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Pope Leo XIV responded Monday to President Donald Trump criticising him over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters the Vatican works for peace and reconciliation based on the teachings of the Gospel, adding he fears neither the Trump administration or vigorous debate. “To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here, I think is not understanding what the message of the Gospel is,” Leo told the Associated Press aboard the papal plane en route to Algeria. “And I’m sorry to hear that but I will continue on what I believe is…
Staffers working in Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) office, and on Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign released a letter expressing that they were “horrified” by sexual assault allegations brought against him. In a letter provided to Politico from a “senior staffer with Swalwell’s campaign who was granted anonymity,” the unnamed staffers expressed that they stood with their former co-worker, along with several other women who had come forward. The senior staffer reportedly “attributed” the letter “to more than a dozen unnamed staffers,” according to the outlet. The letter came after a former staffer for Swalwell told the San Francisco Chronicle that the California Democrat…
House Democrats are on track to force a new Iran war powers vote Thursday, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss internal planning. The Iran vote will be the first on the House floor since March 5, just a week after President Donald Trump launched strikes. That timing could change, the people warned, depending on how attempts to expel Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) over sexual misconduct allegations play out this week. Read the full article here
Numerous people were injured after “masked suspects” stormed a Union, New Jersey, Chick-fil-A counter Saturday night and opened fire, according to NJ.com. CBS News reported the attack occurred about 8:45 p.m. A man whose girlfriend works at the restaurant indicated “a group of men came into the restaurant and went directly behind the counter, where they fired multiple shots.” According to an account from a family member of another employee, there “was some sort of altercation and that employees were injured in the violence.” While details on the incident are limited, FOX Business noted at least six people are believed to have…
Iowa looks to be seriously in play for Democrats in November up and down the ballot, according to a new survey from a Democratic group that backs moderate candidates. Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand holds an eight-point lead in the governor’s race, and Republicans hold slim leads in both the Senate race and the generic statewide ballot for Congress, according to the survey conducted by Democratic pollster GBAO for the center-left ModSquad, a group led by Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, who endorsed Turek. The poll found President Donald Trump is underwater in the red state, with 50…
The US president portrayed himself as a holy healer, while some noted a similarity between the man being healed and Jeffrey Epstein US President Donald Trump has shared an AI-generated image of himself as a robed, Christ-like figure healing a bedridden man, flanked by eagles, fighter jets, and US service members, with the Statue of Liberty and the US flag in the background. The post triggered backlash, with some users suggesting the figure being healed resembled the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The image was posted on Truth Social on Sunday after Trump’s broadside at Pope Leo XIV, calling the…
The West must “relinquish its participation quotas” at international institutions in favor of the countries of the “Global South,” Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez demanded Monday from Beijing. Sánchez is presently conducting a four-day visit to China that will see him hold meetings with dictator Xi Jinping and other members of the Chinese communist regime as part of his agenda. The trip is Sánchez’s fourth visit to China over the past four years. The Spanish Prime Minister kicked off his Monday agenda in Beijing delivering a morning address at the Tsinghua University in the Chinese capital — where, according to the newspaper…
The main suspect in a Medicaid fraud scheme that took nearly $11 million from Minnesota taxpayers has vanished, and officials are looking for him. Fifty-year-old Abdirashid Ismail Said was due to appear in Hennepin County court on Wednesday but did not show up and forfeited a $150,000 bond, Fox 9 reported Friday. “Said avoided being ordered to surrender his passport by paying the unconditional bond amount of $150,000. The conditional bond, which would have required him to surrender his passport, was set at $50,000,” the outlet said, noting he is one of three others facing theft by swindle charges in the…
In the face of economically crippling anti-fuel tax demonstrations across Ireland, the neo-liberal government in Dublin announced a last-minute emergency support package on Sunday evening in an apparent bid to pay off key sectors of the protest movement. With Ireland’s fuel stations running out of petrol and diesel throughout the country as a result of farmer and trucker-led protests, which have blockaded the nation’s only refinery, and its depots over the past week, Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced on Sunday a €505 million ($590) emergency fund to mitigate against energy spikes amid the Iran conflict, the Irish Independent reported. This…
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said President Donald Trump was causing “chaos” and “distractions.” Host Dana Bash said, “I covered your presidential campaign in 2024, and at the time, you said Donald Trump was unhinged and diminished. Do you still feel that way?” Haley said, “I think that he has the ability to cause chaos, and I think he has the ability to cause distractions. But I think the way that he — when I look at how he’s managed, you know, the immigration effort, which was a catastrophe, I think he’s handled that well.…