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The American Egg Board and the Biden administration dismissed anger over the White House Easter Egg Roll and decorating contest Monday after conservatives criticized a decades-old policy banning religious symbolism. A flyer for the annual White House egg decorating contest says participants “must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan…

Pope Francis made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and the “prompt” release of all Israeli hostages during his traditional Easter message “to the city and the world” on Sunday. The address came after Francis presided over Mass in the morning and made several loops around the piazza, greeting some of the tens…

President Biden and former President Trump shared different Easter messages on Sunday. Biden observed the holy day with a serious message, while Trump criticized political opponents in a post on Truth Social using all capital letters. Trump went after the prosecutors organizing criminal cases against him, repeating claims about federal special counsel Jack Smith being “deranged,”…

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said former President Trump selling branded Bibles is “risky business” given the sins of his life, adding to criticism against the former president over the deal. Warnock, a reverend who gave an Easter sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr.’s church in Atlanta, on Sunday, said selling the Bibles…