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Pope Francis criticized potential plans for mass deportations in the United States under President-elect Donald Trump during a wide-ranging Italian television interview on Sunday.

“If this is true it is a disgrace because it makes the poor unfortunate who have nothing pay the price of imbalance.

This is not how things are solved,” the pope said on Italian broadcaster Nove’s “Che Tempo Che Fa” program on Jan. 19, speaking about plans to deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

The U.S. bishops said in November they would speak out forcefully if Trump does advance the proposal in a way that undermines human dignity.

There are an estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., according to July 2023 statistics from the Center for Migration Studies.

Pope announces female president for Vatican City

Francis also announced that Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first female president of the Vatican City State governorate this March, elevating her from her current position as secretary-general.

“The work of women in the Curia has progressed slowly but effectively. Now, we have many,” Pope Francis said during the televised conversation.

The appointment of Petrini will take effect following the retirement of Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga from his current position as president of the governorate.

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A brush fire was reported in Mission Valley on a hillside across from Fashion Valley Mall.

The fire, dubbed the Friars Fire, was reported at around noon on the 7000 block of Friars Road, a densely populated area of Mission Valley that includes the Fashion Valley Mall.

The first crews arrived within 6 minutes, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue. Cal Fire reported the fire at 2 acres.

The evacuation area is:

• North of Camino Lujan
• South of Glidden St
• East of Linda Vista Rd, Northrim Court, River Glen Row
• West of Ulric St, Camino Degrazia

San Diego police have closed off roads in the area.

Flames were running up a hill, appearing to threaten a large apartment complex nearby. Helicopters dropped water as flames moved uphill toward the complex. Police and firefighters were asking people to leave. The flames were also headed west along Friars Road.

San Diego County Office of Education said on X that it was evacuating its Linda Vista campus and the Linda Vista Innovation Center.

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Chanderkant Jha terrorised Delhi in 2006 and 2007 with a spate of killings that put him on the police’s radar as one of the most wanted serial killers back then. After he was arrested, the 57-year-old serial killer was sentenced to death.

The conviction was changed to life imprisonment in 2016.

He had other plans though. In October 2023, he was supposed to return to jail after spending 90 days on parole. Instead, he decided to disappear.

The Delhi Police announced he has been arrested again.

“Chanderkant Jha carried a reward of Rs 50,000. He has been traced… After several months of surveillance and planning, he was arrested from New Delhi railway station,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Sanjay Sen told reporters.

“Over six months, the team traced Jha’s network of family, friends, and associates. They conducted reconnaissance at his previous crime spots and interrogated individuals in fruit and vegetable mandis (markets) across Delhi-NCR, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where Jha had once worked,” Mr Sen said.

Originally from Bihar, Chanderkant Jha lived near Azadpur Mandi in Delhi and befriended young men, often migrants, by helping them find jobs and offering them meals. However, minor disagreements or perceived infractions would trigger his homicidal rage, the police said.

“Jha would tie his victims hands, claiming he would punish them, and then strangle them with a locally made nunchaku.

He would dismember the bodies meticulously, ensuring minimal blood splatter. The remains were then packed in plastic bags and transported using his modified cycle-rickshaw before being dumped at predetermined locations, often near Tihar Jail,” Mr Sen said.

The serial killer would leave handwritten notes with the dismembered bodies, taunting the police and challenging them to catch him. He dumped a lot of bodies near Tihar Jail.

His first recorded murder dates back to 1998 when he killed Mangal alias Aurangzeb in Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar, dismembering the body and scattering its parts.

Arrested in 1998, he was released in 2002. After his release, he resumed killing, police said.

In June 2003, Chanderkant Jha killed his friend Shekhar in Haiderpur for being a drunkard and liar, disposing of the body in Alipur. In November 2003, Umesh, a migrant from Bihar, was killed for alleged betrayal, and his body was dumped near Tihar Jail.

In November 2005, he killed Guddu for his habits, including smoking marijuana and disposed of the body in Mangolpuri, the police said. In October 2006, Amit, accused of womanising, met a similar fate, with his body left outside Tihar Jail.

