On the evening of October 18, 2025—the same day approximately seven million people participated in “No Kings” protests across 2,700 events in all 50 states—President Donald Trump posted a 19-second AI-generated video to Truth Social showing himself wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet …
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Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, died at age 88 on April 21, 2025, less than 24 hours after meeting with Vice President JD Vance on Easter Sunday. The Argentine-born pontiff, who had led the Catholic Church since 2013, had been hospitalized for pneumonia for five weeks before …
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Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, in what would tragically become one of the Pope’s final official acts before his death the following day. The meeting, which took place during the holiest day of the Christian calendar, saw the …
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Vice President-elect JD Vance writes the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light” by Kevin Roberts, the architect of Project 2025. In the foreword, Vance calls for “offensive conservatism” and “rebuild[ing]” government, endorsing the Heritage Foundation’s …
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JD Vance joins Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm Mithril Capital as a principal, establishing a crucial financial and ideological relationship that would later shape his political career. The partnership connects Vance to Thiel’s techno-libertarian philosophy and provides the foundation …
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