Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap federal election, emphasizing the urgent need to counter President Trump's confusion-inducing trade war.
The big picture: Trump's anger-triggering tariffs and threats of making the close U.S. ally the 51st state have shaken up Canadian politics and bolstered a sense of nationalism, signaling changing fortunes for the recently unpopular Liberal leadership.
After a 5-week hospital stay that triggered fears of a potential papal resignation, Pope Francis returned to the Vatican Sunday.
The big picture: But now, two months of rest and recovery prescribed by his doctors begin — just weeks out from Easter Sunday and the holiest days of the Catholic Church's year.
In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American students in Texas while urging Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
The big picture: As the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, many have forgotten the LBJ speech that made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cry and connected Latinos to the nation's civil rights struggle.
Major League Baseball has removed the word "diversity" from its MLB Careers home page in reaction to President Trump's executive order ending "equal opportunity" for people of color and women in recruiting.
Why it matters: MLB's retreat makes it the latest entity to pull back ondiversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices amid threats of legal action from the Trump administration.
A summit on battling antisemitism on college campuses is scheduled to begin Saturday in New York City amid a rise of antisemitic rhetoric and acts across the political spectrum.
Why it matters: The "Rise and Respond Global Student Summit Against Antisemitism" comes as President Trump threatens universities with funding cuts over antisemitism allegations, drawing criticism from free speech advocates.
President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back protections that have shaped American life for nearly six decades.
Why it matters: Backlash to the racial justice movement of 2020 has overshadowed a more fundamental, long-standing conservative goal: Turning back the clock on the sweeping societal changes of 1965.
