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☆ How One Latino Pastor Became a Foot Soldier for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Jennifer Medina | Isadora Kosofsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent Tuesday evening, two teenage boys approached their pastor, Camilo Perez, before Bible study. They wanted his take on a debate that had been gnawing at them. Their friends from a local public high school had been talking about discrimination against Latinos. Did the pastor agree? As he ministers to a growing flock of 250 families in the dusty suburbs of Las Vegas, Mr. Perez has transformed from a leader who rarely acknowledged politics to an eager foot soldier in the cultural and political battles in his adopted country.

Persons: Camilo Perez, ” Mr, Perez, ” Locations: United States, America, Las Vegas

☆ John Jacob Astor’s gold watch worn on Titanic to be sold at auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Emily Blumenthal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Astor was one of around 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. The violin itself was sold for $1.7 million via the same auction house in 2013 and is the highest-selling item from the ship ever. The valise belonging to Titanic bandmember and orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, which held the violin he played as the Titanic sank, is also for sale. The watch was among the personal effects found with Astor’s body after the Titanic sank, according to the auction house. In 1935, Vincent gave the watch as a christening gift to the infant son of William Dobbyn IV, John Jacob Astor’s executive secretary, according to the auction house.

Persons: John Jacob Astor IV, Astor, Madeleine, Henry Aldridge, bandmember, Wallace Hartley, Andrew Aldridge, Aldridge, Vincent Astor, Vincent, William Dobbyn IV, John Jacob Astor’s, ” Aldridge, John Jacob Astor IV’s cufflinks Organizations: CNN, Titanic, Henry Aldridge & Son, Son Locations: Wiltshire, England, United States

☆ Oklahoma double murder: Why prosecutors accused the grandmother
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Rachel Clarke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Investigators say they were deliberately killed by Adams, Cullum and the Twomblys. Bottom row: Tad Cullum and Tifany Machel Adams Oklahoma State Bureau of InvestigationAt about that time, Adams did an online search for how to get someone out of their house. Adams told officers she had called Butler to check if she was coming for the usual Saturday visit. She said Butler told her that something had come up and she could not make it. And she said her mother told her the two couples were involved in the killings.

Persons: CNN — Tifany Machel Adams, Veronica Butler, Adams, Tad Cullum, Cole, Cora Twombly, Butler, Adams ’, Jilian Kelley, Tifany Machel Adams, Charles Laughlin, Laughlin, Kelley, Cullum, anvils, Cole Twombly, Wrangler Rickman, Rickman, Veronica Butler Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Kelley, Cheryl Brune, Brune, Melissa, Joey Padilla, KWCH, Matt Boley, “, ”, Hugoton, Heath Kelley, boyfriend Cullum, –, KFDA, sobs, Butler’s, “ She’s, ” Junia Butler, Veronica’s Organizations: CNN, Tifany Machel Adams Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Veronica Butler Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma State, ”, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Kansas, Chevrolet, Christian, Christian Post, Courthouse, KFDA Locations: Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma’s, Kansas, Hugoton , Kansas, Tifany Machel Adams Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Hugoton, Veronica Butler Oklahoma, Texas County, Colorado, El Paso, Nebraska, Texas County , Oklahoma

☆ Patti Astor, Doyenne of New York’s Avant-Garde Scene, Dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Penelope Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Did she know any artists? “Yeah,” she said, “I know a few.”The place was just eight by 25 feet, and the idea was to make a gallery by artists, for artists. The first show there was an exhibition of pencil drawings by Steven Kramer, Ms. Astor’s husband at the time; all 20 of the pieces sold, at $50 each, which seemed like a promising beginning. Mr. Scharf, who had already turned all of the appliances at Ms. Astor’s home into his signature outer-space critters, was offered the next show. He was also given the opportunity to name the place for its duration.

