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Ramon Vargas

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Weekend Editor, Guardian US at The Guardian

Weekend editor, The Guardian US. | [email protected] Previously: Times-Picayune (2008-13); New Orleans Advocate (2013-19); T-P | TNOA (2019-22).

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  • 4 days ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    Eleven people were stabbed at a shelter for the unhoused in Salem, Oregon, on Sunday evening, according to authorities. Salem police said they arrested a man in connection with the mass stabbing carried out at about 7.15pm local time at a facility run by an organization called the Union Gospel Mission. The suspect was not immediately identified. First responders brought the victims to a local hospital with “varying types” of wounds.

  • 5 days ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    “I don’t want to be cremated,” director Joshua Rofé said in a recent interview. “I know that for sure.”After Rofé made the shocking HBO docuseries The Mortician, you can understand why. The three-parter focuses on a mortuary scandal that one of his interviewees called “the ultimate incendiary point for which we now have massive regulations … regarding cremation”. Many who watch the piece may feel the same about their final arrangements as Rofé does concerning his.

  • 6 days ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    Being one in a million may sound nice, but being one in 30m recently saved an exceptionally rare, gold lobster from being cooked and served as dinner at a New England restaurant, according to those who had a hand in the animal’s reprieve. As the manager of the Nordic Lodge Restaurant in Charlestown, Rhode Island, tells it, one of the eatery’s cooks noticed the crustacean in question buried under a bunch of other lobsters after they were delivered to the business.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    Anthony Weiner says politicians such as him and Donald Trump can survive scandals while qualified candidates like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton lose elections because “women get judged much more harshly than men do”. “I do believe that,” Weiner said Friday on ABC’s The View amid his run for a New York City council seat years after he crashed out of Congress in the wake of a sexting scandal that some argue aided Trump in clinching his first presidency in 2016.

  • 1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Ramon Vargas

    A former Louisiana sheriff’s deputy who admitted in 2016 that he raped a woman drugged by serial rapist Darren Sharper – the ex-National Football League champion – has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house as he approaches the completion of his sentence.

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Ramon Antonio Vargas
Ramon Antonio Vargas @RVargasWrites
18 Apr 25

RT @Bmanix69: Some may find this You tube easier to watch from last night’s NOLA Catholic Survivor’s story. Big applause to Neil for his co…

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Ramon Antonio Vargas @RVargasWrites
2 Apr 25

These four clergy abuse survivors speak out for the first time, saying they have lost confidence in the judge who ignored recommendations and acted against them. They would call on her to step down but don’t want more delays, they say. https://t.co/eqxJB6fDzG

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Ramon Antonio Vargas @RVargasWrites

The judge in charge of the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese's bankruptcy kicked 4 clergy abuse survivors off a key committee in the case despite commissioning an investigation saying she shouldn't do that. Then she sealed the investigation's results from becoming public.

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Ramon Antonio Vargas @RVargasWrites
1 Apr 25

Two people linked to the suspected drugging death and robbery of a Super Bowl reporter spent years texting each other to evidently coordinate furtively incapacitating others with pharmaceuticals and stealing from their financial accounts, sources say. | https://t.co/bny4dQYD9w