Quiz: 2025 Year in Review

The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

SNAP provides critical food assistance to low-income Americans and helps reduce food insecurity. The program lifted 2 million older adults out of poverty in 2022, according to the AARP Public Policy Institute. ​

TikTok’s temporary lease on life may not be so temporary after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will allow a version of the wildly popular app to continue to operate in the United States under a group of American-led investors. The president previously signed three stays of execution delaying a federal ban on the Chinese-owned app.

The penny’s demise follows a years-long lobbying effort to get the government to stop producing coins that cost more to make than they’re worth. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the cost of producing a penny more than doubled in the past 10 years, to nearly 4 cents.

The first time Flack played “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” she remembered to AARP in an email interview in 2020, “I was opening for Marvin Gaye at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.  The audience asked for an encore. Marvin told me to sing another song, and I performed ‘Killing Me Softly,’ and the audience lost their minds.  Marvin walked over to me, put his arm around me and said, ‘Baby, don’t ever do that again live until you record it.’ ”