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When an Alabama man visited a Florida hospital in 2024, he reported a pain in his left side, near his spleen. Three days later, he died, missing a different organ, his liver, on his right side.

Let’s analyse the world’s latest church-and-empire fracas, the open conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.

A woman who turned to congressman Eric Swalwell of California for political help claims he raped her in a West Hollywood hotel.

NEW YORK TIMES: Unlike his predecessor, Pope Leo XIV enjoys growing support from a broad swath of conservative Catholics.

As the US and Iran wage war against each other, Russia has come out as an unlikely winner.

In an election with the highest voter turnout in Hungary’s democratic history, Magyar’s Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority.

Ben Riley discovered by accident that his dad hadn’t been telling the truth about his cancer.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US proposed a 20-year ‘suspension’ of all nuclear activity. That would allow the Iranians to claim they had not permanently given up their right to produce their own nuclear fuel.

A deadly knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, England in 2024 could have been prevented by the killer’s parents.

The US President’s post attacking Pope Leo as ‘weak on crime’ remains online and so do countless posts from legions of critics who believe Donald Trump’s mental fitness for office should be evaluated.

After the 2024 US elections, there was a panic among Democrats about the absence of a liberal Joe Rogan. It was an epic exercise in missing the point. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Artemis II crew achieved more than just a historic return to human spaceflight around the moon.

America’s allies and adversaries alike were pinning their hopes on Vance to find a way out of a conflict that has upended the global economy. Instead, he left with nothing.

As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Lauren Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologising.

A homeowners’ association in Queens has won a small victory in its long-running fight over loud local concerts.