China Q1 GDP has outstripped expectations, but analysts fear momentum could shift sharply lower as U.S. tariffs hit. One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leading advisers has been escorted from the Pentagon as part of an investigation into leaks. A judge has demanded officials provide answers under oath about the return of a man wrongly deported from the U.S. to El Salvador. Prisons in France have been targeted with arson and gun attacks. And the boy about to be proclaimed the Catholic Church’s first saint of the millennial generation.
