“I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people,” the president added. “But I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
Leo has never said that Iran should have nuclear weapons, but has repeatedly opposed the war on the country and the subsequent escalation of the conflict in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, calling for ceasefires and dialogue...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/covid-shingles-vaccines-studies-fda
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on the pope in recent weeks, calling him “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” in a social media tirade last month.
“Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/rubio-vatican-pope-leo-00907313
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/
“In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X last week. The official USDA account made similar claims, which were then amplified by figures like Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Rand Paul…
Those numbers are questionable at best. For one thing, the report they come from doesn’t name the state where thousands of people are allegedly buying Ferraris while using government money to buy food. For another, that report doesn’t include any explanation of its methodology…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/republicans-snap-fraud-welfare-queen/
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes
Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s sole Democratic appointee, blasted the Republican majority’s decision to file the lawsuit as politically motivated.
“I fear this litigation is driven not by the merits, but by a desire to advance the administration’s political agenda, which weakens civil rights protections for workers and undermines employer efforts to advance equal employment opportunity,” Kotagal wrote in a statement posted on social media…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/trump-ballroom-funding-senate-00906322
The Partnership for Public Service’s four honorees this year are:
Gharun Lacy, Department of State, for finding and stopping a cyberattack by Chinese-tied hackers on the department’s email accounts.
James Szykman, EPA, for working with NASA on its satellite to track and address air pollution.
Jill Frisch, formerly of the IRA, for litigating cases against multinational companies that led to the recovery of billions of tax dollars.
Ransom Baldwin, Curtis Van Tassell and Paul VanRaden, Department of Agriculture, for using DNA research and genetic testing to change dairy cattle breeding, resulting in better milk production and animal health...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-workforce-doge-awards-00906586
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/chuck-edwards-ethics-sexual-harrassment-00906871
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807910/2026-midterm-primary-election-ohio-indiana
Nationwide, the Department of Homeland Security is promising $100,000 for new vehicles and potentially tens of thousands more in equipment to law enforcement agencies who sign on.
It also says it will reimburse the salaries and benefits of officers in the program – and touts the potential for bonuses based on an officer's success in finding undocumented people, similar to a bounty hunter system…
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5805996/ice-pays-local-police-incentives-immigration
