The pope condemned the Iran war. The president fired back. Now America’s most powerful Republicans are invoking ancient Christian doctrine to defend modern airstrikes. In Washington, scripture is being weaponized, and “just war” is no longer a theory but a talking point. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell have thrown their…
The panic was real. For days, California Democrats watched returns trickle in, fearing an unthinkable disaster: a November ballot without a single Democrat for governor. Then, late Friday, the numbers snapped into focus. Xavier Becerra had done it. He’d survived the chaos, the scandals, the fractures inside his own party. He’d beaten back a Trump-backed…
Spencer Pratt’s early second-place cushion in the Los Angeles mayoral primary is shrinking with every new batch of late-arriving ballots. While he still leads Nithya Raman by tens of thousands of votes, her surge in the latest tabulation shows where the momentum lies. In California’s jungle primary, that matters more than one good election night…
The new order tightens the Bank Secrecy Act’s reach, telling regulators to treat immigration status and foreign IDs as warning signs in the hunt for money laundering, terrorism, and trafficking. In practice, that means banks are pushed to view ITINs, consular IDs, and cash-heavy work patterns as “red flags,” even when tied to people who…
Trump’s glowing health report paints a reassuring picture: extensive scans, specialist evaluations, and an official stamp of “excellent health.” Yet Dr. Stuart Fischer’s unease centers on that sudden 14-pound gain and the quiet, insidious way the heart can fail long before a crisis. He isn’t joining the online pile-on or mocking Trump’s diet; he’s urging…
The man at the center of it all wasn’t just another resident; he was a fixture of the neighborhood, the kind of person people waved to without thinking. His sudden death has left a silence that feels heavier than any siren ever could. As investigators combed through the house, sealing off the scene and gathering…
In Langrune-sur-Mer, villagers had prepared to honor the young men who died on their sands, not to host a speech they felt weaponized that sacrifice. Civic leaders, already uneasy with Hegseth’s past remarks, watched in disbelief as he compared wartime invasions to modern migration, framing desperate crossings as a new ideological storm battering Europe’s shores….
When Shakira stepped away from the stage at LIV, she wasn’t abandoning her audience; she was defending every woman who has ever been treated like a spectacle instead of a person. In the glare of nightclub lights, she drew a hard, visible line: her body was not public property, no matter how famous she is…
The moment he heard her words, his face changed. In seconds, a tense interview turned into a political explosion on national television. Donald Trump rose from his chair, lashed out at NBC, and walked away as cameras rolled. Donald Trump’s clash with Kristen Welker laid bare the raw distrust between the former president and the…
The moment he heard her six words, his face changed. The cameras were still rolling when Donald Trump leaned forward, lashed out, and then did the unthinkable. NBC’s Kristen Welker refused to back down. He refused to back up his claims. Donald Trump’s tense exchange with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press captured, in a…