Source: ABC News Ted Cruz sometimes sounds more like a preacher than a presidential candidate. But one biblical tenet he rarely evokes is tithing, a mandate that 10 percent of possessions be donated to God. That’s because tax records Cruz released between 2006 and 2010 show he and his […]
Source: BBC The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared with the same quarter a year ago, official figures show. The […]
Source: Crux With just days left before Iowa casts the first votes in the presidential nominating contests, Republican candidates have been crisscrossing the state touting their Christian bona fides, appealing to […]
Source: RNS (RNS) A lawsuit brought by American Atheists seeking the erection of an “atheist monument” near a Ten Commandments monument at a Florida county courthouse has gotten the go-ahead from a federal court judge. American Atheists, a national advocacy organization based in Cranford, N.J., has tried to put a […]
Source: NPR As the Islamic State uses social media and the Internet to recruit followers, a group of American Muslim millennials are also using the same tools to clear up […]
Source: Washington Post Growing up, Bernie Sanders followed the path of many young American Jews. He went to Hebrew school, was bar mitzvahed and traveled to Israel to work on […]
Source: Huffington Post Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has mostly avoided discussing religion during his Democratic presidential campaign. Unlike some other candidates, he sticks to politics. But he offered a rare glimpse […]
Source: Pew Research Center GOP candidates seen as religious – except for Trump The conventional wisdom in American politics has long been that someone who is not religious cannot be elected president of the United States. Most Americans have consistently said that it is important to them that the president […]
Source: BBC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of “encouraging terror”. Referring to the Palestinians, Mr Ban said it was human nature for oppressed […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)Maine Gov. Paul LePage says his state is too easy on drug crimes, suggesting it should bring back the guillotine for serious offenders. The Republican governor, known […]
Source: The New York Times KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Hillary Clinton is Methodist, but she rarely talks about her faith on the campaign trail. On Monday, at a town-hall-style event in […]
Source: Huffington Post Hillary Clinton delivered a fiery response to a Muslim veteran’s question about Islamophobia in the United States. At last night’s Democratic Presidential Town Hall in Iowa, Islamic Air Force veteran Erum Tariq-Munir asked the former secretary of state about the future of the U.S. in light of […]
Source: NBC News Two protesters were removed Sunday from a Donald Trump rally after holding up a banner that read “Stop Hate.” One of the protesters — Arish Singh, a […]
Source: RNS On Monday night in Iowa, Hillary Clinton encountered a self-identified Catholic Democrat named Jessica Manning. Mrs. Manning wanted to know how Mrs. Clinton aligned her politics and her […]
Source: Time “In America, we believe in redemption” U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a ban on solitary confinement in federal prisons for juveniles and as a punishment for low-level […]
Source: BBC The US Treasury has told a BBC investigation that it considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt. The US government has already imposed sanctions on Mr Putin’s […]
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Source: History channel On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to hold a live televised news conference. From a podium in the State […]
Source: Pew Research Center As Obama enters his final year, mixed views of his legacy As Barack Obama begins his final year in office, the goal of reducing the budget deficit, which the public once ranked among the most pressing objectives for his administration, has continued its recent decline in […]
Source: Aljazeera Washington DC – The US government has been criticised for changes to its visa waiver programme that targets dual national citizens of Sudan, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The new […]