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Pope Leo XIV said that a "truly just society" recognizes the dignity of every human life, as he made calls for peace in a wide-ranging address to the Spanish parliament on Monday.
"The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization," he said. "Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence."
Leo added that "when this certainty is obscured" and the law fails to serve and protect everyone, society's most vulnerable people "are the first victims."
"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said.
During the speech, the first by a pope to Spain's parliament, the pontiff urged global leaders to help migrants, calling on them to create "safe and legal pathways."
Leo also repeated his call for using dialogue instead of weapons to resolve disputes, saying "peace demands diplomatic courage." His comments came hours after Israel and Iran traded fire, threatening to upend peace efforts in the Middle East.
His address, which received a seven-minute standing ovation from Spanish lawmakers, was part of Leo's ongoing weeklong visit to Spain that included visits with migrants and victims of sexual abuse.
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Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-French cartoonist, filmmaker and activist, has died, France's presidency announced Thursday. She was 56.
People close to Satrapi said that she “died of sadness” after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, a year ago, French media reported.
In the 2000s, she won major acclaim for her black-and-white comic series and movie "Persepolis," a story that mirrored her own upbringing during the Islamic Revolution. The film received a 2008 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film; she was the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination in that category.
Her other graphic novels included “Broderies” (“Embroideries”) and “Poulet aux prunes” (“Chicken with plums”), about the death of her great-uncle. Among her directing credits were the feature films "Radioactive," starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie, and "The Voices," starring Ryan Reynolds.
In the early 2020s, she coordinated the publication of a book that artistically depicted the women's revolution in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini. The resulting work, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” denounced the Iranian government's repression.
"We are not asking any Westerners to come and make a revolution in our place. Just look at these people. They really need people to watch them, they need somebody to testify that everything they’re doing for freedom means something," she said of the book in 2024. "And this is the way we change politics, through public opinion."
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Shrey Parikh won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday after spelling a record 32 words in 90 seconds in a rapid-fire spell-off.
He beat fellow finalist Ishaan Gupta, who correctly spelled 25 words during the tie-breaking round.
Parikh's win marks the third time a spell-off has decided the bee since the tie-breaker was first used in 2022.
Scripps said that "bromocriptine," which means a polypeptide alkaloid that mimics the activity of dopamine, was Parikh's winning word.
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Jazz legend Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" known for his improvisation, artistic exploration and tone, has died at the age of 95.
His death Monday at his home in Woodstock, New York, was announced "with deep sorrow and profound love" in a statement on his website.
Rollins recorded more than 60 albums during his seven-decade career, with many of his compositions like "St. Thomas," "Oleo," and "Airegin" becoming jazz standards. He was one of the last living greats of the expressive bebop generation, which included Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
In 2011, Rollins told PBS News' Jeffrey Brown that being one of the last giants from that period weighed on him, but that their legacy would endure.
"I'm the last guy. But, in a way, I'm not, because when I'm gone, the music, my music, is going to be here," he said. "So we're all still here."
Born in New York City in 1930 as Walter Theodore Rollins, he grew up in Harlem surrounded by jazz. Largely self-taught, he started playing the saxophone at a young age. By the time he was a teen, he had become a sensation, performing with leading jazz artists.
Addiction to heroin at age 19 sidetracked his career, and he served two stints in jail in the early 1950s. He kicked the habit after checking himself into a drug treatment program in 1954.
He released a string of landmark albums between 1956 and 1958, including "Saxophone Colossus," "Way Out West" and "A Night at the Village." In the late 1950s, he spent more than two years practicing alone on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York to reinvent his playing. Rollins would later release the 1962 album "The Bridge." Rollins also crossed genres when he provided saxophone solos for the Rolling Stones' 1981 album "Tattoo You."
He received a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 2004, the National Medal of Arts from then-President Barack Obama in 2010 and the Jazz Foundation of America's Lifetime Achievement award in 2015.
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