The accession of Leo XIV, the first American pope and the third successive non-Italian to lead the Catholic Church, brings to mind the illustrious career of Pope Germanian I, another outsider to the Holy See who reigned over a tumultuous era. Germanian began his career as the disputatious monk Martin Luther before ascending to the […]

Greta Thunberg is grifting at sea. The moonfaced Swedish malcontent and 11 other Hamas supporters left the Sicilian port of Catania on the Madleen on the morning of June 1, destination Gaza. If, that is, the Israelis let them land. Thunberg is an old salt. On May 1, technical difficulties ended the environmentalist elf’s first […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson is attempting to reconcile with Elon Musk after the billionaire's fierce opposition to the Big, Beautiful Bill caused turmoil among Republican lawmakers.

The federal appeals court in Washington maintained a blockade on President Trump's attempt to fire the CEO of the Inter-American Foundation, ruling Thursday that the president likely acted beyond his powers.

“It’s not the plan,” former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is supposed to have said, “it’s the planning.” I guess that means that the details of a certain plan matter a lot less than simply having one in the first place. Ike must have known what he was talking about, of course — who am I […]

MUSK-TRUMP FEUD DESCENDS INTO EMBARRASSING SPECTACLE. Maybe Elon Musk’s escalating attacks on President Donald Trump, and Trump’s increasingly irritated responses, were funny for a few minutes, given that the two had been best buddies just days ago. But the battle quickly sank into ugliness on Thursday. The display will not do any good for either the […]

The U.S. on Thursday said it is sanctioning four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges via a part of a prior executive order President Trump issued in February. The four judges that the U.S. said it is sanctioning are Reine Alapini-Gansou, Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, Solomy Balungi Bossa and Beti Hohler, according to a fact...

A federal judge late Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s proclamation that blocks visas for foreign students planning to attend Harvard University until after a hearing later this month.  U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs’s order came swiftly after Harvard rushed to court to ask the judge to immediately block Trump’s proclamation, which he signed a day earlier.  Burroughs...

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Thursday referred to the feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump as a circus sideshow as the Senate focuses on passing Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” “This is a little speed bump, it’s a little side circus show,” Marshall told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” “We are absolutely...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the dramatic fallout between President Trump and his former special adviser, Elon Musk, is "incredibly unfortunate" after the two had a heated public exchange via social media posts on Thursday. During a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity on his Fox News show "Hannity," Cruz expressed his disappointment over the feud, which began...