One reason Ted Cruz, the Republican Iowa caucus winner last week, isn't faring as well in New Hampshire polling may be because the Texas senator's appeal to evangelical Christian voters falls largely on deaf ears.
The Granite State is the least devout place in the U.S., according to Gallup surveys of those who say they are "very religious." In New Hampshire, that amounted to just 1 in 5 people, Gallup said on Friday, the lowest ratio of any U.S. state. Three other New England states follow close behind, including Massachusetts.
GENEVA (AP) — International investigators say several thousands of detainees have been executed, beaten to death or otherwise left to die during Syria's civil war, in policies that appear to amount to extermination under international law.
The U.N.-backed Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented a 25-page report Monday on killings of detainees by President Bashar Assad's government. It also cites execution policies by radical groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front.
