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President Trump is fighting a war with many battlefields.It’s a nine-front crusade, although I could easily double that number.If there’s a common thread here, it’s the president taking on elite institutions that he has long resented or reviled.That’s why his first three months seem stuck on hyperspeed – critics would say chaos – because he’s broken with the traditional model of tackling one or two issues at a time. Voters gave him a second term to shake things up. It’s the first Trump term on steroids.EDUCATION DEPT. TO RESUME COLLECTIONS ON DEFAULTED FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2020The

Cade Cunningham had 33 points and 12 rebounds, Dennis Schroder made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 55 seconds left, and the Detroit Pistons snapped their NBA-record, 15-game postseason losing streak by beating the New York Knicks 100-94 on Monday night in Game 2 of their playoff series.The Pistons, who hadn’t even been to the postseason since 2019, recovered after the Knicks erased a 15-point deficit to earn their first playoff victory since Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference finals against Boston. The Celtics won the final two games of that series and the Pistons were then swept in 2009, 2006

There is a spike in converts to the Roman Catholic Church as young adults reportedly seek "moral order" after the pandemic years.While people may convert to the Catholic faith at any time of year, the Easter season is when many choose to do so. According to the National Catholic Register, "certain dioceses are reporting increases of 30%, 40%, 50% and even more than 70%" this year. One particular diocese in Fort Worth, Texas, has seen spikes in numbers, where the number of converts from "896 at Easter 2023 to 1,544 at Easter 2024, an increase of 72%."Father Will Straten, the

Pro Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a $50 million lawsuit filed on Sunday, according to multiple reports. The former NFL player denied all accusations in a statement through his attorney on Monday, calling the civil suit an attempt to "blackmail" him. According to the lawsuit obtained by ProFootballTalk, Sharpe was accused of assault, sexual assault, battery and sexual battery. The 13-page complaint, filed in a Nevada state court, accused the three-time Super Bowl champion of engaging "in the intentional infliction of emotional distress."The plaintiff claimed that the two began a "rocky consensual relationship"

Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday of a stroke and cardiac arrest, according to an announcement from the Vatican.Fox News’ Alex Hogan confirmed in an on-air report that the Pope had a stroke in the early morning of April 21, went into a coma and then had a heart attack.The Pope’s death follows years of ongoing health concerns, including a recent hospitalization for double pneumonia.POPE FRANCIS DEAD AT 88 YEARS OLDThe official death announcement was made at the Pope’s residence in the Chapel of St. Martha on Monday.Pope Francis served for 12 years and advocated for causes including migrant

More kids are hitting the links.According to the National Golf Foundation, 3.7 million young people, ages 6 thru 17, played golf on a course in 2024, an increase of close to 50 percent from five years earlier.One of the all-time greats, Annika Sörenstam, is behind a new effort to help even more young people play the sport.  Sörenstam has partnered with Bank of America for an initiative called "Golf With Us.""This initiative is close to my heart because it's a way to help grow the game of golf, and we're gonna do that by giving young kids the opportunity to

A recently departed top Pentagon aide goaded President Donald Trump to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his Cabinet, describing "total chaos" and "dysfunction" within the top brass of the military. "The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president – who deserves better from his senior leadership," John Ullyot, a former senior communications official for the Pentagon, wrote in an op-ed for Politico published on Sunday. "Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer."Ullyot departed the Pentagon’s public affairs

Over the course of his 12 years as the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, connected with many of Hollywood's elite.Here are some other celebrities who had the honor of crossing paths with Pope Francis.PHOTO GALLERY: POPE FRANCIS THROUGH THE YEARSPOPE FRANCIS DIAGNOSED WITH BILATERAL PNEUMONIA, VATICAN SAYS"Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio met with the Pope for a quick conversation while filming the documentary "Before the Flood" for National Geographic in 2016.In an Instagram post shared by the actor at the time, DiCaprio can be seen showing the Pope a book