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Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy Calls Assisted-Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a hearing with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee at the Rayburn House Office Building on April 21, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to help strengthen laws that protect people with disabilities from assisted suicide, saying “we can’t be a moral society” with these laws in place.

Native American Group Backed by U.S. Bishops Seeks Court Review of Sacred Site Sale

Wally Skalij
Protestors stand outside the 9th Circuit Court in Pasadena, California, protesting a mining deal that would destroy the Oak Flat sacred site in Arizona, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.

Apache Stronghold has faced multiple court losses, including a failed Supreme Court bid, to halt the sale of Oak Flat in Arizona.

Pope Leo XIV, Returning From Africa: ‘I Condemn All Actions That Are Unjust’

Pope Leo XIV speaks aboard the papal plane from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to Rome, following an 11-day trip in Africa, on April 23, 2026.

Speaking to reporters on his flight from Malabo to Rome, the pope addressed war, migration, same-sex blessings, and the Vatican’s diplomacy with authoritarian governments.