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ROME — Pope Francis’ upcoming commitments appeared increasingly in question Monday as he spent a fourth day in the hospital with a respiratory tract infection that has already sidelined him longer than a 2023 hospitalization for pneumonia. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Francis, 88, ate breakfast and read the newspapers Monday morning and was continuing … Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration acknowledged on Sunday night that some federal government employees who took the “Fork in the Road” buyout offer were also, subsequently, fired or let go — and that this was an error. An Office of Personnel Management official told ABC News that some employees who responded to the buyout offer ahead … Read more

JERUSALEM — Israel issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Peace Now says the development of 974 new housing units would allow the population of the Efrat settlement to expand by 40% and further block the development of the nearby … Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk. Three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press … Read more

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has requested access to an Internal Revenue Service system that retains the personal tax information of millions of Americans, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The system, known as the Integrated Data Retrieval System, is used by IRS employees to review tax information, issue notices and … Read more

A post Saturday on X and TruthSocial by President Donald Trump has Democrats and critics accusing him of acting like a dictator and declaring himself above the law. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump wrote in the post. Trump did not elaborate and the White House offered no comment, but … Read more

SWANNANOA, N.C. — Emily Russell remembers feeling hopeful after she managed to get an appointment with the Federal Emergency Management Agency not long after Hurricane Helene ripped though her home in Swannanoa, North Carolina. But after several assistance requests were denied or left pending, Russell says the agency has been of “no help” to her … Read more

LONDON and ROME — As Pope Francis continued to show “some” improvement in his lab tests, the pontiff remained hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection on Sunday, according to the Vatican. Matteo Bruni, the director of the Vatican press room, told reporters on Sunday that the pope had his second consecutive restful night after being … Read more

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries decried what he called the “toxic bait-and-switch” of President Donald Trump‘s leadership on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday. “Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they’ve done the exact opposite,” Jeffries told co-anchor Jonathan Karl. “They’ve shown no … Read more