YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP | |
Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert. Obsessed with these photos of Alan Jackson, Shaboozey and Kelsea Ballerini at the ACM Awards. |
Quick look at Friday's news: |
Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass with cardinals |
Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day Friday as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church by celebrating Mass in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel with cardinals. |
Meet the 267th pope: Formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Chicago-born Leo was primarily a missionary in Peru before receiving dual Peruvian nationality and serving as a bishop in Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023. He became a cardinal in 2023. |
| • | Leo's selection surprised the Roman Catholic world. After white smoke emerged from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, there was a brief moment of uncertainty when the new pope's name was announced to a huge crowd in St. Peter's Square before people erupted in cheers. | | • | "Peace be with you all": As cardinal, Prevost attracted interest from his peers because of his quiet style and support for the late Pope Francis, especially his commitment to social justice issues. | | • | Chicago is beaming. Chicagoans are fiercely proud of their city's working-class reputation and Leo has a reputation in the Catholic Church for sticking up for worker's rights and the disenfranchised, something highly valued in the Windy City. | | Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. Yara Nardi, REUTERS |
Trump scored his first big trade deal. Now what? |
President Donald Trump finally landed a trade deal Thursday with the United Kingdom. Trump has a lot more deals to make, though, and in a relatively short time. They involve much larger trading U.S. partners, such as China, Mexico and Canada — and potentially tougher negotiations. The biggest concerns revolve around China, which still faces 145% tariffs and has responded with big levies of its own on U.S. goods. The first signs of de-escalation are just starting to show between the world's two largest economies. U.S. and Chinese negotiators are expected to meet this weekend. |
US military to remove transgender troops next month, memo says |
Internal instructions issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth illustrate how President Donald Trump's administration intends to swiftly act to remove thousands of transgender service members after the Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday cleared the way for a ban to take effect. The memo obtained by Reuters orders the Pentagon to start eliminating transgender troops who do not elect to leave on their own by June 6. Transgender rights activists called the move "senseless" and "shameful." |
Republicans are laying out red lines for Trump's mega-bill |
In early April, House Speaker Mike Johnson made a handful of conservative hardliners a promise: There would be at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years in President Donald Trump's most important second-term bill, or they could kick him out of the speakership. Fulfilling that promise will be no simple feat. As lawmakers draw hard lines over what they will support in the massive bill, it is becoming increasingly clear that not every player's ultimatums will all be met. The question is: Who will be forced to compromise? |
Pete Buttigieg got real about transracial adoption. It's making waves. |
Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are raising adopted Black children – something he recently discussed on the "Flagrant" podcast. They're hardly alone: Scroll through TikTok and you'll find wholesome, heartwarming stories about White parents with Black children posting videos perfecting their children's hair. Today, there are plenty of resources for parents who adopt children of a different race, a process known as transracial adoption. But that wasn't always the case. Some now-adult transracial adoptees are determined to share their stories, too, to combat what they say is an overly rosy narrative about adoption. They hope in doing so, the experience of Black adoptees will continue to improve and evolve. |
Photo of the day: Blocked! |
Hawaii's Rainbow Warriors advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championships in Columbus, Ohio, after successfully holding off the Penn State Nittany Lions on Thursday. Sign up for our Sports newsletter for updates from across the USA TODAY Network. | Hawaii's Finn Kearney (11) and Justin Todd (9) and Louis Sakanoko (23) block the shot of Penn State Nittany Lions Matthew Luoma (15) on Thursday. Joseph Maiorana, Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images |
Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY, sign up for the email here . Want to send Nicole a note? Shoot her an email at NFallert@usatoday.com. | | Three recent X posts from then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago - now Pope Leo XIV - shared items critical of Trump and Vance policies. | | Hayden is a professional librarian nominated to the post by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. | | | | Economists warn that tariffs will increase consumer prices. Will the US-UK trade deal help? | | | | Despite a slowing US economy, consumers are primed to spend more than ever on their loved ones for Mother's Day. | | | | Ariel Winter, who played Alex Dunphy in "Modern Family," is reflecting on the way that body shaming comments damaged her self-esteem. | | | | The announcement of the NCAA baseball tournament field is less than three weeks away, so it's time to project how the field of 64 will look. | | | | USA TODAY's daily news podcast, The Excerpt, brings you a curated mix of the most important headlines seven mornings a week. | | | | Our app gives you award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, eNewspaper and more. | | | | | Brighten your day with one of our games. | | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment