FILE - Mary E. Brunkow speaks on the phone during an interview after winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Oct. 6, 2025, next to her is her dog Zelda. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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It was one of the year's biggest stories — the selection of the first American pope — and an Associated Press journalist was interviewing the pope's brother at his home in suburban Chicago. Suddenly, they heard a ringing coming from the basement. "That might be the pope," the new pontiff's brother said.