Since it involves a presidential candidate and his recent release of tax records, news/activism should be fine.
FWIW, last year JR moved an LDS thread posted by an LDS freeper to ‘breaking’ news. The article was “Joseph Smith: Apostle of Jesus Christ”.
Sometimes these articles do get moved to religion but not always.
However, since this thread is still standing in News/Activism I can only assume that your statement "Sometimes these articles do get moved to religion but not always" must be correct.
In any event, I pinged the teachers for clarification, should they wish to give it.