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TV preacher Pat Robertson dies at 93
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: Pat Robertson, the fire-and-brimstone televangelist who brought the religious right wing into the mainstream of US politics, died on Thursday at the age of 93, his organisation announced.
History made as Westbrook sets NBA triple-double record
AFP, Published on 11/05/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Russell Westbrook wrote his way into NBA history on Monday, bagging the 182nd triple-double of his career to break Oscar Robertson's 47-year-old record.
DC Comics drops plans for series with Jesus
AFP, Published on 20/02/2019
» NEW YORK: DC Comics has dropped plans to publish a series that imagines Jesus Christ returning to Earth and teaming up with super heroes, after a campaign calling the work blasphemous.
How widespread hate speech can harm your brain
News, John Lloyd, Published on 09/10/2017
» In a flurry of confident pronouncements within an hour of the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, conservative commentators and activists linked the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, to liberal or Islamist influences. Rush Limbaugh, still the doyen of right-wing talk radio, credited Islamic State with being Paddock's ideological home, arguing that it was disguised by the liberal media because "for the American left, there is no such thing as militant Islamic terrorism."
Head of Haiti's voodoo religion dies
AFP, Published on 13/09/2015
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Max Gesner Beauvoir, the supreme chief of the voodoo religion, died at the age of 79 in the Haitian capital, his relatives announced.
Obama courts Florida as Romney plays religion card
AFP, Published on 09/09/2012
» US President Barack Obama was to woo Florida voters Sunday after Republican Mitt Romney thrust religion to the center of the White House race as he sought to underscore the rivals' different approach to traditional values.
Romney plays God card in swing state struggle
AFP, Published on 08/09/2012
» Republican Mitt Romney thrust God to the center of the White House race, in a culture war strike that prompted Barack Obama's team to brand him extreme and divisive.
Are Americans ready for a Mormon president?
AFP, Published on 31/05/2012
» Mitt Romney's faith emerged as little more than a subordinate issue on the US campaign trail, but with the Republican nomination securely in his grip, are American voters now ready for a Mormon president?