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• Las Vegas police arrest pastor with guns, drugs in hotel room (Archived link)
• Church youth group leader (an ex-cop) gets prison for child sex charges (Archived link)
• Religious groups are spending billions to fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights
• Philippines arrests a pastor wanted by the US for trafficking and child abuse after long manhunt
• At least 17 more people allege sexual violence by "humanitarian monk"
• Survivors say Blackrock College's apology for sexual abuse by pedophile priest felt like it was "written by AI" (Archived link)
• Washington man alleges years of sexual abuse at Catholic school in Seattle (Archived link)
• Nigerian officials warn people off church's bogus 'miracle' water
• Canadian priest charged with sexual assault
• Former Arkansas youth pastor accused of sex crimes pleads guilty to reduced charge, gets suspended sentence (Archived link)
• Six decades later, victim of notorious predatory priest gets some justice — and peace
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A quarter of Republicans think Trump should seize power even if he loses
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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'Remarkable' 1,000-year-old ring from Scotland's 'painted people' found at destroyed fort
(www.livescience.com)
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JD Vance spreads racist rumor that Haitian immigrants are abducting peoples’ pets and eating them in Ohio
(www.independent.co.uk)
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• Deserts' biggest threat? Flooding. (Archived link)
• Shocked by extreme storms, a Maine fishing town fights to save its waterfront
• Hotter, drier and all-around different: How climate change will alter life in L.A. (Archived link)
• Brazil braces for more fires amid extreme low humidity
• Sharks deserting coral reefs as oceans heat up, study shows
• A quarter of America's bridges may collapse within 26 years, and we saw the whole thing coming (Archived link)
• Cars plunge into river as super typhoon destroys Vietnam bridge
• Great Barrier Reef has already been dealt its death blow —scientist
• Global warming may melt some glaciers in Austria in 10-15 years
• Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say
• A brown tide of sargassum is causing havoc in Barbados
• Methane emissions are at new highs
• We’re all doomed, says freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy
… but there are still profits to be made, so la de da, la de da...
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Jimmy Carter "talking about politics again" since Kamala Harris became Democratic nominee
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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• Two years after deadly floods hit Pakistan, it's happening again
• Climate change threatens Iraq's dates, a country once known as "30 million palm trees"
• It's been the hottest summer on record, European officials say
• Fireflies face 'one-two punch' of climate change, habitat loss, and light pollution
• Big Oil wields influence on universities, delaying green transition: study
• Surprising new research links infant mortality to crashing bat populations
• Electrocuted birds are bursting into flames and starting wildfires (Archived link)
• A pediatrician wrote the book on how climate change is making kids sick (Archived link)
• Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a high mortality rate, is becoming more common in North America as climate changes expands the habitats of insects (Archived link)
• Coastal flooding is getting more common, even on sunny days
• "Sustainable" logging operations are clear-cutting Canada's climate-fighting forests (Archived link)
• In the Sahara desert, one of the driest places on Earth, a very wet September
... but there's money to be made, so la di da, la di da...
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• Pedophile priest victims urge action from pope
• In the Pacific, a "dumping ground" for priests accused or convicted of abuse
(Archived link)
• Philippine police confident that fugitive "son of God" pastor still in church compound
• Christian group recruits "Trojan horse" election skeptics as US poll workers
• Pastor fired over "predatory" texts with men and underage teenager, Texas church says
• The Meeting House, once one of Canada's largest churches, shuts down after scandal
• Former Gateway Church employee molested 3 children on several occasions: arrest warrant
(Archived link)
• Diocese of Scranton removes priest after "credible" allegation of child molestation decades ago
(Archived link)
• Circle of Hope Girls Ranch faces new federal lawsuit by youngest victim to take action
(Archived link)
• Bond granted for former pastor accused of criminal sexual conduct
• Chicago priest removed from parish amid child molestation claims
(Archived link)
• Almost 2,400 allegations of historical sexual abuse at more than 300 religious-run schools in Ireland
(Archived link)
• Pastor resigns from church, school board amid abuse allegations
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Lawsuit finally goes to trial, over Trump caravan's 2020 highway harassment of Biden bus
(www.texastribune.org)
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