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VATICAN CITY — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic ...

Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two more inconclusive rounds of conclave voting.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again pours from Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope elected after second or third ballots.

The wait for the 267th pope to be elected is set to continue as black smoke has been spotted billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Billions around the world are eagerly waiting to ...

Seminarians on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul have created their own chimney on top of a building to announce when the new pope is elected. St. John Vianney College ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a ...

An "omega block" is expected to form from California eastward into the Ohio Valley, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said on May 2. The blocking pattern is so named because ...