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New York - 23 April 2025

1. Various, Prabal Gurung

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

"I wasn't sure when this was going to be ready, when this is going to come out. I wasn' t prepared. I just wanted to do it because I didn't want to carry this story of mine by myself any longer. I wanted to share it with the world so whoever read it whoever it resonated with they had the courage to share theirs also. Because that's what at the end of the day storytelling is. It's really not—this memoir is really not about me, honestly. It really is about a lot of people out there who feel, whether it's unseen, whether they feel invisible, or whether they've been told that they're too much or too little, their dreams might be impossible. So, I feel like if you're not the majority, and by majority if you are not a straight white man, you often feel like you, I think it'll resonate with everyone."

3. Various, Prabal Gurung signing book

4. Various, Prabal Gurung

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

"When the outside world didn't see me like worthy of like you know that kind of accolades and applause you start to become your own cheerleader. And at that time growing up it was really tough it was really tough to be like, 'Why am I not part of this? Why am I not belonging?' But then unbelonging became my power because in that not getting validation all of a freed me. And it allowed me to dream the wildest, biggest dreams for myself. And you know, I genuinely believe in this thing, like in the true liberation lies in not needing validation from outside world. That is when I think you start to really begin the journey of getting to know yourself and loving yourself."

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New York -10 February 2023

6. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

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New York - 9 Sept. 2018

7. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

8. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

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1. Still image of "Walk Like a Girl" book cover

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New York - 23 April 2025

2. Various, Prabal Gurung

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

"I wasn't sure when this was going to be ready, when this is going to come out. I wasn't prepared. I just wanted to do it because I didn't want to carry this story of mine by myself any longer. I wanted to share it with the world so whoever read it whoever it resonated with they had the courage to share theirs also. Because that's what at the end of the day storytelling is. It's really not—this memoir is really not about me, honestly. It really is about a lot of people out there who feel, whether it's unseen, whether they feel invisible, or whether they've been told that they're too much or too little, their dreams might be impossible. So, I feel like if you're not the majority, and by majority if you are not a straight white man, you often feel like you, I think it'll resonate with everyone."

4. Various, Prabal Gurung signing book

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

"When the outside world didn't see me like worthy of like you know that kind of accolades and applause you start to become your own cheerleader and at that time growing up it was really tough it was really tough to be like, 'Wy am I not part of this? Why am I not belonging?' But then unbelonging became my power because in that not getting validation all of a freed me. And it allowed me to dream the wildest, biggest dreams for myself. And you know, I genuinely believe in this thing, like in the true liberation lies in not needing validation from outside world. That is when I think you start to really begin the journey of getting to know yourself and loving yourself."

6. Various, Prabal Gurung posing with book

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

"I really hadn't told too many people, not even my close friends, and—to relive that part and to write it down. And just to like, you know, like it was harrowing. I won't lie. It was, it took me days to write it at the same time it went by so swiftly but it was also like, again, as I said like recording it, it really brought back so many memories and not you know there is a—it's less of an anger up towards the person it's more like the injustice of the situation of it all but um more than anything else I just wanted to go back to that kid and like give him a hug you know and just be like, 'You're gonna be okay.'"

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New York - 5 May 2025

6. Prabal Gurung on the Met Gala carpet

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New York -10 February 2023

7. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

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New York - 23 April 2025

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Prabal Gurung, fashion designer:

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New York -10 February 2023

9. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

10. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

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New York - 9 Sept. 2018

11. Prabal Gurung fashion show clip

STORYLINE:

Designer Prabal Gurung says he’s always been a storyteller. Finding success in the cutthroat fashion world early in his career, he told his story through colorful, glamourous designs that reflect his Nepalese culture. Now he’s sharing his life story in words with his bold new memoir, ”Walk Like A Girl.”

Candid, reflective and deeply personal, Gurung says processing childhood experiences with an abusive father and bullies and predators at school to write and audio record the book was the hardest thing he’s ever done. But he felt it was time to tell his story.

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Tel Aviv, Israel - 12 May 2025

1. Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Israeli Health Ministry's medical division, approaching lectern

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry's medical division

"We are thrilled by the return of Edan Alexander after so many days in captivity. The entire Israeli healthcare system stands ready to provide Edan and his family with the best medical and psychological treatment and to embrace them. Skilled multidisciplinary teams, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers will be at their disposal at all times."

3. Wide of Mizrahiat podium

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry's medical division: ++ENDS ON MIZRAHI LEAVING PODIUM++

"As a physician and the person in charge of receiving the returning captives to hospitals and their subsequent medical care, I must emphasise that with every passing day they are held in such conditions their health is subject to clear and immediate danger. As a physician and as a human being, I am deeply concerned about the condition of all those who remain in the captivity of Palestinian terrorist organisations and pray for the speedy return home. Thank you very much."

