With the clock ticking toward a Wednesday deadline and a naval blockade still choking Iranian ports, President Donald Trump issued his starkest warning yet: if no deal is in hand when the ceasefire expires, the bombs may start falling again. “Maybe I won’t extend it,” Trump told reporters on Friday when asked what happens if…
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Iran built the drones that rained on Kyiv. Ukraine built the countermeasures that stopped them. Now Iran is fighting its own drone war — and the two most drone-intensive conflicts in modern history are converging in ways that are reshaping global military doctrine, disrupting Russian supply chains, and rewriting the rules of 21st-century warfare. KYIV…
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Under sweltering 90-degree heat beside Douala’s Japoma Stadium, more than 120,000 Cameroonians gathered on April 17 to worship with the first American pope — and in doing so, staged a vivid portrait of where Christianity’s future is being written. The crowd that turned out for Pope Leo XIV’s open-air Mass in Cameroon’s largest coastal city…
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The man Donald Trump appointed to oversee America’s fastest-growing financial frontier stood before Congress on Thursday and issued his starkest warning yet — but critic Trump’s Predictions say the agency he leads may have a credibility problem it cannot regulate away. Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Trump administration’s…
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THE CLAIM: President Trump posted on Truth Social that he does not want “a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.” THE VERDICT: FALSE. Pope Leo XIV has never said, written, implied, or suggested that Iran should obtain nuclear weapons. The claim is a fabrication with no factual basis in…
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Standing before thousands of faithful in the heart of Cameroon’s war-torn Anglophone region, Pope Leo XIV delivered his most direct condemnation yet of world leaders who wage war while invoking God’s blessing — words that landed in Washington like a thunderclap. The setting was Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, a city that has lived under…
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When a president posts an AI image of himself healing the sick like Christ, declares a civilization must die in God’s name, and frames a 38-day war as divine mission — faith has stopped being a comfort and started being a weapon. The risks of that choice are only beginning to surface. WASHINGTON — History…
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From Hegseth comparing a downed pilot’s rescue to the resurrection, to Trump posting himself as Jesus — Pope Leo XIV is mounting a systematic theological counter-argument to Christian nationalism in real time. The dispute between Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV looks, on its surface, like a political feud. It is something deeper than that.…
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The Iran negotiations in Islamabad have a public face — and a private war. JD Vance is in the room, pushing for a deal. Marco Rubio is on the record doubting one is possible. Trump is watching both men, reading the room, and deciding which vision of American power wins. The ceasefire expires April 21.…
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A 10-day Lebanon truce took effect Thursday — and was violated within hours. But Trump says the Iran deal is “looking very good” and a weekend meeting may be imminent. Beirut’s skyline lit up with fireworks at midnight Thursday as a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon officially took hold. The celebratory gunfire from Hezbollah’s…