Trump launches 2024 US presidential run, getting jump on rivals
Palm Beach, FloridaReuters Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of US voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024, aiming to pre-empt potential Republican rivals. Trump, seeking a potential rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden, made his announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate […]
Trump, Pence speak at global forum held by South Korean church
Seoul, South Korea AP Former US President Donald Trump has criticised the Biden administration over its handling of North Korea, at a church-led event in South Korea that included as a guest speaker former Vice-President Mike Pence. Several former leaders and top officials participated virtually or in-person at the weekend event in Seoul organised by […]
In the US, Democrats barreling toward impeaching Trump in wake of Capitol siege
Washington DC, USReuters Democrats in the US House of Representatives plan to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday unless he steps down or is removed before then, after drawing up charges accusing him of inciting insurrection ahead of last week’s siege of the Capitol. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told his fellow Democrats the chamber would […]
US House Democrats to pursue impeachment if Trump not removed
Washington DC, USReuters US House of Representatives Democrats plan a vote on Monday to urge Vice President Mike Pence to take steps to remove President Donald Trump from office after his supporters’ deadly storming of the Capitol, before attempting to impeach him again. The plan, spelled out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter […]
Updated: In the US state of Georgia, final warnings about high-stakes Senate runoffs
Updated: 2:30pm (AEDT)Atlanta, Georgia, USAP President-elect Joe Biden on Monday told Georgia Democrats they had the power to “chart the course” for a generation as President Donald Trump urged Republican voters to “swamp” the polls ahead of runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate. Trump made his final-hours pitch to voters at […]
Jericho March plans DC return in the new year to pray Pence will overturn election
RNS A die-hard group of Trump supporters hopes 2021 will start with prayer, fasting and perhaps a miracle. Organisers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to […]
Kamala Harris breaks barriers as America’s next Vice President
Washington DC, USReuters Kamala Harris made history on Saturday with her election as Joe Biden’s vice president, becoming the first woman, first Black American and first Asian American to win the second highest US office. Harris, 56, is widely seen as an obvious candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in 2024 should Biden, who will […]
Essay: From ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Make America Better’ – how US history shapes Christianity and politics
MATTHEW PATRICK ROWLEY, author of ‘Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again’, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how Christians tend to approach the past…
Explainer: What’s behind Trump’s town hall answer on QAnon?
AP “Ask the Q” has been a rallying cry for QAnon believers since the conspiracy theory’s online birth three years ago. They have long claimed that if President Donald Trump was asked about QAnon, his answer would confirm their baseless belief that he is secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals […]
US election – The top three faith moments in the Harris-Pence vice presidential debate
RNS When the two major-party vice presidential candidates — a Black Baptist with Hindu heritage and a white, “born-again evangelical Catholic” – faced off on Wednesday night, they largely talked past one another (and their moderator). But among their prepared arguments, Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris discussed their differences on faith matters that Americans […]