Dan Ladden-Hall

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

Former President Joe Biden on Monday morning released his first statement about his cancer diagnosis. “Cancer touches us all,” Biden wrote in a post on X, alongside a photo of himself with former first lady Jill Biden and a gray cat. “Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places.

1 month 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.

1 month 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 month 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 month 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.