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Pope Francis in critical condition after suffering respiratory crisis

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Pope Francis is in critical condition after suffering a severe respiratory crisis that required oxygen treatment, the Vatican announced Saturday. The pontiff, who was hospitalized a week ago with a lung infection, has also received blood transfusions due to anemia. Doctors caution that while he is stable, he is not out of danger.

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  • The Vatican stated that Francis is alert and spent much of the day in an armchair, though he is experiencing more pain than the previous day.

  • Earlier this month, doctors diagnosed Francis with bilateral pneumonia, affecting both lungs. While he is responding to treatment, his medical team warns that he is still at risk.

  • Vatican officials confirmed that Holy Year celebrations are continuing as planned. A designated organizer will lead Sunday’s Mass in Francis’ place.

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Pope Francis is in critical condition following a serious respiratory crisis that required oxygen support, the Vatican said Saturday. The 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized a week ago at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital due to a complex lung infection and later received blood transfusions after tests revealed anemia.

Doctors monitoring Francis said he slept well overnight but is facing increasing discomfort. “The Holy Father continues to be alert and spent the day in an armchair although in more pain than yesterday. At the moment, the prognosis is reserved,” the Vatican said in a statement. Physicians expect him to remain in the hospital for at least another week.

Francis’ medical team, which includes specialists in cardiology and infectious diseases, emphasized that he has shown no signs of sepsis—a life-threatening infection—but remains vulnerable. His personal physician, Dr. Luigi Carbone, cautioned that Francis is in a fragile state. “He is not out of danger. Like all fragile patients, I say they are always on the golden scale: In other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced.”

Doctors have prescribed cortisone, antibiotics, and supplemental oxygen while ordering him to rest. Despite these concerns, Francis has continued working from his hospital room. However, sepsis remains a major risk, as bacteria from the lungs could enter the bloodstream and cause organ failure.

Even as the pope battles his illness, Vatican celebrations for the Holy Year are continuing as planned. Organizers confirmed that Sunday’s Mass will proceed without him, with a substitute leading the service. Pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square offered prayers for the pope’s recovery.

Doctors warn that Francis’ recovery will take time, and he will continue to live with chronic respiratory issues. “He has to get over this infection, and we all hope he gets over it,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the head of medicine and surgery at Gemelli Hospital. “But the fact is, all doors are open.”

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Bondi and Patel deliver explosive “Clinton Corruption Files” to Congress

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A new set of explosive documents dubbed the “Clinton Corruption Files” has been delivered to Congress, shedding fresh light on long-standing allegations that Bill and Hillary Clinton’s family foundation served as a vehicle for influence-peddling during their years in public office. The evidence, produced by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, reportedly details how foreign and domestic interests funneled donations to the Clinton Foundation in pursuit of political favor—some while Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State.

According to officials who spoke with Just the News, the documents were transmitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in recent days and outline multiple instances of donors—including foreign nationals and even a U.S. defense contractor—seeking access or advantage by contributing to the Clinton charity. The revelations raise new questions about why such evidence was allegedly withheld from federal prosecutors who, nearly a decade ago, were probing the foundation for potential “pay-to-play” corruption.

Whistleblowers cited in the materials claim that key evidence was suppressed during a 2015 investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Little Rock, Arkansas—an inquiry reportedly shut down under the Obama administration’s Department of Justice. “The documents will make clear that there was an effort ‘to obstruct legitimate inquiries into the Foundation by blocking real investigation by line-level FBI agents and DOJ field prosecutors and keeping them from following the money,’” one official directly familiar with the files said.

Bondi and Patel, who have been gathering evidence for weeks, are working to protect whistleblower identities before making the cache public—potentially by the end of this week. The materials are expected to reignite scrutiny over the Obama-era decision to terminate the earlier investigations.

Officials also disclosed that the Clinton documents coincide with a separate batch of records expected to emerge from the ongoing Arctic Frost investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Those materials reportedly include new information about Smith’s communications with senior officials such as current FBI Director Christopher Wray and details of efforts to obtain private phone records from members of Congress.

The forthcoming disclosures could deepen concerns about politically motivated interference within the Justice Department during the Obama years—and reignite calls for accountability over what many see as one of Washington’s most notorious episodes of selective justice.

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Is America drifting toward civil war? Joe Rogan thinks so

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Podcast host Joe Rogan used Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience to deliver one of his bluntest warnings yet about the state of the country, saying the left-wing celebration that erupted online after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shows America drifting toward something far more dangerous than partisan division.

Rogan told guest Brian Redban that watching ordinary people cheer Kirk’s killing — a murder that unfolded in front of Kirk’s wife and child — revealed a level of moral decay he didn’t think possible in the United States. “Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating, like, whoa… You want people to die that you disagree with?” he said, recounting the avalanche of social media posts he saw in the aftermath. Rogan admitted he once believed the country was at a four or five “on the scale of one to civil war,” but after witnessing the reaction, he now puts it closer to “seven,” calling it “step seven on the way to a bonafide civil war.”

What shook him most, Rogan said, wasn’t fringe extremists or anonymous trolls — it was everyday Americans, people with ordinary jobs, openly celebrating a political assassination on Instagram. “If the worst thing you could say about that guy is, ‘He said some things I disagree with,’ and you’re celebrating that he got shot in the neck in front of the world… and you work at an insurance company? This is nuts,” he said. Rogan warned that when “regular people” feel comfortable glorifying murder in public, “you’re in dark territory.”

Redban jokingly blamed “estrogen pills,” to which Rogan laughed before circling back to his point: the celebration of political violence is growing, and it’s coming from people who should know better. It’s not the first time he has sounded the alarm. Days after Kirk was gunned down on September 10, Rogan said the response “opened up” his eyes to how normalized the idea of violence against conservatives has become in certain circles.

Two months later, on Monday, that concern was reflected on the ground. A Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley erupted  into violence after a rioter identified only as “Jihad” was arrested and charged with assault and robbery. A TPUSA attendee wearing a “Freedom” shirt was left bloodied in the chaos, and several other individuals were detained in connection with the attacks. Across the country, students have been arrested for vandalizing or attacking TPUSA display tables, emboldened by the climate that followed Kirk’s killing. At the University of Arizona, one student was caught on video calling conservative students “Nazis” and warning them to “watch your neck,” a chilling reference to the way Kirk was murdered.

The hostility hasn’t slowed the organization’s growth. In fact, since the assassination, Turning Point USA says more than 120,000 students have requested to start new chapters — a surge the group attributes to both outrage over the killing and the broader backlash to campus radicalism.

Rogan’s message Tuesday was aimed squarely at that growing acceptance of brutality — not just among activists, but among the everyday people cheering them on. The warning was stark: a nation where political assassination is celebrated is a nation in real danger, and the shift from division to something far more violent may already be underway.

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