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Keely Reardon of Chicago kneels with her hands clasped at Holy Name Cathedral, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)2025-05-08T22:27:28Z CHICAGO (AP) After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had their eyes glued to TV screens.As the image of the new pope, Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost, appeared onscreen, cheers erupted through the hallways. Children jumped out of their seats, pumping their hands in the air.Our students are just beside themselves, said Mary Perrotti, director of advancement at the school. Theyre beyond excited and cant believe a Chicagoan is their new pope. They were in awe.Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV and replaced Pope Francis, who died last month. The first American elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago before undertaking his ministry in Peru. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced. Our young people have a model now of a leader with justice and compassion at the heart of his ministries and who is from their home, Perrotti said. Its such a deep feeling of connection for them. Prevost was born in 1955 in the south side Chicago neighborhood of Bronzeville and grew up in suburban Dolton, where he attended Mass and elementary school at St. Mary of the Assumption.He later studied theology at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in Hyde Park and taught in local Catholic schools, including at St. Rita High School, according to the school. Linda Eickmann, 62, was also born and raised in Dalton and attended St. Marys. When she saw the news of the new pope on TV, she screamed with joy.How cool is that? she said. A pope from my elementary school, from my town. Its unreal.Eickmann remembered Prevosts family as being so deeply involved in the St. Marys community that everyone knew their names. They ran sloppy joe sales to raise money for the school, and all their sons were altar boys, including Prevost. Everyone at St. Marys knew Prevost wanted to be a priest one day, Eickmann said. Raul Raymundo, co-founder of a local community advocacy group called the Resurrection Project, said Thursday was a proud day for Chicagoans and hoped Pope Leo XIV will continue Pope Francis legacy and Chicagos legacy of social justice and compassion, especially in welcoming immigrants.Theres tears of joy, of hope, of motivation to rise to this moment and leave this world better than we found it, said Raymundo, an immigrant from Mexico who grew up in Chicagos Pilsen neighborhood.At Holy Name Cathedral, about two dozen people gathered to pray as light filtered in through the stained glass windows.Father Gregory Sakowicz, the cathedrals rector, said that when the new pope was announced, the sun came out in the city a coincidence that he described as Gods way of remaining anonymous. He said he was happily shocked, and that he had a burning question: Whether the new Pope was a White Sox fan?When a journalist in the crowd said shed heard Pope Leo XIV is a Cubs fan, Sakowicz chuckled. God bless him, he said. Social media also erupted with excitement over Pope Leo XIVs Chicago connection and people swapped memes and jokes about Chicago staples deep-dish and tavern-style pizza, the Chicago liqueur Malort and baseball. Many users also proclaimed hope the new pope would represent Chicagos history of social justice.For Catholic Chicagoans, to have a native son who has been born and raised in a city where support and care of all has always been central to who we are as a city, it really speaks volumes, Perrotti said. I truly believe his upbringing in Chicago informs his ministries, his compassion and sense of justice. Now, he can give the world a sense of who we are as a city. CHRISTINE FERNANDO Fernando is a democracy reporter covering misinformation, reproductive rights and state supreme courts for The Associated Press. twitter mailto MELINA WALLING Walling covers the intersections of climate change and agriculture in the Midwest and beyond for The Associated Press. She is based in Chicago. twitter instagram facebook mailto

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer and Peru's Minister of Defense Walter Astudillo at the Pentagon, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-05-08T21:58:07Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued Thursday.Buoyed by Tuesdays Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the Defense Department will then begin going through medical records to identify others who havent come forward.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the courts decision.No More Trans @ DoD, Hegseth wrote in a post on X. Earlier in the day, before the court acted, Hegseth was more blunt, telling a conference that his department is leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns, he told a special operations forces conference in Tampa. Department officials have said its difficult to determine exactly how many transgender service members there are, but medical records will show those who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, who show symptoms or are being treated. Those troops would then be involuntarily forced out of the service.Officials have said that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there were 4,240 troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the active duty, National Guard and Reserve. But they acknowledge the number may be higher.The memo released on Thursday mirrors one sent out in February, but any action was stalled at that point by several lawsuits. ___ LOLITA C. BALDOR Baldor has covered the Pentagon and national security issues for The Associated Press since 2005. She has reported from all over the world including warzones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. twitter mailto

Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)2025-05-08T20:49:14Z CAIRO (AP) Reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya, a country with a documented history of serious human rights violations and abuse of migrants, have spotlighted the difficulties they face in the lawless North African nation.Migrants in Libya are routinely arbitrarily detained and placed in squalid detention centers where they are subjected to extortion, abuse, rape and killings. A U.N.-backed, independent fact-finding mission found evidence that crimes against humanity had been committed against migrants in Libya. Victims were subjected to enslavement, forced disappearance, torture and murder, among other crimes, the investigators found. Dead migrants have been found in mass graves across the country, while tens of thousands of others have drowned trying to escape Libya on smugglers boats. Its hell on earth for migrants, said Tarek Megerisi, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. All they will have are different forms of abuse if they are lucky enough, they will end up on a rickety boat in the Mediterranean, added Megerisi, who is Libyan. A fractured country ruled by militiasLibya plunged into chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The country split, with rival administrations in the east and west backed by a web of rogue militias. Their main business model is smuggling, and people smuggling is a major part of that, Megerisi said. Both the Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and its rival administration in eastern Libya controlled by military commander Khalifa Hifter have denied signing a deportation deal with the Trump administration. Some 800,000 migrants seeking work or who have fled war in their home countries live in Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration. Each year, thousands attempt the dangerous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Europe. Despite documented abuses in Libya, the European Union and Italy have for years funded, trained and equipped Libyan groups, including the coast guard, to stop migrants from reaching European shores. Abuse and extortion in migrant detention centersMigrants intercepted at sea or elsewhere in Libya are subject to arbitrary detention and extortion in centers run by armed groups that are either affiliated with state authorities or are autonomous, said Mehdi Ben Youssef, program lead at Lawyers for Justice in Libya. Those groups extort migrants for money in exchange for release only for them to be captured again by another armed group, detained and tortured.Ben Youssef said those who could be deported from the U.S. to Libya would be highly exposed to cycles of crimes.In detention centers, migrants are tortured and kept in horrific conditions, lacking legal representation and proper access to water and health care, Ben Youssef said. Families outside Libya are blackmailed with cellphone videos of their relatives being tortured to pay varying sums for their release payments that often offer no real guarantee of freedom.A 2019 Associated Press investigation found that huge sums of EU funds meant to improve conditions for migrants ended up in the hands of militiamen, traffickers and coast guard members who exploited migrants in this cycle of catch and release. Restrictions hinder groups in Libya from aiding migrantsLast month, Libyas Internal Security Agency ordered 10 international aid organizations to suspend operations and close offices, accusing the groups of violating local laws by providing aid to African migrants, touting a replacement conspiracy theory and resulting in more targeting of Black migrants. Those groups were already operating in a highly restrictive environment amid numerous crackdowns on civil society, Ben Youssef said.Black migrants, and especially non-Arabs, face abuse such as forced labor and extortion more so than migrants of other nationalities, a humanitarian worker in Libya told The AP.Attorneys said Wednesday that U.S. authorities informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya. That is troubling because it sends the message Libya is safe when its not, said the worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. The workers team, which travels to reach vulnerable communities, helps with food distribution and provides psychosocial support, has been hindered since Libya ordered aid agencies to suspend operations.Libya is not a safe country for migrants, and the order made the situation worse, said Claudia Lodesani, who heads Doctors Without Borders programs for Libya. Libyan authorities have ordered private medical clinics collaborating with the group not to respond to migrants health needs.Our organization is very concerned about the consequences these orders will have on the health of migrant people in Libya, Lodesani said. More questions than answersFor now, there are still more questions than answers on whether deportations to Libya would actually take place. A U.S. judge said Wednesday that migrants cant be deported without a chance to challenge such a move in court.What would happen to people once they land in Libya? ... Would they be detained? asked Camille Le Coz, who leads the European branch of the Migration Policy Institute think tank. She noted that Libya has a very restrictive asylum procedure, recognizing refugees from only a handful of nationalities.This type of operation is expensive, its difficult to set up, and so, we can speculate that it might be to show that if you get to the U.S. you might be sent to this place that is extremely dangerous for migrant populations and that this may deter people from coming, Le Coz said. ___Brito reported from Barcelona, Spain.___ Follow APs global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration RENATA BRITO Brito leads international migration coverage for The Associated Press. She is based out of Barcelona, Spain. twitter instagram mailto

