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Pope Leo XIV begins a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday, his first foreign trip since his election and one on which he’s expected to emphasize key themes of his fledgling pontificate – ...

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John Eimen, who appeared in more than a dozen TV series including Leave It to Beaver, The Twilight Zone and McKeever and the Colonel as a child actor in the late 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 76.