Keith Larson: To change the system would mean changing ourselves
Barring any hanging chads, the victor will be declared sometime tonight. Then, those who sought that victory by gleefully seeking to divide will put on their false piety and call on us to come together as Americans. The Ringling Brothers Barnum and Trump and Clinton Circus of 2016 will draw to its close with about […]
Man Saves 70 People From ISIS Sniper Fire Using His Bulletproof BMW
James Bond, eat your heart out – this guy just saved 70 people who were injured by ISIS sniper fire by driving around in a bulletproof BMW. When jihadi militants started advancing upon the city of Kirkuk in Iraq, Ako Abdulrahman began looking for ways to protect himself.
US Voters Head to Polls in Droves After Bitter Presidential Campaign
Droves of U.S. voters are headed to polls across the country Tuesday to elect a new president, the culmination of a long, contentious campaign between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. Clinton, a former secretary of state looking to become the first female U.S. president, cast a ballot for herself at a polling place […]
Afghans weigh in on US presidential candidates
Kabul, Afghanistan – The outcome of the US presidential election has a far-reaching impact, and in Afghanistan’s capital, some have definite ideas about who they would like to see in office: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. This is the country where America’s longest war has been playing out since 2001.
Clinton, Trump Try to Outflank Each Other on Stance Against Terrorism
With public anxiety over terrorist attacks on the rise in the U.S., presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have tried to outflank each other to project toughness on terrorism. Trump blames Clinton for promoting policies as secretary of state that have given rise to terrorism while Clinton says her Republican rival of lacking a […]
Families Reveal IS Trickery As They Slip Out of Mosul
“They use bullets in the school classrooms,” joked Ratima Ahmed. “One bullet plus one bullet equals two bullets.” Just hours before, she had fled her home in eastern Mosul, where the Iraqi Army now battles Islamic State militants. She sat in the dust with other women and children on the city’s outskirts, waiting for buses […]
Israel says no to Middle East peace talks in Paris
Israel formally rejected France’s invitation to take part in a Middle East peace conference in Paris later this year, saying it was a distraction from the goal of direct negotiations with the Palestinians. At a meeting in Jerusalem with Israel’s acting national security adviser and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic adviser, French envoy Pierre Vimont […]
US Women, Minorities Aim for Equal Representation
On Election Day, American voters could elect the first female president to follow the nation’s first African-American president. But even with those historic firsts in the White House and an expected rise in the number of woman and minorities elected to the U.S. Congress this year, the nation’s highest elected offices still don’t reflect the […]
Rebel Tensions Rise With Myanmar Army’s Offensive
Under the scorching midday sun, a drill sergeant for the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) shouts commands at around 100 young soldiers, some barely out of their teens. The rebels, mostly male, struggle to keep formation. They’re exhausted when they return to their barracks at a training school near Laiza, a town in a mountain valley […]
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in US election clash
Polling stations have opened as the first ballots were cast in the US presidential election, pitting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton against her Republican rival Donald Trump. Voters in nine states got a first crack at electing the new president on Tuesday, with the rest of the country due to get started later in the day.