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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Newly named Pope Leo XIV has Creole roots in New Orleans, genealogist says

May 9, 2025 at 2:14 p.m.

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole people of color, according to Jari C. Honora, a noted genealogist and historian.

Mexico becoming a driving force in auto production

June 1, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.

The first Honda Fit rolled off the assembly line Friday at a new $800-million factory near Celaya, Mexico, a symbol of the growing might of the country's auto industry. Honda's...

Gates saga is familiar fear for blacks

August 22, 2021 at 1:48 p.m.

Like Henry Louis Gates Jr., they are black professionals, men of status and achievement who have excelled in a nation that once shunned them. And for many of them, their...

Fish sticks by any other name

August 22, 2021 at 11:20 a.m.

In Vietnam there's a kind of fish that's white-fleshed and whiskered and otherwise pretty darn catfishlike. But in the eyes of U.S. government, the creatures aren't "catfish." Now fish farmers...

Court overturns sex conviction

August 21, 2021 at 8:45 p.m.

Genarlow Wilson -- the young man imprisoned for committing a consensual sex act who became, for many, an example of inequitable criminal justice -- was released from prison Friday after...

As campus grieves, ‘monster’ revealed

August 21, 2021 at 8:26 p.m.

It was still dark at 5:30 a.m. EDT when Karan Grewal bumped into his roommate in the bathroom of their suite in Virginia Tech's Harper Hall. Grewal had been up...

Freelance tree sitter helps suburbanites tackle sprawl

August 20, 2021 at 6:17 a.m.

To construction workers hammering away at new houses, John Quigley is just "a crazy dude." But the quixotic tree sitter who has vowed to save an ancient oak from bulldozers...

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