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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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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    The number of staff members who have developed brain tumors while working on the same floor of a Boston-area hospital has increased to at least six, according to the facility’s leadership. A recent statement attributed to the president of Mass General Brigham’s Newton-Wellesley hospital, Ellen Moloney, said the newly reported tumor was benign, as were five previously documented ones.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    The widow of a man who died on a New York subway train before his corpse was robbed by two different people and then allegedly sexually violated by one of the assailants says learning of her mostly estranged husband’s grim fate left her “shocked” as well as worried for her ill mother-in-law.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    Film-maker Chris Columbus says he has come to regard Donald Trump’s cameo in his movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as “an albatross” that he wishes to remove. But, Columbus added, he fears the president’s administration would deport him if he followed through with nixing the scene from more than 30 years ago. “It’s become this curse,” Columbus told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview published Monday. “It’s become an albatross for me.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    A pet tortoise who was displaced from its human family’s home during a deadly outbreak of tornadoes in Mississippi in March was recently reunited with its people. The reunion – which went viral on corners of the internet dedicated to uplifting news stories – occurred after the Central Mississippi Turtle Rescue organization asked its social media followers on 6 April for help in finding the tortoise’s owners after the animal was brought to the group to be treated for injuries.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ramon Vargas

    The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.

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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

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Ramon Antonio Vargas @RVargasWrites
25 Mar 25

Great piece from @ArnoldcommaJon at the @guardian with respect to the top player in form in Concacaf following Sunday's Nations League matches | https://t.co/qLxq0EXCuz