Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday, the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in public since leaving hospital two weeks ago. Francis greeted crowds at the Vatican and seemed to be in good spirits. He was seated in a wheelchair and wearing what appeared to be a nasal cannula aiding his breathing. The 88-year-old pontiff spent five weeks in hospital with pneumonia in February and March. According to his medical team, the pope came close to death during the illness. Francis appeared in better health than when he was last seen in public, which…
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A British woman was found guilty Friday of breaching a buffer zone outside a UK abortion clinic, in a case that attracted concern from the Trump administration over “freedom of expression” in the country. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, from Bournemouth, a town on the southern English coast, was convicted of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), legislation prohibiting protests near abortion services, on two days in March 2023. Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner and retired medical scientist, held a sign outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic reading, “Here to talk, if you want.” District judge Orla Austin told Poole Magistrates’ Court…
Severe thunderstorms and relentless rain are triggering catastrophic flooding across the middle of the US this weekend, as areas already hit hard by a recent string of storms and tornadoes remain in the path of this current system. The storms have killed at least 16 people across Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas and Kentucky since Wednesday. In Franklin County, Kentucky, a 9-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters while walking to his school bus stop, police said. And in Little Rock, Arkansas, a 5–year-old was killed at a home battered by severe weather. There are 41 million people at risk for severe storms Saturday from…
As communities in the central US grapple with widespread devastation from a line of deadly storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes this week, more grave threats to the region are underway: additional severe thunderstorms and relentless rain with the potential to trigger “generational” flooding into the weekend. At least eight people have been killed across Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky during extreme weather this week. The most recent death occurred Friday morning, when a boy was swept away by floodwaters while walking to his school bus stop in Frankfort, Kentucky, police said. He was identified as 9-year-old Gabriel Andrews, the Franklin County…
More than 20 states in the path of severe weather starting Wednesday.Severe weather outbreak begins Friday with tornadoes, hail and damaging winds possible.Severe weather threat extends to the East Coast by Sunday.The FOX Forecast Center is continuing to monitor the potential for a multiday severe weather outbreak that could blast cities across the central and eastern U.S. with thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, damaging winds and even some tornadoes. Forecasters have been keeping their eyes on computer forecast models and now say the threat of severe weather will continue through the weekend, placing tens of millions of people living…