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https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania-releases-damning-report-catholic-184756036.html
Aug. 14, 2018
Pennsylvania’s attorney general released on Tuesday the long-awaited results of a damning grand jury investigation into how six Roman Catholic dioceses in the state covered up sexual abuse by 301 “predator priests” over 70 years. 
The 884-page report is the largest, most comprehensive investigation on the church’s sex abuse scandal by a U.S. state, according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The grand jury identified over 1,000 victimsin the six dioceses examined in the report: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton. But the jurors suspected the real number of victims could be much higher.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviser-stephen-millers-uncle-nephew-immigration-hypocrite-145139629.html
Aug.13, 2018
White House adviser Stephen Miller, the architect of some of President Trump’s most controversial anti-immigration policies, has been assailed by critics who are quick to point out that Miller himself is a grandchild of refugees. Now Miller’s own uncle is joining the outcry.
In an essay published by Politico on Monday, David Glosser, a retired neuropsychologist and brother of Miller’s mother, Miriam, calls his nephew an “immigration hypocrite.”
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser writes.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-gop-congressman-apos-son-132707458.html
Aug. 13, 2018
Bobby Goodlatte, son of retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), has announced his support for the Democratic candidate running to fill his father’s seat.
The younger Goodlatte tweeted Sunday that he had given the maximum donation to Jennifer Lewis, a mental health worker and community advocate seeking to represent Virginia’s 6th Congressional District.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/14/republican-politicians-can-no-longer-count-on-support-of-their-families
Aug. 14, 2018
The Republican party is increasingly alienating younger voters, older voters and voters in the suburbs. But there is one constituency turning against GOP lawmakers that they must be especially disappointed about losing: their own family members.
Last month the parents of Kevin Nicholson, a Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin, donated the maximum amount allowed to his Democratic opponent, Tammy Baldwin. Nicholson’s brother also gave the maximum amount to Baldwin.
One way daughters of Republican members of Congress can influence their parents’ decisions, however, is simply by existing. In 2008, Ebonya L Washington, an economist at Yale University, cross-referenced the voting records of every member of the House and found that those with daughters, especially those with more than one daughter, were significantly more likely to cast liberal votes.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/oklahoma-school-shuts-down-2-190814785.html
Aug. 14, 2018
A school district in southern Oklahoma was forced to shut down for two days after parents used a Facebook group to threaten violence against a transgender seventh-grade student.
Superintendent Rick Beene closed Achille Public Schools on Monday and Tuesday after parents posted claims on a Facebook group “Achille ISD Parents Group” that the student, who identifies as a girl, was looking over the stalls in the girls’ bathroom.
The post set off reactions from other adults who referred to the 7th grade student as “this thing” and “half baked maggot.” One parent repeatedly referred to the student as “he” and suggested a “good sharp knife” stop the student. Another parent said that their child should “whip his ass until he quits coming to school.”


Several incidents in the news today about men who killed their families after being arrested for domestic abuse. They proved to the world that they are slime.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-online-love-scam-leads-investigators-killing-plot-151634754.html
Aug. 14, 2018
An online romance scam led investigators to the discovery that a North Carolina woman with financial problems was plotting to kill her 88-year-old mother to get more money to pay the fraudster, police said.
Roxanne Reed, 65, appeared to be planning the death of her mother, who shared a small house with her, so she could keep sending money to the scammer who was using romantic pretenses to bilk her, Garner Police Capt. Joe Binns said.
Investigators haven't determined who or where the scammer is, but an arrest warrant indicates the person was falsely using the name of a physical therapist and business owner in Texas. The likeness of that man has been used without his knowledge in multiple online scams, Binns said.
"This is a poor guy who lives in Texas somewhere that has nothing to do with anything, and apparently he's been victimized multiple times — somebody using his name, his picture or his information," Binns said.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/vacaville-police-race-evacuate-shelter-012243194.html
Aug. 13, 2018
Police in Vacaville, raced to help the evacuation of an animal shelter ahead of the Nelson Fire over the weekend.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/with-little-fanfare-trump-and-mcconnell-reshape-the-nations-circuit-courts/2018/08/14/10610028-9fcd-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f846c9302bb3
Aug. 14, 2018
As the Senate moves toward confirming Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are leading a lower-key yet deeply consequential charge to remake the entire federal judiciary.
The Senate will return Wednesday from an abbreviated summer recess to confirm two more federal appeals court judges by the end of the week. That would come on top of a record-breaking string of confirmations: The Senate already has installed 24 appellate judges since Trump was sworn in, the highest number for a president’s first two years in office.
While much of the focus has been on Kavanaugh and Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, the Senate’s rapid approval of appellate judges is likely to have its own broad impact on the nation, as the 13 circuit courts will shape decisions on immigration, voting rights, abortion and the environment for generations.
For McConnell, this is the culmination of a years-long gambit that started with stymieing President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees, most notably
“The Supreme Court gets the bulk of the attention, but the circuit courts decide the bulk of the cases,” said Arthur D. Hellman, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies the federal judiciary. “Because the Supreme Court these days is taking so few cases, the law of the circuit is, on many, many issues, the final law for the people who live in that circuit.”
During the final two years of the Obama administration, in which Republicans controlled the Senate, the confirmation of judicial nominees slowed to a crawl — giving McConnell and Trump plenty of vacancies to fill starting in 2017.
Hours after Scalia’s death in February 2016, McConnell said the Senate would not consider any Obama nominee until the voters had their say in the presidential election. Democrats were enraged but powerless.