Source: Vatican Pool / Getty VATICAN CITY – On Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, the Vatican announced with deep sorrow the passing of Pope Francis at the age of 88. The first Latin American pontiff, born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, breathed his last at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. His death marked…
FILE – An American flag is displayed on the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) U.S. stocks are sinking Monday as investors pull away from the United States because of the uncertainty caused by Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve. U.S. stocks are sinking…
A public spat broke out when comedian Roseanne Barr and conservative gadfly Candace Owens traded harsh words that quickly went beyond normal political disagreement. What started as angry comments during a podcast turned into a social media fight that showed how complicated a relationship these two outspoken right-wing figures have with each other. The drama…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just can’t keep confidential military information out of the group chat, because the highest-ranking member in Trump’s administration to have questionable tattoos, has apparently done it again. That’s right, Hegseth, the man who’s responsible for keeping American secrets, was somehow in a group chat with…
Daniris Espinal stands for a portrait in Sunset Park, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) It would be among the largest one-time losses of rental assistance in the U.S., analysts say, and the ensuing evictions could churn these people back onto the street or back into abusive…
Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Devin Springer’s recent detention and interrogation by U.S. Border Protection and Customs agents took a page out of an old playbook used to repress dissent and punish outspoken Black leaders. Last week agents detained and interrogated Springer—a Black, queer, Muslim organizer and journalist known by friends and colleagues as Musa—…
Two Black women who were wrongly charged after a Texas auto shop manager accused them of assault are taking legal action and reversing the allegations, accusing him of attacking and discriminating against them because of their race and sexual orientation. Dymond Canada and Donae Douglas were once charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon…
Seven people, including three children, are lucky to be alive after a teen boy broke into their suburban Michigan home last week and discharged an explosive device. Police say the alleged culprit, 17-year-old Jonathan Michael Brady, acted out after a female cousin who lived in the home refused to go out with him earlier that…
Megyn Kelly is under fire again—this time for weighing in on Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage, suggesting that one of America’s most admired couples might never have been meant to be. On a recent episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the former Fox News anchor critiqued the Obamas’ relationship with striking bluntness. Reacting to Michelle…
FILE – US President Barack Obama, left, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, drawing wild cheers and applause. Pope Francis, history’s first…
