Explore More Thanks to data streams, the Lord is no longer the only omniscient one.
Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the top administrator for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), resigned from the position this week following claims he regularly used the queer dating app Grindr and went to gay bars. The allegations were put forward by Catholic news site the Pillar, which alleges to have accessed the priest’s cellphone data, where it claims to have found evidence of his activity in both virtual and physical gay forums. Read More...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged higher this week, ending a nine-week slide that gave prospective homebuyers some breathing room after home loan borrowing soared to the highest level in more than two decades.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage inched up to 6.62 percent from 6.61 percent last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.48 percent. Read More...
Explore More A Brooklyn pol wants to force the Bronx Zoo to give up the Big Apple’s last remaining elephants.
A bill introduced this past week by Democratic Councilwoman Shahana Hanif in essence would ban elephant captivity citywide by requiring the animals to have habitats of at least 15 acres — which don’t exist in the city. It would also prohibit elephants from being bred, rode on, being used for “educational or commercial exhibitions” or made to do labor. Read More...