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Before Raoul’s investigation, the Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed only 103 substantiated child sex abusers. By comparison, Raoul’s report reveals names and detailed information of 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers who abused at least 1,997 children across all of the dioceses in Illinois.
Why does the GOP want more religion in schools?
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Rick Hoyt, the man whose father pushed him in a wheelchair for 32 years in the Boston Marathon, has died at the age of 61. The father-son duo of conquered over 1,100 endurance events worldwide, including 247 triathlons.
His father, Dick Hoyt, had passed in March 2021 at the age of 80.
Hoyt died Monday from respiratory complications, his family announced on the Faceboook page for their charitable foundation.
“It is with profound sadness that the Hoyt Family announce the passing of our beloved brother and uncle, Rick Hoyt this morning,” the post read. “As so many knew, Rick along with our father, Dick, were icons in the road race and triathlon worlds for over 40 years and inspired millions of people with disabilities to believe in themselves, set goals and accomplish extraordinary things.”
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Over the past three decades, suicide rates have slowly and steadily dropped; between 2000 and 2016, the global mortality rate from suicide dropped by about 33 percent. So while it may feel like the world is crumbling into a war-torn, authoritarian shit show ravaged by rising temperatures and politicians who stand idly by, we can take solace in knowing that we’ve become better at preventing suicides.
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One high-income country is a particular exception to the downward trend: the US. Though rates in the country declined throughout the 1990s, at the turn of the century they began to rise again. Between 2000 and 2018, the suicide rate jumped 35 percent. Suicide is the second-highest cause of death among young Americans aged 10–14 and 20–35 years old.
Reuters » Mexico will issue one-year work visas to welders, iron workers, engineers, and Central American migrants from other professions to work on public infrastructure projects, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
Wall Street Journal » The EU also orders Meta to stop transfers, delete the data within six months, and comply with EU regulations.
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In a wide-ranging interview at the Financial Times Weekend festival, Hillary Clinton offered stark assessments on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, US-China relations, and US president Joe Biden’s re-election prospects next year.
After a whirlwind week of diplomatic visits that has taken in the Vatican, Saudi Arabia, Europe’s capitals and Japan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s world tour has left his Russian counterpart looking increasingly isolated.
Global temperatures are expected to surge to record-breaking levels in the next five years and breach the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7-degree Fahrenheit) threshold set out in the Paris climate agreement, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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“Brexit has failed.” Nigel Farage, 15 May 2023
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed legislation that makes TikTok’s operation within the state illegal.
The popular social media app, whose parent is the Chinese company Bytedance, is up for sale but has not found an American buyer.
The legislation is likely to be challenged.
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For well over a century, the oil and gas industry has drilled holes across California in search of black gold and a lucrative payday. But with production falling steadily, the time has come to clean up many of the nearly quarter-million wells scattered from downtown Los Angeles to western Kern County and across the state.
[Naomi] Klein, whose previous books include No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, said Doppelganger would “explore what it feels like to watch one’s identity slip away in the digital ether, an experience many more of us will have in the age of AI.
“Mostly, it’s an attempt to grapple with the wildness of right now – with conspiracy cultures surging and strange left-right alliances emerging and nobody seeming to be quite what they seem,” she continued. “Doppelganger is my attempt at a usable map of our moment in history but to make it, I had to get lost a few times.”
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“It’s not just a productivity thing, I think it’s morally wrong.”
Musk has been a strong advocate for return-to-office policies and issued an ultimatum to Tesla employees last summer, requiring employees to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week.
“The laptop class is living in la-la land,” he told CNBC.
Meanwhile » The Verge » Elon Musk keeps insisting the Texas shooter with a swastika tattoo is not a white supremacist
Rolling Stone » The Twitter owner has turned into a full-fledged right-wing conspiracy theorist
Washington Post » Elon Musk compares George Soros to Jewish supervillain Magneto.
NY Times » The tech executive and lawmakers agreed that new A.I. systems must be regulated. Just how that would happen is not yet clear.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.”
During an extraordinary hearing Tuesday, members of a Senate subcommittee called for aggressive regulation of generative AI tools — and the makers and users of the technologies themselves urged the senators to quickly follow through.
WHO warns » Untested AI-based tools could harm patients
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CNN » The event would be the first summit attended by the Syrian President since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011.
The mass displacement in 1948, known as the Nakba (meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic), has an importance to Palestinians across the world.
For Palestinians, the 1948 the massive displacement meant families took what they could carry or was shipped in trucks, from their homes to areas outside the new State of Israel.
The UN agency created to serve the displaced population (UNRWA), reports that 5.9 million Palestinian are currently registered as refugees.
The sombre anniversary spotlights the world’s longest-standing protracted refugee crisis, serving as a stark reminder that Palestine refugees continue to live amidst conflict, violence, and occupation while aspiring to a just and lasting solution to their plight, said the UN Committee on the Rights of Palestine People.
Opposition parties Move Forward and Pheu Thai won a combined 58 percent of seats (Nikkei) in Thailand’s lower legislative body in Sunday’s general election.
NYTimes reports that over 9,000 firearms were handed in to Serbian authorities in recent weeks as part of an amnesty program after two recent mass shootings in the country – including one at a school – killed 17 people, injuring dozens more.
For Jawa, it means much-needed extra income. When her husband died of a stroke in December 2022, Jawa wasn’t sure how she would pay for her children’s schooling. But when a neighbor got electric lighting shortly after, she realized she could continue weaving clothes for the market late into the evening.
“It used to be dark at night, now it’s bright until morning,” the 30-year old mother of two said, carefully arranging and pushing red threads at the loom. “So tonight I work … to pay for the children.”
Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in communities without regular access to power, and off-grid solar systems like these are bringing limited access to electricity to places like these years before power grids reach them.
In a commencement address to graduates of Howard University, President Joe Biden warned: “The most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy.”
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