On Saturday, April 26, the funeral service for Pope Francis will be held at St. Peter’s in Rome as world leaders gather.  Live coverage will begin at 3:00 am ET with the services expected to begin at 4:00 am.

Following the funeral, Francis’ body will be entombed at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major.

The Vatican confirmed Monday that Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 in his residence at Casa Santa Marta, ending a controversial decade-long papacy marked by globalist overtures, divisive political stances, and growing health concerns.

Pope Francis’ death certificate, released by the Vatican, states that he passed away in his residence at 7:35 a.m. due to a cerebral stroke, followed by coma and irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse.

The document also notes several underlying health conditions, including a recent episode of acute respiratory failure caused by bilateral multimicrobial pneumonia, multiple bronchiectasis, arterial hypertension, and type II diabetes.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania arrived in on Friday to attend the funeral.

.@POTUS and @FLOTUS arrive in Rome ahead of tomorrow’s funeral for Pope Francis pic.twitter.com/59On2HN3GE

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 25, 2025

Additional foreign dignitaries confirmed to attend include the UK’s Prince William, Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French President Emmanuel Macron.  Additional dignitaries are expected.

Watch live beginning at 3:00 am ET:

Following a period of mourning, cardinals will gather for the papal conclave, expected to begin between May 6 and May 12, 2025, vote in secret sessions to elect the next pope.

The ballots will be burned in a special stove after each session with black smoke indicating no pope has been elected as none have reached the least two-thirds of the vote required.

When white smoke emerges, it signals that the cardinals have chosen the next head of the Catholic Church.

While many Catholics hope that the far left Francis will be replaced with a more traditional, conservative pope, of the 135 cardinal electors eligible to vote, 109 were appointed by Francis himself, comprising approximately 80% of the electorate.

This significant majority suggests that the next pope is likely to continue or even intensify Francis’s left-wing trajectory.

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FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo Friday night of the arrest earlier in the day of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan by FBI agents for helping an illegal alien with a domestic violence case in her courtroom evade arrest by ICE agents last week. Patel captioned the photo, “No one is above the law.”

No one is above the law pic.twitter.com/TSrQ4GNMdA

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 26, 2025

Mid-day Friday, Patel posted, deleted, then reposted an announcement of the arrest of Dugan:

Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.

Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.

We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee

Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 25, 2025

TGP’s Cristina Laila reported on the shocking details of Dugan’s alleged efforts to obstruct the arrest of the previously deported Mexican national Eduardo Flores Ruiz during a court appearance on April 18. Read her report at this link. (After a foot chase, Flores Ruiz was captured outside the courthouse after fleeing with alleged help from Judge Dugan.)

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at her courthouse and was later released with a federal court date of May 15 after being charged with two felonies, “obstructing and impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States” and “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.”

Video posted by WISN-TV reporter Matt Smith shows Judge Dugan dashing toward a chauffer driven SUV after her initial federal court appearance.

New video from our crews: Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan and her attorney leaving the federal courthouse in Milwaukee and not commenting. The FBI arrested her at the MKE Co Courthouse this morning. She’s charged with 2 felonies for obstructing an ICE arrest last week pic.twitter.com/3YtgsNHTJl

— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 25, 2025

Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, posted a photo of Flores Ruiz as part of a statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan:

This is the criminal illegal alien that the Milwaukee Circuit judge attempted to shield from justice. He has a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse. Ruiz illegally entered the US twice.

Since President Trump was inaugurated, activist judges have tried to obstruct President Trump and the American people’s mandate to make America safe and secure our homeland— but this judge’s actions to shield an accused violent criminal illegal alien from justice is shocking and shameful.

We are thankful for our partners at the FBI for helping remove this accused criminal from America’s streets.

If you are here illegally and break the law, we will hunt you down, arrest you and lock you up. That’s a promise.

This is the criminal illegal alien that the Milwaukee Circuit judge attempted to shield from justice. He has a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse. Ruiz illegally entered the US twice.

Since President… https://t.co/4HvDtC9XPc pic.twitter.com/To5yzuShos

— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) April 25, 2025

Judge Dugan was first elected in 2016 and was reelected in 2022 to a second six-year term, according to Ballotpedia.
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Scott Jennings, the lone voice of reason on CNN, recently pointed out that activists judges who are being ‘shopped’ by Democrats are bringing the United States towards a real Constitutional crisis as they continually interfere with what should be the president’s job.

Jennings goes so far as to suggest that if this continues, that Congress may have to intervene.

He also says, correctly, that what these judges are doing is a political ploy. It’s a direct effort to try to run out the clock on Trump’s presidency, just like they did with lawfare during Trump’s first term.

Partial transcript via Breitbart News:

Thursday, during an appearance on CNN, network contributor Scott Jennings warned of the potential consequences of federal district court judges using lawfare to “tie up” President Donald Trump.

Jennings said the phenomenon could lead to a “constitutional crisis.”

