Faith, Fairness & the First Inning • Best 60ish Seconds

In this week's Best 60ish Seconds, Charlie opens by raising a question that has surprised many across the political spectrum and Catholics in particular: why is President Trump picking a public fight with Pope Leo XIV?

Charlie then turns to Virginia, where left-wing Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed her state into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, making Virginia the 18th state — plus D.C. — to join the effort, bringing the total to 222 electoral votes, inching toward the 270 needed to trigger the agreement. Charlie calls the compact a terrible idea, full of constitutional problems, and an end-run around the Electoral College that would effectively strip Virginia voters of their voice by tying the state's electoral votes to the national popular vote regardless of how Virginians themselves vote.

In the world of sports, Charlie salutes the upcoming Penn Relays — one of the great traditions in track and field — and tips his cap to Lehigh University's Mountain Hawks baseball team, who set an NCAA Division I record this week by scoring 20 runs in the first inning of a 38-6 rout of Coppin State. Remarkably, those 20 runs came on just three hits. The Mountain Hawks shattered the previous record of 18 runs in an inning, set by Princeton and Air Force back in 1974.