This Thursday is sure to see packed pews where they may otherwise sit empty. Catholics who regularly attend Mass might find themselves seated next to a CEO—not a “Chief Executive Officer,” but a “Christmas and Easter Only” Catholic. Protestant and Catholic churches alike advertise their times of worship for Christmas, expecting crowds too large to
JERUSALEM—Israel’s government is privately pressing President Donald Trump’s administration to set a deadline for international troops to disarm Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to three Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Israeli leaders expect the International Stabilization Force to begin deploying to Gaza early next year as part of the second phase
The first year of the second Donald Trump presidential term has been a carnival of outrages and delights. Historians will struggle to make sense of the whirlwind of activity around the Oval Office, but the significance of some events is already clear. The year has had some big winners, including: Donald Trump: The president’s moxie
Christina Paxson’s 1,000-word message to the ‘Brown community’ came after the shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, killed one other person and himself before he was found Christina Paxson (Libby O’Neill/Getty Images) Brown University president Christina Paxson sent a lengthy statement to the “Brown community” addressing the Saturday shooting that left two students dead. She condemned “gun violence,” lamented
During the Biden administration, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and her fellow progressives teamed up with then-Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to kill Amazon’s merger with iRobot, the maker of Roomba, citing antitrust and data privacy concerns. Now, iRobot’s technology and consumer data are headed to China, posing what an iRobot cofounder says will
Former attorney general Bill Barr on Friday spoke in favor of President Donald Trump’s strikes on Venezuelan drug boats and argued that U.S. intervention in the South American dictatorship could discourage neighboring states from working with Hezbollah and the Chinese Communist Party. “Venezuela is a strategic adversary and a danger to the United States,” Barr
Saritha Komatireddy believes in longshots, she told the Washington Free Beacon. Komatireddy, a 41-year-old mother of four and former federal prosecutor, announced her candidacy for New York attorney general last week as a Republican in a state former vice president Kamala Harris won by double digits in the 2024 presidential election. Less than a quarter