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Twitter users blasted President Biden Sunday after he called out "MAGA proposals" as a threat to "the very soul of this country," in another example of the president attacking his political opponents. The official presidential Twitter account tweeted, "MAGA proposals are a threat to the very soul of this country." Prior to that tweet, his account also elaborated on the "MAGA agenda" being a threat to the "foundations of our Republic." "The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic. It doesn’t respect our Constitution. It doesn’t believe in the rule of law. And it...

The US and its allies patrol the seas, looking to stop proliferation of nuclear technology and to enforce sanctions against rogue nations, especially on arms trafficking. In the case of the latter, one of its allies clearly needs a little more work in preventing trafficking — on their own ships: US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran. The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of chagrin in Berlin.

Catholics in England outnumber Anglicans 16.02.2007 Poles in the UK are swelling the congregations and changing the face of British Christianity. Amy Drozdowska reports In the wake of England's biggest wave of immigration in three centuries, a new report finds that the face of Christianity in England is increasingly international. Polish migrant workers in particular are contributing to a huge growth in London's Catholic community - one that's set to overshadow England's own church. Thanks in large part to the huge influx of Polish migrant workers to the United Kingdom since Poland's entry into the European Union, Catholicism is set...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - A Muslim civil liberties group demanded an apology Thursday from the host of a Los Angeles-area radio show for making fun of a stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during an annual pilgrimage. The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked for an apology from KFI-AM 640 host Bill Handel, who allegedly made fun of the deaths the same day they happened during a segment he called the "Annual Stampede Report.".

One morning in February 2004 Ladi, her husband, and seven children were doing their daily chores in their home in northern Nigeria when they heard gunshots. The news spread like wildfire: "Fundamentalist Muslims are attacking our village!" Ladi and her household usually attend morning devotions, but that morning they stayed home. "Some people in our village were at the prayer meeting when the attack started and others were at home," Ladi recalls. All the men who attended the prayer meeting were murdered. After the initial gunshots, Ladi saw the attackers sweeping through the village-killing, looting, and burning. She witnessed the...

The best that can be said of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed deal on the prison guard contract is that it's better than having your eye poked out with a stick. This wasn't a true renegotiation, where the two sides exchange views and compromise on provisions of the 300-page contract. Like Schwarzenegger's other "deals" this legislative session, it was merely a deferral of costs to a later date. What a disappointment. A chance for true reform was dashed. Schwarzenegger's deal does nothing to close the gap between what legislators were told the five-year contract would cost ($567 million) and what it...