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"What is your ethnicity?" What's next, keeping Jewish reporters out of the WH?

Four republicans and one independent joined House democrats in condemning Trump's racist tweets against four American Congresswomen.

Conservative commentator George Will told the New York Times that President Trump is causing lasting damage to the country. Said Will: “I believe that what this president has done to our culture, to our civic discourse … you cannot unring these bells and you cannot unsay what he has said, and...

Most Christians don't assume the "yom" of the creation story are literal days. Scripture is not data. It's God's word.

This is true, as far as we can test. Most creation stories have the (whatever) moving around, making things bit by bit, until it's all done. Some things got made as an afterthought or because of errors, and living things get made in a haphazard way, one at a time. In Genesis, everything comes...

Science can't explain miracles. Science can't deny miracles, either.

Iranians announced that since Trump reneged on the treaty requiring them to abandon nuclear weapons research, they are no longer bound by the conditions of the treaty and will begin refining uranium above the purity level specified by the treaty. Sort of. The level of purity they plan to...

The Trump campaign has decided that no trick is too dirty for 2020, and one of the campaign’s consultants has started making fake websites for Democrats running in 2020. The websites contain fraudulent information and false quotes attributed to the candidates, and they are actually doing a...

We can look at the vectors for each force, and calculate the resultant force. One is gravity, pulling the atmosphere toward the center of the Earth. The other is due to the kinetic energy of the atmosphere moving with the earth's surface. The faster the motion of the Earth, the more the force...

Conservation of angular momentum. Angular Momentum The conserved quantity we are investigating is called angular momentum. The symbol for angular momentum is the letter L. Just as linear momentum is conserved when there is no net external forces, angular momentum is constant or conserved when...

The Justice Department has opened up a criminal investigation into potential money- laundering violations by Deutsche Bank — including transactions linked to President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to a report. The DOJ is investigating why the bank didn’t alert the US Treasury to...

Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) scoffed at the idea of reparations during his weekly press conference Tuesday, saying that slavery was part of America’s distant past, and pointing as evidence to the election...

Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them Two specialized muscles give them a range of expression that wolves’ eyes lack. Dogs, more so than almost any other domesticated species, are desperate for human eye contact. When raised around people, they begin fighting for our attention...

A common creationist objection to evolution is that man could not evolve as the intended creation of God, since evolution, although not random, is affected by random factors. "How,"the creationist might ask,"can a process that is at least partially due to contingent factors result in an...

Mitch McConnell doesn't want to be criticized for ignoring 9/11 first responders. Mitch McConnell lashed out at comedian Jon Stewart after the former Daily Show host criticized the Senate Majority Leader for dragging his feet on authorizing funds to compensate 9/11 first responders. Appearing...

Data from President Donald Trump's first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins to former Vice President Joe Biden in key battleground states. Trump has repeatedly denied that such data exists. The...

RALEIGH — Greensboro-area legislator Jon Hardister joined a bipartisan group of N.C. House members Wednesday in a renewed effort to curb partisan gerrymandering. Hardister, R-Whitsett, combined with a fellow Republican and two Democratic representatives in sponsoring a bill that would put...

After huge demonstrations, Carrie Lam backed down and suspended a bill that would allow Hong Kong to extradite people from Hong Kong to China. Backed by China's strong man Xi Jinping, the bill would have allowed anyone to be taken and sent to China.