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wherever you get your podcasts. Big news out of Rome, A new pope has been announced.

A pap American, a pap American pope ever. I'm Carolyn Beeler, what to expect from Leo the 14th.

And today, people mark 80 years since World War II ended in Europe, but celebrations have taken a somber tone.

In some ways, we're celebrating the 80th anniversary of a global system, just as that system is collapsing.

In Gaza, signs of malnutrition and starvation are dire.

The world has got to let aid back in.

A walk through the rice pattdies of Japan in record heat.

It was like walking through a furnace and breathing through wet cotton balls.

Plus, reality TV, it just makes economic sense.

That's all ahead today on the world.

This is the world.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

When the white smoke billowed out of the chimney above the Sistine Chapel today,

very few people were expecting the man who was announced as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Cardinals elected American Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo the 14th. He is the first American ever elected to the papacy.

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