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Survivors of clergy sexual abuse turn up calls for reforms from new pope’s American hometown

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 22, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new pope’s American hometown and raised questions about Leo XIV’s history of dealing with accused priests from Chicago to Australia. The Archdiocese of Chicago responded by defending Leo’s record and saying he had “consistently expressed his compassion for survivors of this crime and sin.” The cases span Robert Prevost’s previous posts. They include leading a Catholic religious order, bishop and as head of the Vatican’s office for bishops,...

Mexican navy training vessel hits New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. Some injuries reported

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 18, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican navy sailing ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday during a promotional tour in New York City, the top of its three masts slamming into the iconic span and partially collapsing as the boat floated in the East River. The New York Fire Department press desk confirmed that authorities responded to injuries but had no details about how many people might have been hurt or whether they were on the vessel or on the bridge. In a scene captured in multiple eyewitness videos, the masts could be seen snapping and partially collapsing as they crashed into the deck of the...

Remember public phones? The Masters still offers old-school devices as alternative to cellphones

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 11, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, Sports, Things To Do.

By STEVE REED AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Attending the Masters for the first time was a new experience for Thomas Abraham, and it wasn’t just about the golf. Related Articles First-ever South Florida Watermelon Festival ripens in Boca with eating contests, singing pigs & lots of fruit Book review: April is the cruelest month in Sara Sligar’s perceptive ‘Vantage Point’ Author, wife of Weezer bassist arrested after being shot by police who say she pointed a gun at them Passover performers: 3...

US egg giant Cal-Maine says government is investigating price increases

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press Shares of Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, fell in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company acknowledged it is being investigated by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine said it received notice of the investigation into egg price increases last month. Cal-Maine said it is cooperating with the investigation. The company’s shares fell more than 4% in after-hours trading. Egg prices have hit record highs in recent months, largely due to a bird flu epidemic that has forced farmers...

LA County reaches $4 billion agreement to settle sexual abuse claims at juvenile facilities

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 5, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday. The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, far surpasses a $2.6 billion settlement reached in 2022 with Boy Scouts of America that was the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history at the time. “On behalf of the County, I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who was harmed by these reprehensible acts,”...

Johns Hopkins to slash nearly 2,000 jobs after losing $800 million in federal grants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 14, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

More than 2,000 positions related to global health are being cut from the Johns Hopkins University after the Baltimore institution saw $800 million in federal grants disappear, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Hopkins’ medical school; the Bloomberg School of Public Health, including its Center for Communication Programs; and JHPIEGO, the university’s health initiative that focuses on global public health, will be affected by the cuts. USAID was the main funder for both JHPIEGO and CCP. “This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID...

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, World News.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day on Saturday. Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political — and at times violent — rooted in women’s efforts to improve their rights as workers. Women watch a concert while they participate in the flash mob “Beautiful secular outing” by wearing hats to a...

Gene Hackman’s dog was misidentified as other mysteries persist around actor’s death

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 5, 2025. Posted in Celebrities, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By MORGAN LEE, Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — While investigating the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, authorities misidentified a deceased dog, which resolves one of the mysteries of the case. The couple’s German shepherd, named Bear, survived along with a second dog named Nikita, but their kelpie mix, Zinna, died, according to Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility that is involved in the surviving dogs’ care. The dog that died “was always attached to Betsy at the hip and it was a beautiful relationship,” Padilla said in an...

‘I’m Still Here’ from Brazil wins Oscar for best international film

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 3, 2025. Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Music and Concerts, National News, Network, News, Things To Do, TV and Streaming.

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — “I’m Still Here,” a Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar on Sunday for best international film. The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971, was taken from his family’s Rio de Janeiro home and never returned. The focus of “I’m Still Here,” based on the memoir by Paiva’s son Marcelo, is Eunice, the mother of five...

‘No Other Land’ wins Oscar for best documentary

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “No Other Land,” the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday. The collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers follows activist Basel Adra as he risks arrest to document the destruction of his hometown, which Israeli soldiers are tearing down to use as a military training zone, at the southern edge of the West Bank. Adra’s pleas fall on deaf ears until he befriends a Jewish Israeli journalist who helps him...