Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito says “threatening” protests against the court are part of a campaign to try to intimidate the justices.
“It’s alarming. I think it contributes to a decline in public respect for the court and can ultimately have a serious effect on our standing,” he said.
He was particularly troubled by protests in 2022, after the leak of his draft opinion in the Dobbs case that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade and return the regulation of abortion to the states.
He said state laws in Maryland and Virginia, where the justices live, could have been used to help protect the justices from threatening protests, but were not.
Violent crime has plunged to some of its lowest levels in modern U.S. history, which has caused it to fade from the national conversation.
Voters and candidates have moved on to other problems, meaning President Trump and Republicans haven’t been able to use the better statistics in midterm campaigns.
The FBI says the homicide rate has dropped roughly 16%, to 4.1 per 100,000 people from 4.9, and a bureau report released in August showed that violent crime fell 9.3% in 2025, the largest one-year decline since the bureau began estimating national crime trends in 1936.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to ordain its largest number of priests in 50 years.
The Catholic Review, the Archdiocese’s official news outlet, reported that Baltimore will ordain 12 priests next year, the most since the 1970s. The archdiocese was one of several Catholic dioceses that downsized parishes after filing for bankruptcy amid sex abuse claims.
The total number of Baltimore seminarians has grown from 28 in 2007 to 66 this year.
The international push for an alternative to the dollar as the global reserve currency has stalled after a series of recent setbacks.
The latest developments have unfolded against the backdrop of the U.S. war with Iran, now in its eighth month, which some analysts predicted would accelerate a move away from the dollar.
Instead, the conflict has fueled a geopolitical flight of international capital to safe havens. The effort is led by U.S. adversaries upset by sanctions and backed by emerging economic rivals worried about American debt.
And finally … China has opened a foreign air force support center and is training pilots in Laos.
The location China chose in Laos was the CIA’s former Lima Site 44, an isolated airstrip that played a key role in U.S. covert operations during the Vietnam War more than 50 years ago.
The China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center reportedly does not include a Chinese garrison or exclusive use rights and “is not directed against any third party,” according to the Chinese Defense Ministry.
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