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SUV driver in parade crash may have been fleeing a crime

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Michael Balsamo, Mike Householder

People walk past the main entrance of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to be hospitalized in the next days to remove a lung nodule, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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File photo of Pope Leo XIV in prayer. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung

Oct 11
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What to know about Pope Leo’s planned lung nodule surgery