The pontiff met with Vice President JD Vance on Sunday and blessed Catholics gathered for Easter. His doctors had urged him to rest.
Author: Amelia Nierenberg
Heathrow Was Warned of Power Supply Vulnerabilities, Airlines Advocate Says
The official said he had raised concerns about Heathrow’s electricity supply days before a power outage forced it to shut down. Heathrow disputed the relevance of the official’s comments.
Turkey Deports BBC Reporter Who Covered Mass Protests
Rights groups said the detention and deportation of the reporter, Mark Lowen, was part of an escalation in government pressure against independent journalism.
UK University Gets Record Free Speech Fine Over Transgender Policy
A regulator penalized the school three years after a professor quit in response to what she said was a campaign of harassment over her views on transgender identity.
How George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting
George Lewis’s riffs on the absurdities of millennial parenting — and the inner lives of 2-year-olds — have won him legions of fans online and galvanized his once middling stand-up career.
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.
James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88
James Harrison earned the nickname “The Man With the Golden Arm” because his blood had a rare antibody that may have helped more than two million babies in Australia.
Their Album Is Wordless. Will Their Protest Against A.I. Resound?
Musicians including Kate Bush and Billy Ocean released a “silent record” in outrage at a proposed change to British copyright law.
Ismaili Muslims Get a New Leader, the Fifth Aga Khan
Rahim al-Hussaini, the new spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, was named as the successor to his father, who died at 88.
France, Finally, Wins the World’s Top Food Award Again
In 2023, the country failed to finish in the top three as Denmark won the Bocuse d’Or, a fine-dining competition. This year, France reclaimed the crown.