Trump administration border czar Tom Homan criticized Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador to visit deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accusing the Democrat of traveling “on the taxpayer dime to meet with an MS-13 gang member, public safety threat, [and] terrorist.” “What concerns me is Van Hollen never went to the border the last…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday that his recent trip to El Salvador was not about defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident deported despite a court order, but about defending the Constitution. “I am not defending the man. I’m defending the rights of this man to due process,” Van Hollen told ABC News’…
ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis appeared on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for an Easter Sunday blessing, after a brief earlier meeting with Vice President JD Vance. Vance arrived at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican shortly after 11:30 a.m. local time, the Vatican’s Holy See Press Office said in a…
The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called “Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19,” which makes a five-point argument for the theory that COVID-19 originated from a mistaken lab leak in Wuhan, China. Web page for https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ on April 18, 2025. The White House The new site appears to use theories from…
Less than an hour after he allegedly firebombed the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, the suspect called 911 and appeared to apologize and confess to the early Sunday attack, according to a newly released recording of the call. “I don’t really have an emergency. I would like to apologize,” the suspect, 38-year-old Cody Balmer, is heard telling…
The Navy said it canceled a speaking engagement at its academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with popular podcaster and author Ryan Holiday because it wanted to steer clear of what it saw as political content aimed at young naval officers. Holiday, who speaks frequently about the value of stoicism and has written several books, including “The…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about his condition. While he was relieved to get a chance to meet the Abrego Garcia face to face on Thursday, the senator slammed El Salvador…
Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter’s Basilica to pray before this evening’s Easter vigil and greet some of the faithful present. The 88-year-old pontiff, in a wheelchair, arrived at around 6 p.m. local time accompanied by his nurse and stayed for about a quarter hour, stopping to pray at…
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an “Easter truce” in the war in Ukraine on Saturday, saying that the Russian side will cease military action from 6 p.m. local Saturday night until midnight April 21. Putin said he assumes that “the Ukrainian side will follow our example,” according to a statement on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel….
After wrapping up what he described as a productive round of talks toward ending the war in Ukraine hosted in Paris, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday laid out a surprising ultimatum for all parties involved, declaring that the U.S. was willing to move on from the negotiations if they didn’t yield results soon….
