AP PHOTOS: Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to elect a new pope

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through the chapel chimney.

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