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08.04.13
WEINER’S SEXTING FALLOUT
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony
Weiner, who admitted last week to sending
lewd online messages even after stepping
down from Congress, has dropped from
first to fourth place in the Democratic
primary, a Quinnipiac University poll found.
Weiner has support from just 16 percent
of likely Democratic voters, while City
Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads
with 27 percent of the vote. “[I]t looks like
former Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself right out of the race for
New York City mayor,” said the director of Qunnipiac’s polling institute.
TALIBAN
FREES
PRISONERS
Taliban fighters disguised as police freed about 250
prisoners from one of the main jails in Pakistan this week.
More than 100 militants armed with bombs carried out
the attack. “It is very difficult to attack such a place
without proper information or contacts,” one police
source told Reuters, noting that some prisoners may have
been communicating with the Taliban. Militants carried
out a similar attack in April of last year in the Bannu
district and freed almost 400 prisoners.
‘WHO AM I TO JUDGE?’
Pope Francis made headlines this week when
he took a surprising stance on the sexual
orientation of priests. “If someone is gay
and he searches for the Lord and has good
will, who am I to judge?” he told reporters on
a plane headed back to Rome after his first
foreign trip as pope. In the past, the Vatican
has treated homosexuality as a “disorder,”
and Pope Benedict XVI would not allow men
to become priests if they had “deep-seated
homosexual tendencies.”