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Trump administration reverses long-held guidance on 'road diets' for traffic safety

Trump administration reverses long-held guidance on 'road diets' for traffic safety

A stylist was just starting her shift at a salon in Kansas City, Missouri, when a car smashed through the storefront window and landed in the waiting area a few feet away.
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Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools

Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools

TORONTO — Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file.
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Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools

Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools

TORONTO — Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file.
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Pakistan begins 2nd anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year to protect millions of children

Pakistan begins 2nd anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year to protect millions of children

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio, officials said.
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Which cardinals are seen as contenders to be the next pope?

Which cardinals are seen as contenders to be the next pope?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.
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The Latest: Pope Francis dies at age 88

The Latest: Pope Francis dies at age 88

Pope Francis died Monday, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
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The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, is postponed after the pope's death

The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, is postponed after the pope's death

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis , has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis , the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sunday in St.
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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday . He was 88.
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What are the church's rites after the death of a pope and the election of a new one?

What are the church's rites after the death of a pope and the election of a new one?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they're counted, and then burning them to produce either the wh
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Read the announcement of the death of Pope Francis

Read the announcement of the death of Pope Francis

The text of the announcement of the death of Pope Francis , which was read Monday by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, from the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta, where Francis lived.
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