Pope responds after Trump calls him “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy”

President Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV in a lengthy social media post Sunday night, calling the pontiff “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” Leo has been critical of the war in Iran and has previously made statements at odds with other priorities of the Trump administration, such as the ongoing crackdown

From Wall Street to Washington: Bisignano Brings Business Experience to IRS

| April 13, 2026Updated:April 13, 2026 Frank Bisignano has been called a turnaround specialist, but he prefers to think of himself as a builder, focused on improving organizations and delivering value to clients. During a nearly 40-year career in the financial services industry, Bisignano helped improve operations at big names such as Citigroup and JPMorgan

Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022.

Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold pledge as he campaigned for his first term in 2017: He would release

Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases

Dan A. Emmett’s contributions reflect an emerging trend in which left-wing donors bankroll climate litigation and climate-related academic literature intended to influence judges Dan Emmett (yale.edu), Sher Edling logo (sheredling.com), Sabin Center for Climate Change Law logo (@SabinCenter/X) Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and

Pennsylvania town faces fallout from Trump’s environmental rule rollback

North America’s largest coke plant hugs the west bank of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, belching out emissions from turning superheated coal into a carbon-rich fuel. Researchers say the children at Clairton Elementary School about a mile away pay the price. They discovered the students there and at other elementary schools near major pollution sites in Pennsylvania

Congress Returns From Recess—Here’s What’s on Its To-Do List

Lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill this week with a long to-do list as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains in a partial shutdown. Ending that shutdown—which as of April 13 reached its 58th day—will be a top priority for lawmakers, even as they remain divided along party lines on how to move forward with