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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was among the mourners attending Pope Francis’s funeral in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Saturday. Pope Francis had been a supporter of Assange and had even suggested giving him asylum in the Vatican. “Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s gratitude for the Pope’s support during Julian’s persecution. Our children and I had the honor of meeting Pope Francis in June 2023 to discuss how to free Julian from Belmarsh prison. Francis wrote to Julian in… pic.twitter.com/1B4iNp31Is — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 26, 2025 “Now Julian is free, we...

RUSH: All right, we're going to go to the audio sound bites because at NBC's Today Show, very troubled are they that Jimmy Carter...Can I ask, before I play this audio, just a simple question? Why in the world should George W. Bush take Jimmy Carter anywhere? Why in the world should George W. Bush extend courtesies to Jimmy Carter? Jimmy Carter has his Nobel Peace Prize that he's coveted his whole life for one reason, because he spent a whole year going around the world trashing George W. Bush, his administration; trashed him personally and trashed our foreign policy....

The sea of pilgrims filing past Pope John Paul II's body continued to swell yesterday as Italian authorities prepared to protect millions of people, three American presidents and at least 200 other dignitaries at Friday's funeral. Attendance Friday is expected to exceed original estimates of 2 million, with Polish officials saying that many pilgrims could come from the pontiff's homeland. The prefect of Rome, the representative of the central government responsible for law and order, Achille Serra, said Italy was coping with the influx. continued

LONDON - The wedding of Britain's Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, already hit by several glitches, will go ahead on Friday even if it clashes with the funeral of Pope John Paul, a spokeswoman said on Sunday. Clarence House said the date of April 8 had been set for some time and they had not considered postponing the wedding. "If the funeral falls on Friday, the wedding will still go ahead," a spokeswoman said of the heir-to-the-throne's plans. The pope's funeral was expected to be held between Wednesday and Friday. Buckingham Palace said they had not decided yet which...