Kate Sheehy

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Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday. “The family were free people of color prior to the Civil War. When they move to Chicago between 1910 and 1912, they ‘passed’ into the white world,” Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, told CNN of the new pope’s mother’s parents.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Kate Sheehy

Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week’s conclave. Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had to swear to never reveal anything about the proceedings or else risk the Church’s gravest punishment: religious banishment. The employees took their oaths in the Papal Chapel.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Kate Sheehy

Zimbabwe is set to become the first country to officially fold on the US’s new global tariffs, with its president saying he will suspend the nation’s own taxes on American goods to foster “a positive relationship.” “In the spirit of constructing a mutually beneficial and positive relationship with the United States of America, I will direct the Zimbabwean government to implement a suspension of all tariffs levied on goods originating from the United States,’’ Zimbabwe President Emmerson...

1 month ago | nypost.com | Kate Sheehy

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tried Sunday to defend the Trump administration slapping tariffs on islands only populated by penguins by suggesting that ships could stop there in order to dodge duties. “The idea is that there are no countries left off’’ President Trump’s tariff list, Lutnick told CBS’s “Face the Nation’’ when asked whether the 10% levies targeting the remote Heard and McDonald islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean were a mistake, or even AI-generated.

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Border czar Tom Homan on Friday huddled with a Rochester police union to offer “his unwavering support” after some local cops were ripped by the “sanctuary city’’ for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a traffic stop. “I stand with the officers of the Rochester, New York Police Department that answered the emergency assistance call from the U.S Border Patrol,’’ Homan tweeted after the meeting. “That is the way it should be.