By Christopher Lamb, CNN

(CNN) — Pope Leo has appointed a new archbishop of New York who has first-hand experience of countries from where millions have emigrated to the United States, signaling the potential for a more outspoken approach from bishops on immigration.

The pope has chosen 58-year-old bishop Ronald Hicks to lead the church in New York, an appointment that comes at a time when the Trump administration has been ramping up its anti-immigration policies to which the Catholic Church in the US has responded with more vocal criticism.

Leo’s nomination of Hicks is his most significant appointment to the church in the United States since his election, with the archbishop of New York holding an important position on the national stage both in the church and across the US. Archbishops of New York are normally made cardinals, and Hicks can expect even greater scrutiny at a time when the Catholic Church is led by its first American pope.

Last month, Hicks made a statement on immigration, “expressing our solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.” He was responding to a rare intervention from the US bishops criticizing the White House’s immigration policies, saying that their message underlines their “concerns, opposition, and hopes with clarity and conviction.”

Bishop Hicks is, like the pope, a fellow Chicagoan who has spent time in Latin America. Hicks, until now the Bishop of Joliet, Illinois, had a five-year stint in El Salvador where he worked to help orphaned and abandoned children. He also did similar work in Mexico prior to that. His background reflects the growing influence of the Hispanic Catholic community in the US and resembles a similar background to that of Leo who spent many years as a missionary and bishop in Peru.

Hicks will succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan who turned 75 earlier this year, the age when bishops are required to offer their resignation to the pope. Leo has now accepted the cardinal’s resignation, which brings to a close a tenure marked by Dolan’s prominence as one of the most recognizable Catholic leaders in the US.

Warmer relationship with Trump

Dolan has long been known as a skilled communicator, pastor, and church historian, with a profile that extended beyond his archdiocese. During the Francis pontificate, however, Dolan was sometimes perceived at odds with the late pope’s priorities, though he consistently expressed respect for Francis.

Cardinal Dolan, while maintaining relationships across the political spectrum, also had a warmer relationship with President Donald Trump than Pope Francis did: he said the president “takes his Christian faith seriously” while leading the invocation prayer at Trump’s 2025 inauguration and praying at the same 2017 event.

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By Priscilla Alvarez, Pete Muntean, CNN

(CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security’s newest airplane has a very familiar, very Trumpian look.

Photos captured over the weekend at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, DC, show the department’s newly acquired Boeing 737 adorned with a design akin to President Donald Trump’s proposed paint scheme for a new Air Force One — a deep red stripe down the middle of the aircraft, a dark blue underbelly and an American flag painted on the tail. Both use colors similar to Trump’s private 757, known as “Trump Force One.”

Beyond just reflecting Trump’s taste, the planes may have another connection.

Open-source flight tracking records compiled by ADS-B Exchange show that before arriving in the DC area, the new DHS plane made stops in Ardmore, Oklahoma and Lake Charles, Louisiana. Landlocked Aviation, the same company involved in repainting Trump Force One, has an office in Lake Charles.

Asked for comment by CNN, Landlocked Aviation would not confirm it was involved in repainting the plane. CNN also reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for additional details.

The DHS plane previously carried a deep grey and gold paint scheme, according to photos posted online.

Back during Trumps first term, he unveiled a new look for Air Force One, revealing four mock-ups of a red, white and blue presidential plane with an American flag on the tail that he said in an interview with ABC were “all slightly different.” A model of the redesigned plane was also displayed on the coffee table in the Oval Office. But the proposal was later abandoned under the Biden administration due to cost and engineering concerns.

DHS, meanwhile, got an historic infusion of cash from Congress earlier this year to fuel the president’s mass deportation agenda. Those funds have in part been used to create the department’s own fleet of 737 jets to carry out deportations and facilitate Cabinet travel.

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La Casa Blanca ha instalado placas a lo largo del llamado “Paseo de la Fama Presidencial” del presidente Donald Trump, en las que se ofrecen descripciones de sus predecesores, a menudo escritas al estilo de sus publicaciones en las redes sociales, incluyendo insultos, afirmaciones sin fundamento y el uso aleatorio de mayúsculas.

Una placa situada al principio de la exposición, que recorre la pasarela exterior del ala oeste de la Casa Blanca, dice que fue “concebida, construida y dedicada” por Trump “como un homenaje a los presidentes del pasado, buenos, malos y en algún punto intermedio, que sirvieron a nuestro país y sacrificaron tanto al hacerlo”.

