APRIL 22, 2025
Karma: Krishna.
अवश्याया भवितु द्विजेनि यात्या दुष्टरमवाप्निभावस्थिताः ।
avashyayan bhavitam dvijanih yathā dustaramavāp nibhaavasthitāṁ
("That which is bound to happen, O learned one, will surely take place; none can prevent it.")
It’s an age-old question that haunts even the strongest believers: If karma is real, why do good people suffer while the unjust thrive? Shouldn’t goodness be rewarded and wrongdoing punished?
The Bhagavad Gita...
APRIL 22, 2025
President Trump had hoped for some early wins after his tariff announcement on April 2—they are yet to come to fruition. Andrew Harnik - Getty Images
Despite early White House signals suggesting a trade deal with Japan was imminent, negotiations in Washington D.C. ended without an agreement, highlighting Japan's ongoing concerns and reluctance to concede ahead of domestic elections. Conflicting messages...
APRIL 22, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump outside the White House. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has hit out at Fed chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates faster.
Fresh fears about the central bank's independence hit stocks, bonds, and the dollar on Monday.
Wall Street figures said Powell might be Trump's...
APRIL 22, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters on April 9, 2025, in Washington.© Alex Brandon/AP
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.
Noem, who was asked about the theft at...
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...
