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 […]
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg’s group, Leaders We Deserve, launched a $20 million initiative on Monday aimed at launching primary challenges against House Democrats in safe seats in the hopes of electing a new generation of leaders. “We’re not only focused on targeting Democratic incumbents when necessary,” Hogg told The Hill in...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department against New York Attorney General Letitia James, arguing she said a Virginia home was her primary residence to secure more favorable loan terms. “Based on media reports, Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records...
Thomson Reuters said that it would be dropping “diversity” from company language and would replace it with the word “inclusion” in an effort to comply with a January executive order from President Trump on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The corporation is the parent company of Reuters international news agency and also offers tech services...
The Trump administration is planning to end the free tax filing service developed during the Biden administration, The Associated Press reported, citing two people familiar with the decision. The IRS’s “Direct File program” allows Americans to file their tax returns directly to the agency for free online. The electronic system launched as a pilot program...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been losing favorability over the course of President Trump’s second White House term, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. The Economist/YouGov Poll found that just 23 percent of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Schumer, while little over half, 51 percent, of respondents said they...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the “environmental toxins” he believes are causing increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder. “This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin in...
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would repeal the current definition of “harm” that’s prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. The law prohibits activity that would “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that President Trump's aggressive new tariffs could both lower growth and raises prices — a dynamic known as stagflation, which is notoriously difficult for the central bank to control. In a Wednesday speech in Chicago, Powell said the economy could be “moving away” from the Fed's goal of...
Time is running out for some Walgreens shoppers to file for their part of a proposed class action settlement that accuses the pharmacy chain of overcharging for generic drugs.
In a recent op-ed, Seleman Yusuph Kitenge argued for an "Africa First" policy to emphasize domestic resource mobilization, strengthening transportation systems and other social services, and the advancement of institutions and human capital to strengthen Africa's economic independence and reduce reliance on foreign aid.
Nvidia revealed on Tuesday the Trump administration's tighter export controls on computer chips will cost the company $5.5 billion. In a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nvidia said it will take a $5.5 billion charge for the exporting of its H20 graphics processing units to China. Exports of a similar bandwidth...
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) sparred with CNN host Pamela Brown over the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the deportation of a Maryland man who was sent to the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the United States last month despite his legal residency in Maryland for more than a...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of a small arm within the State Department aimed at countering foreign disinformation campaigns, which Republicans increasingly criticized as silencing conservative voices online. Rubio announced the shuttering of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center...
President Trump’s fight with Harvard University shows how far he is willing to take his crusade against higher education, targeting the oldest and richest university in the nation. The battle will test how far the Trump administration will be able to go after it has already paused funding for numerous other institutions and has...
