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Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

File photo: Clayton Echard on “The Bachelor.”

Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of state charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to use records from Medicaid and Medicare to study autism.

An outage of radio and radar systems controllers use to guide planes into Newark last week exposed decades of underinvestment and staffing shortages.

A man arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism after crashing into a gate Monday at the Bel Air home of actor Jennifer Aniston repeatedly posted online about the “Friends” star.

A New York woman is facing charges after police said she drugged and stole Rolexes from multiple men she met at South Beach bars dating back to at least 2023.

One of the dead was a 14-year-old boy from India, prosecutors said, adding that his 10-year-old sister is believed to be missing, perhaps at sea.

Disney will build its seventh theme park, this one in the United Arab Emirates.

Who is voting for the next pope? Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Cardinal Joseph Tobin are among the US cardinals eligible.

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the Church. The renowned Sistine Chapel is a chapel within the Apostolic Palace, which is the pope’s official residence in Vatican...