Beyoncé and Solange are two icons in their own right, and the creative sisters have a strong relationship with each other that exudes love and care. This dynamic has a lot to do with how their mother, Tina Knowles, raised them.When Beyoncé and Solange were around the ages of 12 and 7 respectively, Knowles took them to counseling together. It was a taboo decision to make at the time, but Knowles felt it would strengthen her daughters’ relationship and help them grow as individuals.”My family was upset, and even Matthew [her ex-husband and children’s father] was not happy. He was…
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The transition from one pope to the next can be a mystifying time for those who aren’t familiar with the workings of the Roman Catholic Church — and even to some who are.The process is governed by centuries-old rules and traditions that come with their own vocabulary, much of it in Latin. The election of a new pope is likely to play out over weeks or months as a small group of Catholic prelates decides on the next leader of a global flock of more than a billion faithful.With the first papal transition in more than a decade underway following…
Bank of America named a slew of buy-rated tech stocks ahead of earnings. The firm says investors should buy the weakness on a host of companies like Block , Spotify, PayPal and Microsoft. Block Shares of Block have plenty room to run, according to the firm. The fintech payment company’s first quarter earnings report is scheduled for May 1 with analyst Jason Kupferberg telling clients in a recent note to buy the dip. “We believe the stock is not being given enough credit for the general resilience the business has shown to date as well as its opex [operating expense]…
In a year that hasn’t been kind to many big-name stocks, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is standing near the top. Berkshire shares have posted a 17% return year-to-date, while the S&P 500 index is down 6%.That performance places Berkshire among the top 10% of the U.S. market’s large-cap leaders, and the run has been getting Buffett more attention ahead of next weekend’s annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. It’s also good timing for the recently launched VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF (OMAH), which holds the top 20 most heavily weighted stocks in Berkshire Hathaway, as well…
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via APU.S. President Donald Trump floated the possibility of stronger sanctions on Moscow in a lengthy social media post on Saturday in which he publicly questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “stop the war.”His post came just after Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in Rome for their first in-person meeting since their stunning clash in the Oval Office that…
For part of his study abroad trip to India in 2010 Bert Mueller stayed with a host family in Jaipur. Mueller and some of his classmates who were also studying abroad brought their respective families food from their home countries.”They didn’t like it very much,” Mueller says of the food he brought from the United States. But he noticed another classmate had the exact opposite experience.”One of my friends was of Mexican origin and she would make chips and salsa and beans and tortillas,” he says. “One day I came over to her house and I saw she’d made this…
Leading analyst Craig Moffett suggests any plans to move U.S. iPhone assembly to India is unrealistic.Moffett, ranked as a top analyst multiple times by Institutional Investor, sent a memo to clients on Friday after the Financial Times reported Apple was aiming to shift production toward India from China by the end of next year.He’s questioning how a move could bring down costs tied to tariffs because the iPhone components would still be made in China.”You have a tremendous menu of problems created by tariffs, and moving to India doesn’t solve all the problems. Now granted, it helps to some degree,”…
Some stocks that investors have bought up this week could be positioned for a pullback if the market remains volatile. Stocks have seen big swings in recent weeks in reaction to the latest news about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with investors awaiting potential deals between the U.S. and its trading partners. The president said agreements would be announced “over the next three to four weeks.” While the market kicked off this week with significant losses, it was able to recover in the days that followed, as each of the major averages secured a four-day win streak on Friday, finishing out…
Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty ImagesUnder the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Education made regular announcements that it was forgiving student debt for thousands of people under various relief programs and repayment plans.That’s changed under President Donald Trump.In his first few months in office, Trump — who has long been critical of education debt cancellation — signed an executive order aimed at limiting eligibility for the popular Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and his Education Department revised some student loan repayment plans to no longer conclude in debt erasure.”You have the administration trying to limit PSLF credits, and…
By plane and boat, on foot and in an electric popemobile, Pope Francis traveled year after year of his papacy, reaching dozens of countries on five continents.His first official trip outside Rome was in 2013 to Lampedusa, a tiny Mediterranean island that had became a gateway for migrants. Not long afterward, he flew into the mountains of Bolivia and rode through the streets of Philadelphia and New York. He visited Mosul, an Iraqi city ruined by war, met with crowds in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, and crisscrossed Asia and the Pacific, with stops in Mongolia, Indonesia and Papua…
