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Radar screens at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning. The outage happened at 3:55 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company … Read more
Former President Joe Biden, on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, took responsibility for President Donald Trump’s historic return to the White House but vigorously pushed back on claims of cognitive decline in his final year in office. “He’s had the worst 100 days any president’s ever had,” Biden said of his Oval Office successor. Biden … Read more
Cameron Hamilton, who had been acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was fired Thursday, a day after telling Congress the agency should not be disbanded, putting him at odds with President Donald Trump’s suggestions that FEMA be downsized or dissolved. The change at the top of the agency that coordinates federal disaster relief … Read more
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a lifelong public servant, judicial moderate and advocate for humanities and civics education, has died. He was 85 years old. “Justice David Souter served our Court with great distinction for nearly twenty years,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement Friday. “He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness … Read more
First lady Melania Trump hosted the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring former first lady Barbara Bush at the White House on Thursday — with a notable absence of former President George W. Bush. A number of family and friends of the Bush family, including Neil Bush and Dorothy Bush Koch, filled the … Read more
American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, celebrated his first mass as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Source link
LONDON — Two men were convicted Friday of cutting down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree in northern England in 2023. A Newcastle Crown Court jury found Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers guilty of two counts each of criminal damage for felling the tree and toppling it onto the ancient Hadrian’s Wall. Jurors deliberated about four … Read more
A senior cardinal deacon, who stood on the balcony on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica, made the announcement. Source link
NEW LENOX, Ill. — When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they watched in awe as his brother’s name was announced. “She started screaming because it was her uncle and I was in … Read more
The new pontiff made his first public appearance as Pope Leo XIV on a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica. Source link
