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An Iranian flag flutters in the wind as ships were anchored on May 16, 2026, in the Strait of Hormuz near Larak Island, Iran.  | Majid Saeedi/Getty

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Pope Leo XIV gestures as he addresses the crowd during the weekly general audience at St Peter's Square in the Vatican on May 20, 2026. | Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images

Pope Leo XIV is dealing with his first schism.

A small, conservative sect of Catholics were excommunicated from the church earlier this month after it ordained a group of bishops without th...

Workers install roofing for a new home under construction in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Monday, June 29, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

President Donald Trump blames immigrants for virtually every problem in American economic life. In the president’s telling, the undocumented have been taking

A biologist at the Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center picks up a handful of endangered pale lilliput mussels. | Benji Jones/Vox

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — On a sweltering afternoon in June, I stood in what was essentially a roadside ditch. Sandwiched between a four-lane highway and the parking lot of a faith-based recreation center near Birmingham, the ditch was filled wi...