https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygn83j7meo
US President Donald Trump has called the election of the first American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, a "great honour" for the country and said he looks forward to meeting him.

Trump is among the many American political figures applauding the historic appointment of the 69-year-old native Chicagoan to lead the Catholic Church.

"To have the Pope from America is a great honour," Trump said later when asked for reaction to the news.

Pope Leo was born in Chicago and attended university outside Philadelphia, before becoming a missionary in Peru.

Trump's Republican colleague, House Speaker Mike Johnson also congratulated the new pope and wrote on social media: "May God bless the first American papacy in these historic days."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Catholic, also extended his congratulations.

"This is a moment of profound significance for the Catholic Church, offering renewed hope and continuity amid the 2025 Jubilee Year to over a billion faithful worldwide," Rubio said.

"The United States looks forward to deepening our enduring relationship with the Holy See with the first American pontiff."

The US has the fourth largest number of Catholics.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also offered a note of congratulations on social media.

"Everything dope, including the Pope, comes from Chicago! Congratulations to the first American Pope Leo XIV! We hope to welcome you back home soon."

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called the moment "historic".

"Hailing from Chicago, Pope Leo XIV ushers in a new chapter that I join those in our state welcoming in at a time when we need compassion, unity, and peace," he wrote on social media.

Vice-President JD Vance, a Catholic himself, praised the pope's election.

"I'm sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church," Vance wrote on X.

American media billionaires now down to trump and sing his praises and thanks him for supporting billionaires by brokering trade deal with UK billionaires
https://www.rawstory.com/wsj-trump-trade/
'Fine with us!' WSJ's conservative editors cheer as GOP pretends Trump retreat is 'genius'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board, a long-standing traditional economic conservative group that has sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's trade isolationism for months, breathed a sigh of relief at the trade deal the president is on the verge of brokering with the United Kingdom.

The deal is fairly modest in scope, the board acknowledged, and it doesn't change the fact that Trump has been setting world trade on fire and endangering the U.S. economy for no reason — but, they wrote, if staging a win like this is what it takes to let Trump walk away and unwind the rest of the trade war, so be it.

"It appears the deal won’t reduce Britain’s health-and-safety standards for American beef, which has long been U.S. ranchers’ main sticking point. Also left out is Britain’s ban on imports of American chicken that’s been disinfected in a chlorine wash, despite the lack of any health risks," the board wrote. However, "the details here matter less at the current moment than the direction of U.S. trade policy, as the buoyant market response recognizes. A month ago the world looked to be on the edge of a potential 1930s-style trade meltdown."

What matters, the board continued, is that Trump "is promising many more trade deals to come, as he tries to execute a retreat from his tariff morass." A significant development given that Trump seems sincerely to believe tariffs are necessary, even as his own supporters beg him for relief.

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"Mr. Trump and his protectionist chorus will say this was the plan all along, as if a flight from the dollar and U.S. equities and a surge in bond yields were anticipated," said the report. "The President likes

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-targeted-by-indian-missiles-2025-05-10/
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 10 (Reuters) - Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday after U.S. pressure and diplomacy, announcing a sudden stop to a conflict that had seemed to be spiralling alarmingly.
But within hours, violations were reported from the main cities of Indian Kashmir, the territory that had borne the brunt of four days of fighting.
Blasts were heard in Srinagar and Jammu and projectiles and flashes were seen in the night sky over Jammu, similar to the events of the previous evening, according to authorities, residents and Reuters witnesses.
Military spokespeople in both countries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The fighting had been the worst between the old South Asian enemies in nearly three decades and threatened to erupt into a full-scale war in one of the world's most volatile and densely populated regions.
There were briefly fears that nuclear arsenals might come into play as Pakistan's military said a top body overseeing its nuclear weapons would meet.
But the defence minister said no such meeting was scheduled, hours after a night of heavy fighting in which the two countries targeted each other’s military bases and the combined civilian death toll rose to 66.
"Pakistan and India have agreed to a ceasefire with immediate effect," Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar posted on X. "Pakistan has always strived for peace and security in the region, without compromising on its sovereignty and territorial integrity!"
The Indian foreign secretary said the two countries' military chiefs had spoken to each other and agreed that all fighting would stop at 5 p.m. Indian time (1130 GMT), without using the word "ceasefire".

