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Five kids on skateboards and scooters zipped down the sidewalk Monday afternoon, quietly laughing and chattering as they headed toward the Family Dollar store on Front Street in Frederica.

Behind them stood a charred house - the siding dripped off, the front porch was gutted. The smell of smoke still hung in the air.

The house belongs to the Martz family who have lived there for almost 16 years. All six people inside the home survived the fire, which started after a car involved in a high-speed police chase slammed through their front porch about 10 p.m. Sunday.

Samuel Martz III and his wife, Elaynna Martz, stood in their front yard when the five kids on skateboards came back down the sidewalk. They stopped and handed Samuel a couple grocery bags stuffed with toiletries and other necessities from the store.

Samuel's eyes glossed over and his voice caught in his throat after seeing the kids' kindness. Elaynna said this is just another example of how much the community has shown an outpouring of love and support for them.

"When you go through life not knowing how many friends you truly have, you see how much love there is in a community of people," she said. "And you see how much love there is for each other, human compassion for each other. In a time that's so hard for so many people, [it is important] to understand that there's still that out there."

The street was mostly quiet Monday, but neighbors slowed as they drove by to shout encouraging words out the window. Others dropped off bags of extra clothing and groceries.

As the family waited for the insurance officers to arrive, they often kept their eyes fixed on the burnt house.

"I just keep reliving it, man," Samuel Martz told a neighbor.

'That sound'

The Martz family had just returned from a brief vacation Sunday and was settling in for the night.

Samuel and Elaynna Martz have three children: 18-year-old Garrett, 12-year-old Isabella, and 10-year-old Gracie. They were all headed to bed, preparing for the next day of virtual learning.
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Elaynna's brother, Jason Garton, was also staying with them. A veteran living in Virginia, Garton had recently lost his job and was recovering from an earlier car accident. Elaynna and Samuel Martz said they helped him find work and get back on his feet.

Garton had said goodnight and went to sleep on the couch in the front room.

Samuel Martz had just sat down in his chair near the window and kicked his feet up.

"All of a sudden I heard a boom, like a big crash, and I saw flames immediately," Samuel Martz said.

Elaynna said she was with her youngest daughter in her bedroom when they heard "the most horrific crash we ever heard," she said. The whole house shook, and she said it sounded like the combination of a freight train and an earthquake, with glass shattering.

"That sound I'll never get out of my head," she said.

She grabbed her daughter and their nearby dog. Her other children came from their rooms, and they all headed for the side door. For a split second, she turned to look toward the front of the house and flames were already over their heads, spreading into the living room.

"We looked and my brother was hanging upside down with what was left of the couch that he was sitting on, and flames were just coming up all over the place," she said.

She and her husband yelled at Garton to get out.

When she turned back, she and her children discovered that the deadbolt on the side door had jammed when the house shook.

"Our son, at that time, had used an incredible amount of strength, [and] ripped the door open to save his sisters," she said.

He tore the door off the frame, and the rest of the family spilled into the yard.

Samuel jumped out the window and made sure his family was OK. That's when he said he saw that his brother-in-law had made it out.

"He was already out and walking down the street. He was walking. Walking," he said, a tone of incredulity in his voice. "He didn't know where he was, but he was walking."

Garton was taken to Christiana Hospital, and his sister said he is doing well and will likely need reconstructive surgery.

"We don't know who pulled him out, but by the grace of God he is alive, and it's a miracle," she said.

Everyone, including the two dogs, made it out safely, though their three guinea pigs died in the fire. The family only saved the clothes on their backs.

Telford Rager, who said he has lived across the street from the Martz's for the past 12 years and in Frederica since 1961, came outside after hearing a loud bang.

"I had to kind of cover my eyes, the heat was that intense," Rager said, noting that he had never seen a fire start so fast in his life.

"I thought they were gone," he said. "I don't know how they got out of there"

The car chase

When Elaynna got out of the house, the mother said she immediately noticed a car and emergency lights.

