5 d. ago Oklahoma man accused of murdering priest is ‘Trump fan who wants to make church great again’

Gary Hermesch, charged with first degree murder over the fatal shooting of Father Arul Sarasala, reportedly wrote to his local paper in praise of the president

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8 d. ago Oklahoma man is accused of gunning down priest outside of a Kansas Catholic church

Community members called the priest’s death ‘heartbreaking’ and a ‘tragedy’

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2 w. ago Journalist Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

The former Vanity Fair editor on how #MeToo changed Hollywood, what Christopher Hitchens would make of the US today, and the value of a handkerchiefGraydon Carter, 75, is a Canadian-born journalist. He co-created the satirical magazine Spy, edited the New York Observer, and from 1992 until 2017 was the editor of Vanity Fair. In 2019 he founded Air Mail, an online newsletter for “worldly cosmopolitans”. His memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, has just been published. He lives in New York with his third wife, not far from the Waverly Inn, the restaurant he co-owns, and has five children. Donald Trump has called him a “dummy” and “a real loser” who has “no talent and looks like shit”.Before we talk magazines, as a Canadian-born non-fan of Trump, how’s the view over there?Well, I think very highly of Mark Carney [the new Canadian prime minister]. He’s not going to take any grief. But the sad thing is that in two months, Trump ...

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2 w. ago Emile Soleil murder suspect family's Catholic priest, 85, 'committed suicide' days before the toddler's grandparents were arrested

Father Gilliot frequently expressed his emotional angst during the saga, and allegedly 'took his own life' last Saturday at his home in Aix-en-Provence, it emerged today.

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2 w. ago A sinner, a killer and a very controversial erection: has director Alain Guiraudie surpassed Stranger By the Lake?

He caused a scandal with his erotic tale of lakeside cruising. Now the French film-maker is back – with a funny yet tragic story of lofty ideals, base passions and a lusty priestThere’s a wonderfully frank clifftop scene in Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie’s new rural thriller, in which a priest seems to give absolution to a murderer. Not through some great act of clemency, though, but because of what he wants in return. “He’s a lot like me,” says the director, laughing. “He’s navigating between his greater ideals and his desires as a man. I think a lot of us do that.”Morally flexible clergymen, vacillating killers, characters whose desires lead them into terra incognita – this is Guiraudie’s morally unstable terrain. Misericordia is the mirror image of his much-praised 2013 psychological drama Stranger By the Lake. Where that film made a murderer a dimly grasped object of desire, here the point of view is the killer’s. Jérémie stirs up dormant passions when he returns to his childhood...

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3 w. ago Dropkick Murphys singer breaks silence after confronting Trump fan in a MAGA hat at concert

Frontman Ken Casey told a concertgoer sporting a MAGA hat to ‘shut the f*** up for five minutes’

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3 w. ago Man pleads guilty in pipe bomb attack on Massachusetts group Satanic Temple

An Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple has pleaded guilty

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3 w. ago Conor McGregor issues plea to Trump as he attends White House on St. Patrick's Day amid sexual assault lawsuit

Irishman Conor McGregor, a Trump fan and former lightweight and featherweight Ultimate Fighting champ, made a surprise trip to the White House podium on St. Patrick's Day morning.

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3 w. ago Accused Texas megachurch pastor to surrender in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse charges

A former pastor of a Texas megachurch is expected to surrender to Oklahoma authorities on child sexual abuse charges

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