Dan Ladden-Hall

5 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Dan Ladden-Hall

The American cardinal now known as Pope Leo XIV watched the movie Conclave shortly before he went into conclave for real, according to his brother. John Prevost, the brother of the Chicago-born pontiff, told WMAQ-TV about one of the last conversations he’d had with his sibling, Robert, before he went into the secret ballot process to elect a new pope. “I said: ‘Did you watch the movie Conclave, so you know how to behave?’” Prevost told the station.

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Dan Ladden-Hall

1 hour agoAmid war cries and triumphalism, empathy, pluralism and our very humanity are slipping away. On the night of May 6, India went to bed. In the morning, we were at war. When I woke up on Wednesday at about 4:30am to use the bathroom, the glow of my phone screen caught my bleary eye. Still half asleep, …

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Dan Ladden-Hall

President Donald Trump is tipped to make his special envoy Steve Witkoff his next national security adviser after ousting Mike Waltz, according to reports. Witkoff, who was branded a “bumbling f---ing idiot” by a White House insider, is the leading candidate to replace Waltz—slammed as a “f---ing idiot” by another White House source—after Trump officials lost confidence in Waltz over weeks of scandal and chaos engulfing the president’s national security team, according to Politico.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Ladden-Hall

President Donald Trump is tipped to make his special envoy Steve Witkoff his next national security adviser after ousting Mike Waltz, according to reports. Witkoff, who was branded a “bumbling f---ing idiot” by a White House insider, is the leading candidate to replace Waltz—slammed as a “f---ing idiot” by another White House source—after Trump officials lost confidence in Waltz over weeks of scandal and chaos engulfing the president’s national security team, according to Politico.

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Dan Ladden-Hall

Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz accused CNN‘s Harry Enten of being overly theatrical in an awkward on-air moment. Enten, CNN’s chief data analyst, presented polling on Laura Coates Live about how President Donald Trump‘s net favorability rating has plummeted with specific voter groups since his re-election, including a massive 35-point drop for under-30s. “Look at where he is now—holy Toledo!” Enten said, reacting to the drop. Luntz did not appreciate Enten’s style.