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Overnight News Digest May 23, 2023 [1]
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Date: 2023-05-23
Chicago Sun-Times: Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds by Robert Herguth
In August 2018, shortly after then-Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced an investigation into whether the Catholic church in Illinois had fully disclosed the scope of child sex abuse by priests and other clergy members, Cardinal Blase Cupich said the church had nothing to hide. “Our record’s clean,” the top Catholic cleric in Chicago told a closed-door gathering of about 200 men studying at the Mundelein Seminary to be priests, according to sources who were there. “I’m confident that, when the attorney general looks in our files ... that she will, in fact, find that we’re doing our job.” “We posted all of the names,” Cupich told the group, referring to the publicly available church list of clergy members in the Archdiocese of Chicago deemed to have been credibly accused of sexual abuse. Cupich’s assertions were far off the mark, according to the results of the investigation announced Tuesday by Madigan’s successor, Kwame Raoul, who said the archdiocese, covering Cook and Lake counties, and the rest of the Catholic church in Illinois failed to acknowledge hundreds of allegedly abusive priests and other religious figures.
New York Times: Surgeon General Warns That Social Media May Harm Children and Adolescents by Matt Richtel, Catherine Pearson, Michael Levenson
The nation’s top health official issued an extraordinary public warning on Tuesday about the risks of social media to young people, urging a push to fully understand the possible “harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.” In a 19-page advisory, the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, noted that the effects of social media on adolescent mental health were not fully understood, and that social media can be beneficial to some users. Nonetheless, he wrote, “There are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.” The report included practical recommendations to help families guide children’s social media use. It recommended that families keep mealtimes and in-person gatherings free of devices to help build social bonds and promote conversation. It suggested creating a “family media plan” to set expectations for social media use, including boundaries around content and keeping personal information private.
Washington Post: South Carolina Senate passes 6-week abortion ban, sends bill to governor by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Rachel Roubein
The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted to ban abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy following the end of a filibuster by the chamber’s five female senators, who had become the bill’s most outspoken opponents. The abortion measure, which passed by a vote of 27-19, includes exceptions for the patient’s life and health, for fatal fetal anomalies, and up to 12 weeks for rape and incest cases. Doctors who violate it would lose their license and face potential civil lawsuits, felony charges, a fine of up to $10,000 and two years in jail. The ban gives those under age 16 — South Carolina’s age of consent — seeking abortions without their parent’s consent about six weeks to obtain permission from a judge unless they’re rape or incest victims. Opponents of the ban said that is not enough time. Supporters argued that since minors can’t consent by law, they would be covered by the rape exception and have 12 weeks.
NBC News: Driver who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and 'seize power' by Tim Stelloh, Daniel Barnes, and Daniel Arkin
The 19-year-old Missouri man accused of deliberately driving a rented box truck into a White House barrier allegedly told authorities that he admires Nazis and wanted to "seize power" and "kill the president," court documents released Tuesday show. Sai Varshith Kandula, of Chesterfield, Missouri, rented the U-Haul truck Monday night immediately after flying from St. Louis to Dulles International Airport on a one-way ticket, a Secret Service agent said in a statement of facts filed in federal district court in Washington D.C. The statement was included with a criminal complaint charging Kandula with depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000. Around 9:35 p.m., he drove the vehicle onto a sidewalk outside the White House and into a metal barrier just north of the White House, according to the document.
BBC News: Ukraine war: US distances itself from Belgorod incursion into Russia by Frank Gardner and James FitzGerald
The US has distanced itself from an incursion into Russia - which Moscow says ended in the defeat of armed insurgents who entered from Ukraine. Parts of the border region of Belgorod came under attack on Monday, in one of the most major cross-border raids since Russia invaded its neighbour last year. Russia later released pictures of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees. The US insisted it did not "encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia". A state department spokesman acknowledged reports "circulating on social media and elsewhere" that US-supplied weapons had been used, but said his country was "sceptical at this time of the veracity of these reports." In a news briefing on Tuesday, Matthew Miller added: "it is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been on a whirlwind of foreign visits in recent weeks to shore up diplomatic support for Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Last week, he landed in the Saudi city of Jeddah in a previously unannounced visit to attend an Arab League summit and try to broaden support beyond his Western partners. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine 15 months ago, Kyiv has failed to garner substantial backing from Arab states, which have largely remained neutral. Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Gulf nations have maintained warm ties with the Kremlin. Although most Arab governments have voted to condemn Moscow’s invasion at the United Nations, these states, in line with much of the Global South, have generally avoided taking sides. Most Arab League members have called for a diplomatic settlement, and none has taken any action against Russia, such as economic sanctions, that might antagonise Moscow.
BBC News: Guyana school fire: Angry student suspected of starting deadly blaze by James FitzGerald
A deadly fire at a school dormitory in Guyana appears to have been started by a pupil who was angry her mobile phone had been confiscated, officials say. Nineteen people - mostly female students - were killed in the blaze in the South American country in the early hours of Monday. The dorm was reportedly locked and had covered windows which trapped victims. The teenage suspect is currently in hospital with burns, and has reportedly admitted to the arson. Authorities are now taking advice on whether to charge her, according to a government source who spoke to the AFP news agency. The fire was started in the bathroom area and eventually tore through the whole building, which was partially made of wood and was housing 57 pupils at the time.
NBC News: Indian and Filipino restaurants underrepresented in the Asian food scene, new study says by Sakshi Venkatraman
Indian and Filipino restaurants are two of the most underrepresented cuisines when compared to their respective population sizes in the U.S., according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. While Asian restaurants as a whole dominate much of the country’s food scene — amounting to 12% of all restaurants despite Asian Americans being only 7% of the population — the subgroups that fall under it have drastically different levels of representation. Chinese restaurants are the most common type of Asian restaurant by far, which experts said is unsurprising. In fact, 39% of all Asian restaurants in the country are Chinese restaurants, outranking Japanese and Thai, which follow at 28% and 11%, respectively. Comparatively, cuisines like Indian and Filipino comprise just 7% and 1% of all Asian restaurants, despite collectively making up nearly 40% of the Asian population.
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