Harrington Police Department later reported that a 19-year-old man from Millsboro was fleeing from police after driving more than 100 mph on South Dupont Highway (Route 13) near the Harrington Raceway and Casino.

After a Felton police officer deployed stop sticks and flattened the driver's tires, he continued on toward Frederica and drove recklessly without headlights, police said. He eventually crashed into the Martz home, causing his car and the house to catch on fire.
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Police said the driver, 19-year-old Michael A. Robinson, was arrested and charged with second degree assault, eight counts of reckless endangering, disregarding a police officer signal, vehicular assault (first degree), vehicular assault (third degree) and several other traffic violations.

He was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution after failing to post $16,605 secured bond. Two other women who were in the car with him were not charged and were treated for injuries at a nearby hospital.

Police said anyone with information can call Harrington Police Department at (302) 398-4493.

A trend of car crashes

Elaynna Martz said this is the third car to crash in their front yard.

The first time, a car flipped over and missed the house by about a foot, taking out a tree, she said. The second time, a stolen Suburban crashed into a telephone pole on their property.

"We've always had an issue with speeding through this town," she said. "Many parents feel the same way in this area, and they're always concerned about the speeding through here."

She explained that many people cut through Frederica as a shortcut from Route 1.

While she said she will miss her neighbors, the history of crashes and speeding is one reason the Martz family will likely rebuild somewhere new.

The couple moved into the home on Front Street when they were 19 years old, a new baby in their arms.

Samuel and Elaynne grew up together - from the moment Samuel stuck chewing gum in Elaynna's hair to their wedding day, as Samuel put it. There is a lot of history in the house, he said, a lot of memories.

Lynn Richreardon and her husband walked up to the house Monday afternoon and embraced the Martzs.

Richreardon said she had lived in that same house for 28 years. It's where her children were raised and where one of her sons died. Her sister called her around 1 a.m., saying that she saw her old house on fire on Facebook.

"It's so hard to look at it," Richreardon told Elaynna Martz.

The two women talked about the marks left on the house, including important dates engraved on the bricks, Richreardon's children's handprints on the sidewalk and the two families' initials written on the garage and back patio.

Still, Elaynna said, "This is a house."

"A home is wherever me and my family are," she said. "And we will come back from this."

She and her husband thanked the firefighters, police officers and other first responders, some of whom even tried to save her family photos.

How to help

GoGlass, the company where Samuel Martz and Jason Garton work, started a GoFundMe campaign for the Martz family on Monday. With a goal of raising $25,000, the online fundraiser reached nearly $18,000 by Tuesday evening. To donate, visit this link.

The Frederica Senior Center will host a benefit dinner from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30. There will be music, a silent auction, raffles, 50/50 and more.

Tickets for the dine-in or take-out spaghetti dinner are $10, and all proceeds will go toward the Martz family. For more information, call (302) 335-4555.

Locals can stay tuned for a community organizing meeting at the fire hall next week.

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Delaware family's relaxing evening shattered when fiery car slams into the house

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Five kids on skateboards and scooters zipped down the sidewalk Monday afternoon, quietly laughing and chattering as they headed toward the Family Dollar store on Front Street in Frederica. Behind them stood a charred house - the siding dripped off, the front porch was gutted. The smell of smoke still hung in the air.

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Newsreader was fired after being on the new Adam Sandler movie

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US TV anchorwoman fired for appearing in Adam Sandler movie

Alaina Pinto cameos in film as a fictional newsreader dressed in a Harley Quinn costume

A US TV newsreader has claimed she was fired from her job for making a small appearance in an Adam Sandler movie.

Alaina Pinto, an anchor for the WHDH Boston Channel 7 News, cameos in Hubie Halloween, Sandler's new Netflix film.

Appearing in one scene, Pinto plays an anchorwoman named Erin who is one of three women working for a news station who are all dressed as Harley Quinn.

