The Global Update

A new animated series from Disney-owned Pixar, “Win or Lose,” features a character who makes a Christian prayer. Original plans to have a transgender character in the same show were scrapped.  The first episode in the new series, “Coach’s Kid,” shows “Laurie” bowing her head in prayer ahead of a game, according to The Christian…

President Donald Trump’s 11th week in office is slated to focus heavily on tariffs, including the roll-out of the president’s promised “Liberation Day,” when his reciprocal tariffs will be announced.  “Liberation Day, I call it Liberation Day in America,” Trump said from the White House last week, previewing April 2. “You’ll be seeing tariffs. And…

Ty Gibbs was unhappy with Tyler Reddick during the NASCAR Cup Series’ Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon as Denny Hamlin won the race after finishing fifth at Homestead last week. The incident between Gibbs and Reddick on Lap 298. Gibbs got a little too wide in one of the corners, and…

French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office. The French court did not immediately announce how long Le Penn will be ineligible for office, and she stormed out of the courtroom…

Florida will join its fellow No. 1 seeds later this week in the Final Four. The Gators defeated Texas Tech this past Saturday to advance to the semifinals. However, before that, they needed to make it past Maryland in the Sweet 16. UF took care of business against the Terrapins, but a walk-on’s postgame interview…

Imagine skipping the gridlock and soaring over the English countryside, arriving at your destination in a fraction of the time. What sounds like a scene from a futuristic movie is about to become a reality in the U.K., thanks to a partnership between Joby Aviation, a California-based company, and Virgin Atlantic. They’re teaming up to…

Today, March 31, my diocese will stand before the Supreme Court of the United States to defend our right to continue our decades-long mission of serving the most vulnerable. It’s shocking it had to come to this. Yet, officials in Wisconsin seek to impede our efforts by claiming this charitable ministry is not religious.  Guided by Catholic…

In response to an executive order, President Donald Trump’s team will present him with a plan for creating the Golden Dome, a missile defense shield meant to guard against attacks that are increasingly difficult to defeat. This effort will demand innovative thinking, collective will and rapid action.    Since my tenure as director of the…

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is a sovereign citizen. Steven Bixby and his father, Arthur Bixby, led a 12-hour gun battle with law enforcement in Abbeville, South Carolina,…