内容摘要：While earning praise for trying to turn the Vatican’s finances around, Francis angered U.S. conservatives for his frequent excoriation of the global financial market.

While earning praise for trying to turn the Vatican’s finances around, Francis angered U.S. conservatives for his frequent excoriation of the global financial market.

“I would write a song and I would orchestrate it and copy the parts,” he said in the AP interview. “And rehearsal was the next day at nine, so at four in the morning, I am crossing the lake with the parts still wet. I just loved it. I never was happier.”His wife, Barbara, died in 2023. He is survived by four children, Ben, Nick, Victoria and William.

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state’s the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86.Bond’s family told Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office that Bond died in St. Louis, but it didn’t disclose the cause, Gabby Picard, a spokesperson for the governor, said in an email. Kehoe ordered flags flown at half staff for the man he described as a “skilled statesman.”Jason Van Eaton, Bond’s former deputy chief of staff, told The Associated Press that his former boss’ death marked the end of an era. “The lasting legacy of Kit Bond will be the thousands of people that he inspired,” he said.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, of Missouri, described Bond as a “champion for Missouri” in aFormer U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, of Missouri, praised Bond’s “relentless and penetrating intelligence” in a statement.

As a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Bond secured federal money for big and small projects in Missouri, scoffing at government watchdog groups that considered him a master of pork-barrel spending.

“If it’s pork, it’s an awfully healthy diet for the people of Missouri,” Bond said in 1999., a welcoming port for immigrants from across the globe, hit the hard reality of state budgeting this spring.

The Democrat is a leading critic of President Donald Trump’s administration, especially its immigration policies. But facing a budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, Pritzker’s proposed $55.2 billion fiscal plan would cut part of a four-year-old program providing health coverage to some adults regardless of immigration status. Illinois is one of seven states and the District of Columbia to offer such a program.California, which last year one-upped Illinois by offering health care to all adult immigrants, has run into a similar revenue problem and

Rep. Barbara Hernandez, a suburban Chicago Democrat, said the program helps many families.“There’s a huge need in the undocumented community that cannot get health care otherwise,” she said.