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Human Interest

The search into Pope Leo's family roots

6:05pm June 16, 2025

by Tinbete Ermyas

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

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National

House, Senate Proffer Social Security Bills

by Brian Naylor

House and Senate Republicans have offered proposals that would include putting the current Social Security surplus into individual accounts. Many Democrats oppose the idea, but may be powerless to stop it.

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National

House, Senate Proffer Social Security Bills

by Brian Naylor

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Will AI search engines lead to the death of the website? Some fear they will

by Bobby Allyn

Online publishers fear the rise of AI search will lead to a drastic drop in traffic to websites, fundamentally disrupting how the internet economy operates.