Category: World

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., launched a bid to represent the Great Lakes State in the U.S. Senate with an ad slamming President Donald Trump.  In a video announcing her candidacy, Stevens is flanked by vehicles as she criticizes the administration’s tariff policies and vows to protect Michigan’s auto industry. “[Trump’s] chaos and reckless tariffs are…

House Democrats who traveled to El Salvador to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding “daily proof of life” after being denied a meeting with the Salvadoran national who was deported from Maryland.  Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona…

Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley shocked the internet and sparked romance rumors after appearing to go Instagram official on Easter Sunday. Hurley, 59, smiled widely as the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer kissed her on the cheek while wearing a festive pair of green bunny ears in a snap shared with both of their millions…

The Vatican and White House have for decades kept a close relationship, with various popes and presidents meeting in the nation’s capital and in Vatican City across the years.  Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, following years of health issues, including chronic lung disease. Francis was the head of the Roman…

At one of the meetings of cardinals in advance of the conclave of 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, rose to speak.  In simple but provocative language, he called for a Church that goes out from itself to the margins, both physical and existential. A Church that remains focused on itself, preoccupied with its own disagreements and tensions, will be, he insisted, ineffectual.   By all accounts, this was the speech that secured his election as pope just a few…

President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., calling the lawmaker “a Great Man, and TREMENDOUS Senator” in a post on Truth Social. “I love Montana, won every one of my Races there by a landslide, and would only recommend the best to represent you in the Senate!” the president declared.  “Senator Steve Daines, of…

Josh Duhamel has opted to live in his “doomsday cabin” in Minnesota over Hollywood. The “Ransom Canyon” star, his wife, Audra Mari, and their 1-year-old son, Sheperd, live 40 minutes away from civilization on their lakeside property in northwest Minnesota. The actor’s 11-year-old son, Axl, with ex-wife Fergie, also spends time at the home. Duhamel’s…

With around one million people living with Parkinson’s disease in the U.S. — and 90,000 getting new diagnoses each year — the race is on for a cure. Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced progress on that front — they have developed a new therapy that uses stem cells to treat…

Harvard students and alumni are speaking out after the university announced it is suing the Trump administration rather than comply with its demands to address antisemitism on its campus. “The government withheld funds from racist schools that refused to integrate. The Obama administration repeatedly threatened to withhold federal funds to sexist schools that refused to combat…

Prince William is sending out an undeniable message to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Jason Knauf, the former royal aide who accused the Duchess of Sussex of bullying, was recently named CEO of The Earthshot Prize, William’s key environmental organization. “Prince William’s decision to make Jason Knauf, the former private secretary of the Sussexes, the…