Black smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel today, signaling that 115 Roman Catholic cardinals failed to agree on a new pope during the first day of the papal conclave.

The conclave began deliberating inside the Vatican after swearing an oath of secrecy and entering into another search for a Pope at about 5 p.m. local time 12 p.m. ET.

Are the 115 Cardinals meeting at the Sistine Chapel in Rome praying for a Jesus like figure with an MBA in divine intervention for The Pope?

A judge has permanently blocked Mike Bloomberg's citywide ban on large sugary drinks.

The ban, which was supposed to begin tomorrow, would have impacted restaurants, theaters, sports stadiums, and any place that receives a letter grade from the city's Health Department.

New York City's Mayor pushed for the first U.S. ban of over-sized sugary drinks in his latest controversial step to reduce obesity and its deadly complications in a nation with a weight problem.

These drinks would have no longer been sold in containers larger than 16 ounces.

This Week in History, Mar 10 - Mar 16

Mar 10, 1959
Rebellion in Tibet. Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces. China's occupation of Tibet began nearly a decade before, in October 1950, when troops from its People's Liberation Army (PLA) invaded the country, barely one year after the Communists gained full control of mainland China. The Tibetan government gave into Chinese pressure the following year, signing a treaty that ensured the power of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the country's spiritual leader, over Tibet's domestic affairs. Resistance to the Chinese occupation built steadily over the next several years, including a revolt in several areas of eastern Tibet in 1956. By December 1958, rebellion was simmering in Lhasa, the capital, and the PLA command threatened to bomb the city if order was not maintained.

Since all politics is local, a phrase coined by former US House Speaker and longtime Democrat Tip O'Neill, 52 year old Adolfo Carrión Jr, who is a City Islander asked his friends and neighbors to vote for him.

Carrión, a former NYC councilman, Bronx Borough President, who briefly worked for president Obama during his first term is the only Latino mayoral candidate. He acknowledged he is a long shot to win the Republican party primary, but added that he will be more effective as a third-party candidate in his bid for Mayor of New York City.