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by Vernal Coleman and Eric Umansky ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. Democratic House members on Thursday blasted the Trump administrations moves to shrink the Department of Veterans Affairs and demanded more transparency from its leaders after a ProPublica investigation revealed widespread disruptions across the agencys health care system.There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans, said Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, citing the news organizations work.This week, ProPublica reported on dozens of emails sent from staff at VA hospitals and clinics across the country to headquarters warning how cuts could, and in some cases are, degrading the agencys ability to provide for the roughly 9 million veterans who rely on it. Hiring freezes and other edicts from the White House have left medical providers scrambling and short-staffed amid an ever-shifting series of policy moves, including the cancellation of contracts with companies that maintain cancer registries, the emails said. Staffers at VA centers in Pennsylvania warned the cuts were causing severe and immediate impacts, including to life-saving cancer trials.Enrollment in clinical trials is stopping, one wrote, meaning veterans lose access to therapies. Staffers at the hospital warned more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for diseases ranging from metastatic head and neck cancers, to kidney disease, to traumatic brain injuries.On Thursday, the House members, several of whom are veterans, demanded VA leadership provide more details on how cuts are affecting such work, in which service members often receive treatment they would not otherwise have access to. We all want to cut waste, fraud and abuse, but what we see today is when you cancel a contract, it means the end of a clinical trial thats going to save someones life, Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire said.Notably, Deluzio, an Iraq War veteran whose Pittsburgh-area district includes a VA facility, and other lawmakers said they had learned about the impact for the first time from ProPublicas reporting. On Thursday, they accused agency Secretary Doug Collins of stonewalling their efforts to find out what positions have been laid off, what contracts have been canceled and what future cuts will look like.We want the country to understand that this administration is hiding what they are doing, not just from us and the Congress, but from veterans and the American people, Deluzio said.And the worst part is, we dont know if anyone has died, he added.President Donald Trump has long said his administration will prioritize veterans and not compromise their care.The disruptions at the VA have come even as the department has laid off just a few thousand staffers a small fraction of the employees it said it ultimately plans to remove. Collins has said the agency is developing plans with Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency to cut at least 70,000 employees a number that he has underscored is a goal. Could be more, could be less, he told lawmakers this week.On Thursday, in a post on X, Collins pushed back on criticism, calling ProPublicas reporting misleading and saying it was based on some outdated reports from the internal system VA uses to quickly identify and fix issues across the department.In a statement, VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz said that Collins was working to fix a broken bureaucracy that has long had problems with patient safety and access to care, among other issues. Unfortunately, many in the media, government union bosses and some in Congress are fighting to keep in place the broken status quo, he said. Our message to Veterans is simple: Despite major opposition from those who dont want to change a thing at VA, we will reform the department to make it work better for Veterans, families, caregivers and survivors.Kasperowicz previously told the news organization that the issues in Pennsylvania have been resolved, though locals there with knowledge of the issues said thats not the case and that the impact is ongoing. Kasperowicz also said in regard to the contracts to maintain the cancer registries that there had been no effect on patients. He added that the VA is moving to create a national contract to administer them. According to some providers, even the temporary disruptions have hurt the care of veterans. One clinical trial to treat veterans for opioid addiction was hobbled by temporary layoffs. We couldnt give veterans a tool that could save their lives, said Ellie Gordon, the CEO of the startup Behavior, which is testing biosensors to alert veterans to the risk of relapse.Collins touted the cuts in a sometimes-contentious hearing on Tuesday before the U.S Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs.Were going to maintain VAs mission-essential jobs like doctors, nurses and claims processors, while phasing out non-mission essential roles like interior designers and DEI officers, he said in an opening statement. The funds saved will be rerouted into direct health care and benefits for veterans, he added.Some Republicans at the hearing defended the administrations proposed cuts. The VA has become a bloated bureaucracy, said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who represents Alabama. I think most of us will agree with that.But Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., pushed back on Collins statements, saying that laying off such a large portion of the staff will inevitably involve letting go of health care workers, like nurses and doctors. You cannot slash and trash the VA without eliminating those essential positions which provide access and availability of health care, he said. It simply cannot be done.Others at the hearing took Collins to task for a lack of transparency. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, admonished the secretary for refusing to provide a list of the 538 canceled contracts since his appointment. Collins said he would provide the information, but only after its finalized.Were looking at every step we can, but also, Im not going to play it out in a public arena, he said. J. David McSwane contributed reporting.

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