Trump: I won’t be a dictator if I become US president again
Reuters Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US President again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that America was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Republican presidential candidate Trump had to be asked twice during […]
Biden urges Putin war crimes trial after Bucha killings
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Joe Biden on Monday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of war crimes and called for a trial, adding to the global outcry over civilian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha as more graphic images of their deaths emerged. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters after […]
Essay: What 20 years (and counting) of the war on terror must teach us
In an article published by Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Friends Committee on National Legislation, says it’s “clearer than ever the global war on terror has been an unmitigated humanitarian and strategic disaster”…
Madam president? Most Americans think a woman could reach the White House by 2030
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation More than 90 per cent of Americans think the United States could have its first woman president within a decade, a poll showed on Monday, as Vice-President Kamala Harris is increasingly tipped as favourite for the Democratic Party nomination in 2024. A Gallup poll conducted in 74 countries showed Americans were the most likely to […]
Power shift: Biden charts new US direction, promises many Trump reversals
BILL BARROW, of Associated Press, looks at how new US President Joe Biden is may address key issues in the US…
US President-elect Biden taps Delaware AME pastor to offer benediction at inauguration
Washington DC, USRNS Rev Silvester S Beaman, pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware, a predominantly Black church, will deliver the benediction at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Beaman, who has known the Biden family for nearly 30 years, is considered a confidant of the president-elect, and collaborated with his […]
US House impeaches Trump for a second time; 10 Republicans vote yes
Updated 3.30pm (AEDT) Washington DC, USReuters Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in US history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week’s violent rampage in the Capitol. The vote in the Democratic-controlled House […]
Defence at Senate trial says ousting Trump would be “massive interference” in election
Washington DC, USReuters Lawyers for US President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the head of the defence team, told senators they would be denying voters their […]
Trump lawyers call for immediate acquittal in legal, political defence
Washington DC, USReuters US President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal. The 116-page Trial Memorandum sought to undercut charges that the Republican President abused his power and […]
ESSAY: TRUMP’S TWEETS AND ACTIONS AREN’T GOOD FRUIT – OR MORAL
MATTHEW ARBO, an assistant professor of theology and director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Oklahoma Baptist University, responds to a US theologian’s recent defence of US President Donald Trump in the wake of a Christianity Today editorial calling for the President’s removal…