President Donald Trump in recent days has dismissed fears of a recession and brushed aside the stock market sell-off, going so far as to say, “You can’t really watch the stock market.” That's a new message from a president who has frequently pointed to the market’s ups and downs as a reflection of himself and his activities, even when he was not in power. Over the last year, while President Joe Biden was in office, Trump took credit for stock market rallies as a vote of confidence in his electoral prospects. When it dipped, he blamed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented.” Prayers for him poured in from around the world, from his native Argentina to the seat of Sunni Islam in Cairo to schoolchildren in Rome. In New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said what many in Rome weren’t saying publicly: that the Catholic faithful were united “at the bedside of a dying father.” On Saturday morning, Francis suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection. He also had blood transfusions to treat a low platelet count.
USAID has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid over the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday. The new administration’s rapid dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the inspector general’s office for USAID said in a flash alert. That includes the agency’s greatly reduced ability to ensure no aid falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or goes astray in conflict zones, the watchdog said.
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