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A Roman Catholic diocese in California is warning its flock to beware of wolves in priestly clothes. The Diocese of Stockton sent out an alert over the weekend to other churches to be on the lookout for people “purporting to be Spanish-speaking Catholic bishops and priests” who charge “exorbitant fees for celebrating the sacraments, teaching classes, and issuing certificates.” “These imposters are misappropriating the identities of genuine priests in Mexico and conducting unauthorized celebratio…
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Desperate Palestinians were using their bare hands Tuesday to retrieve bodies buried in the ruins of a Gaza refugee camp moments after it was hit by an airstrike that reduced more than a dozen buildings to rubble, killed dozens and wounded hundreds of people, according to local health officials. The Israeli military said its attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed senior Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, who they said was an architect of the Oct. 7 terror attack that left more th…
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There have been reports of demonstrators chanting Hamas slogans, of synagogues being defaced with swastikas and anti-Jewish hatred being posted on the internet. There also has been, across the U.S., a spike in antisemitic incidents since the war in Gaza erupted on Oct. 7 after the militant Palestinian group Hamas launched a bloody surprise attack on Israel, experts said. But for a New York City professor who experienced antisemitism firsthand as a 10-year-old girl in Poland, it was reports of Je…
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Two young women who reported to their conservative Michigan college that they were sexually assaulted by male students have accused the school in a lawsuit of conducting “phony investigations” into their allegations and then blaming them “for being raped.” Danielle Villarreal, 21, said she filed a report of her assault to the police as well as Hillsdale College and wound up leaving the school after discovering that the male student she said attacked her had not been punished and was still on cam…
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It was a question posed on a private Facebook page that resulted in a retired Boston-area pediatrician’s being charged this week in Hingham District Court with raping two children — and sparked an investigation spanning several generations of former patients. Was it “normal” for a doctor to insert “their fingers in her vagina during a yearly checkup?” a woman identified in a Norwell police report as Victim 2 asked the group Oct. 4. “The response she received from the post was overwhelming in tha…
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A security guard at the Macy’s store in downtown Philadelphia was killed and another was badly wounded Monday after a suspected hat thief attacked them with a knife, police said. The chain of events that ended in tragedy began around 11 a.m., when the guards spotted a man trying to make off with some hats, interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said during a news conference outside the store. The guards were able to recover the hats and the suspect left the store without incident, Stanford sa…
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A half-dozen people in Missouri who were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said. The cult is led by Rashad Jamal, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence in Georgia after he was convicted in August of one count of child molestation and one count of cruelty to children, police in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley said. Berkeley Police Maj. Steve Runge told NBC affiliate KSDK of St. Louis last week investigators beli…
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At age 112, Holocaust survivor Rose Girone is still, as her daughter puts it, “thumbing her nose at Hitler.” But the recent rise of antisemitism, fueled by the ongoing war in Gaza, is a frightening reminder that the age-old hatred of Jews lives on, as well, said Girone’s daughter, Reha Bennicasa. “We say, ‘Never again, never again,’” said Bennicasa, 85. “But I don’t think this will ever end. This has been going on since the beginning of time.” A Polish Jew now living in New York, Girone is beli…
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The doctor treating the victims of an Israeli bomb attack on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah had been examining one patient after another in the crowded emergency room when he saw him. There, amid the din of screaming children and moaning grownups, amid the cries of medical workers for more medicine and bandages, Dr. Rami Abu Libdeh spotted a paramedic carrying his 9-year-old son, Mohammad. Bursting into tears, Libdeh, 32, grabbed the boy, whose head was bandaged and whose red top was cove…
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The announcement Friday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in prison coincided with the 17th anniversary of a speech President Vladimir Putin delivered in Munich — a lecture many Kremlin watchers see as a declaration of war on the West. Was Navalny’s death in a Siberian prison timed to coincide with the pivotal address at a high-profile annual security conference? Not out of the realm of possibility, experts said. “It’s possible,” Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Po…
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Liberty University will pay a record $14 million fine for flouting campus crime reporting laws, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The conservative Christian school will also spend another $2 million on campus safety improvements related to the Clery Act, which requires campuses that receive federal funds to report crime statistics, the department said. The school in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded by the late Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell, will be monitored for two years to…
