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May 25, 2025
Hundreds of Catholic bishops ramp up holy 'war' against Trump admin: report
May 24, 2025 4:53PM ET A group composed of hundreds of Catholic bishops is ramping up its "war" against Donald Trump and his administration, according to a Newsweek report Saturday. According to the outlet's weekend article, "The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) seems to be battling with President Donald Trump's administration over some of its policies." The article is called, "American Bishops' War With Trump Admin Is Heating Up." "Last week, t ...
Go to discussionWith $37 million and a jet, Trump's presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot
May 24, 2025, 9:06 p.m. ET With a $400 million luxury jet waiting in the wings and a $37 million check in hand − thanks to settlements from Meta and ABC− President Donald Trump's future presidential library plan is ready for take off. All it needs is a nonprofit − or two − to get it off the ground. To that end, Trump’s son Eric and son-in-law Michael Boulos have filed paperwork establishing a nonprofit to raise money for the library, the second in the past six months. ...
Go to discussionTexas is closer to putting Ten Commandments in classrooms
May 24, 2025, 9:09 PM AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would make the state the nation's largest to impose such a mandate. If passed as expected, the measure is likely to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it a constitutional violation of the separation of church and state. The Republican-controlled House gave its preliminary approval with a final v ...
Go to discussion'Extremely upsetting': Republican veterans leaving GOP because of Trump policy
May 24, 2025 7:54PM ET When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, one of the major policy changes from the Biden Administration involved the Ukraine-Russia War. Biden, a scathing critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, favored aggressive military aid to Ukraine. Trump, in contrast, says he is trying to negotiate a peace plan between Ukraine and Russia but angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the White House. In a Capital ...
Go to discussionCrypto billionaire Justin Sun says he received a $100K Trump-branded watch at the president's meme coin dinner
May 23, 2025, 3:09 PM ET The crypto billionaire Justin Sun said he received a $100,000 Trump-branded watch at President Donald Trump's meme coin dinner on Thursday, held at the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, DC. The top 220 holders of the token were invited to the event. In photos and videos of the event, Sun posed with other attendees and signed a printout of a leaderboard showing he was No. 1 among the top 220 Trump coin holders. Sun said he was gifted a Trump Tourbillon watc ...
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