Pope Leo Adds Capital Punishment to the List the Church Cannot Endorse
On the flight home, Leo turned his Africa tour's moral vocabulary into direct doctrine-in-public: war, unjust killing, and capital punishment belong to the same condemnation set.
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CBS Radio Day 32 Puts 28 Days Between the Network and the Last World News Roundup
Twenty-eight days to May 22 and the final broadcast of the longest-running US newscast since 1927 — and neither Bari Weiss nor Tom Cibrowski's name surfaces in any Friday public artifact.
Washington Post Guild Puts Newsroom Layoff Number at 350-375, Not 300
The Washington-Baltimore Guild's revised February count raises the Post's newsroom casualty list from roughly 300 to between 350 and 375 — nearly half the pre-cut strength of 790.
Roldugin at Day 15 in Petrovka 38, 16 Days From His May 10 Remand Hearing
Fifteen days into detention at Moscow's Petrovka 38, Article 272.1 used against a journalist for the first time, and the state is testing whether leaked information is now itself illegal.
Heritage NEST Day Three Draws Its First Libertarian Counterpoint
By Day 3, Heritage's pronatalist architecture meets explicit right-coded criticism from Reason, not just predictable opposition from the left.
WashU Eight Country Study Finds Nearly Half of Young Adults Lonely
A WashU cross-national sample reports near-half loneliness among 18-24-year-olds, reinforcing the paper's April self-revision on scale and structure.
Vance Publication Watch Enters the Final Pre Release Month
JD Vance's June 16 faith memoir now sits inside its final pre-release month, turning each Friday into a potential campaign-adjacent messaging artifact.