The event throws into question the perceived heightened accuracy of betting markets like Poymarket over conventional polls.

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Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, returned to the ...

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Robert Francis Prevost, the first American pope, held his first mass in the Sistine Chapel Friday morning. It comes after he ...