APRIL 29, 2025
Trina Martin, shows pictures of her and her son when he was 7 years old, the year of the mistaken FBI raid April 23, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin’s former boyfriend Toi Cliatt's home, the site of a mistaken FBI raid that took place while all three were inside the home in 2017. After multiple lower...
APRIL 29, 2025
Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and President Donald Trump
Possible sanctions could affect Clooney's ability to be in the United States, where the human rights advocate owns a home with her husband, George, and twin children.
Several top United Kingdom lawyers, including human rights activist Amal Clooney, have reportedly been warned...
APRIL 29, 2025
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C, at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, U.S., April 27, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/ File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal...
APRIL 29, 2025
Trump Public Lands DOGE. - Jose Luis Magana
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has frozen, stalled or otherwise disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds — from disease research to Head Start for children to disaster aid — in what top Democrats say is an “unprecedented and dangerous" assault on programs used by countless Americans.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut on...
APRIL 28, 2025
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney gestures at the Ottawa International Airport, during election day in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 28, 2025. - Carlos Osorio, REUTERS
Mark Carney won the Canadian election to continue his term as prime minister, Canadian and U.S. news outlets reported late Monday night, closing his victory after President Donald Trump's aggressive rhetoric and tariffs lifted the ruling Liberal...
APRIL 28, 2025
Vice President Joe Biden greets Pope Francis in Saint Peter's Basilica after his inauguration at the Vatican in 2013. - Osservatore Romano via Reuters
As I sat among the more than 200,000 people who came to Rome to grieve the loss and celebrate the life of Pope Francis, one word kept running through my mind − mercy.
I thought of the pope’s...
APRIL 26, 2025
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has moved at breakneck speed since the billionaire first mused about it in August 2024, shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for president. It is not popular with voters, according to polling. (AP)
What was first sold to the American people as a cost-cutting mission to “eliminate waste” and save taxpayer money, Elon Musk’s...
APRIL 26, 2025
The pope’s funeral. - Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
For several years when I was a boy, I was the organist at a small Catholic church where I played two and sometimes three Masses a week. The architecture was modern, post-Vatican II, with the organ set to the side of the altar. From there, you could see both the priest...
APRIL 26, 2025
Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.
According to their lawyers, both families were...
APRIL 26, 2025
The Oversight Committee expects to vote next week on that plan and other workforce changes.
Federal employee pension benefits are set to be pared back in Republicans’ giant tax and spending package working its way through the US House, another slap at a workforce roiled by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts.
The proposal, which House Oversight Committee and Government Reform...
