EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will square off in two debates before the November 2024 election. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the US will provide an additional $2 billion in foreign military financing for Ukraine. And a look at National Foster Care Month.

House Speaker Johnson was at the Manhattan court house, appearing in former President Trump's hush money trial. A Catholic church is Chicago that opened more than 100 years ago is set to close for good this Sunday. And Polish faithful are commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the attempted assassination of St. John Paul II at the Vatican.

Parishioners at a Louisiana church were able to avert a crisis when an armed gunman opened the back door at a First Communion Mass. And a court in Pakistan has annulled the marriage of a 17 year old Christian girl, after she was kidnapped and forced to both marry her captor and convert to Islam.

America's heartland is preparing for an ecological event it hasn't seen in 221 years. Pope Francis has officially proclaimed the 2025 Jubilee, a special Holy Year of Grace and Forgiveness. And Mother's Day can be a rather difficult day, especially for those who have lost a child.

President Biden announced the U.S. will stop supplying weapons to Israel all together if it invades Rafah. In Brazil, the death toll tops 100 people amid heavy flooding and the forecast this weekend calls for another set of storms. And, the latest data from the EU showed that April was the hottest month on record for global sea surface temperatures.

The United States is pumping the breaks on a shipment of bombs to Israel. Police in riot gear cleared away the pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of George Washington University. And the state of Florida is suing the Biden Administration over new federal laws on gender-based surgeries.

Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza seizing control of the Rafah border crossing. Stormy Daniels took the stand in the trial against Trump, where she recounted her encounter with him. And the Thomas More Society is accusing the NY attorney general of a witch hunt against pro-lifers.

Hamas Supreme Leader Ismail Haniyeh agreed to a cease-fire proposal. Today marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to commemorate the 6 million Jewish lives lost in WWII, and the survivors. And among those gearing up for the 2024 Olympic games is the Vatican and the French Embassy to the Holy See.

Tens of thousands of dreamers, come this November will be allowed to enroll in ObamaCare. According to the US Labor Department, the unemployment rate rose to 3.9% in April, up slightly from March. And what started as a weekly exercise in prayer for men in Ireland has spread throughout the world.

The Biden Administration's plan to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug is seen as an election-year move to try and win young voters. And a new study into the 2024 election finds voters in the US are divided along religious lines, with 61% of white Catholics supporting Trump.

Pro-life advocates are celebrating Florida’s new pro-life measure that just became official May 1st. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she'll force a vote to oust Speaker Johnson. And today is the start of a month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Campus protests are intensifying throughout the US. The International Criminal Court may soon issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and other top leaders for war crimes. And in Nebraska, residents are picking up the pieces after devastating tornadoes swept through the heartland on Friday.

Secretary of State Blinken says it’s up to Hamas to sign off on a ceasefire proposal he called “extraordinarily generous”. The Cardinal Newman Society is releasing its report card for college graduation speakers. And during his visit to Venice, Pope Francis met with prisoners, artists and young people.

There are no signs the pro-Palestinian protests in the US are ending anytime soon. The annual March for Martyrs takes place tomorrow in the nation's capital. And Pope Francis recently met with tens of thousands of pilgrims who use a hands-on approach to spreading the Gospel.

Former President Trump's lawyers were before the US Supreme Court, arguing presidential immunity. The annual Young Catholic Professionals conference kicks off on Friday and the theme is "workers in the vineyard". And Catholic athlete Joe Alt is following in his father's footsteps in many ways.