## [2025-04-21](/feed/2025/04/21/index.md)

##### 2025 Boston Marathon
### [Kenyan athlete Sharon Lokedi wins the women's competition with a time of 2:17:22 and sets the new course record, surpassing Buzunesh Deba's record in 2014. ](/feed/2025/04/21/kenyan-athlete-sharon-lokedi-wins-the-women-s-competition-with-a-time-of-2-17-22-and-sets-the-new-course-record-surpass.md)
### [In long-distance running, Kenyan road runner John Korir wins the men's competition at the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:04:45 which, along with his brother Wesley Korir's win in 2012, makes them the first and only set of brothers to win the event. ](/feed/2025/04/21/in-long-distance-running-kenyan-road-runner-john-korir-wins-the-men-s-competition-at-the-boston-marathon-with-a-time-of.md)
##### 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
### [The perpetrator of the racially motivated domestic terrorist mass shooting attack that killed 23 people and injured 22 others at a Walmart building in El Paso, Texas, United States, in 2019, 26-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, pleads guilty to state charges and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to avoid the death penalty. ](/feed/2025/04/21/the-perpetrator-of-the-racially-motivated-domestic-terrorist-mass-shooting-attack-that-killed-23-people-and-injured-22-o.md)
##### Klaus Schwab
### [Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971. ](/feed/2025/04/21/klaus-schwab-steps-down-as-leader-of-the-world-economic-forum-which-he-founded-in-1971.md)
##### Death and funeral of Pope Francis
### [Cardinal Farrell, as Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May. ](/feed/2025/04/21/cardinal-farrell-as-camerlengo-becomes-the-acting-head-of-vatican-city-until-the-next-papal-conclave-in-may.md)
### [Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announces that Pope Francis has died early on Easter Monday, at the age of 88. ](/feed/2025/04/21/cardinal-kevin-farrell-camerlengo-of-the-holy-roman-church-announces-that-pope-francis-has-died-early-on-easter-monday.md)
##### ARK Invest
### [ARK Invest becomes the first US-based asset manager to gain exposure to the Solana blockchain through an ETF investment after Canada approves several spot Solana ETFs. ](/feed/2025/04/21/ark-invest-becomes-the-first-us-based-asset-manager-to-gain-exposure-to-the-solana-blockchain-through-an-etf-investment.md)
##### Boko Haram insurgency
### [The Islamic State claims responsibility for a series of deadly attacks targeting Christians and security forces in Borno and Adamawa, Nigeria earlier this month that killed at least nine people and injured several others. ](/feed/2025/04/21/the-islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-a-series-of-deadly-attacks-targeting-christians-and-security-forces-in-borno.md)
##### Spillover of the Sudanese civil war
### [The South Sudan People's Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army. ](/feed/2025/04/21/the-south-sudan-people-s-defence-forces-capture-the-town-of-nasir-in-upper-nile-state-from-the-nuer-white-army.md)
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