Pope Leo XIV weighed in Tuesday on a controversial plan by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with a lifetime achievement award despite the lawmaker’s support for abortion rights. Several bishops had objected to the honor because the Catholic Church officially holds that abortion violates the Fifth Commandment that “thou […]
The European Union is preparing a “drone wall” along its eastern flank — a network of radar, jammers, sensors and interceptors, not a physical barrier — to counter incursions by unmanned aircraft. Spanning from Finland to Bulgaria and drawing on Ukraine’s battlefield technology, the plan gained urgency after recent drone incidents in Poland, Estonia, Romania […]
Simon & Schuster revealed Tuesday that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir: “107 Days” is on pace to become the best-selling memoir released this year. The publisher announced that the book has sold 350,000 copies across all platforms after its first week in stores. The book publisher noted it has ordered a fifth printing of […]
New York, October 1, 2025—In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, enduring violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people whose lives they report on. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group that evolved from the notorious Janjaweed militias accused of atrocities in earlier Darfur conflicts, have […]
The leader of Iowa’s largest school district has been sidelined after federal immigration officials detained him last week. Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts is now on unpaid leave, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accused him of being in the country illegally. His status is drawing attention to how he came to oversee Des […]
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has asked the Pentagon to authorize up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard members to help local law enforcement tackle violent crime across the state. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Landry said Louisiana faces “a convergence of elevated violent crime rates in Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans coupled […]
Almost immediately after ABC announced the temporary suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, social media erupted with calls to boycott Disney and all its entities. According to an independent journalist’s report, 1.7 million subscribers canceled Disney-owned services, including Disney+, Hulu and ESPN, in response. Cancellations tracked to Kimmel suspension […]
Top aides to President Donald Trump are advancing plans to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, escalating military pressure as part of a broader campaign, The New York Times reports. The Pentagon has built up more than 6,500 troops in the region after U.S. forces destroyed at least three boats allegedly smuggling drugs across […]
FBI Director Kash Patel gifted New Zealand law enforcement and intelligence officials with inoperable pistols that are illegal to carry without a specific permit under local gun laws. The guns were destroyed as a result. The gift came during Patel’s trip to the country earlier this year, according to The Associated Press. The guns were […]
Shipping gifts this holiday season is about to get more expensive. The U.S. Postal Service is temporarily raising prices on a number of package services beginning Sunday, Oct. 5. The USPS first signaled its intent to increase prices in August, and the change will impact Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, Parcel Select and USPS Ground […]