The cameo, however, has now led to Pinto being fired from her job as the appearance "violated [her] contract".

"Hi Friends! I have some news to share," Pinto tweeted. "Earlier this week I was let go from 7 News. I am posting this because I want to be open and honest with all of you. Last year, I participated in a cameo in the recently released Netflix movie by Adam Sandler, Hubie Halloween.

"In doing so, I mistakenly violated my contract with the station and I understand why management unfortunately chose to terminate me. I am deeply disappointed and saddened, and I hoped this would not be how things evolved."

Pinto thanked her 7 News viewers and colleagues, while promising to keep her followers up to date with her next moves. "The future is bright!" Pinto added.

While it is unclear how Pinto became involved with Hubie Halloween, the comedy film was shot in and around Massachusetts in 2019, near to where Pinto worked in Boston.

The Independent has reached out to WHDH Boston Channel 7 News for comment.

US TV newsreader says she was fired for starring in Adam Sandler movie

US TV newsreader says she was fired for starring in Adam Sandler movie

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The discovery of a body in a Salisbury pond over the weekend has led to murder charges for two men in the killing of a local woman, according to the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office.

A news release shows the body of a woman later identified as Trisha Lyn Parker was found Sunday in Johnson Pond in the area of Lakeside Drive.

Officers from the Salisbury Police Department responded to the scene, and detectives from the sheriff's office soon took over the investigation after it was determined that Parker's death appeared suspicious.

They identified 23-year-old Marquez Labrante Armstrong, who had been dating Parker, as a suspect. He was questioned Monday about the incident and confessed to punching and choking Parker, according to the release.

Charging documents filed in district court state a law enforcement database search revealed police had responded to a domestic altercation between Armstrong and Parker on Sept. 24 and that the pair had multiple other previous interactions with police.

Documents show an investigator also spoke with one of Parker's children who had been in her Salisbury home the night she was killed. The juvenile said their mother and a man they knew as "Sleepy" were yelling at each other.

The argument escalated, according to documents, and the child said they saw "Sleepy" punch Parker in the chest and then hit her five more times. She had blood on her body, though the child didn't know where from, and hit her head on the ground when "Sleepy" pushed her down.

After the assault, "Sleepy" made the child and two other siblings quickly leave the house with him, documents state. They were dropped off at a family member's house around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

That family member spotted Parker's white van driving away as the children walked up, but could not tell who was behind the wheel, according to court records. The children were in pajamas without shoes and there had been no message from Parker or anyone else. The circumstances were described as "very unusual and suspicious."
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Detectives knew Armstrong used the nickname "Sleepy" and during his interview, the 23-year-old disclosed that an argument with Parker had turned physical, with the two hitting each other. Armstrong said he "lost it" and put his hands around Parker's throat to strangle her, records show.

The sheriff's office said Armstrong also led investigators to the dumpster where he got rid of Parker's clothes and Parker's van, which had been used to take her body to the pond. The vehicle had been burned using gasoline.

Armstrong said a second person named Corey helped him dispose of Parker's body. Detectives identified the other suspect as 18-year-old Corey Jamar Jones, who was arrested Monday.

He corroborated the account of Armstrong punching and choking Parker, the sheriff's office said, and admitted to aiding Armstrong in moving the body, burning the van and cleaning the crime scene.

Armstrong told investigators during his interview that Jones had hit Parker after Armstrong choked her, according to court documents, and that the 18-year-old took a television and computer from Parker's house.
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First- and second-degree murder;

First-degree assault;

Second-degree arson;

First-degree malicious burning;

And disposal of a human body in an unauthorized place.

Jones acknowledged he was in the house when Parker was killed, records state. He described in detail for investigators the sounds of the struggle, the time it took for Armstrong to strangle Parker, the interior of her house, filling the gas can prior to setting Parker's van on fire and Armstrong showing the body to another group of individuals.

