Author: Reporter

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...

As a new election season begins, the Republican Party is struggling to navigate the politics of abortion. Allies for leading presidential candidates concede that their hardline anti-abortion policies may be popular with the conservatives who decide primary elections, but they could ultimately alienate the broader set of voters they need to win the presidency. The conflict is unfolding across America this week, but nowhere more than Florida, where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law one of the nation’s toughest abortion bans late April 13. If the courts ultimately allow the new measure to take effect, it will soon...

Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal as a low-cost source of power. Emissions of the climate-warming gas that were caused by energy production grew 0.9% to reach 36.8 gigatons in 2022, the International Energy Agency reported at the beginning of March. (The mass of one gigaton is equivalent to about 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers, according to NASA.) Carbon dioxide is released when fossil fuels such as oil, coal or...