Inflation climbs to 4-year high as Iran war drives up energy prices

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech to the faithful during the Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on November 5, 2025. | Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of news reports this week raised that very strange possibility. They landed just as both the Roman Catholi

Democratic states are so poorly run that they are imposing steeper wealth taxes, and even exit taxes, to gouge residents for money to save their failing budgets. Multiple Democratic states are looking for more money to throw into their furnace of ever-increasing spending. Washington is imposing a “millionaire tax,” a dubiously legal proposal that follows […]

A revolutionary pancreatic cancer drug in late-stage clinical trials is extending the life of former Sen. Ben Sasse, but it is also causing painful skin side effects. Sasse, who retired from politics in 2023 to become the president of the University of Florida, was diagnosed in December 2025 with advanced pancreatic cancer, the third most […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a judge to deny a motion of dismissal made by the man suspected of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, after the defendant argued he should be exempt from his charges under President Trump’s related pardons.  Brian Cole Jr. faces...