VATICAN CITY — A new pope was elected on Thursday.
Cardinal Robert Prevost from America was selected during the conclave, and he will take the name Leo XIV.
He is the first American to become Pope.
White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:07 p.m. local time, The Associated Press reported.
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