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In an interview with Elle Magazine, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams characterized herself as an “excellent VP candidate:" “I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities.” Abrams’s name has been floated within talks of Joe Biden’s vice presidential choices after she gained name recognition in the 2018 midterms. After losing to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) in 2018, Abrams famously refused to concede, claiming that “democracy had failed” and that voter suppression denied her the governorship: Full Speech: Stacey Abrams Ends Candidacy For Georgia GovernorAbrams acknowledged that her...

(CNSNews.com) – Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter said the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist policies of not having female clergy leads to the "abuse of women." “My wife is perhaps the most famous Baptist deacon in the world, but in the Southern Baptist Convention there’s a policy that women cannot be pastors, they cannot be deacons, they cannot be chaplains, and in some of the Southern Baptist seminaries or universities, it’s prohibited for a woman to teach a classroom that has boys as students,” Carter said. “And we know that the Catholic Church ordained back in the third or fourth...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Leslie Strickland said she had nothing but good intentions when she loaded a badly hurt 6-foot alligator into the back seat of her car and took it home to Port Charlotte. The 49-year-old woman had hit the animal with her car Friday night and went back to rescue it Saturday - but wound up spending a night in jail, charged with possession of an alligator, a felony in Florida.Police also charged her with driving with a suspended license and walking away from the scene of an accident, leaving the injured alligator in the back seat."I knew...