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The brother of Indiana mom Stefanie Smith, who died last week while flying home from vacation in the Dominican Republic, said Friday that they still don’t know what killed her. “I’d say the uncertainty, the not knowing how she died, the not knowing when her body will be returned to us, has been the hardest thing recently,” Chris Volz told NBC News. “It’s been a week so we’re past the initial shock. But now, it’s the uncertainty.” Volz said the family has picked out a tentative date for his siste…
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The Indiana mom who perished last month while flying home from vacation in the Dominican Republic died from a tear to one of her neck arteries, her brother said Thursday. Stefanie Smith, a 41-year-old mother of two teenagers from Danville, suffered a carotid artery dissection, Chris Volz said. This condition, which affects the major blood vessels that supply blood to the brain, is the most common cause of strokes in younger patients, according to Penn Medicine and the National Library of Medicin…
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Actor Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari sued him in federal court Tuesday, three months after a New York City jury convicted him of assaulting and harassing her. Jabbari, a British dancer who is suing Majors, the former Marvel actor, alleging defamation, malicious prosecution, assault and battery in the Southern District of New York, alleges in the court papers that Majors physically abused her several other times during their nearly two-year relationship, the first time in July 2022.…
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Three boys dubbed the “little rascals” for allegedly robbing a Texas bank were behind bars Thursday, the FBI said. The juveniles, ages 11, 12 and 16, have each been charged with robbery by threat, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston said in an email. “Because they are juveniles, their names, and no additional details will be released,” the spokesperson said. It was the FBI’s office in Houston that nicknamed the underage suspects after they were caught on camera Marc…
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Two lawmakers who are pushing bills aimed at reining in the sports betting industry say there is a silver lining to the scandal that has ensnared the Japanese interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani: It will shine a spotlight on the plague of gambling addiction. “This situation clearly demonstrates the impact and harm that gambling addiction can inflict,” said Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y, who this month introduced the SAFE Bet Act to deal with what he has called a “public hea…
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World Central Kitchen caters catastrophes. An international relief organization that provides sustenance to both victims and first responders at humanitarian disasters around the world, the group was thrust unwillingly into a tragic spotlight Monday when seven of its aid workers operating in Gaza were killed by an Israeli airstrike. The victims included a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, as well as team members from Poland, Britain and Australia, and a Palestinian driver. Calling the victim…
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A veteran teacher at an upper-crust Massachusetts boarding and day school for girls has resigned amid allegations that he groomed several students for sex during the 30-plus years he taught at Miss Hall’s School. Matthew Rutledge, who is 62 and mainly taught history at the school in Pittsfield, was placed on administrative leave on March 27 and resigned days later after a former student came forward and reported him to the school administration for allegedly sexually abusing and exploiting her w…
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The Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts confirmed Thursday that it is investigating a former student’s allegations of “child sex abuse” at the hands of a teacher at the private Miss Hall’s School. The development came after Matthew Rutledge, 62, resigned amid allegations that he groomed at least three students for sex during the 30-plus years he taught at the venerable boarding and day school for girls in Pittsfield. “There is an investigation underway into one allegatio…
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The must-have accessory at Donald Trump’s hush money trial? Binoculars. In a New York City courtroom where cameras are not allowed and where most of the primo spots offering the best views of the ex-president are taken, these devices are being deployed by enterprising reporters, courtroom sketch artists and legal analysts straining to see his every grimace and pout and to maybe catch him napping, as well. “That’s the latest issue, to see if he’s sleeping or to check if his eyes are closed,” vete…
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The worried mother of a U.S. soldier in Russian custody said Wednesday that her son “was lured” there by a Russian woman he had been seeing in South Korea for over a year and that he’s being held on trumped-up charges of stealing roughly $100 from her. Melody Jones said she thinks her son, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, was set up by his girlfriend, whom she identified as Aleksandra Vashchuk. “I think she convinced him to come there,” Jones said in a video interview from her home in Cheyenne, Wyoming.…
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