VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

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The dispute dates all the way back to 1900, when then colonial powers France and Spain signed a treaty in Paris setting out the borders between the two countries.

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The ruling extends the court’s April emergency order barring Trump from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants ...

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