Most Americans don’t think it’s important for a political candidate to be religious or share their religious beliefs, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. According to this poll, only one quarter of Americans say it’s very important that a candidate has strong religious beliefs. Just 19% say…
THROUGHOUT the upheavals of the past couple of decades in Russian-American relations, there has been one American politician and thinker whom Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has consistently sought out, engaged with and paid tribute to. That is Henry Kissinger, the doyen of cold-war diplomacy and the author of rapprochement with China and detente with the…
HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. (Reuters) - Mass evacuations were ordered along the U.S. Atlantic Coast as Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm and the most powerful to menace the region in nearly three decades, barreled toward the region on Tuesday. Hurricane Florence is seen from the International Space Station as it churns in the Atlantic Ocean…
A Category 4 hurricane with winds of up to 140 mph is set to bear down on the US's East Coast this week, bringing a risk of devastating floods. Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall somewhere in North Carolina, South Carolina, or the Mid-Atlantic states on Thursday evening or Friday morning, according to the…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration threatened the International Criminal Court with sanctions if it pursued an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, opening a harsh new attack on an old nemesis of many on the political right. “The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from…
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton, harshly condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday, promising to sanction its judges if the organization formally investigates alleged war crimes committed by Americans in Afghanistan. “We will not cooperate with the ICC,” said Bolton, according to Al Jazeera. “We will provide no assistance to the…
VOTERS have a funny habit of wrecking pundits’ storylines. The election on September 9th in Sweden was supposed to be a rebuke of the country’s generous refugee policies during the migrant crisis of 2015, and yet another signal that European populism is on the rise. The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats were to become the country’s biggest…
Donald Trump. Rick Loomis/Getty Images President Donald Trump nearly provoked North Korea into war with a single tweet, renowned journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" that aired Sunday. In the interview, Woodward discussed his new book "Fear: Trump in the White House," and said Trump is fixated on the fact…
HOTAN, China — On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome. Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims…
Six more women are accusing CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves of sexual assault and harassment, according to a New Yorker investigation published Sunday—a month after a previous report by the publication outlined accusations of harassment, intimidation, and abuse by another group of six women. Dozens of other complaints detailed widespread sexual misconduct at the…
