Many guests are attending the funeral of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’ funeral will be held at 10 am on Saturday at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, the Vatican said. Presidents, prime ministers and royalty are preparing to travel to Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral, which will be the most prominent gathering of world leaders since US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.
Opinion from Pope Francis
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, DC, revealed that he once came across a priest who recognised me as a gay man. “He said, ‘I’m gay too’,” he added. Gregory, who has apologised for the mistreatment of LGBT people in the church, further said that the priests didn’t understand what was happening to them.
The Justice Department wants to fix a search engine monopoly
Google’s lawyers told a US court that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed remedies in the antitrust case against it are a “wishlist for competitors” and will allow them to “get resources that took Google decades to develop”. They argued Google’s search engine Gemini wasn’t the subject of the antitrust case and didn’t hold a monopoly on AI products.
Sylvia Poggioli met Pope Francis while working for NPR
Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, was the first-ever Latin American pope. He was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2013-2017. In his 12 years as Pope, he took on a number of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI had announced his resignation on Friday after 12 years as Pope.
The Supreme Court decision affects deportations under the Alien Enemies Act
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Trump administration again this week to block deportations at several Texas detention centres, including Bluebonnet, a facility in Texas. The ACLU sued the administration again this week, in order to block deportations. ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said migrants at Bluebonnet Detention Facility were being loaded onto buses for removal late Friday.
The Supreme Court decision on Alien Enemies does not mean that Venezuela’s citizens will be deported immediately
The US government has said 137 migrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua, including a group of men sent to a prison in El Salvador, have been deported under the Alien Enemies Act. There are no deportation plans on Friday or Saturday, but the government can remove people on Saturday, a lawyer for the justice department said.
the US leads a team in Paris as the leader of the French team seeks unity
US Senator Marco Rubio, who is currently in France for peace talks with Russia, said, “I think the key question right now is when the Europeans will say to Trump, ‘OK, you can have a deal with Putin but it’s our duty not to respect it’.” Rubio further said that the US won’t let peace talks “drag on for weeks or months”.
In a single attack, Trump called for the dismissal of the Fed Chair
US President Donald Trump called the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s annual economic report a “complete mess”, arguing that oil prices were down, groceries were down and the US was getting “Rich on Tariffs”. “Oil prices are down, groceries are down, and US is getting RICH ON TARIFFS,” Trump tweeted. This comes after Powell said tariffs were “highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation”.
A senator from Maryland tried to visit a deported person
US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who’s on a trip to El Salvador, said that he plans to ask the embassy to ask for the return of 29-year-old Abrego Garcia. Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen, was deported last month despite being granted protections by a judge years earlier over concerns for his safety if he were to return there.
A lawmaker tried to visit a man who was deported
US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has travelled to El Salvador to visit his cousin Abrego Garcia who was deported to US despite being in the country legally, said El Salvador’s government declined his requests for both. The Trump administration designated the Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), which it claimed Abrego was a member of, as a crime gang.