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A New York megachurch pastor announced Friday he was resigning from Donald Trump's evangelical advisory board, the first religious adviser to join a wave of defections after the president's response to violence at a white supremacist rally.
AR Bernard, who leads the 37,000 registered members of the Christian Cultural Center, told CNN that "I had to fully disengage myself".
These and many other questions are still open to scientific clarification, and for decades it’s been the federal government’s fault we don’t know the answers.
These and many other questions are still open to scientific clarification, and for decades it’s been the federal government’s fault we don’t know the answers.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will not attend as planned the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors.
"The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year's activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement to Variety Saturday. "First Lady Melania Trump, along with her husband President Donald J. Trump, extend their sincerest congratulations and well wishes to all of this year's award recipients for their many accomplishments."
Thousands of leftist counterprotesters marched peaceably through downtown Boston on Saturday, chanting anti-Nazi slogans and waving signs condemning white nationalism ahead of a rally being staged by conservative activists a week after a Virginia demonstration turned deadly.
Police Commissioner William Evans said Friday that 500 officers — some in uniform, others undercover — were deployed to keep the two groups apart Saturday. Boston's Democratic mayor, Marty Walsh, and Massachusetts' Republican governor, Charlie Baker, both warned that extremist unrest wouldn't be tolerated in this city famed as the cradle of American liberty.
A former employee in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office alleges in a lawsuit headed to trial Monday that she was fired because she didn't go to church enough.
Kobach — who until the middle of 2016 held after-hours Christian prayer and Bible study sessions in his office — has called the allegation of religious discrimination by Courtney Canfield "ridiculous." His office contends she was fired over performance issues.
Public outrage in the wake of a white supremacist rally turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, has left far-right groups facing a wave of cancellations across the United States as they plan their next moves.
Backlash grows against Trump's comments on Charlottesville violence
Security concerns have prompted at several universities to block alt-right events, while cities across the country are reconsidering rally permits.
One police officer was killed and three wounded in nighttime shootings in two Florida cities where the officers were responding to suspected drug activity and reports of a suicide attempt, police said Saturday.
In Pennsylvania, two state troopers were shot outside a small-town store in Fairchance, south of Pittsburgh. State police say the troopers, both taken to hospitals after the Friday night shooting in Fairchance, were in stable condition.
Following President Trump’s remarks this week on Charlottesville, three charities are canceling benefits at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort, including Israel’s emergency medical service, Magen David Adom.
“After considerable deliberation, AFMDA - an apolitical and humanitarian aid organization will not hold its 2018 Palm Beach Celebration of Life Gala at Mar-a-Lago,” wrote the American support arm of the Israeli organization.
Update: As of 8/18, five more charities have canceled events at Mar-a-Lago.
Activist investor Carl Icahn has given up as position as “special adviser” to President Trump, leaving the administration of his good friend as it becomes increasingly embattled.
The 81-year-old businessman said Friday that he had received the commander-in-chief’s blessing to depart, and posted a letter saying that he “did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration.”
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