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U.S. and Chinese officials said they had called a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving trade disputes.

In his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff, Leo said, “Never again war!” from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 people below.

Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland rallied by the governor’s residence on Friday, calling on Gov. Wes Moore to sign the legislation.

The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week, a federal prosecutor said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar at the facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark airport went black for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. Friday.

Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said in a statement Friday.

Robert Prevost, 69, had to overcome the taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

A federal judge expressed sympathy for thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military while legal challenges proceed.

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has roiled Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which is one of the largest immigrant groups in the state.

The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Starting next month, the Education Department says student loans that are in default will be referred for collections.

The second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, will be May 17 at Pimlico Race Course.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that it is “unacceptable” that two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers urged a judge to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Vice President JD Vance will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation and commissioning ceremony on May 23.

The agents took their phones, computers, and life savings in cash, the mother in the family said.