• Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Oct 12, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... person meeting with Xi later this month. In the meantime, his administration is said to be putting together a multibillion dollar bailout package to help make up farmers losses. Donald Trump: And we're going to take some of that tariff money that we made. We're going to give ...

  • Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

    Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

    Oct 09, 2025 03:18 PM EST

    "God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest," Leo writes. Echoing Francis, Leo rails against the "illusion of happiness" derived from accumulating wealth ...

  • Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate 'immediately' in new social media post

    Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate 'immediately' in new social media post

    Jun 16, 2025 01:57 PM EST

    ... a 4-day-old baby as fires blazed from the building. No sign of conflict letting up Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, appeared to make a veiled outreach Monday for the U.S. to step in and negotiate an end to hostilities between Israel and Iran. In a post ...

  • Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as opposition moves to dissolve Knesset

    Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as opposition moves to dissolve Knesset

    Jun 11, 2025 06:05 PM EST

    ... schedule and buying time for last-minute negotiations. The dissolution vote, if it is not pulled, is expected to take place late at night. Separately, Argentina's President Javier Milei will address the Knesset on Wednesday. The bill must pass another three readings before parliament is dissolved, a process that ...

  • WATCH: Pope Leo XIV, first-ever American pontiff, appears for the first time

    WATCH: Pope Leo XIV, first-ever American pontiff, appears for the first time

    May 07, 2025 10:51 PM EST

    ... who have descended on Rome to document the election. “The wait is marvelous!” said Priscilla Parlante, a Roman. Pedro Deget, 22, a finance student from Argentina, said he and his family visited Rome during the Argentine pope's pontificate and were hoping for a new pope in Francis' image. “Francis ...

  • Who will be pope? Meet some possible contenders

    Who will be pope? Meet some possible contenders

    May 02, 2025 02:45 PM EST

    If he were elected, he would return an Italian to the papacy after three successive outsiders: St. John Paul II (Poland), Pope Benedict XVI (Germany) and Francis (Argentina). But Parolin has very little pastoral experience: He entered the seminary at age 14, four years after his father was killed in ...

  • Vatican readies for Francis' funeral and potentially polarizing papal conclave

    Vatican readies for Francis' funeral and potentially polarizing papal conclave

    Apr 25, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... Brabant: Some Vatican experts believe it's possible that the next pope might be a conservative from Africa, where Catholicism is booming. Pope Francis from Argentina broke Europe's dominance of the papacy. And veteran Vatican observer Robert Mickens believes that European cardinals aim to reassert their authority. Robert Mickens ...

  • Trump and other heads of state among dignitaries traveling to Rome for Pope Francis funeral

    Trump and other heads of state among dignitaries traveling to Rome for Pope Francis funeral

    Apr 25, 2025 04:03 PM EST

    ... his casket in a small crosstown basilica are more in keeping with Francis' humble persona and disdain for pomp. U.S. President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei are among the leaders arriving Friday, the last day Argentine pope will lie in state in St. Peter's Basilica before ...

  • U.S. trade battle 'headed to a good spot long-term,' GOP Sen. Lankford says

    U.S. trade battle 'headed to a good spot long-term,' GOP Sen. Lankford says

    Apr 08, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... repackage it from Vietnam and come to us. That's a very different issue dealing with Vietnam than it is maybe with Honduras or with Argentina. Argentina, who blocks access to our beef, is not the same with Vietnam. So it is very complicated. They're dealing with a lot ...

  • Pope Francis returns to Vatican after 5-week hospital stay for life-threatening double pneumonia

    Pope Francis returns to Vatican after 5-week hospital stay for life-threatening double pneumonia

    Mar 23, 2025 03:45 PM EST

    ... tangible relief to the Vatican and Catholic faithful who have been anxiously following 38 days of medical ups and downs and wondering if Francis would make it. “Today I feel a great joy," said Dr. Rossella Russomando, who was at Gemelli on Sunday but did not treat Francis. “It is ...