Persons: Patti Astor, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, Freddy, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean, Michel Basquiat, Richard Roth, Astor, Bill Stelling, “, Steven Kramer, Astor’s, Scharf Organizations: Fun, Mudd Locations: Manhattan, Hermosa Beach, Calif, TriBeCa

Political Cartoons View All 1227 ImagesIn 2015, Carey was appointed lead artist for a colossal project, a stained-glass window the size of an American football field for a new church building in Leawood, Kansas. Though he had spent the last four decades mastering his craft, “The Resurrection Window” made Quagliata nervous. The power of light and glass struck him in the 1960s, soon after he left Rome to become an artist in the United States. “I kept thinking: What I would do with red glass, with blue glass?” Quagliata said. In “The Resurrection Window,” Christ’s skin is yellow.

Persons: —, Narcissus Quagliata, ”, Quagliata, Tim Carey, Carey, “, ” Hamilton, Steven Spielberg, ” Carey, ” Quagliata, Marc Chagall, Picasso, – Organizations: VALLE DE BRAVO, Valle de Bravo, United Methodist, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts and Crafts Movement, Olympics, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Mexico, Valle de, Mexico City, U.S, Italian, American, Leawood , Kansas, Rome, United States, New York, California, Taiwan

He is helping organize a free one-day, online “church mental health summit” on Tuesday that already has about 9,000 registrations from over 100 countries. Chris Adams, who leads the Mental Health and the Church Initiative at Biola University. Instead, parents asked her advice on how to share similar struggles with their own children’s faith leaders. He’s been increasing workshops and retreats for Catholic seminarians as well as priests to help overcome the isolation that many clergy feel, especially as their numbers decline. Thad Austin, who started the Common Table Collaborative to help integrate mental health resources for mostly Protestant clergy.

Persons: Karna Moskalik, “, ”, Moskalik, Jamie, Chris Adams, Adams, Kay Warren, Rick Warren, You’re, Warren, they’re, Alex Lang, I’m Alex Lang, Lang, Katie O’Dunne, O’Dunne, Mark Dance, Steven Sandage, Laura Howe, Paul Ruff, He’s, Rae Jean Proeschold, Bell, Duke, God, Left, Thad Austin, –, ” Warren Organizations: Wheaton College, Mental Health, Initiative, Biola University, “, Saddleback, United Church of, Southern Baptist, Boston University, Saint Paul Seminary, United Methodist, Health Initiative, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: STILLWATER, Minn, U.S, California, Atlanta, Southern, Toronto, Minnesota, –

☆ A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +38 min

It took me a few minutes of research to figure out why I was losing track of the descendants of the people George Julian enslaved. If the racial cleansing of Forsyth County was mentioned, I didn’t notice. Still hopeful that I might be able to somehow identify and locate living descendants of the people my family enslaved, I flew to Georgia last November. Her father was also a butler for a wealthy white family, her mother a cook. In 1860, Osby’s ancestors were enslaved and working the fields of Forsyth County.

Persons: Julian, Abijah’s, George Julian, George, ”, Adaline, –, Abijah, Dick, Lott, Aggy, Henry, Lewis, Ellick, Jim, Josiah, Reuben, Woodrow Wilson, Rob Edwards, Black, Oprah Winfrey, Forsyth, “, Cumming, who’d, Abijah Julian, ” Gov, Joseph Mackey Brown, ‘ Dick, I’d, Grandma Horseyfeather, Brice gesturing, ” I’d, Grandma Horseyfeather’s, – I’ve, “ Lott, Abijah Julian’s, Richard Julian, Charlotte Julian, Richard, Charlotte, George Julian’s, She’d, “ I’m, That’s, Martin Luther King, wasn’t, Sophia Dodd, Dodd, Elon Osby, – Dodd, Osby, Bailey, George H, Julian ” –, – “, ” Osby, ” Dodd, Ida Julian ., Ida Julian’s, Ida ., Ida hadn’t, Ida Julian, Bagley, Willie M, Willie Mae Bagley, Willie Mae Butts, Elon Butts Osby, Osby’s, ’, Elon Osby’s, Ida Bagley, William Bagley, Adaline Julian, Richard Julian –, Abijah Julian –, she’d, we’ve, you’ve, ELON, crunched underfoot, could’ve, Abijah John Julian ”, Webster, I’ve, weren’t, “ We’re, – we’re, …, Horseyfeather, gesturing, “ You’re, Tom Lasseter, Corinne Perkins, Wong, Jeremy Schultz, Catherine Tai Design, John Emerson, Blake Morrison Organizations: ., Reuters, ”, Black, Charlotte, Toyota, Atlanta History, Elon, Lockheed, Tiffany, Atlanta Housing Authority, Task Force, Mazda, American Legion, United, Confederacy Locations: Forsyth, Negros, negros, Virginia, . Civil, Georgia, Cumming, U.S, Forsyth ., Dawson, Atlanta, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Jefferson County , Georgia, Forsyth County, Charlotte, Thai, Macedonia, Buckhead, Bagley, America, Fulton County, Fulton, Bagley Park, Iraq, Afghanistan, Osby, England, Juneteenth, Brooks County

