Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates’ distinct personalities and use of tools, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist’s death on Wednesday in an Instagram post. According to the institute, Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour.
Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.
Leo was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful Democratic senator’s support for abortion rights.
An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue in Northern England on Thursday and then began stabbing them, killing two and wounding three seriously, police said.
The attack took place as people gathered at an orthodox synagogue in a suburban neighborhood of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
Avery Mikolai can be reached at miko2197@stthomas.edu.
