Trying to access array fetched from an API in global scope

Question

I'm doing an API fetch and am trying to use the returned array of objects "stops" elsewhere in the global scope, however I cannot extract this array from the API fetch's scope after the .then() to use in the GLOBAL SCOPE because I am trying to use the array in other local scopes without calling the function in there.

i.e I would like to be able to use the array contained in variable stops in a separately scoped API call.

const fetchBusStopInfo = async () => {

  try {
    const url = new URL("https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/4vt2-8zrq.json")
    url.search = new URLSearchParams ({
      "$$app_token": "25u3nAznyYiBSLWIyQ4bmKnde",
      "$limit": 100000
    });

    const response = await fetch(url);
    const data = await response.json();
    return data;
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error)
    return error;
  }
}


fetchBusStopInfo().then((stopsArray)=> {
  const stops = stopsArray
  console.log(stops)
})

Is there a way to get around this so I can use the array found in const stops elsewhere?