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 world was caught in the crosshairs of President Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday which forced an outcry from foreign leaders across the globe following the shift in U.S. trade policy. The president of the European Commission said many felt “let down by our oldest ally” while her counterparts in China raced to retaliate. White House...
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer defended President Trump's decision to slap new tariffs on global trading partners, suggesting in a new interview that the additional import taxes will protect American workers. "I can tell you this, the president is focused on protecting the American worker through these tariffs. Fair trade practices are important to the American...
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is questioning President Trump’s decisions to pick “amateur isolationists” for senior policy jobs at the Pentagon and to fire Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, without explanation. “If decades of experience in uniform isn’t enough to lead the N.S.A. but...
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate's budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours before, as “unserious and disappointing.” Arrington criticized the budget plan for “creating $5.8 trillion in new costs and a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts” or “less than one day’s worth of borrowing by...
I’m outraged that the federal government has abruptly — and, I believe, illegally — terminated contracts to support work that I and hundreds of my fellow researchers have been pursuing.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are set to hit the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration. The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization...
Multinational auto manufacturer Stellantis said Friday it would begin offering employee discounts to the public in an effort to cushion the blow from President Trump’s new tariffs. The move follows in the steps of Ford Motor Company, which announced a similar bargain earlier this week. Auto tariffs went into effect on April 3, the day...
The amount of Democrats who say they are proud to be an American has decreased by 8 percentage points in the last year, according to survey results published Friday. Just 58 percent of Democrats still say they are proud patriots — compared to 66 percent who said the same in April 2024, YouGov’s latest poll...
Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine official who resigned last week amid pressure from the Trump administration, urged families to continue vaccinating their children. Marks, who previously led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, pointed to concerns around Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his...
Senate Democrats on Saturday blasted their GOP colleagues after the upper chamber advanced a budget blueprint overnight seeking to protect President Trump's legislative agenda. The resolution passed in the upper chamber early Saturday morning by a 51-48 vote, after the upper chamber held an hours-long "vote-a-rama" on a series of amendments. The blueprint outlines plans...
Artificial intelligence could be the final nail in the coffin of educational excellence, by removing the “rote work” from learning and creating an educational environment in which critical thinking is replaced with automation.
