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Leo XIV's New Archbishop in Addis Ababa: Synodality, Islam Dialogue, Universal FraternityOn June 12, Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor Abune Tesfaye as the Archbishop of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.His precedessor, Cardinal Souraphiel, has led the Archeparchy of Addis Ababa since 1999.Entire Formation about Islam-DialogueMonsignor Tesfaye is a member of the Comboni Missionaries. He was born in 1969 in Harar, one of Ethiopia's historic centers of Islam.Virtually his entire formation points in the direction of Islam-dialogue.He was sent after ordination to study Arabic in Cairo, served as a missionary in Sudan, and later earned a licentiate from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic...

While most Democrats are okay with Graham Platner as Maine's next US Senator, potential colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa) has his doubts. This past weekend he expressed his doubts on Fox News' "Saturday in America" show, offering to "ditch my hoody and shorts and wear a suit everyday in the Senate if Platner can prove he didn't send photos of his penis to underage females." Platner called Fetterman's proposed bet "fundamentally unfair. There are millions of females that have seen photos of my penis. How am I supposed to know how old each one of them is? I think the...

In 2007, Inuit whalers in Alaska made a surprising discovery. In the carcass of a whale, they found fragments of a weapon embedded in its flesh – but this wasn’t a modern piece of equipment. The harpoon was traced back to the 1900s, and after investigation, scientists estimated that the whale itself was around 115 years old, if not older. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were severely affected by the introduction of widespread commercial whaling that saw their numbers plummet to fewer than 3,000 members. It was effectively ended by 1921, a move that has seen the population grow to between...

Subtraction, not addition, is emerging as the central threat to Republicans in the 2026 election. The subtraction risk for Republicans is the prospect that President Donald Trump’s slipping approval rating among his 2024 voters will cause meaningful components of the coalition that elected him to sit out November’s midterms. Polls suggest that’s a greater danger for the GOP than the possibility that Democrats will add a big cache of new votes — either by turning out many people who did not participate in 2024, or by convincing a significant share of 2024 Trump supporters to vote blue.

Article summarizes Democrat staffers' and advisers' reaction to Jill Biden book. "Democrat strategist "Giangreco was angry with Jill for discussing her thoughts on the June 2024 debate in Georgia, which was the beginning of the end of President Biden's career. "'Nobody wants to relitigate the worst debate performance since the Greek Republic,' he added." Greek Republic?

President Trump early on Sunday endorsed Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) over former college football coach Derek Dooley in Tuesday’s Georgia GOP Senate runoff. “Mike is strongly supported by the most Highly Respected MAGA Patriots in Georgia and beyond, and many Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate — He is a WARRIOR and WINNER!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social, earlier referring to Collins as “‘MAGA’ Mike Collins.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a lying Fritz, a Pinocchio, a varnished monkey, a foppish dandy, and a showboat. I live in the U.S., so he can't prosecute me like he just did with German citizens who called him those things. #FriedrichMerz #Germany #Politics #News

The article cites PUBLIC instances when previous Iranian leaders boasted about cheating on nuclear deals. Why are we trusting them? Because they promised they won't pursue nuclear weapons? Iran signed the NPT in 1968. So they already "promised" this before. In return for giving them billions of dollars in sanctions relief and opening up the Strait of Hormuz to their oil tankers, what, exactly, are they giving up?

A pilot and 11 skydivers died after a private plane crashed in Butler, Missouri on Sunday morning. The aircraft crashed just after takeoff at 11.30am, a spokesperson with Bates County Emergency Management told Fox4. The plane took off from Butler Memorial Airport when it turned back for an unknown reason before crashing near Business 49 Highway. A source told the outlet that 11 victims were skydivers, and the other victim was the pilot. All passengers on the aircraft died. First responders and Missouri State Highway patrol are on the scene of the crash, and are scanning the area to see...

Obama, whose roots are African rather than African-American, rose to power by hijacking the racial resentments and guilty left behind in America after a history of slave and segregation he was never part of. Now, the one trick pony is at it again, announcing the opening of the grim fortress of a museum in Chicago, on ‘Juneteenth’, trying to link his time in the White House as a notable event for black people up there with the end of slavery. It’s another cynical and despicable hijacking of American history to serve his own vanity and ego. The reality, as most...

