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...
APRIL 19, 2025
Protesters line up along New York’s Fifth Avenue in front of the chalk-drawn words ‘We the People’ written on the street (Getty Images)
Demonstrators from Alaska to New Hampshire flooded the streets in protest of President Donald Trump’s second term to mark a “National Day of Action.”
Americans in all 50 states on Saturday participated in 900 events, which were largely organized by...
APRIL 19, 2025
A new study found waves of brain aging occur at ages 57, 70, and 78.
Some healthy habits can combat mental decline by improving memory and cognition.
Brain aging accelerates at three specific points in your life, according to a recent study.
The researchers looked at brain images of over 10,000 healthy adults, then tracked blood protein changes in...
