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Amid fraught election rhetoric, Smithsonian to open first major Quran exhibition

The sacred work of Islam and the signature museum of Washington, DC will combine for an unprecedented exhibit this fall. “The Art of the Quran,” the first major exhibition of Qurans in the US, will open at the Smithsonian Institution on October 15, less than a month before the presidential election that will close a

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Don’t let the ‘aw, shucks’ fool you: Tim Kaine is a force for Clinton on campaign trail

JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—Wherever Tim Kaine goes these days, he says it’s “a treat” to be there. It didn’t matter whether the bus he was riding with Hillary Clinton, for their first campaign swing since the Democratic convention, deposited him in a wire factory or a toy manufacturing plant. Not only was it a treat, Kaine told

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Nancy Pelosi: Hillary Clinton struggles with white men because of ‘God,’ ‘guns,’ and ‘gays’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says “the three G’s” are preventing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign from gaining traction with white males: God, guns and gay people. The California Democrat sat down with PBS Newshour on Tuesday night to discuss the 2016 presidential election. When journalist Judy Woodruff asked why Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump polls

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24 Facts To Celebrate Peru’s Independence Day!

Peru’s Independence Day or “Fiestas Patrias” is celebrated on July 28, to commemorate the anniversary of Peru’s independence from Spanish rule in the year 1824. The Peruvian independence was first declared in 1821 by the Argentine liberator, General José de San Martín but absolute independence was gained only until in 1824. On their Independence Day,

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‘Why did Hitler kill the Jews?’: Article in Ontario Arabic newspaper blames Holocaust on victims

Police in London, Ont., are investigating a possible hate crime after an article appeared in an Arabic-language community newspaper that said Jews inflated the number of Holocaust victims from between “100,000 and 600,000” to six million. Beneath the headline “The Question Which Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Kill the Jews?”, the article in the June/July

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