Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 4/16/2026

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	Call my wife.
0:01.5	Calling UK Wildlife.
0:03.7	Voice assistance not working for you.
0:05.7	BlackRock Investment Trust has a lot working for you.
0:08.2	Get to know them at blackrock.com.
0:10.0	Capital at risk, marketing material.
0:11.4	BlackRock Investment Management UK Limited,
0:13.0	authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:15.3	Pope Leo the 14th striking back against Donald Trump,
0:19.6	as Donald Trump has attacked the Pope he's mocked
0:23.7	the Catholic Church he's done AI images of himself as Jesus he's continued to do things
0:30.5	like defund Catholic charities he's taken money millions of dollars away from the
0:36.0	archdiocese in Miami.
0:38.3	We'll talk about Pope Leo the 14th speech that he gave in Cameroon.
0:43.3	And Pope Leo the 14th isn't holding back right now, but this is the fight that Donald Trump and Maga decided that they want to pick.
0:51.3	They're going to go all in on attacking the Catholic Church right now
0:55.3	and attacking the Pope. You have this disastrous press conference. I showed a little bit of there
1:00.5	at the outset of Donald Trump on the White House law. And he's heading to Las Vegas right now to
1:06.7	pretend the economy's booming and everybody's doing great. Later today we'll bring you the speech
1:11.6	that he gives there. But Donald Trump on the White House lawn, disparaging Epstein survivors,
1:20.6	basically saying, you know, he calls them the victims or whatever. that's how he referred to the survivors the
1:29.9	victims or whatever that's by the way how Donald Trump feels about the survivors
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