Business and economy

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. (Coin Market Cap)

• https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/ark-invest-funds-become-first-us-etfs-to-add-exposure-to-solana-through-3iqs-staking-etf

International relations

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announces that Pope Francis has died early on Easter Monday, at the age of 88. (Euronews) (AP)

• https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/21/pope-francis-dies-at-88-the-vatican-says
• https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a

International relations

Cardinal Farrell, as Camerlengo, becomes the acting head of Vatican City until the next papal conclave in May. (NPR)

• https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/g-s1-61662/kevin-farrell-camerlengo-vatican-pope

International relations

Klaus Schwab steps down as leader of the World Economic Forum, which he founded in 1971. (DW)

• https://www.dw.com/en/world-economic-forum-chairman-klaus-schwab-steps-down/a-72303380

Law and crime

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. (USA Today)

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/el-paso-texas-shooting-walmart-pleads-guilty/83195417007/