On May 8, the Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost, as its first North American leader. The planet and the people are in desperate need of moral healing, and there are promising signs that Pope Leo XIV just may be the voice of clarity that we need. I am a …
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No, Qatar‘s royal family gifting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet known as a “flying palace” to the government that will reportedly then go to Donald Trump‘s presidential library is not the same as France giving the Statue of Liberty to the American people. But that is what Treasury …
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The Trump Justice Department, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is weighing a move that could end the Public Integrity Section’s power to oversee indictments of members of Congress, potentially opening the door to politically motivated prosecutions, The Washington Post reports. If the proposed changes go through, U.S. attorneys — positions …
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Former president Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, his personal office said in a statement. The diagnosis follows an announcement last week that during “a routine physical exam,” Biden’s doctors discovered a “small nodule” on his prostate that they said required “further evaluation.” …
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The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger. When asked on CBS’s Face the Nation about photographs of starving children in Gaza, Van Hollen said, …
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Commander Emily Shilling served nearly 20 years in the U.S. Navy as a combat aviator with over 60 missions. Fighter pilots are very hard for the military to find, nonetheless. Shilling will be removed from service by Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. So will many others, like former Navy …
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The reconciliation bill President Donald Trump and Republicans are working to pass through Congress is chock-full of troubling provisions, but the tax plan ultimately boils down to a massive financial break for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of social programs that benefit the less fortunate — most notably Medicaid. …
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People close to President Joe Biden hid the extent of his decline, new reporting shows. Free from fears that sharing the truth might help elect Donald Trump, they are finally coming clean to journalists. Had they spoken up earlier, maybe things would look different. A new book makes the argument …
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Donald Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court after it issued a ruling Friday continuing to block his efforts to deport immigrants without due process by citing an archaic wartime law. On Saturday, Trump shared a post on Truth Social from lawyer Mike Davis, one of his most extreme …
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Disregarding the advice of medical professionals, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republicans are leading a charge against what has been heralded as one of the greatest public health achievements: fluoride in public water. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned fluoride from public water on Thursday, …
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