Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France
After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.
After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.
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President Trump pressed his personal brand of diplomacy as President Xi Jinping of China made his first trip to the White House in more than a decade.
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Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also reserved some of his ire for the mayor of the city hosting him, Zohran Mamdani.
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Large groups gathered in Midtown Manhattan to demonstrate as the Israeli prime minister spoke to the General Assembly.
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A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own.
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Trump’s allies end a legally required step, one of the final hurdles for the project to advance.
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