STORYLINE:

The head of Israeli health ministry's medical division said on Monday she was "thrilled" by the release of hostage Edan Alexander.

Hamas on Monday released the Israeli-American soldier who had been held hostage in Gaza for more than 19 months, offering a goodwill gesture toward the Trump administration that could lay the groundwork for a new ceasefire with Israel.

Dr. Hagar Mizrahi said that due to the conditions they are being held in the health of hostages was "subject to clear and immediate danger."

"The entire Israeli healthcare system stands ready to provide Edan and his family with the best medical and psychological treatment," she added, speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv.

Alexander was 19 when he was taken from his military base in southern Israel during Hamas' cross-border attack on October7, 2023, which set off the war in Gaza.

He had been the last living American hostage in Gaza and was the first hostage released since Israel shattered an eight-week ceasefire with Hamas in March and unleashed fierce strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds of Palestinians.

Israel says 58 hostages remain in captivity, with about 23 of them said to be alive.

Many of the 250 hostages taken by Hamas-led militants in the 2023 attack were freed in ceasefire deals.

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Los Angeles - 11 February 2022

1. Medium Tory Lanez poses

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Torey Lanez, recording artist:

"Nothing much. I'm hopefully going to be having whatever this guy's on and -- flipping and turning it out -- hopefully that's what I'm gonna be doing on Super Bowl."

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Los Angeles - 13 December 2022

3. Wide Tory Lanez exits court holding his son

4. Wide shot Tory Lanez exits court holding his son, UPSOUND: "Actually I'm in the middle of playing Superman with my son and y'all are stopping it."

(Reporter: "Why did you bring your son to court today?" )

Tory Lanez: "This is my support system and I'm his too."

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Los Angeles, 12 December 2022

5. Tory Lanez exits courthouse, walks to vehicle

STORYLINE:

Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an attack Monday at a California prison where he's serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, authorities said.

Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was attacked at a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, at about 7:20 a.m., Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email.

Michel did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper's Instagram account Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both his lungs collapsed. The post said Lanez is breathing on his own.

“Despite being in pain, he is talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through,” the post said, adding Lanez was stabbed in his back, torso, head and face.

Staff immediately gave Lanez medical aid and called 911, and he was taken to an outside hospital, Michel said. The prison's investigative unit and the Kern County District Attorney's Office are investigating, he said.

The prison is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles in the mountains of the Mojave Desert and houses about 1,700 medium- and maximum-security inmates.

In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assaul/t with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding.

She had bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed. It wasn't until months after the incident that she publicly identified Lanez as the person who had fired the gun.

A judge rejected a motion for a new trial from Lanez’s lawyers, who are appealing his conviction. They did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Megan recently alleged that Lanez was harassing her from prison through surrogates, and in January a judge issued a protective order through 2030 ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact.

The 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard's charts.

The often dramatic trial was packed with friends and family members of Lanez who felt he was a victim of both the justice system and the powerful people around Megan, who his managed by Jay-Z's Roc Nation.

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Dulles, Virginia - 12 May 2025

1. Cutaway of Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau walking into airport hanger to greet group of Afrikaners

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:

"Welcome, welcome to the United States of America. It is such an honor for us to receive you here today. This is the land of the free. And we know that all of you were faced."

3. Various cutaways of newly arrived South African Afrikaners

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:

"It is so happy. It makes me so happy to see you with our flag in your hands. And that flag symbolizes liberty. For so many of us, many of us, our families, have had a journey not that different from the journey that you are embarking on today. Any adjustment in life, any change takes some while. It takes a while to get used to. But I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years. We respect the long tradition of your people, and what you have accomplished over the years. And I am sure that you will be successful. As you know, a lot of you, I think our farmers right you when you have quality seeds, you can put them in in foreign soil and they will blossom. They will bloom. And we are excited to welcome you here, to our country where we think you will bloom and we will hopefully allow you to have fulfilling lives for your children. And then we will bloom and we will benefit alongside you. "

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:

"Some of the criteria are making sure that refugees did not pose any challenge to our national security, and that they could be assimilated easily into our country. So the president on February 7th issued an executive order about the egregious conditions in South Africa. And all of these folks have just come in today, have been carefully vetted pursuant to our refugee,, standards. And whether or not the broader refugee programs for other people around the world will be lifted is still an ongoing consideration. But again, the president has recognized the dire situation, of this particular group of people."

6. Cutaway of group

STORYLINE:

The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home, which the country's government strongly denies.

The decision to admit the 49 people also has raised questions from refugee advocates about why the group should be admitted when the Trump administration has suspended efforts to resettle people who are fleeing war and persecution and have gone through years of vetting before coming to the United States.

The group from South Africa, including children holding small American flags, arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and was greeted by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar.

“I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years," Landau told the group in a hangar at the airport, many of them holding U.S. flags. "We respect the long tradition of your people and what you have accomplished over the years.”

