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Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been elected as pope. He is the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church. Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis I, is also the first Jesuit priest to become pope.

Wednesday morning's vote at the papal conclave at the Vatican led to black smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney, meaning no new pope after the cardinals' second vote.

The world’s worst mother may very well live in Centralia, Washington.

The labor market—and the economy overall—is improving, albeit gradually, with employers adding 236,000 jobs in February. That gain brought the unemployment rate down a few ticks from 7.9 percent to 7.7, its lowest point in four years.

I've worked in radio now for close to 10 years and one of my favorite things to hear is peoples thoughts on what working in radio is really like. According to some, I only work 5 hours a day, hang out with rockstars constantly, and make tons of cash. That couldn't be further from the truth and now, thanks to Forbes, I can give you a glimpse into my wallet to prove it.

A 16-year-old boy in Florida who stopped a classmate with a gun is not being hailed as a hero.

A woman in California is dead after a nursing home employee refused to give her CPR, citing a policy that didn't allow her to do so. Listen to the frantic 911 operator trying to convince the woman to find someone who isn't employed by the nursing home to help...

It may sound hard to believe, but trying to stop a drunk driver has actually cost a woman her job.

Girls Gone Wild built an empire just by having drunk girls flash their boobs. They sold videos, pay-per-views, magazines, and everything in between. Their founder, Joe Francis, was even able to buy his own jet! Unfortunately, drunk girls flashing can only take you so far and Girls Gone Wild has been forced to file for bankruptcy.

If your future plans involve becoming a national beauty queen, you have to assume that people are going to comb your past for anything they can use against you. It might be a photo of you smoking weed...it may be a gluttony of unpaid parking tickets...or, in the case of Miss Delaware Teen USA Melissa King, it might be a hardcore porn video you filmed when you turned 18.