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Both leaders spoke positively of their meeting.U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a brief one-on-one discussion inside St. Peter’s Basilica on April 26 before convening with other leaders to attend Pope Francis’s funeral.The conversation took place before the funeral Mass began, at a point in the morning when the Vatican’s vast basilica was shut to allow world leaders and diplomats to visit the pontiff’s closed coffin and pay their respects.Pictures showing Trump and Zelenskyy seated in a corner as if they just pulled up a couple of chairs, hunched over deep in discussion, were shared across…
More than 250,000 worshipers, religious and political figures lined St. Peter’s Square, in the Vatican, on Saturday to pay their respects to the late Pope Francis, who died earlier this week at the age of 88. The service started at St. Peter’s Basilica shortly after 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET), lasting just over two hours. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, one of the most senior figures in the Catholic Church, led the simplified ceremony, in a series of rituals of religious hymns, an emotional homily and a final farewell to the pope, who was the first Latin American pontiff.…
Celtic have been crowned Scottish Premiership champions for a fourth consecutive season.Brendan Rodgers’ side confirmed top spot with a 5-0 win away to Dundee United. The Hoops are now on course for a sixth domestic treble in nine seasons, having already won the League Cup in December, while Aberdeen await in the Scottish Cup final next month. Celtic’s latest title win means Rodgers has won 11 of the 12 major domestic trophies available during his time as manager and becomes the third most successful boss in the club’s history, surpassing Neil Lennon. How did Celtic seal another title? Image: Nicolas…
A new Epoch Times poll explores readers’ views on the standoff between Harvard University and the Trump administration after the institution declined to comply with a list of conditions for addressing campus anti-Semitism and ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.After the White House froze $2.2 billion in research funding and threatened another $1 billion, Harvard fired back with a lawsuit—triggering what President Donald Trump has characterized as a necessary showdown with an elite institution that has become too politicized.Trump has said funding will only resume if Harvard eliminates DEI programs, enacts a campus-wide ban on masks, implements merit-based standards…
Ipswich have been relegated to the Championship after a 3-0 loss at Newcastle as Eddie Howe’s side put their Champions League qualification hopes back on track.Ipswich needed to win and for West Ham to lose at Brighton to keep their slim survival hopes alive but that never looked likely when Ben Johnson was sent off in the first half. Goals from Alexander Isak, Dan Burn and William Osula ensured Ipswich join Southampton and Leicester in immediately returning to the second tier.It is the second season in a row in which the promoted trio have been immediately relegated and the first…
Carlos Baleba curled in a stunning winner as Brighton scored twice in the final five minutes to produce an incredible comeback with a 3-2 victory over West Ham.Tomas Soucek had headed West Ham into the lead in the 83rd minute from a wonderful Jarrod Bowen cross after Mohammed Kudus had pulled them level early in the second half, cancelling out Yasin Ayari’s superb opener. But substitute Kaoru Mitoma brought Brighton level with a close-range header of his own in the 89th minute before Baleba sent the Amex Stadium wild, bending a shot into the left corner from 25 yards, which…
Homemade barbecue pork chops. Katy Perry performs onstage during the Katy Perry The Lifetimes Tour 2025. A woman checks her receipt while exiting a store.iStock| Theo Wargo | Hispanolistic | Getty ImagesA few weeks ago, as Kiki Rough felt increasingly concerned about the state of the economy, she began thinking about previous periods of financial hardship.Rough thought about the skills she learned for making groceries stretch during the tough times that accompanied past economic downturns. Facing similar feelings of uncertainty about the country’s financial future, she began making video guides to recipes from cookbooks published during previous recessions, depressions and…
What do you call half a month spent in the most volatile market in years, featuring a headlong flight from U.S. dollar assets, hypersensitivity to every policy headline and a furious equity rally of almost unnerving velocity that recovered half the lost ground while leaving in place most of the confusion? The easy part. That, at least, is one glib, hindsight-enabled way to frame the spring-loaded rebound in the S & P 500 and other indexes off their low 14 trading days ago. The snapback, which has now traveled more than 10% from its closing low and up 14% from…
Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty ImagesOKLAHOMA CITY — Amazon and Nvidia told a room of oil and gas executives this week that all options are on the table to power artificial intelligence including fossil fuels such as natural gas.The tech and energy industries gathered in Oklahoma City at the Hamm Institute for American Energy to discuss how the U.S. can meet the growing energy needs for AI data centers. The Big Tech companies have invested mostly in renewable power in an effort to slash their carbon dioxide emissions, but they are now navigating a changed political environment. President Donald Trump…
LONDON (AP) — A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.In the note, written to the seller’s great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.” The letter was sold to a private collector from the United States on Saturday, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England. The hammer price far exceeded the initial…