That characterization is strongly denied by the South African government and has been disputed by experts in the country and even an Afrikaner group.

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Boca Raton, Florida -- 12 May 2025

1. Wide Jay Foreman, founder and CEO of toy maker Basic Joy!, working in his office

2. Television screen showing President Donald Trump speaking

3. Close Care Bears stuffed animals

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Foreman, founder and CEO of toy maker Basic Joy!:

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"The temporary reduction, which we hope will be permanent, was great news, actually. I mean, at 145% tariff, we were basically frozen. It was an embargo. We weren't shipping anything. At 30%, now goods can begin to flow. Doesn't mean that it won't cost us some profit to try to absorb some of it. Doesn’t mean the prices won't go up for the consumer, but it will mean that the flow of products, whether it's back-to-school merchandise, Halloween merchandise, or toys and gifts for the holidays, Christmas holidays, that merchandise will start to flow. So we'll sort of… Christmas will be saved. And our hope is, from here, is the 30 percent will maybe go down to 10 percent or less."

5. Display with toys distributed by Basic Joy

6. Lite-Brite game

7. Close Littlest Pet Shop toys

8. Wide office

9. Employee drafting

STORYLINE:

American businesses that rely on Chinese goods reacted with measured relief Monday after the U.S. and China agreed to pause their exorbitant tariffs on each other's products for 90 days.

Importers still face relatively high tariffs, however, as well as uncertainty over what will happen in the coming weeks and months. Many businesses delayed or canceled orders after President Donald Trump last month put a 145% tariff on items made in China.

“At 145% tariff, we were basically frozen. It was an embargo. We weren't shipping anything. At 30%, now goods can begin to flow,” said Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Joy, a toy manufacturer of toys including Tonka trucks, Care Bears, and Littlest Pet Shop.

“It kind of feels a little bit like we dodged a hurricane, we didn't get free of the wind and the rain, but so far, we've dodged major impact,” he added.

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Dulles, Virginia - 12 May 2025

1. Newly arrived South Africans refugees walk into airport hangar

2. Close of South African refugees in airport hangar

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Dulles, Virginia – 12 May 2025

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Lee, The Associated Press:

“So, this group is just the first of what the administration says is going to be a much larger number of white South Africans who are eligible and will be accepted into the United States as refugees under a program that the administration has suspended for really about 99 percent of the rest of the world. It is highly unusual for a group like this to come in under the refugee program, just as it has been highly unusual since the president took office for any group of refugees to come in. But President Trump has decided that these people, these Afrikaners,  white south Africans, are in need of special attention and he prioritized their processing under this program, and so within three months of him saying that these people, this or group of about 50, has already arrived, while refugee asylum seekers, refugee status seekers in other countries, notably Afghanistan, throughout the Middle East, Syria, other parts of sub-Saharan Africa are still not able to even be processed because the program remains suspended for the vast majority of the world.”

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Dulles, Virginia - 12 May 2025

4. Zoom out of South African refugees in airport hangar

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State:

“The president made it clear that Afrikaners in South Africa, who are the victims of unjust racial discrimination, would be welcome to come to the United States, and he's now delivering on that promise.”

6. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar speaks to South African refugees 

 

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Dulles, Virginia – 12 May 2025

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Lee, The Associated Press:

“Typically, someone who is granted refugee status or admitted into the United States under the refugee program, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship after a certain period of time. It varies depending on the circumstances, but these people, if they decide that they want to stay in the U. S., would most certainly, after a period of some time, several years, be able to apply full on for U S. citizenship.”

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Dulles, Virginia - 12 May 2025

8. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau speaks to South African refugees

STORYLINE:

The Trump administration is welcoming a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home.

 

That's despite pushback from the country’s government denying they are facing persecution.

 

Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee says that it is highly unusual for a group like this to come in under the refugee program.

 

“But President Trump has decided that these people, these Afrikaners,  white south Africans are in need of special attention and he prioritized their processing under this program, and so within three months of him saying that these people, this or group of about fifty, has already arrived,” Lee said.

 

The decision to admit the 49 people Monday also has raised questions from refugee advocates about why the group should be admitted when the Trump administration has suspended efforts to resettle people who are fleeing war and persecution and have gone through years of vetting before coming to the United States.

 

The group of white South Africans arrived at an airport just outside Washington on a private charter plane. 

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Tel Aviv - 12 May 2025

1. Helicopter with released hostage Edan Alexander in flight

2. Helicopter landing

3. Edan Alexander, relatives and officials getting out of helicopter

STORYLINE:

Israeli-American freed hostage Edan Alexander landed in Tel Aviv Monday, after being held hostage for more than 19 months in the Gaza Strip.

The 19-year-old soldier was released by Hamas in a goodwill gesture toward the Trump administration and landed at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on Monday evening.