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A Florida couple — including a woman who authored children’s books — has pleaded guilty to abusing their adopted children inclduing spanking them until they bled and making them sleep on wet beds.

Jennifer and Joseph Wolfthal pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and neglect of a child with great bodily harm on January 13. The couple was set to go to trial on Monday, but they reached a plea agreement with prosecutors just before the trial began, according to WESH.

Prosecutors agreed to drop three counts of kidnapping brought against the couple in exchange for their plea.

Jennifer Wolfthal — the author of a children’s book titled A Real Friend — is set to be sentenced to 12 years in prison, and her husband faces a 10-year sentence, according to the plea deal. The two faced more than 100 years in prison if convicted.

The couple was arrested on New Year’s Day 2021 after Joseph took their eight-year-old daughter to the hospital. The girl was diagnosed with pneumonia, a staph infection, and liver and kidney failure, according to WFTV.

“This plea and sentencing agreement ensures that the Wolfthals will spend significant time in prison while it protects the already-traumatized victims from the stress of having to testify,” the State Attorney’s office in Florida’s 18th judicial circuit said in a statement reported by PEOPLE.

“The State Attorney’s office made sure law enforcement and the children’s new guardian supported this sentence before it agreed to it.”

In addition to her diagnosis, she was also malnourished, was suffering from multiple bruises, and had several open wounds. The young girl weighed just 40 pounds when she was brought to the hospital.

Joseph told police that the girl’s injuries were the result of falls and “brushing her teeth too hard.”

The child’s condition was enough for police to arrest the parents on suspicion of neglect and abuse.

Jennifer made bail, but was arrested later in January on charges of false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13, according to PEOPLE

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A Mannford man has been arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a 75-year-old woman who was asleep in her bed.

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57 year old Tracy Pierce

December 30, 2024, at 11 pm, it says Pierce went into the victim’s home and threatened her and was told to leave by the victim’s brother.

It says he came back an hour later intoxicated and when the victim woke up, he was standing next to her bed, with his pants down and he touched her.

It says the victim’s grandson forced Pierce to leave, fighting to get him out of the house and to his vehicle.

It says Pierce tried to load a .22 rifle but the grandson took the ammo and magazine and when deputies arrived, Pierce was passed out in his truck.

These are charges, not a conviction.

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The father of the unnamed student grew suspicious when he went public with the uncanny physical similarities he noticed between himself and his son and the teacher’s baby, now 5 years old, leading to a police investigation and ultimately charges.

The student, who was born in 2005 and 13 years old at the time the then 28-year-old suspect was impregnated, lived with her from 2016 to 2020, according to a press release from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office, alongside his brother and sister.

Laura Caron, 34, had taught both brothers in the fifth grade at Middle Township Elementary School. The family struck up a friendship with the teacher, per ABC affiliate WPVI, with the boys’ parents allowing them and their sister to sleep over at her house a couple of nights a week at first.

Then the siblings moved in with her permanently in 2016, sharing a bedroom for four years. Caron gave birth to her baby in 2019, while the family’s kids were still living with her. It would be five more years before the alleged truth would be uncovered.

It all began to fall apart for the parents of Caron’s child, now 5 years old, when the student’s father started to notice uncanny physical similarities between the child, himself and his son. He went public with what he observed on Facebook in December 2024.

Police quickly got involved and started investigating the matter, which included interviews with the family’s three children.

The boy’s sister reportedly told them she believes her brother started sleeping in the same bed with Caron when he was 11 years old, per the prosecutor’s press release.

She told investigators that while she and her brothers went to bed in the same room on the second floor of Caron’s home, she would notice her brother was in Caron’s bed the following morning.

Additionally, the sister said that when her brother was in the shower, Caron would go into the bathroom and lock the door.

The boy’s older brother said that he witnessed Caron sexually assaulting his brother one night when they thought he was asleep, per the release. Finally, the sister told police that her brother admitted to fathering the child in a text message to her, asking her to keep it a secret.

