Ramon Vargas
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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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas
A newlywed man visiting Florida on his honeymoon recently died after reportedly being struck by lightning while standing in shallow water with a blue sky over him. The death of Jake Rosencranz, 29, in New Smyrna Beach was considered unusual because it is “rare” for someone to be struck by lightning from a storm that is several miles away, local beach safety director Tammy Malphurs told Florida news outlet WKMG.
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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas
A US marine veteran has described feeling “betrayed” after Trump administration immigration agents beat and arrested his father at his landscaping job, the latest example of immigrant agents targeting the family members of American military personnel with no criminal records.
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas
The Ohio high school graduate and soccer standout who was recently deported from the US to Honduras despite having no arrest record has described being “handcuffed like we’re some big criminals” for the entirety of his deportation flight. “To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven’t been to my birth country in years,” Emerson Colindres, 19, who was brought from Honduras to the US by his family at age eight, said to the Cincinnati news station WCPO in an interview over the weekend.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas
JD Vance’s decision to refer to California US senator Alex Padilla by the name of a terrorist conspirator showed how “unserious” the Trump administration is, the lawmaker has said of the vice-president. “He knows my name – he knows my name,” Padilla told MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday, 12 days after the FBI forcibly removed him from a 12 June news conference hosted by US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem amid anti-immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) protests in Los Angeles.
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas
The Roman Catholic church must “not tolerate any form of abuse”, sexual or otherwise, Pope Leo XIV has said in his first public remarks about the worldwide clerical molestation scandal that has long roiled the church.
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Louisiana's legislature has voted to outlaw grooming via a statute championed by a survivor of New Orleans's Catholic clergy molestation scandal, his wife and her father, who is a state senator. | https://t.co/mOKlGetLPl
The former cop who pleaded guilty in 2016 to a role in the drugging and rape scheme that also sent former NFL player Darren Sharper to prison has been transferred to a halfway house as he nears the completion of his sentence | https://t.co/uyIebs4WJW
Thanks for boosting our take on this big development in the New Orleans church bankruptcy @WAdrewhawkins
the Archdiocese of New Orleans agreed to pay almost $180 million to survivors of clergy sexual abuse. But many survivors aren’t on board with the settlement. An explainer: (And go check out @RVargasWrites and @davidhammerWWL extensive reporting on this) https://t.co/hQCXr8Uf4T