New Pope, Robert Prevost from U.S., has criticized J.D. Vance and Trump (LINK) 8 May 2025.
What will the new Pope be like? He's chosen to be called Leo: that's no accident (LINK) 8 May 2025.
— That Prevost has decided to become Leo XIV will make Catholics think immediately of the last Leo — Leo XIII — and his 1891 encyclical or teaching document, Rerum Novarum, which outlined workers' rights to a fair wage, safe working conditions and the rights of workers to belong to trade unions. If Pope Francis was the People's Pope, then Leo XIV is all set to be the Workers' Pope.
Why the guards who protect the conclave are wearing those crazy uniforms: the Vatican Swiss Guards (LINK) 8 May 2025.
Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being 'involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children' (LINK) 8 May 2025.
BBC Live: India and Pakistan conflict (LINK) 8 May 2025.
— Pakistan says 31 people have been killed and 57 injured by air strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and firing along the Line of Control, since Wednesday morning. India's army says at least 16 civilians were killed by Pakistani shelling on its side of the de facto border
Pakistan calls Indian strikes an 'act of war' and vows to respond (LINK) 7 May 2025.
CNN: Live Updates — (LINK)
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela), setting them up for potential deportation. (LINK) 8 May 2025.
Trump plans to announce next week that the US will call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say (LINK) 7 May 2025.
New York: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University after administration calls in police (LINK) 7 May 2025.