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Continue reading the main story Video Pope On Donald Trump’s Christianity Pope Francis, while flying back to the Vatican from Mexico, said that anyone who wants to build a wall along the Mexican border is not a Christian. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date February 18, 2016. Photo by Alessandro Di Meo/Agenzia Nazionale Stampa…
104.4K Shares post-social-count Share Tweet Share Share Email social-sharing-top President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal has removed a $10 million annual grant that goes towards funding “abstinence-only” sexual education classes in public schools. By eliminating the grant, Obama would end the financial incentive for states to continue teaching the debunked sex-ed program. “Abstinence Only” is a…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and aftermath of Ankara bombing (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A Turkish Foreign Ministry official say the ambassadors of the five permanent U.N. Security Council member states have been invited to the ministry separately and are being briefed on the…
leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 8 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true The New Hampshire presidential primaries mark the beginning of a long campaign, with candidates now onto states where voters look a lot more like our country. The next states will be different, but one thing…
Photo Mary Lou Marzian, a Kentucky representative. Credit Ed Reinke/Associated Press A Kentucky state representative believed that a new law requiring women to have a medical consultation 24 hours before having an abortion smacked of sexism. So the lawmaker, Mary Lou Marzian, proposed a bill in the male-dominated House to drive home the point. Under…
Tuesday Feb 16, 2016 · 2:13 PM PST 2016/02/16 · 14:13 A short while ago, a desperate Jeb decided to go all out, crazy-pants style and posted this mindless thing on Twitter: There you go, America. His name is on a gun! Kinda a lame font if you ask me (for a gun, that is)….
PPP’s new South Carolina poll continues to find Donald Trump with a wide lead in the state. He’s at 35% to 18% each for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, 10% for John Kasich, and 7% each for Jeb Bush and Ben Carson. What’s striking about Trump’s support is how consistent it is across different demographic…
You didn’t forget Jeb Bush was still running for president, did you? I did, on Monday, for a moment, when the Iowa results were coming in. The New York Times website featured a leaderboard with Ted Cruz on top, followed by Donald Trump, followed by Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and Rand Paul. Oh, that’s how…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79 on Saturday. It was an apparently peaceful death, by all accounts, in his bedroom at a West Texas luxury resort after a weekend of quail hunting. He has children and grandchildren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to mourn him; let’s not do that here. Because…
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich has promoted himself both as a friend of the working poor and as a foe of Hillary Clinton, but as House Budget Committee chairman in the 1990s, he worked with the Clintons to roll back welfare programs, helping double extreme poverty in America. In 1996, the Clinton administration and congressional…