The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter’s Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.
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Long a dream, it’s now real: a fast and accurate TB test that doesn’t need phlegm
TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.
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The Iran war now has a price tag ($25 billion), but still no end date
The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.
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Florida lawmakers pass a voting map that could help Republicans flip four House seats
The map drawn by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump’s effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.
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In court, Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of trying to ‘have your cake and eat it, too’
In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he’d helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.
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Supreme Court calls Louisiana’s House map an ‘unconstitutional racial gerrymander’
Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday’s decision all but guts the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.
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Senior citizens join the immigration fight to protect caregivers
As the Supreme Court weighs the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for protections for their immigrant caregivers.
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Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home
In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.
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The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad
Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn’t spent it — and the consequences are already being felt.
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Welcome to ‘Anxietyland’ theme park, where the rides are no fun
From the Emotional Roller Coaster to the Worry-go-round, cartoonist Gemma Correll walks us through her brain’s not-so-amusing amusement park in a darkly funny memoir.
