Month: October 2020
Eight more priests accused of sexual abuse
Only one of the accused clergy members is living: Monsignor Joseph Kelly. LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — More than two years later, the fallout from Pennsylvania’s scathing Grand Jury report on clergy sex abuse continues in Scranton. Another well-known priest joins the dozens of members of the Diocese of Scranton who have been accused of sexually…
Continue ReadingResidents survive Zeta floodwaters but lose possessions
By Mike Lacy | October 29, 2020 at 6:30 PM CDT – Updated October 29 at 7:46 PM D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WLOX) – Hurricane Zeta was a primarily a wind storm for most of us, but some residents in D’Iberville didn’t see it that way. They are lucky to have escaped after their homes flooded from…
Continue ReadingRoad to 270: Predict your own electoral map
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the 2020 presidential election. Below you can pick an electoral map based on CNN’s current race ratings, start with the 2016 election results or create your own map from scratch. Clicking an individual state will change who is winning its electoral votes.Maine and NebraskaBoth Maine and Nebraska allow…
Continue ReadingUS Forces conduct operation in Africa to rescue American citizen held in Nigeria
(CNN)US special operations forces on Saturday rescued an American citizen taken hostage by armed men earlier this week in Niger and held in northern Nigeria, the Pentagon said.”U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: Trump uses Midwestern swing to launch false attacks on doctors while Covid cases rise
(CNN)With less than three days to go in a campaign that’s been dominated by the pandemic, President Donald Trump is still making baseless statements about the pandemic, including the politically perilous claim that American doctors are profiting from Covid-19 deaths during a visit to the critical electoral region of the Midwest, where former Vice President…
Continue ReadingCar company that claimed speed record will do it over
(CNN)SSC North America, a small American carmaker that recently claimed a production car speed record on a highway near Las Vegas, announced it’s going to do it all over again after questions were raised regarding video of the event.The vehicle, which was tested on a seven-mile stretch of a Nevada highway on October 10, reached…
Continue ReadingHere’s how stores are changing Black Friday for the pandemic
New York (CNN Business)Black Friday is officially Black November. Also parts of October. And December, too.The shopping spectacular is getting a pandemic-induced makeover, with many major retailers starting their sales earlier than ever and ending them later. Companies are hoping to avoid the crush of customers that crowd stores on the Friday after Thanksgiving by…
Continue ReadingA pedicab passenger shot a New Orleans police officer in the face, superintendent says
(CNN)A New Orleans police officer was shot in the face and another was injured Friday when a passenger in a pedicab in the French Quarter fired at their vehicle, the city’s police superintendent said.The shooting happened Friday afternoon while the officers were on patrol. The officers had no contact with the suspect before he opened…
Continue ReadingA 20-year-old woman cast her ballot early before dying of cancer. Her state will throw it out.
(CNN)Amber Pflughoeft beamed with pride as she filled out her ballot for the first time last month. A 20-year-old who’d been fighting bone cancer for a decade, she was fascinated with politics, her mother Tiffany Pflughoeft remembered. And after spending the last midterm election in the hospital following a bone marrow transplant, she was determined…
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