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US Vice President JD Vance meeting Pope Francis at the Casa Santa Marta a day before his death (Credit: Vatican) Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, passed away Monday morning at the age of 88. The Vatican’s camerlengo, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, announced that the Pope died at 7:35 AM in Vatican City. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church,″ Farrell said in the announcement. In February, Francis, long criticized by conservatives for steering the Church…

Topline President Donald Trump used a celebratory Easter message posted Sunday to attack judges who have ruled against his administration’s sweeping immigration actions, which have included the erroneous deportation of a Maryland man and deportations made under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Trump posted the comments on Truth Social. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Key Facts Trump, in what has become a hallmark of his holiday messaging, wished a happy Easter to “Radical Left Lunatics” trying to bring “Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife…

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) responded to polling data showing support for President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and more deportations by saying that “I do not hear that same level of xenophobia that we see in the polling.” After a segment on polling data showing that Trump has positive net approval on immigration, a plurality of people think the country is on the right track on immigration, most people support deporting all illegal immigrants, and most independents want to deport more illegal immigrants, host Jake Tapper asked, “So, you just heard CNN’s Harry Enten…

Jamal remembers the day like it was yesterday.Four years ago, while fishing off the coast of Palu in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, his routine trip turned into a life-or-death battle.It all happened so fast, he said.Out on his boat alone in the early evening, Jamal was ambushed by a saltwater crocodile that climbed aboard and dragged him into the water.”There were 10 bite marks on my body,” he recalled.”I wrestled with the crocodile.” Acting on instinct, he grabbed a knife from his boat. “Within five minutes, I stabbed its eye, and it let go. If we panic, we’re done for.”Jamal…

After a wet start, we will see breezy and drier conditions across the area.[DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Storm Center 7 continues to TRACK these conditions. Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Britley Ritz has the latest TIMING today on News Center 7 Daybreak from 4:25 a.m. until 7 a.m.TRENDING STORIES:AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThere is a chance of scattered showers and storms this morning.Photo from: Britley Ritz/StaffRitz says a few storms are capable of gusty winds and small hail, but will be “very scattered.”Rain will be persistent throughout the morning commute.Ritz states that drier weather will move in late this afternoon…

Natalie Winters, White House Correspondent/Image: @nataliegwinters/X On Friday, April 18, the voice of Generation Z, War Room’s White House Correspondent and Executive Editor, Natalie Winters, thoroughly impaled David Brooks’s latest argument in the New York Times, calling for “a comprehensive national civic uprising” against President Trump. While introducing his co-host, Natalie Winters, War Room founder Steve Bannon said, “David Brooks is a broken man. He is calling for a national mass mobilization of law firms, university professors, and the credentialed class, because, he says, Trump is in a comprehensive power move to destroy it all – every institution that he…

Peggy Gou: “I wanted to create a bottle that stops you in your tracks the moment you see it.”Diageo Fans of South Korean DJ and style icon Peggy Gou will already have clocked that she has partnered with Diageo’s most prestigious tequila brand, Don Julio 1942, to promote a limited release of the spirit. It has been renamed Tequila Don Julio 194구 (구 is Korean for Gou, the surname fortuitously rhyming with two). The move from Don Julio is significant because this is the brand’s first global product collaboration designed to build on stellar tequila/agave sales growth for Diageo in…

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rina Gandhi, one of the attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, stated that a photo published by the White House that it says proves Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member “is just a continuation of the distraction. This case is not about whether Mr. Abrego Garcia is good or bad, whether he is or isn’t in MS-13, whether he should be able to remain for the rest of his life in the U.S. or not.” It’s about due process. Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “One thing that we’ve heard from the legal team, and, against this…

Is Sylt, Germany’s north-west island in the North Sea long known as home to the country’s rich and famous, losing its reputation?As the hotel, pub and tourism operators prepare for the upcoming summer season, they will be looking to see if the bad publicity repeats itself this year.The island has been beset with punks, a racist brawl in an upmarket pub and chaos on the railway line – stories that have not only dominated local media but also coverage nationwide.So much so that Sylt’s highly polished luxury brand is now seen a less glamorous by some.For now, tourists are defying…

TORONTO (AP) — Until a few months ago, Pierre Poilievre was seen as a shoo-in to become Canada’s next prime minister and shepherd his Conservative Party back into power for the first time in a decade. Then President Donald Trump declared economic war on the U.S.’s neighbor to the north and even threatened to make Canada the 51st state.Poilievre, a career politician and firebrand populist, has campaigned with Trump-like braggadocio, even taking a page from the “America First” president by adopting the slogan “Canada First.” But his similarities to Trump might cost him the chance to become prime minister when…