The deal could lay the groundwork for a new ceasefire with Israel. The Israeli military confirmed that 21-year-old Edan Alexander was turned over to the Red Cross and then to Israeli forces.

His release was the first since Israel shattered an eight-week ceasefire with Hamas in March, unleashing fierce strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds.

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip killed about 16 people in the embattled enclave, mostly women and children.

AP video by Paz Bar

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Tel Aviv, Israel - 12 May 2025

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sam Mednick, The Associated Press:

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"We're in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv just moments after Eden Alexander, the Israeli-American soldier was released from captivity in Gaza. He is now with his family in Israel. He was the last living American to be held hostage and the negotiations happened between the United States and Hamas in what was said to be a gesture of good will on Hamas' part with the idea being that this was going to lead to a ceasefire and the release of more hostages. People here you can see they have gathered, they are celebrating, they have posters with Eden's face on them, also with the faces of the other hostages. There are still 50 hostages in Gaza. Israel says that more than half of them are believed to be dead. You can see behind me there that clock that's counting down the days that the hostages have been in Gaza. It's more than 580 days that they have been held in captivity, but it is really unclear what's going to happen going forward. Israel has said that it did not commit to a ceasefire, that while it will send a delegation to continue negotiations in Qatar, it will do so under fire and that it is going to continue to strike Gaza. So while the future right now is uncertain, the hope is that this is going to lead to a ceasefire, but it's really unclear right now if that is actually going to happen."

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Reim, Israel - 12 May 2025

2. Convoy believed to be carrying released Israeli-US hostage Edan Alexander arriving in Reim base

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Tel Aviv, Israel - 12 May 2025

4. People cheering as newscast announces that hostage Edan Alexander is in the hands of the ICRC

STORYLINE:

An Israeli-American soldier held hostage for more than 19 months in the Gaza Strip has been released by Hamas in a goodwill gesture toward the Trump administration.

The deal could lay the groundwork for a new ceasefire with Israel.

The Israeli military confirmed that 21-year-old Edan Alexander was turned over to the Red Cross and then to Israeli forces.

Alexander’s extended family gathered in Tel Aviv to watch the release.

They cheered and chanted his name when the military said he was free.

His release was the first since Israel shattered an eight-week ceasefire with Hamas in March, unleashing fierce strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds.

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Vatican City - 12 May 2025

1. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in his office

2. Cardinal Mueller''s hands and cross

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:

"The Pope has the greatest responsibility for the unity of the church. And only in those things that are necessary, fundamental, we need a complete unity, but in the ritual forms there is a certain possibility of different expressions of your piety."

4. Cardinal Mueller''s hands and cross

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:

"I am convinced that he will overcome these superfluous tensions. It was damaging for the church to see the church in, so superfluous conflicts. We cannot avoid all the conflicts, but we have to avoid the not necessary conflicts, superfluous conflicts. I hope and I think that it will concentrate him to what is necessary in the church and necessary elements of the unity and he will be tolerant to different possibilities of being a good and faithful Catholic."

6. Mueller in his office

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, catholic cardinal:

"I don't know, but I think it was a good impression of him to everybody. And in the end, it was a great concordia, great harmony and there was no polemics, no fractionizing. And this was for us a sign of the Holy Spirit."

8. Close up of St. Peter's Basilica dome framed by columns in Vatican City

9. Visitors walking through the Vatican City with St. Peter's Basilica in the background

10. Various of St Peter basilica

STORYLINE:

They went into last week's conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years.

And yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful that he will return doctrinal rigor to the papacy, even as progressives sense he will continue Francis’ reformist agenda.

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, a titan of the conservative bloc, said Monday he was very pleased with the election and expected that Leo would heal the divisions that escalated during Francis’ pontificate. Mueller, who was fired by Francis as the Vatican’s doctrinal chief, suggested as a first step that Leo would restore access to the old Latin Mass that his predecessor had greatly restricted.

“I am convinced that he will overcome these superfluous tensions (which were) damaging for the church,” Mueller said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We cannot avoid all the conflicts, but we have to avoid the not necessary conflicts, the superfluous conflicts.”

His sense of hope is significant, given that conservative cardinals went into the conclave at a numerical disadvantage. Francis appointed 108 of the 133 electors, including the former Cardinal Robert Prevost and other pastors in his image.

But in the secret dynamics of the conclave, the Augustinian missionary who spent most of his priestly life in Peru secured far more than the two-thirds majority needed on the fourth ballot in an exceptionally quick, 24-hour conclave. The speed and margin defied expectations, given that this was the largest, most geographically diverse conclave in history and the cardinals barely knew each other.

“I think it was a good impression of him to everybody, and in the end it was a great concordia, a great harmony,” Mueller said. “There was no polemics, no fractionizing.”

AP video by Paolo Santalucia

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