He celebrates Mass and visits Pope Emeritus Benedict. Applause erupted when Bergoglio got the required 77 votes, and as he accepted "there wasn't a dry eye in the place," Cardinal Timothy Dolan said. He gave a speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes. The lieutenant governor resigns and nearly 60 people are charged; authorities say a veterans charity was used as a front. A Swiss guard salutes in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. Venezuela's acting president says Hugo Chavez' body was not properly prepared soon enough to be preserved in perpetuity, so permanent viewing is scratched. In a stinging rebuke of the military's efforts to curb sexual assault, members of a Senate panel hammer Defense Department officials for making too little progress. Women treated with radiation for breast cancer are more likely to develop heart problems later. Find out if Samsung is promising the world when it reveals successor to its popular smartphone Thursday. A woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunges eight stories in an apparent suicide - but the baby survives. A natural, cyclical phenomenon - and a tough winter - is to blame for the numbers of dead, sick and injured owls turning up in parts of North America. Oh, you thought it was about something else, didn't you.