Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe RNS) Religion hasn’t played much of a role in the presidential campaign. Sure, Donald Trump made a faux pas when he placed cash on the Communion plate.And Hillary Clinton has occasionally invoked a phrase popular among members of her Methodist faith to discuss how her religious […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin The surgeries could ultimately allow thousands of women without a uterus to give birth in the future Four American women have received womb transplants from living […]
Source: Time By Ryan Teague Beckwith Women are much more likely to say they are scared about the presidential election, according to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll. In an online tracking poll of […]
Source: BBC Donald Trump was likened to a “fool or maniac” while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as “weak and feckless” in a punchy vice-presidential debate. Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of topics ranging from abortion to Russia. Even as they […]
Source: Huffington Post Conservatives frequently criticize President Barack Obama for not referring to the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups and sympathizers, as “Islamist.” Turns out, there’s a good reason he doesn’t. At […]
Source: The New York Times By JONATHAN MARTIN WASHINGTON — The descent of the 2016 presidential campaign last week into the realm of sex tapes and marital infidelity was remarkable […]
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Nigel Duara All that was left of the onetime bishop was an oily ankle monitor. What became of the ankle, and the rest of Lyle […]
Source: The Associated Press By GRACE GARCES BORDALLO and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Atop a lofty hill overlooking the ocean in the U.S. territory of Guam, a […]
Source: BBC Hillary Clinton has attacked Donald Trump as the symbol of a “rigged system” after it emerged that he may not have paid income tax for 18 years. “It’s […]
Source: Time By Matthew Lee / AP (WASHINGTON) — In a sharp deterioration of relations, the U.S. on Monday suspended diplomatic contacts with Russia over Syria, while Moscow halted cooperation on a joint program for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium. The U.S. move followed a threat last week from Secretary of State […]
Source: BBC Russia has suspended an agreement with the US on the disposal of surplus weapons-grade plutonium, the latest sign of worsening bilateral relations. In a decree, President Vladimir Putin […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell / White Plains, N.Y. @Sam_Frizell & Philip Elliott When Hillary Clinton’s blue-tinged 737 touches down in Ohio on Monday morning for the first time in 29 days, locals will greet a changed Democratic nominee in a much changed race. The last time she campaigned in the battleground state, […]
Source: Pew Research Center Blacks, whites also have dramatically different views on causes of fatal encounters between blacks and police BY RICH MORIN AND RENEE STEPLER The deep racial tensions seen in many areas of American life 1 underlie how blacks and whites view police in their communities, as well […]
Economist: “THE wall between state and church”, Justice Hugo Black wrote in Everson v Board of Education, a case from 1947, “must be kept high and impregnable”. Justice Black was […]
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, […]