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Catholic faithful poured into St Peter's Square from all corners of the globe on Saturday, determined to honour Pope Francis after waking up at dawn or spending the night in sleeping bags.

Within an hour of the opening of the square, the empty chairs for the public were already filled by those anxious for a front-row seat to history.

A gathering of global economic leaders in Washington wraps up Saturday with tariff talks between the United States and partners still unresolved -- and anxiety building over the state of the global economy.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank's spring meetings provided an important opportunity for countries to discuss trade at the sidelines, speaking with President Donald Trump's new administration.

The United States and Iran were expected to start haggling over details of a potential nuclear deal in Oman Saturday as they held their third round of talks in as many weeks.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are again leading the discussions, which this time include a technical-level meeting between experts from both sides.

The bloc of Donald Trump voters that was vital to getting him over the election line in first place last November were asked just four months after his inauguration for their reactions.

Their answer was far from exuberant. “Ummmm,” said one.

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor is facing fresh scrutiny after newly surfaced videos and podcasts appear to contradict his public apology for praising a Capitol riot defendant with known Nazi sympathies, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin has apologized this week for defending Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist who once photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler and has a documented history of anti-Semitic statements. Martin claimed he was unaware of Hale-Cussanelli’s extremist views when he publicly praised him.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Friday, who she accused of turning his back on a life-saving drug that the host said has spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

“It's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible,” Maddow said in the opening minutes of her show. “And it is terrible,” she added as she laid into the litany of federal programs Trump has axed in his first three months after returning to the White House.

The CIA on Friday broke its silence over the death of Michael Gloss, the son of a senior national security official and an Iraq War veteran, who was killed last April while fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine – one of the few Americans known to have done so, the Washington Post reported.

While Gloss, 21, was killed in Donetsk on April 4, 2024, of “massive blood loss” in an artillery barrage, that he was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine fighting alongside the Russian army was not publicly revealed until Friday, according to the Post, which described Gloss as “a Dylan-loving peacenik who wanted to save the environment.”

A judge said a 2-year-old girl with U.S. citizenship appears to have been deported along with her mother to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — despite her father's efforts to keep her in the country.

According to Politico, "U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child — identified in court papers by the initials 'V.M.L.' — appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday, along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week."

The Education Department on Friday opened a probe into New York state education officials for threatening to cut funding to a local school district over its decades-old Native American mascot – an image depicting a man in a feathered headdress, according to a report in Politico.

The new investigation came days after Donald Trump used the power of the presidency to weigh in on the mascot feud embroiling the small Long Island community, and asked his education secretary to look into the matter he called “very important.”

A prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to a report.

Virginia Giuffre became a leading figure in unearthing Epstein's trafficking network and shared detailed accounts of abuse and trafficking by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. That included claims she was trafficked to high-profile figures, including Britain's Prince Andrew.