La propia placa de Trump presume su victoria en 2024, afirmando que superó “sin precedentes la instrumentalización de las fuerzas del orden en su contra, así como dos intentos de asesinato”. Y declara que Trump, quien lleva 11 meses en el cargo, ha “cumplido” su promesa del día de la Investidura de inaugurar la “época dorada de Estados Unidos”, señalando sus afirmaciones de que se han acabado las guerras, se han asegurado las fronteras y se ha deportado a los presuntos miembros de pandillas.

La placa del expresidente Joe Biden, que está representado por una foto de un autopen, se basa en las quejas habituales de Trump. “Sleepy Joe Biden fue, por mucho, el peor presidente en la historia de EE.UU. Llegó al poder como resultado de la elección más corrupta jamás vista en Estados Unidos, y Biden supervisó una serie de desastres sin precedentes que llevaron a nuestra nación al borde de la destrucción”, se puede leer en la placa. “Pero a pesar de todo, el presidente Trump sería reelegido por una mayoría aplastante y ¡SALVARÍA A ESTADOS UNIDOS!”.

Otros presidentes reciben descripciones igualmente politizadas, como el expresidente Barack Obama.

“Barack Hussein Obama fue el primer presidente afroamericano, un organizador comunitario, senador de un solo periodo por Illinois y una de las figuras políticas más divisivas en la historia de Estados Unidos”, se lee en la placa. Lo critica por aprobar lo que Trump llama “la altamente ineficaz Ley de Atención Médica ‘Inasequible’” y por firmar el acuerdo climático de París”.

La placa del expresidente Bill Clinton destaca sus logros políticos, pero también señala la derrota de la secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton frente a Trump en 2016. “En 2016, la esposa del presidente Clinton, Hillary, perdió la presidencia frente al presidente Donald J. Trump”

“Las placas son descripciones elocuentes de cada presidente y del legado que dejaron. Como estudiante de historia, muchas fueron escritas directamente por el propio presidente”, declaró la secretaria de Prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, a CNN cuando se le pidió más información sobre quién paga las placas.

La voz del presidente es especialmente prominente en las descripciones de Biden, con un estilo que se hace eco de algunas de las publicaciones de Trump en Truth Social.

“Apodado tanto ‘Sleepy’ como ‘Crooked’, Joe Biden estuvo dominado por sus asesores de la izquierda radical”, se lee en una de las placas, que continúa impulsando el prolongado ataque de Trump contra el uso del autopen por parte de Biden.

Las críticas no se reservan solo para los demócratas. La placa dedicada al expresidente George W. Bush lo cuestiona por las guerras en Afganistán e Iraq. “El presidente Bush creó el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, pero inició guerras en Afganistán e Iraq, las cuales no debieron haber ocurrido”. Sin embargo, también señala que puso en marcha el Read more

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Published by the Center for American Progress in June 2025, the results of the 2024 report on the LGBTQ+ wage gap are dispiriting—if not surprising. On average, LGBTQ+ households earned 85 cents for every dollar non-LGBTQ+ households earned in 2024. Over a year, that translated to some $12,580 in lost income. The wage gap widened even further for transgender households (70 cents to the dollar), Black LGBTQ+ households (61 cents to the dollar), and LGBTQ+ women households (52 cents to the dollar). 

It’s no secret that billionaires and millionaires are overwhelmingly composed of white, cisgender, heterosexual men. However, as LGBTQ+ acceptance has made strides in recent decades, more and more high-profile people have become comfortable openly identifying as members of the various LGBTQ+ communities and advocating on their behalf in multiple industries. About 9.3% of Americans identify as LGBTQ+, according to a Gallup poll released in 2025.

Naturally, some of the most financially successful LGBTQ+ people are celebrities—look at music legend Elton John or talk show star Ellen DeGeneres. Others, meanwhile, have gained ground in such industries as business, among them Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, kombucha mogul GT Dave, and Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook. Fashion is another well-represented avenue, home to iconic gay fashion designers like Michael Kors, Stefano Gabbana, and Domenico Dolce.

To spotlight some of these successful individuals, Stacker has compiled a list of 19 of the wealthiest LGBTQ+ people worldwide. We sourced official data from the Forbes real-time billionaires list, Celebrity Net Worth, Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and news reports to do so. However, it’s also worth acknowledging that this is not a comprehensive list. We recognize there may be many wealthy individuals who choose not to be public about their LGBTQ+ identities. Unless otherwise noted, this data is up to date as of Dec. 5, 2025. Individuals are listed in ascending order of net wealth.

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Caitlyn Jenner

– Net worth (USD): $25 million
– Wealth source: Television, athletics
– LGBTQ+ identity: Transgender
– Country: United States

Caitlyn Jenner first rose to fame for her career as a decathlete, winning the Olympic gold medal in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Although Jenner enjoyed various media opportunities after her gold medal win, she later became primarily associated with the reality series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” which centered on her blended family