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Feb 17 2021
News
Biden, Warnock, and the resurgence of the liberal Christian
Who defines what it means to be Christian in America? For the past five years it was white Evangelicals and Christian nationalism. While still a small movement, Democrats have begun to rejuvenate the influence of the Social Gospel.
When Mat Schmalz was coming of age in western Massachusetts decades ago, he took a year to volunteer for a Roman Catholic order in rural Oklahoma, helping to
Christian Science MonitorJun 08 2020
News
Officer Charged in Floyd's Death Has 1st Court Appearance
The Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd's death was scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.
Derek Chauvin, 44, is also charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's May 25 death. Floyd, a handcuffed black man, died after the white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even
Newsmax (News)Sep 25 2012
News
President Obama to vow: No nuclear Iran
The recent wave of violent, anti-American protests that a movie trailer has inspired in the Muslim world is not aimed solely at the United States but the entirety of the civilized world, President Barack Obama plans to say Tuesday morning in a speech at the United Nations.
PoliticoJan 11 2013
Opinion
The key Benghazi questions still unanswered
We now have the so-called Independent Accountability Review Board report on the Sept. 11 attack on our Benghazi special mission compound. While it concludes there was no spontaneous mob protest outside the compound, it fails to provide answers to many key questions.
Washington TimesOct 13 2020
Analysis
Why Democratic Senate Candidates Are Competitive In Red States Like Alaska, Kansas And Montana
Democrats have a relatively clear path to securing a majority in the U.S. Senate: Win seats in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and North Carolina — all states where the Democratic candidate is favored. Carrying these four states, and winning the presidency, would take Democrats from 47 seats currently1 to 50 seats — Democrat Doug Jones is likely to lose his reelection race in Alabama — with a Vice
538 (ABC News)Jun 07 2020
News
Social media bias lawsuits keep failing in court
Social media sites can legally ban users for nearly any reason. They can ban users for off-color jokes. They can ban users for being white supremacists. They can ban users for totally arbitrary and inscrutable reasons. If you sue over a Twitter or Facebook ban, you will almost certainly lose. Despite this, people keep filing lawsuits claiming they’ve been censored on social media — and today,
The VergeApr 27 2020
News
White House is reviewing expanded guidance on reopening society
The White House is finalizing expanded guidelines to allow the phased reopening of schools and camps, child-care programs, certain workplaces, houses of worship, restaurants and mass transit, according to documents under review by administration officials.
Members of the White House coronavirus task force and other officials received the guidelines late last week, according to senior
Washington PostOct 12 2020
News
Amy Coney Barrett: What's at stake in Supreme Court fight
The battle to get Donald Trump's nominee to the US Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, confirmed by the Senate is beginning. The shifting ideological balance of the court will have an impact in all areas of American life and across the US - perhaps in no place more than Texas.
Susan Lippman, a Democratic activist in Austin, Texas, was sitting in her car when she heard the news that
BBC NewsJun 05 2020
News
Trump says he hopes George Floyd 'is looking down' and celebrating jobs report: 'This is a great day for him'
President Trump on Friday strode to a lectern in the White House Rose Garden to tout an unexpectedly good jobs report that showed the U.S. unemployment rate falling in May to 13.3 percent, as 2.7 million people who had been furloughed due to the coronavirus crisis returned to work.
During a 45-minute, stream-of-consciousness, often rambling speech, Trump all but declared victory in his
Yahoo NewsJun 05 2020
Opinion
With these racist markers in place, there can be no peace
(CNN) - As many of America's cities burn and our democracy feels like it's unraveling, attacks on Confederate monuments in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis may seem incongruous to those who believe that these protests are only about what happened there. Yet the uprisings in American cities since Floyd's death, and the vandalizing and tearing-down of statues dedicated to men
CNN (Opinion)