U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy expressed optimism this week about brokering an agreement to halt the Israel-Hamas war and return more of the hostages captured in the attack that ignited it.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Leo XIV on Monday expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the "precious gift of free speech and the press."
Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas, the White House said Thursday. The fresh signs of progress towards a temporary truce came after U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, expressed optimism about brokering an agreement to halt the Israel-Hamas war.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - They went into last week’s conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years. And yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn't solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Leo XIV celebrated a private Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.
Israel announced Thursday it will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization.
