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 […]

Maine’s attorney general denied on Thursday that his state was in violation of Title IX after the Trump administration sued it last month over its policy on transgender athletes. In a response to the federal court in Maine, the state attorney general’s office said the Department of Justice’s lawsuit had no constitutional basis. The lawsuit […]