A new poll by the Barna group has found that nearly 75% of pastors believe the presidential election and its aftermath will negatively affect their churches, the Christian Post reports.
The World Health Organization announced nearly $1 billion in new pledges on Wednesday for the effort to battle the coronavirus pandemic and make sure that poor countries get treatments and vaccines against COVID-19.
The Senate passed a spending bill that temporarily averts a government shutdown.
Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden were in a verbal war as they debated issues ranging from Trump’s leadership on the coronavirus outbreak to deadly riots, job losses, and how the Supreme Court will impact the nation’s future.
President Trump and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sniped and snarled repeatedly during their first debate, a meeting that was supposed to offer voters a clear contrast in policy and temperament but more often provided a stage for the two candidates to vent personal grievances.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly that Iran will have enough nuclear material to produce two bombs in just a matter of months.
The United Arab Emirates is making a bid to become a defense powerhouse in the Middle East less than two months after striking a historic deal to normalize relations with Israel, bulking up its military as it seeks a seat on the U.N. Security Council.
U.S. security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns.
The first debate between President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was underway Tuesday as the nation struggles to overcome a pandemic and social and political unrest.
U.S. intelligence developed evidence from Russia in summer 2016 that Hillary Clinton had personally approved a plan to concoct the Russia collusion narrative in an effort to harm Donald Trump and distract from her email scandal, according to an explosive document made public Tuesday by the Director of National Intelligence.
An election attorney who testified in the 2000 Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore believes litigation over the November 3 presidential election could be long and drawn out in swing states or states with divided governments, the Washington Examiner reports.
Authorities say the world’s coronavirus death toll crosses one million, causing grief worldwide.
Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel is not ruling out a preliminary strike against Iran, the Jerusalem Post reports. The PM made his statement during a memorial service for those who died in the Yom Kippur War, when Arab states led by Syrian and Egyptian armies ambushed Israel in a surprise attack on October 8th 1973. At the time of the strike which led to war, Israel had been observing Yom Kippur, the most solemn and holy day in the Jewish calendar, and a time when the country comes to a standstill.
Hezbollah is keeping a weapons storage site located in a civilian neighborhood precariously set next to a gas factory in Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Asserting that faith values should not be excluded from public life, a British Member of Parliament has called on the UK government to recognize that faith communities can be an “enormous resource for society,” Christian Today reported Monday. In a report submitted to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Conservative (and Christian) MP Danny Kruger suggests the government ought to work out a “new deal with faith communities” that includes them in societal policy considerations.
After learning that career analysts disputed there was Trump-Russia “collusion” in the run-up to the 2016 election, CIA Director John Brennan personally edited the intelligence report on Russian interference in the election in order to continue justifying the ongoing “collusion” probe, RealClearInvestigations (RCI) reported Thursday.
Israel spent the Yom Kippur fast day in lockdown due to the high number of patients.
The Trump administration may close its embassy in Iraq if the government does not take steps to protect it from attacks by Iranian-backed militants.
Project Veritas, headed up by video guerrilla James O’Keefe, has released another sting – and this one’s a doozy.
Military suicides have increased by as much as 20% this year compared to the same period in 2019, and some incidents of violent behavior have spiked as service members struggle under COVID-19, war-zone deployments, national disasters, and civil unrest.