“The president has said he will follow the Supreme Court’s decisions,” he said. “He has always said that about all of these cases. They may have some differences of opinion about the rendering of certain decisions and how to handle and implement certain decisions, but the president has always said he’s going to follow the decisions.

Now, I do think that these individual district court judges that are being selectively shocked by people who oppose the president, trying to issue nationwide injunctions and stop the president from governing, I think that’s a real problem. I mean, it’s a constitutional crisis, in my opinion, for these individual district court judges to try to tie up Donald Trump. I mean, it’s obvious what they’re trying to do, which is to run out the clock until he’s no longer in office.”

“It’s sort of what the Democrats did the first time around,” Jennings continued. “They don’t want him to be able to govern.

Watch the clip below:

Just this week, judges (carefully shopped by Democrats) have ruled Trump may not:

-Deport illegal alien gang members
-Require voters to prove they’re citizens
-Defund sanctuary cities that violate federal law

The plan is obvious: Run out the clock on the Trump presidency. pic.twitter.com/MFuGXIMtCV

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) April 25, 2025

The American people did not vote for rule by liberal judges. This cannot be allowed to continue.

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Popular TV host Mike Rowe recently appeared on the Theo Von podcast and discussed a number of topics, but one segment stood out as it relates directly to the economy and the future of the country.

Rowe pointed out that the cost of college has risen faster than anything else and that millions of young Americans have now been saddled with massive debt and degrees that are in many cases, useless.

Meanwhile, we currently have millions of job openings and a disturbingly high number of young people who are not joining the workforce. This is a recipe for disaster.

BizPacReview has details:

Many Americans have been duped into believing that a college degree is a necessity, and Mike Rowe is doing the simple math to prove it.

“We’ve got $1.7 trillion in student debt on the books and we’ve got 7.6 million open jobs right now—most of which don’t require a 4-year degree,” Rowe said in a clip making the rounds on X.

“And we’ve got 6.8 million able-bodied men who are not only out of the workforce, they’re not looking.

“We took shop class out of high school, we robbed kids of the opportunity to see what that kind of work even looks like.

“Meanwhile, we told a whole generation of kids they were f**king screwed if they didn’t get a 4-year degree.

Rowe was also asking the question that too few ever ask…

“How did college get so expensive? Nothing has gotten more expensive in the last 40 years than a 4-year degree. Not real estate, not healthcare, not energy, nothing.

“We keep telling kids they’re screwed if they don’t go in this direction. We free up endless money to loan them,” Rowe continued.

Watch the clip below:

Mike Rowe: “We’ve got $1.7 trillion in student debt on the books and we’ve got 7.6 million open jobs right now—most of which don’t require a 4-year degree.”

“And we’ve got 6.8 million able-bodied men who are not only out of the workforce, they’re not looking.”

“We took shop… pic.twitter.com/33eVay6muE

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) April 24, 2025

Rowe is not wrong about this. The country needs more skilled workers, not more people with ‘gender studies’ degrees.

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Batya Ungar-Sargon, who is a liberal and also Jewish, recently appeared on CNN and slammed Democrats for constantly invoking Hitler and the Nazis when talking about Trump and the people who voted for him.

She held out Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who recently wrote a column for the New York Times which bashed Bill Maher for having dinner at the White House with ‘Hitler’ Trump.

She reminded the CNN panel that when you use this kind of rhetoric, you are labeling millions of working class American voters as Nazis. These are the same voters that Democrats lost in the 2024 election.

Do Democrats really think this is the way to win these people back?

Transcript via the Vigilant Fox on Twitter/X:

“To call Trump Hitler, is to call over 80 million Americans, 35% of Jewish Americans, 56% of Hispanic men, and the majority of Americans who make under $100,000 a year, Nazis,” she said.

“Because those are the people who gave Donald Trump his victory.”

“I just have a pro tip for any Democrats who are thinking about winning back the working class,” she said.

“Those people who make under $100,000 a year, who a majority of whom voted for Trump—you should have a visceral disgust for someone like Larry David, who’s worth $400 million sitting there and sneering and smearing the hardest working Americans for refusing to cosign their own disinheritance.”

“That’s effectively what they are doing when these millionaires come out here and call Trump Hitler,” she added.

“They are calling working class Americans, Nazis, because they chose the person they thought would give their children back, the future they were promised by this country.”

Here’s the video:

NEW: Former Democrat UNLOADS on Larry David—calling Trump “Hitler” is branding millions of working-class voters as Nazis.

And that’s exactly why Democrats keep losing.

Batya Ungar-Sargon just dropped a truth bomb on the liberal elite.

After Larry David compared Trump to… pic.twitter.com/dHYrvSrV8R

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) April 25, 2025

Democrats don’t seem able to help themselves on this. Invoking Hitler and the Nazis to bash Trump and Trump voters is like a nervous tic that they can’t control.

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