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World · Vatican
Doctors at Rome's Gemelli Hospital removed the lower lobe of the pope's right lung on Tuesday and confirmed adenocarcinoma. A day later, the Vatican says he is walking, eating and recovering normally.
World · Vatican
The 71-year-old pope announced the news himself from St. Peter’s Square, saying the nodule was caught early and that he had decided to have it removed. The Vatican expects about a week of recovery.
World · Religion
The first American pope, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, drew one of the largest crowds of his papacy to the Champs-Élysées for an open-air Mass—in one of Europe’s most secular countries.
World
WASHINGTON — The United States military is taking additional steps to prepare for the possibility of action involving Cuba, according to new reporting, as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign of economic and political pressure against the…
