysicist J. […]
By Stephen Collinson, Jeremy Diamond and Karl de Vries, CNN Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton’s campaign Saturday night seized on a New York Times report about Donald Trump’s 1995 tax records, […]
Source: Time BY Tessa Berenson A video was released Friday of Donald Trump testifying under oath about his inflammatory rhetoric about Hispanics and immigrants, despite his lawyers’ arguments that it could […]
Source: Time BY Alice Park Cancer is insidious in so many ways, not the least of which is its ability to mutate constantly and keep growing, even when hit with powerful chemotherapy drugs. Now researchers have carefully canvassed the genomes of some tumors and revealed some of those cancers’ secrets […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor American and Israeli Jews have much more than an ocean dividing them. Four out of five Jews in the world live […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BEDFORD, N.H. — A Baptist pastor said he was forced to remove a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt he was wearing Thursday at a Donald Trump campaign rally […]
Source: Associated Press By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — An Islamic academy will get $1.7 million and be allowed to build a new school after it settled a federal lawsuit against a Michigan township that initially denied its zoning request. The Michigan Islamic Academy will move ahead with plans to […]
Source: The New York Times By SAM ROBERTS Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, who as a liberal leader of the Roman Catholic Church in America gave voice to the laity, to […]
Source: Time By Kevin Freking/Associated Press JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw “all people as deserving of dignity and respect.” Wearing a Jewish skullcap as a sign […]
Source: Time BY Alex Altman Robert and Rebekah Mercer have emerged as powerful players in Donald Trump’s campaign, not to mention the fight for the GOP’s future. What is it they […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released a report criticizing religious exemptions that infringe on civil rights ― and some conservative […]
CNNMoney takes a look back at citizen video recordings of police, from Rodney King to Eric Garner, and now Keith Lamont Scott. With cameras in everybody’s pockets, will behavior change?
Source: BBC Samsung has confirmed it is in talks with US consumer watchdogs after a lawsuit against the firm over “exploding” washing machines. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned […]
Source: BBC “Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” Donald Trump once said, but according to Forbes magazine he’s much less rich than a year ago. […]
Source: BBC At least one person has been killed and dozens injured, some of them critically, after a commuter train crashed into a railway station in the US state of […]
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin A new report look at the “revolving door” between the FDA and drug companies People who work at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as […]