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Trump and his billionaires oust a judge who speaks up for what is good
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-2671921497/
‘Trumped-up charges!’ Agency moves to oust judge who defied presidential order

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to fire an administrative judge who publicly challenged a Trump administration directive that paused discrimination investigations involving transgender people, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Karen Ortiz, who has served as a judge with the EEOC for over six years, was placed on administrative paid leave Wednesday and told that the agency is seeking her removal for “conduct unbecoming of a federal employee,” and for violating its email policy, according to letters reviewed by the Times.


Ortiz has 15 days to respond to the accusations and says she plans to fight them, but has no regrets.

“These are quite literally trumped-up charges,” she told the Times. “I stand behind my actions, which support the rule of law and the trans community.”

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“Ms. Ortiz gained national attention in February when someone leaked her email to the commission’s acting chairwoman, Andrea Lucas, calling on her to resign,” according to the Times report. “Ms. Ortiz accused Ms. Lucas of following the ‘illegal and unethical orders of our president’ and violating the Constitution.”

She included about 1,000 of her colleagues in the email, where she said she would “not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.”

In response, Ortiz’s email access was revoked, and she was reprimanded for not seeking approval before sending a mass communication – an EEOC policy requirement, according to the report. But Ortiz continued to fire off additional emails, including on

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/10/world/pakistan-india-kashmir
President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire, after four days of the most widespread fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors in decades.

“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, congratulating the two countries on using “Common Sense and Great Intelligence.”

Indian and Pakistani officials confirmed the cease-fire in social media posts, though neither immediately mentioned an American role.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that he and Vice President JD Vance had engaged with senior officials from both countries, including their prime ministers, over 48 hours. In addition to the cease-fire, India and Pakistan also agreed to “start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site,” Mr. Rubio said.

However, India’s foreign ministry contradicted Mr. Rubio, saying the cease-fire was worked out directly between India and Pakistan, and that there had been no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any location.

https://www.dn.se/sverige/usas-ambassad-kraver-lydnad-av-stockholms-stad-bisarrt/
[Machine translated below, from top Swedish newspaper.]

The Stockholm City Planning Office must not promote equality, diversity and inclusion, the U.S. Embassy demands in a letter, with a contract they expect the city to sign.
"It is completely bizarre", says the city's urban planning leader Jan Valeskog (S).

The embassy begins the letter with the “Dear City Planning Office” and then declares that a new policy requires everyone that U.S. government agencies buy goods and services from must sign the contract.

The City Planning Office is expected to sign and return the contract within ten working days.

“We’re not going to do that, it’s the opposite of everything we stand for. They should withdraw these oddities," Jan Valeskog said.

It is the embassy that benefits from the City of Stockholm, not the other way around, he believes.
“If the U.S. terminates the acquaintance with the city building office, the embassy will have a hard time getting a building permit if, for example, they want to rebuild. It's their headache, not ours," Valeskog said.
Building permits are required, according to Boverket, for new construction, extension and certain changes to the exterior appearance of buildings.

DN has previously written about the United States demanding the same thing from Swedish companies that deliver goods and services. In that case, the embassy replied in an email to DN that “U.S. missions review contracts and announcements to ensure they comply with the White House’s latest executive orders”.
Shortly after Trump was sworn in as president in January, he signed a presidential order to scrap state-funded programs that aimed to promote inclusion, equality and diversity in workplaces.

https://theithacan.org/61659/news/ithaca-college-professor-files-title-ix-lawsuit-claiming-anti-lgbtq-environment/
Why are faggots so retarded? he said he was harassed for being a faggot, but title IX says
>on the basis of sex
not
>on the basis of being a pedophile sodomite

In Oklahoma City Thursday, about 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing a woman out of the house with her three daughters, not even leaving them enough time to get dressed, and then seized their phones, laptops, and life savings.

The woman had only moved into the house two weeks earlier, after relocating to Oklahoma from Maryland. The armed agents told the woman, identified by local TV station KFOR as “Marisa,” that they had a search warrant, but the named suspects on the warrant didn’t live in the house and weren’t connected to anyone in the family.

“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”

The agents, who identified themselves as U.S. marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and FBI agents, didn’t seem to care, waking the family up, forcing them outside in their underwear, ransacking the house, and taking the family’s belongings as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” said Marisa. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” the woman added. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

One agent told the family, “I know it was a little rough this morning.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-invades-wrong-home-makes-165441707.html