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Drought, rising prices and dwindling herds undercut this year’s Eid al-Adha in North Africa
Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s ...
How the Vatican manages money and where Pope Leo XIV might find more
The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...
Democratic states double down on laws resisting Trump’s immigration crackdown
As President Donald Trump’s administration targets states and local governments for not cooperating with federal immigration ...
The 911 presidency: Trump flexes emergency powers in his second term
Call it the 911 presidency. Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President ...
How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers
Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of ...
Supreme Court will hear Alabama appeal in bid to execute man found to be intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court will consider making it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they ...
‘Chespirito: Sin Querer Queriendo’ is a tribute to the Mexican comedian who shaped a generation
Not Really on Purpose” (“Sin Querer Queriendo”) has been received with delight by the many fans in the U.S. and Latin America ...
Immigration authorities carry out enforcement activity across Los Angeles amid crowds of protesters
Federal immigration authorities carried out enforcement activities at several locations in Los Angeles on Friday, with some ...
Supreme Court turns away RNC challenge to Pennsylvania ballot ruling
The Supreme Court on Friday turned away the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) bid to block Pennsylvania voters’ in-person ...
More Severe Storms Friday Night
Incoming! Another wave of storms folks. Some will experience severe weather. Large Hail, Damaging Winds, even a few Tornadoes ...
Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services
A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the American Library Association to halt the Trump administration’s further ...
Can an American pope apply US-style fundraising and standards to fix troubled Vatican finances?
As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that ...