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A Catholic university’s course on slavery has apparently been updated to include a new threat to African Americans: Donald Trump. The upper-level history course, “Slavery and Abolition Then and Now,” will be taught in the spring semester by Prof. John Donoghue, an expert in the Atlantic slave trade. The description of the course on the class registration website LOCUS says it “will introduce students to the long durée of global slavery as a means to convey slavery’s ubiquity across time and space.”

Also down ballot predictions maybe too.

Her speech was only about about seven minutes long, but she fled after she started getting wet. . . . “I was with Jay-Z and Beyonce,” Clinton bragged, calling it “the most extraordinary show.” She also appeared delighted that Beyonce’s dancers were wearing pantsuits during the performance.

Trump, on the other hand, is running something of a two-man show with his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, as many leading Republican lawmakers have either avoided being seen with him in public or stated outright that they will not campaign with the party's nominee. The GOP nominee has appeared at campaign rallies this week in Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, New York, North Carolina and New Hampshire. Pence, for his part, has held rallies in Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan and Iowa.

Bill Clinton said Friday that he felt bad for Melania Trump, third wife to GOP nominee Donald Trump, after she gave a speech outlining her plans to address cyberbullying. "I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife going out giving a speech saying oh, cyberbullying was a terrible thing," the former president said Friday at a campaign stop in Colorado.

A first-time voter in Arkansas discovered a major error on her ballot when she went to vote in Lonoke County this week: Hillary Clinton's name was spelled Hilliary, placing the word "liar" in the Democratic presidential nominee's first name. The unnamed woman reported the mistake to election officials and said she believes election officials purposely misspelled her name.

"Earlier today, Steven Borowiec, a freelance journalist in South Korea, posted a tweet about Donald Trump on his personal Twitter profile that violated our professional standards," the paper said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "The Los Angeles Times is committed to fair, evenhanded coverage of the presidential campaign, and expects all journalists representing the paper, including non-staff contributors such as Mr. Borowiec, to adhere to this standard in their articles and social media posts," it said. "We regard Mr. Borowiec's comment as inexcusable, and we have ended our relationship with him."

“There has been unprecedented conversation in the 2016 USA election about issues with the voting process, and even some potential worry of violence on election day,” Ushahidi COO Nat Manning wrote. “While there is no evidence of voter fraud in America, there are instances of voter suppression and voting issues on election day. As citizens, let’s raise our voices and help to report any issues on election day as well as celebrate all those who run a tight ship and bring trust to the underpinning of our democratic systems.”

Business owner Mike Makowski from Concordville, Pennsylvania posted a Trump-Pence sign at his business. But after he got an angry call from a Hillary supporter he made some updates to his display. Makowski welded a “jail cell” together and added a replica of Hillary Clinton in an orange jumpsuit.

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and his running mate Bill Weld have a master plan in place “to change history” and win the 2016 election. The pair maintain that quirky political circumstances, voting variables and polling inaccuracies could play in their favor. . . . This situation presents “a clear and realistic strategy” for the third party should the election end up being sent to the House of Representatives, as per established protocols, say the Libertarian gents.

The US secretary of state John Kerry has called the country’s presidential election “downright embarrassing”. . . . His comments come as Democrat candidate Mrs Clinton was forced to again defend herself over her use of a private email system, saying she would not be “knocked off course” in the election’s final days.

I am mad. I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us. The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere. There is so much of...

Donald Trump took considerable heat when, during the first Republican primary debate in August 2015, he initially declined to pledge support for the party’s eventual presidential nominee. But now that Trump is that nominee, his former primary foes are the ones who have split on honoring the pledge.

That said, among his fellow Mormons, there appears to be a lot of interest in the former Republican congressional staffer’s candidacy. In a Utah survey released over the weekend by the Salt Lake Tribune, McMullin trailed Republican nominee Donald Trump by just 2 percent, within the poll’s margin of error. . . . McMullin has also polled in the low double-digits in neighboring Idaho, ahead of Johnson’s 4 percent. It’s even possible that his support could be higher than surveys are indicating, since many pollsters don’t include him in their questionnaires. All of this means that everything is going to...

Former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich confessed on Monday evening that he wrote in Arizona Sen. John McCain for president on his early voting ballot instead of Republican nominee Donald Trump. Chris Schrimpf, the governor's political spokesman, confirmed to Cleveland.com that the Ohio governor voted straight-ticket Republican on the rest of his ballot, but stood by his July promise not to vote for the billionaire businessman.

"I thought I could beat Hillary. I thought I could beat anybody that ran. . . . His response was to a question about whether he regretted not running for president now that Clinton's victory appears in jeopardy given Friday's decision by the FBI to reopen a case into Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

"I get asked on a regular basis, 'Boy, why aren't you running this year?' I ask myself that a lot too. But I did that once," Romney said. He made self-deprecating jokes about his loss to President Barack Obama in 2012, borrowing a line from Democrat Walter Mondale, who lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election: "All my life I wanted to run for president in the worst way, and that's what I did." He laughed about how much fun he had running in the 2012 race, encouraging the audience at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber...

Before a crowd of several hundred students at FSU’s Oglesby Union State Ballroom — cordoned off to make the audience appear more compact — the Democratic vice-presidental nominee cited three reasons to vote early: potential Russian involvement in the election process, Trump’s claim of election rigging and the difficulty of electing a woman to be president in the United States. . . . Kaine was joined by former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly and former Rep. Gabby Gifford’s (D-AZ), both of who are Clinton supporters and gun control activists.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) suggested to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday that the Russians may have played a role in the FBI reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server after discovering new documents. “So the question is: Where did these come from? How did they get to the FBI? Is Russia involved in this? We don’t have a clue where this stuff is coming from,” Ryan said.

VISION and MISSION The modern National Black Robe Regiment is a network of national and local pastors that equips and empowers pastors to engage in their Biblical and historical role to stand boldly for righteousness and transform society through spiritual and cultural engagement. The early American pastor had a reputation as a courageous and fearless leader, causing the British during the American Revolution to dub them “The Black Regiment,” a reference to their clerical robes. Those pastors boldly proclaimed the Word of God as it applied to everything in life, whether spiritual or temporal—about eternal life in Christ, taxes, education,...