APRIL 22, 2025
Pope Francis' body is seen in a coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence at the Vatican, where the late pontiff resided and then died at the age of 88, on April 21, 2025. / Credit: Handout/Vatican News service
Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. eastern) on Saturday at...
APRIL 22, 2025
Donald Trump (left) recently called Jerome Powell a ‘major loser’. - Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
US stock markets, Treasury bonds and the dollar itself are sliding amid the tariff turmoil and Donald Trump needs a soft target. It was probably only a matter of time before he intensified his attacks on Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve. It...
APRIL 21, 2025
Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass privately on the altar of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Dec. 8, 2020. / Credit: Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Pope Francis used his last will and testament to detail his wishes for where he would like to be interred following his death.
The...
APTIL 21, 2025
Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior, and President Donald Trump after signing an executive order about deregulation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca—Bloomberg/Getty Images
Following the election of President Donald Trump, U.S. multinationals wasted little time in purging mentions of the climate from their websites. Breakthrough Energy,...
APRIL 21, 2025
President Donald Trump during the 60th presidential inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20.
President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised $239 million, a new fundraising report shows, buoyed by million-dollar contributions from major companies and business executives.
The massive haul is more than double the $109 million raised for the his first inauguration in...
APRIL 21, 2025
Ray Dalio. - Shannon Finney/NBC via Getty Images
In a recent interview on Meet the Press, financier Ray Dalio, warned of "something worse than a recession" if current financial, economic, and trade issues are not "handled well." Later in the interview, he warned that if current problems worsen, we could experience a "world order in which there is great conflict." I agree...
APRIL 21, 2025
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
US stock markets fell again on Monday as Donald Trump continued attacks against the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, who the US president called “a major loser” for not lowering interest rates.
“There can be a slowing of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a...
APRIL 21, 2025
Beginning next month, the Education Department will resume withholding money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits to pay down the debt of people in default on their student loans, ending a five-year pause on involuntary collections. Wage garnishments will restart this summer.
Roughly 5.3 million borrowers are in default, having failed to make a payment on their...
APRIL 21, 2025
Pope Francis greets cardinals as he unexpectedly appears April 13 during the Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. - Yara Nardi/Reuters
Pope Francis has died weeks after he was discharged from the hospital following a lengthy battle with double pneumonia and other health issues. He was 88.
The death of the pope comes a day after he made...
APRIL 21, 2025
Pope Francis poses for a picture with a group of nuns during the general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Aug. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
VATICAN CITY, ROME — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism...
