Day: May 18, 2025

Pope Leo XIV vows to work for unity, peace during inaugural mass

6:40 pm May 18, 2025

Pope Leo XIV spoke of unity and those suffering due to war during his inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square. The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, who is the first American pope, spoke before 200,000 people on Sunday, Vatican News said. “I would like that our first great desire be for a united church, a sign of […]

Abandoned ‘Wild West’ theme park frozen in time shocks visitor: ‘Left to rot’

6:30 pm May 18, 2025

Lukka Bradburn traveled to rural Japan last year to document abandoned theme parks — and was surprised by what he found left behind in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and after years of decline, according to news agency SWNS. Bradburn, a printer, explorer and father of two, came across the parks after […]

Why baseball ‘purists’ are wrong about Pete Rose’s Hall of Fame case

5:30 pm May 18, 2025

Baseball legend Pete Rose accomplished in death what he could never manage in his lifetime – reinstatement to Major League Baseball. Yet baseball “purists” are clutching their pearls, terrified that the bad man will now be admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. They’re dead wrong. Time for Pete to enter Cooperstown, no matter what […]

WH study warns 9 million Americans could lose health insurance in ‘major’ recession if Trump budget bill fails

5:23 pm May 18, 2025

The White House on Saturday released a study estimating that 8.2 to 9.2 million more Americans could be without health insurance as a result of an ensuing recession if President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on the budget does not pass. The finding comes from a White House Council of Economic Advisers memo titled, “Health […]

Trump-aligned legal group fights to restore merit-based federal hiring

5:00 pm May 18, 2025

FIRST ON FOX — A legal group closely aligned with President Donald Trump is joining a federal court battle in Washington, D.C., to overturn a Carter-era consent decree that bars the government from using merit-based hiring, a resolution that, if overturned, would dissolve one of the most influential civil service decisions of the last 40 years. […]