Twelve years ago, I was nine years old, playing on the beach and savoring the final moments of spring break 2013. Unexpectedly, my mom shouted from her beach chair, “We have a new pope!” I dashed over to her chair, interested in this exclamation. “He’s a Jesuit, that’s weird,” she continued. I just nodded, not sure […]
The funeral of Pope Francis — the world's first Argentinean pontiff — will be held in Rome early Saturday as Catholics around the globe gather to pay their respects. Francis died Monday at the age of 88 from a stroke — a complication of chronic lung disease, which had plagued the pope for months. His...
Pope Francis's funeral is slated to begin early Saturday in Rome as Catholics mourn the loss of their leader and prepare for the conclave to replace him. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re will preside over Francis's funeral in St. Peter's Square and is expected to deliver the eulogy. Francis died earlier this week from heart failure...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a bombshell Biden administration document this week, a blueprint for combating “domestic terrorism,” an umbrella term encompassing parents who attended school board meetings or Catholics who favored the traditional liturgy. This 2021 document, called the Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism, reveals a coordinated effort to target […]
NATO seemingly walked back comments from the chief that suggested four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, clarifying late Wednesday that the “search is ongoing.” “On the 4 US soldiers missing in a military exercise in Lithuania, the search is ongoing,” NATO said in a post on social platform X....
Tulsi Gabbard's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee has led Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to believe that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, despite intelligence suggesting otherwise.
In today’s issue: Denials, deflections and calls for resignation have dominated the headlines in Washington this week, as the Trump White House reels from the revelation that top national security officials discussed military plans in a commercial chat app group that inadvertently included a journalist. President Trump and several Cabinet officials — including CIA Director...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under close scrutiny as Republican lawmakers criticize his handling of sensitive military information in a group chat with other administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist. Republican lawmakers have stopped short of calling on Hegseth to resign, but they’re warning that his decision to share sensitive details about a...
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin will campaign in Florida’s sixth congressional district this weekend ahead of next week’s special House election. Martin will hit the campaign trail with Democratic candidate Josh Weil in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Martin will also take part in a roundtable with Latino leaders in Orlando, which is located...
Significant differences between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) are leaving plans for a new House GOP probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack in limbo more than two months after it was announced, as the sides collide over a new select subcommittee’s scope and authority. Loudermilk, who is supposed to chair the new panel that would be housed under the House...
The Social Security Administration said Wednesday it would modify it’s proposed new policy by foregoing an in person requirement to verify the identity of account holders with Disability Insurance, Medicare and SSI Applications. “We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to...
Fox News’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin said she surveyed current and former defense officials on Wednesday who said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared “classified” information via the Signal group chat with President Trump’s cabinet members and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was mistakenly added to the message thread. “What Hegseth shared...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told a Sky News reporter on Wednesday to "go back to your country" as she tried to ask about the recent controversy behind a Signal chat with military plans among the Trump administration's national security officials that included a journalist. "We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting....
The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, reportedly found private contact information for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were involved in the Signal group chat security breach. The news site's report said each individual's email address and phone number were readily available on the...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney fired back at President Trump's newly-announced 25 percent tariff on foreign-made car imports, describing it as a "direct attack" on Canada's workers and vowed that U.S.'s northern neighbor will eventually "emerge stronger." “This is a direct attack, to be clear, a direct attack on the very workers that I stood...
Fox News’ political commentator Brit Hume scolded President Trump’s administration for “making a mess” in response to the Signal group chat revelation where top national security officials were discussing the plan to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. Hume said there are a “couple” of “iron” rules when responding to a “scandal.” “One: get the facts...
