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 […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is facing potential cuts and elimination due to Trump administration officials' efforts to reduce the federal government's role in responding to disasters.
China is hitting Hollywood amid President Trump's escalating trade war, saying it plans on cutting back on the number of American movie titles it allows into the country. "We will follow market rules, respect the audience's choices, and moderately reduce the number of American films imported," the China Film Administration, which regulates the film and...
House Republicans on Thursday adopted the Senate’s framework that will be used to enact key parts of President Trump’s legislative agenda, getting the blueprint over the finish line after a last-minute scramble to win over conservatives who had spent days railing against the measure. The largely party line 216-214 vote marks a big win for Speaker...
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) are demanding that the Office of Government Ethics investigate what they say are potential conflicts of interest of White House and executive branch officials who may have made financial transactions with insider knowledge of President Trump’s 90-day pause on steep tariffs. The Democratic senators want the White...
Republicans sent letters to eight Ivy League institutions over concerns of collusion to raise tuition prices. The letter was sent by House and Senate Republicans to Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. The Republicans are concerned about alleged collusion and potential...
Former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said President Trump was “forced” to introduce a 90-day pause on tariffs due to crippling market shares. “Donald Trump said as much on the South Lawn, that he was looking at the bond markets collapsing and that was what forced his hand into this reversal,” Farah Griffin, who...
Kathleen Sgamma, President Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has withdrawn her name from consideration for the role. Sgamma's decision was announced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, during what was supposed to be her confirmation hearing Thursday. “I was informed by the...
Egg prices rose to a record high in March of $6.23 per dozen despite optimism from the White House last month. The price for a dozen grade A large eggs jumped from February’s $5.90 to $6.23, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It was $4.95 per dozen in January. Overall, the index for...
Dozens of House Democrats are demanding President Trump confirm that Elon Musk will leave his role in the administration by May 30. A group of 77 lawmakers, led by Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), sent a letter to Trump on Wednesday, emphasizing the tech billionaire can only serve in his role as a special government...
The European Union (EU) is putting its retaliatory tariffs on hold for 90 days after President Trump instituted a pause on his sweeping duties for most U.S. trading partners, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled early Thursday. Von der Leyen signaled that the 27-member trading bloc is open to negotiations with the Trump...
Consumer prices fell by 0.1 percent from March to April to a 2.4 percent annual increase, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The deflation from March to April comes in below expectations of economists, who were predicting a 0.1 percent increase in the consumer price index (CPI) across the two months. On an annual basis, they...
23andMe’s debacle should be a major wake-up call, reminding policymakers and all of us of the risks of giving access to our genetic and other health data.
Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was detained last year on treason charges, was released from Russia in the latest prisoner exchange, according to the State Department. “American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the United States. She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and President Trump secured...
