By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Friday, April 26, 2024 A view of a polling station at the Zion Baptist Church is seen on January 5, 2021, in Marietta, Georgia. | SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images The National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA is launching a series of events known as “Freedom … Read more
Twelve major national news organizations penned a letter Sunday asking presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to participate in televised general election debates before voters go to the polls in November. “If there is one thing Americans can agree on during this polarized time, it is that the stakes of this … Read more
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and JILL COLVIN (Associated Press) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump again used language denounced by Democrats to hammer President Joe Biden over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday as he campaigned in two midwestern swing states likely to be critical to the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump, who has accused migrants … Read more
By LISA MASCARO (AP Congressional Correspondent) WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House — having once called the defeated president “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. But that’s potentially about to change. … Read more
It’s Presidents’ Day, and to honor the nation’s top bosses, I figured an economic scorecard would be helpful. Now, the commander-in-chief probably gets too much blame – or too much credit – for what’s going on in the nation’s business climate. Still, the buck stops at the Oval Office for anything in America. With the … Read more
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK — A New York judge ordered Donald Trump and his companies on Friday to pay $355 million, finding they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. Trump won’t have to pay out the money … Read more
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Thursday, February 15, 2024 Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. | Wikimedia Commons/Martin Künzel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_National_Cathedral_2008.jpg The Episcopal Church is overseeing a program aimed at helping members become engaged in the democratic process as the United States nears the 2024 presidential election. The Church’s Office of Government Relations leads a … Read more
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Consumer inflation in the United States cooled last month yet remained elevated in the latest sign that the pandemic-fueled price surge is only gradually and fitfully coming under control. Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the consumer price index rose 0.3% from December to … Read more
Senegal’s parliament on Monday voted to delay the presidential election until 15 December, AP reports. The decision to postpone the West African nation’s election scheduled for 25 February to December took place in a chaotic voting process after opposition lawmakers were forcefully removed from the chambers as they debated President Macky Sall’s earlier decision to … Read more
Canada’s ambassador to the United States says Ottawa must take concrete steps to prepare for the outcome of this fall’s pivotal presidential election, which could see Donald Trump returned to power. In an interview with CBC News on Saturday ahead of a Canadian cabinet retreat in Montreal — where she will brief ministers — Kirsten Hillman said … Read more