Gunfire erupted at Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina, the state’s largest mall, on Saturday afternoon, and a teenager has been arrested. The incident took place around 1 p.m. An on-duty Greenville police officer heard the gunfire and responded immediately to find two victims wounded at the scene. Officers quickly determined the shooting was not random but stemmed from a personal argument between individuals who knew each other. Two people suffered gunshot wounds during the exchange. A woman who was an uninvolved bystander was shot in the foot, while a man was hit in the shoulder and neck area. Both...

A 21st-century mom who wants to emulate the Proverbs 31 woman may not have a household of servants to help shoulder the countless tasks of daily life, but she does have modern conveniences that ladies of the Old Testament could never have conceived — dishwashers, robot vacuums, drive-thru pharmacies, and meal kit delivery services like HelloFresh. As a busy mom who wants to make sure my kids are eating healthy meals at home but also wants time to write articles like this one, my family has subscribed to HelloFresh as our food delivery service on and off for nearly 10...

Mark Hill, a conservative lawyer who served on the local school board, won a divisive mayoral runoff on Saturday in Frisco, Texas, that turned into a referendum on the city’s diversity and a testing ground for the power of anti-Muslim messaging. Mr. Hill defeated Rod Vilhauer, a retired construction company owner who gained a following on the hard right with his promises to keep “terrorists” from gaining a foothold in Frisco and to prevent Shariah, or Islamic religious codes, from taking precedence over local and federal law. The nonpartisan race was one of the earliest tests of whether attacks on...

Graham Platner’s victory in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary was a personal triumph for the 41-year-old Marine veteran and campaign novice. His win also forces us to look at the last decade of U.S. history from a different perspective. Americans think of the years since 2015 as the Trump Era. Politics, entertainment, foreign policy, education and even sports have been defined in relation to President Trump and the MAGA movement. Tell me where you stand on Mr. Trump, and I’ll have a pretty good idea of your views on a variety of questions, from trans rights and tax cuts to national...

Iran has agreed not to build a nuclear weapon and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, in return the US will release some $25 billion in frozen assets as part of a President Trump-brokered peace deal, according to details released by Tehran on Sunday.Washington and Tehran are expected to electronically sign a memorandum of understanding on Sunday following a virtual meeting, which will set the table for negotiations over a longer-term deal on Iran’s nuclear program, Axios reported. On Saturday, US President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said a deal would be signed on Sunday and would...

April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and America’s ultimate defeat in the Vietnam War...Many conservatives supported the Vietnam War because it was a war against communism and a regime supplied and funded by the Soviet Union and Communist China. The American left opposed the war mainly because its members viewed America as the aggressor in the conflict, while praising the revolutionary regime of Ho Chi Minh... There were a few conservative realists who, to their credit, opposed the Vietnam War early on for practical, not ideological, reasons. - Harry Morgenthau - Walter Lippmann -...

US President Donald Trump knocks Israel for attacking Beirut today and says the IDF should not carry out any more attacks on any part of Lebanon moving forward. “This morning’s attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a peace deal with Iran,” Trump writes on Truth Social, stopping short of definitively declaring that an memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran will actually be signed today. “Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody...

Two minute video of the calls to Nitro Circus members inviting them to perform today at the White House, showing their reactions, excitement, the journey and a snippet of their stunts today. Patriotism and the American Spirit.

Newark cops were ordered to steer clear of Delaney Hall even after violent weekend clashes rocked the detention facility, an internal police memo obtained by The Post revealed.The June 8 memo illustrates the jurisdictional mess at the now infamous detainee facility, which has become the center of angry protests with police arresting people from around the country and chilling footage showing instigators slamming the vehicles of Delaney Hall workers.“No officers are to handle any call for service pertaining to Delaney Hall located at 451 Doremus Ave.,” according to the Newark PD 3rd Precinct Memorandum, under the subject heading “Delaney Hall...

A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X. Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish.