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Imagine you’re in a car with your loved ones, following an unfamiliar road up a spectacular mountain range. The problem? The way ahead is shrouded in fog, newly built, and lacking both signposts and guardrails. The farther you go, the

Pope Leo’s Brother Is ‘Stunned,’ and Bill Gates Speeds Up Giving  The New York Times Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045  The New York Times Bill Gates on why he’s donating his remaining wealth and his

Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I’m free. Then I remember the silence. The darkness. The wet concrete. And the two young men who were lying beside me, deep underground, who are still there.

Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I’m free. Then I remember the silence. The darkness. The wet concrete. And the two young men who were lying beside me, deep underground, who are still there.

India has suspended its top cricket tournament, the hugely popular Indian Premier League, over rising tensions with Pakistan.

Trump picks Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro as Washington DC prosecutor  BBC Trump Names Jeanine Pirro, Fox News Host, as Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C.  The New York Times Trump picks Fox News host after Tillis’ opposition ends Ed Martin’s nomination  Raleigh News &

India and Pakistan trade attacks amid risk of war between nuclear states  NPR India, Pakistan accuse each other of attacks as hostilities rise  Reuters India and Pakistan: The first drone war between nuclear-armed neighbours  BBC India-Pakistan Live: Tensions surge as both sides trade

Trump names Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC – as it happened  The Guardian

Conclaves are famously unpredictable affairs – and once again the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new pope caught many by surprise.

Pope Leo’s relationship with the ascendant Catholic right in the U.S. could be a prominent issue in his papacy.