As the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV publicly sparred over the Iran war, social media users claimed that both the pontiff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited fictional Bible verses to ...

The 83% statistic comes from a well-respected pollster. It asked Americans about voter ID, but not about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The poll was conducted in 2025, before the bill ...

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"My favorite small win for sanity today: After a 5-year gender-neutral absence, Disney has restored ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ to the Magic Kingdom monorail greeting," one user wrote on X April 15.

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Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Maine. She was sworn in as the governor in January 2019 and previously served as state Attorney General.