Author: Reporter

The Defense Department should implement a series of gun safety measures to reduce suicides in the force, an independent committee recommended in late January, calling for waiting periods for the purchase of firearms and ammunition by service members on military property. The panel said the department should also raise the minimum age for service members to buy guns and ammunition to 25, and should also require anyone living in military housing to register all privately owned firearms. In addition, the panel said the department should restrict the possession and storage of privately owned firearms in military barracks and dorms....

On Navy ships docked at this vast base, hundreds of sailors in below-deck mazes of windowless passageways perform intense, often monotonous manual labor. It is necessary work before a ship deploys, but hard to adjust to for many already challenged by the stresses plaguing young adults nationwide. Growing mental health distress in the ranks carries such grave implications that the U.S. chief of naval operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, answered “suicides” when asked earlier this year what in the security environment kept him up at night. One recently embraced prevention strategy is to deploy chaplains as regular members of the...

Attorney General Josh Kaul and Walworth County District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld announced on April 17 that defrocked former Roman Catholic cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been charged with one count of Fourth-Degree Sexual Assault for an incident that occurred more than 45 years ago. A criminal complaint filed on April 14 alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults and children, fondled a man in April 1977 while staying at a cabin on Geneva Lake in southeastern Wisconsin. The alleged victim, who is not named, told...

Christian worshippers thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on April 15 to celebrate the ceremony of the “Holy Fire,” an ancient ritual that sparked tensions this year with the Israeli police. In the annual ceremony that has been observed for over a millennium, a flame taken from Jesus’ tomb is used to light the candles of fervent believers in Greek Orthodox communities near and far. The devout believe the origin of the flame is a miracle and is shrouded in mystery. On April 15, after hours of frantic anticipation, a priest reached inside the dim tomb...