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The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators…
(RNS) — Though majorities in both groups support abortion being legal, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that both white Catholics and white mainline/nonevangelical Protestants have demonstrated a small swing toward an anti-abortion position since 2024. In a survey conducted throughout much of 2025 and released Thursday (April 23), 57% of…
The UK is set to sign a new three-year deal with Paris aimed at stopping migrants crossing the Channel on small boats. Worth more than £600 million, the deal will mean riot police are deployed on French beaches. The Home Office says part of the funding will stop after a year if Paris fails to…
Little says Robbins refused to give her access to Mandelson’s vetting report Little says in March she had a meeting when she asked to see the Foreign Office’s documentation about the decision to grant Mandelson vetting. She said she was asking because this was documentation covered by the humble address. She said was told that…
Many have been asking if the recent rhetorical kerfuffle between the Holy Father and President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will harm the Republicans’ chances in the midterms. It is a more complicated question than it seems. On the one hand, attacking the pope is clearly a blunder. Why do it? Asking why the…
Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired on Wednesday after months of infighting with senior Pentagon leaders and disagreements over how to revive the Navy’s struggling shipbuilding program. Mr. Phelan is leaving the Pentagon and the Trump administration effective immediately, wrote Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, in a terse statement. In his role leading the…
The number of people in the UK being diagnosed with cancer has reached a record high, with one person diagnosed every 80 seconds, a report reveals. Cancer Research UK found that more than 403,000 people were being diagnosed with the disease each year, largely due to a growing and ageing population, as people are more…
Wildfires raging across the Southeastern United States have destroyed dozens of homes and prompted some communities to evacuate, officials said. In southern Georgia, more than 27,000 acres of wildfires were blazing and evacuations were underway in several communities, according to the Georgia Forestry Association on Wednesday. Much of the state was under a burn ban….
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons on Wednesday that they are not alone, as he delivered a message of hope during a visit that drew attention to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years here. Leo’s visit to the prison in the Central African…
Antonio Joaquim was 67-years-old when his family cast him out of his home for refusing to seek a “kimbanda,” a traditional healer-diviner figure prevalent in Angolan society, to treat his son who had fallen ill. After his son died, Joaquim was saddled with blame and accused of possessing an evil spirit that led to his son’s…
