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After two days of voting, the nearly 130 voting cardinals in Vatican City have elected a new pope. The new leader of the Catholic Church is Robert Prevost. According to the Associated Press, he is the first American pope in history. 

A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”