☆ One of the most dangerous hours in America is now 11 o’clock on Sunday morning
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

It would also foreshadow a disturbing trend that has only worsened in subsequent years: 11 o’clock on Sunday morning is now one of the most dangerous hours of the week in America, pastors and church security officials say. Brady Boyd, senior pastor of New Life Church, the same church where Assam confronted a gunman 16 years ago. And in 2018, a gunman killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. But his church security does not have a monopoly on Sunday morning firepower. Consider this sobering Sunday morning scenario:A spiritual seeker visits a church and finds it filled with metal detectors and armed security guards carrying walkie-talkies.

Persons: Jeanne Assam, He’s, Beretta, Jake Stephens, Brian Snyder, ”, Brady Boyd, Boyd, “ That’s, Scott Olson, Rabbi Hillel Norry, Beth David, Norry, “, Kwon, Jeff Swensen, ” Norry, that’s, Shaukat Warraich, Dwayne Harris, Harris, Hope, ” Harris, Darren Hauck, Tim Russell, ‘ I’m, David Swanson, Pastors, Jesus ’, ” Boyd, Jesus, Tommy Mason, Mason, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Saint Joseph, Beau Biden, Brendan Smialowski, Jerilee Bennett, George W . Bush, “ You’re Organizations: CNN, New, Church, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reuters Churches, New Life, White, Texas Church of Christ, Baptist, Security, Police, House Church, Geneva Presbyterian, Colorado Springs, Marion County Baptist Association, Service, Brandywine Catholic, “ Police, AP, Minneapolis Police Department Locations: Colorado, Assam, Colorado Springs, America, Charleston , South Carolina, Sutherland Springs , Texas, Texas, Orange County , California, Oak Creek , Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Georgia, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, That’s, New Zealand, Missouri, ”, Geneva, Laguna Woods , California, Marion, Alabama, Saint, Brandywine, Brandywine Catholic Church, Wilmington , Delaware, AFP, AP Assam

“It’s an utter betrayal,” his son, Kevin Gnida, said in an interview from his home in Edmonton, Canada. “I know with 100 percent confidence that my dad would have never participated in this,” Kevin Gnida added. “I’m glad they got caught.”Evan, 64, and Josh Edwards, 30, were arrested at their home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Dec. 14. Josh Edwards is taken into custody outside the Edwards family’s New Smyrna Beach home on Dec. 14, 2022. “They came to my dad because they had no money.”Joy Edwards, Evan and Mary Jane Edwards, and Josh Edwards.

☆ The GOP dealt conservative Georgia voters a dud with Herschel Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Arick Wierson | Arick Wierson Is A Six-Time Emmy Award-Winning Television Producer | A Former Senior Aide To Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He Advises Political | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The bold way that the GOP — the pro-life party — continues to support Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who allegedly urged an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion and paid for the procedure, is eyebrow-raising to say the least. However, it’s not the first time Walker has been involved in a deal in which he has failed to live up to expectations. If you are an ardent Vikings fan, the Walker trade was a raw deal that still stings to this day. In this lopsided trade, it’s former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party attempting to present Walker as a Senate candidate with deeply held anti-abortion convictions to conservative Georgia voters. According to a Survey USA poll of likely voters, conducted Sept. 30 through Oct. 4, Warnock leads Walker 50% to 38%.

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