If you are ever graced with the opportunity to be in St. Peter’s Square when the white smoke billows out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, the moment your eyes lock onto the plume will be etched in memory throughout earthly life. I stood under the piazza’s colonnade, sweaty and lugging my cumbersome duffle bag. It […]

Vice President JD Vance urged India and Pakistan to deescalate tensions as both countries launched mass drone attacks against each other, but the U.S. leader declined to intervene. The burgeoning conflict between India and Pakistan escalated significantly on Thursday, with both countries accusing each other of launching mass kamikaze drone strikes. Secretary of State Marco […]

President Donald Trump has appointed Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Earlier on Thursday, Trump conceded to reporters that his previous nomination for the post, Ed Martin, “wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought” after opposition in the Senate. He’s now appointing Pirro as his replacement. “I […]

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American pontiff on Thursday, making his debut with a speech to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. The new Chicago-born pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, is also the first pontiff whose first language is modern English. The England-born Pope Adrian IV (1154-1159), the last English-speaking pope, spoke […]