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Baltimore church to end religious services after priest suspended over sexual harassment settlement (apnews.com)

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will end religious services at one of the city’s Catholic churches after its longtime pastor was recently suspended from ministry because he admitted to making a payment several years ago to settle sexual harassment allegations....

Opium cultivation declines by 95 per cent in Afghanistan: UN survey (news.un.org)

According to the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2023, released by the agency on Sunday, the supply of opium declined by an estimated 95 per cent, falling from 6,200 tons in 2022 to 333 tons in 2023, corresponding to a fall in the area under cultivation, from 233,000 hectares to just 10,800 hectares over the same period.

Can Trump be on the ballot in 2024? It can hinge on the meaning of 'insurrection' (apnews.com)

Liberal groups have filed lawsuits in Colorado, Minnesota and other states to bar Trump from the ballot, citing a rarely used constitutional prohibition against holding office for those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution but then “engaged in insurrection” against it. The two-sentence clause in the 14th Amendment...

A far-right livestreamer is calling for immigrant aid workers to be shot (www.motherjones.com)

Highlights: Almost as soon as news of actor Matthew Perry’s death broke last week, anti-vaccine activists began speculating that a Covid shot had caused his untimely passing (the cause of death is still undetermined). This was just the latest example of a trend that began last year, with the advent of the hashtag...

US woman charged with hosting parties with alcohol for teens and encouraging sexual assault (www.theguardian.com)

A woman accused of hosting parties for her teenage son and his friends in northern California where she encouraged them to drink and sexually assault intoxicated girls was charged on Monday with more than five dozen felony and misdemeanor counts....

‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing (www.politico.com)

In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly....

EPA to strengthen lead protections in drinking water after multiple crises, including Flint (apnews.com)

About four decades ago, when the Environmental Protection Agency was first trying to figure out what to do about lead in drinking water, Ronnie Levin quantified its damage: Roughly 40 million people drank water with dangerous levels of lead, degrading the intelligence of thousands of kids....

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