The Vatican has announced that the inauguration Mass for Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected head of the Roman Catholic Church, will be held on Sunday, May 18, in St. Peter’s Square. World leaders are expected to attend the ceremony, which comes ten days after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the first American…
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope, marking a historic first as the only American ever chosen to lead the Roman Catholic Church. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. At 69 years old, Prevost hails from Chicago, Illinois, and secured the required two-thirds majority vote during…
The Trump administration has unveiled a new initiative providing $1,000 in financial assistance and travel support to undocumented immigrants who voluntarily leave the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement, DHS described voluntary departure—or self-deportation—as “the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid…
American media stocks fell on Monday, May 5, after former President Donald Trump proposed a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the United States—a move that could dramatically reshape Hollywood’s global operations and disrupt the wider entertainment industry. The announcement, light on specifics, has raised uncertainty over how the tariffs would be applied—whether to…
On Friday night, former U.S. President Donald Trump shared an AI-enhanced image of himself dressed as the pope on Truth Social, just days after joking that he would “like to be Pope.” The White House also reposted the image. Pope Francis passed away last month at the age of 88, following a stroke and heart…
The mayor of Novorossiysk, a strategic Russian port city on the Black Sea, declared a state of emergency on Saturday, May 3, after a Ukrainian drone strike reportedly damaged a grain terminal and several residential buildings, leaving five people injured. Andrei Kravchenko, the city’s mayor, shared video footage on his official Telegram channel, showing shattered…
Lydia Mugambe, a United Nations judge and senior Ugandan jurist, has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison by Oxford Crown Court for enslaving a young Ugandan woman in the United Kingdom. The 50-year-old was convicted of several offences, including conspiracy to breach UK immigration law, facilitating travel for exploitation, forced labor,…
Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has turned down a plea deal in his ongoing federal sex trafficking and racketeering case, according to a federal prosecutor during a hearing in New York on Friday. Prosecutor Madison Smyser disclosed that a plea offer had been extended to Combs during the pre-trial hearing but did not provide…
California has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, with its nominal gross domestic product (GDP) reaching $4.1 trillion in 2024, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. This marks a slight lead over Japan’s $4.02 trillion GDP for the same period, as recorded by the International Monetary Fund. Now,…
Following the death of Pope Francis, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, a senior Vatican official originally from Dublin, has been tasked with overseeing the Catholic Church until a new pope is elected. Born and raised in the Irish-speaking, working-class neighborhood of Drimnagh, the 77-year-old Farrell has risen to become one of the most influential figures in…