The unidentified student, who is now 19 or 20 years old, ultimately told police he had been involved in a sexual relationship with his former teacher, and fathered her child in 2019. He also said that he had remained in contact with her until his father’s Facebook post.

Caron was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

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The 53-year-old victim named Anne said she was fooled by the scammer after she received a message on social media from someone claiming to be the actor’s mother.

Just a day later, the interior designer was sent another DM from an account posing as the Fight Club star in February 2023, which reportedly said (via Metro): “Hello Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more.”

Anne reportedly told French channel TF1 (via BFM TV) that she was going through a difficult moment with her husband at the time and felt she could confide in the person.

“In fact, we’re talking about Brad Pitt, I’m falling from the clouds. At first, I tell myself it’s fake, but I don’t really understand what’s happening to me. After that, we will contact each other every day and we become friends,” she said via translated text.

“There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.”

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Parents, two sons dead following shooting in North Sewickley Township, Beaver County

When officials arrived on scene, they found two people, later identified by the Beaver County DA as Clifford Hunt, 51, and Michelle Hunt, 48, dead on the scene.

Two others were airlifted to a nearby hospital and later died. The DA said the two individuals were sons of the Hunts.

The shooting happened on Shaffer Road

One of the sons, according to the county DA, is believed to be the shooter.

In a social media post following the shooting, North Sewickley police said it was “a contained incident” and that there was no threat to the public.

Jennifer Lanham, who worked nearby the home, was told by one of her employees that police asked to close their store out of abundance of caution. She said she can’t believe something like this would happen in such a small community.

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Matthew Luckhurst, a former San Antonio police officer, who made headlines for allegedly offering a homeless man a sandwich filled with dog feces, has resurfaced in Benavides, Texas, as a law enforcement officer.

Luckhurst, 42, faced public outrage and was dismissed from the San Antonio Police Department in 2016 after Police Chief William McManus condemned his actions as “vile and disgusting.”

Despite the scandal that led to his initial dismissal, Luckhurst found his way back into law enforcement in Benavides, a town located approximately 150 miles from San Antonio. Benavides Police Chief Andre Hines defended the controversial hiring, stating that it reflects the department’s commitment to transparency and accountability.

The infamous incident that tarnished Luckhurst’s reputation involved an allegation from a fellow officer, claiming that Luckhurst had picked up feces from the street, placed it on bread inside a Styrofoam container, and left it beside a sleeping homeless individual.

Luckhurst, however, maintained his innocence, asserting that he intended for the homeless man to discard the sandwich, not consume it.

In a bizarre turn of events, Luckhurst faced another accusation in the same year when he was reported to have defecated in a female restroom at the San Antonio police department, smearing a feces-like substance on a toilet seat. Luckhurst did not deny his involvement in this incident.

Following a series of legal battles, Luckhurst managed to overturn his initial dismissal related to the poop sandwich incident in 2019. He briefly rejoined the force before a judge upheld his termination in 2020.

Luckhurst resurfaced in uniform in February 2022, this time in Floresville, a city approximately 30 miles away from San Antonio.

However, his return was short-lived as news of his reinstatement led to his subsequent dismissal within 10 months.

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A child died after a sledding accident led to a water response in Whitsett on Saturday morning after a winter storm hit North Carolina, according to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office.

A news release said the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office responded to a water emergency just after 9:10 a.m. in the 900 block of Golf House Road, which is at Stoney Creek Golf Club.

Upon arrival, emergency responders found a child in the water and pulled the victim from the water. The child was taken to a local hospital where they later died.

“Preliminary information indicates that the tragic event occurred because of a sledding accident,” the sheriff’s office said in the release.

Two first responders and three others who assisted with the rescue were taken to a local hospital for medical examination.

A creek and pond are located just off Golf House Road.

The Whitsett Fire Department, McLeansville Fire Department, Greensboro Fire Department, Guilford County Fire Department, and the Guilford County Emergency Services assisted in responding.

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