A search and seizure warrant executed on Parker's Wyman Drive home in Salisbury revealed evidence of the struggle. A second search warrant was executed at Jones' home, where investigators recovered the stolen television and computer.

Both Armstrong and Jones have been charged with the following:

Jones also faces one count of theft between $100 and $1,500.

The pair are being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center without bond as of Tuesday morning.

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Woman's body dumped in pond, vehicle torched in Salisbury murder case: Police

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The discovery of a body in a Salisbury pond over the weekend has led to murder charges for two men in the killing of a local woman, according to the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office. A news release shows the body of a woman later identified as Trisha Lyn Parker was found Sunday in Johnson Pond in the area of Lakeside Drive.

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Distressing rend in Covid case country heads for a fall

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The government's top public health officials warned that the number of Covid-19 cases is rising across a majority of the country in a rare briefing Wednesday afternoon.

Dr. Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency has noted a "distressing trend" in which coronavirus case numbers are "increasing in nearly 75 percent of the country."
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"This past week, we've seen nearly 60,000 cases a day on average, as well as 700 deaths," he said.

Butler, a respected career scientist at the agency, spoke Wednesday at a rare on-camera media briefing at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta, alongside Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC's director, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

Much of the increase in cases is centered in the Midwest. States like Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin have recorded rises in Covid-19 case numbers in the last two weeks. Public health officials attribute the spikes, in part, to cooler weather that is forcing people indoors.

"Smaller, more intimate gatherings with family, friends and neighbors may be driving infections," Butler said while acknowledging public pandemic fatigue.

"We get tired of wearing masks, but it continues to be as important as it's ever been," he said.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. had logged 8.3 million cases of Covid-19 and more than a quarter-million deaths, according to an NBC News database. The death toll may, in fact, be far higher, as recent studies have suggested that many deaths related to Covid-19 have been underreported or misreported.

Redfield said Wednesday that the CDC is considering whether it would be reasonable to cut the time a person exposed to Covid-19 may need to be in quarantine. The current guidance is to quarantine for 14 days.

Redfield said a growing body of data is being looked at using testing during quarantine to shorten the 14-day window to 10 or even seven days.

"We don't want to have people quarantined for 14 days unnecessarily," he said.
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The health officials offered no updated timeline for trials of Covid-19 vaccine candidates, opting instead to continue the message of optimism that a safe and effective vaccine may be available "in a matter of weeks or months," Azar said.

"In the meantime, to bridge to that next phase, we have to take steps that can keep ourselves, our families and our communities safe," Azar said. That includes washing hands, wearing masks and staying physically distant.
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The government's top public health officials warned that the number of Covid-19 cases is rising across a majority of the country in a rare briefing Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency has noted a "distressing trend" in which coronavirus case numbers are "increasing in nearly 75 percent of the country."

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China threatens retaliation after the U.S arms sales to Taiwan

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China threatened on Thursday to retaliate against the latest $1.8 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, as the island welcomed the weapons package but said it was not looking to get into an arms race with Beijing.

The Trump administration has ramped up support for Taiwan through arms sales and visits by senior U.S. officials, adding to tensions between Beijing and Washington, already heightened by disagreements over the South China Sea, Hong Kong the coronavirus and trade.

Beijing has applied increasing pressure on democratically-ruled Taiwan to accept China's sovereignty, including by flying fighter jets across the sensitive mid-line of the Taiwan Strait, which normally serves as an unofficial buffer.

Responding to the U.S. approval of a potential $1.8 billion arms sale to Taiwan, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Thursday during a daily news briefing that such sales should stop.

The sales "seriously damage China's sovereignty and security interests, send a seriously wrong signal to Taiwan independence forces, and severely damage China-U.S. relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," he said.

"China will make a legitimate and necessary response according to how the situation develops," Zhao added.

He did not give details, but China has sanctioned U.S. companies in the past for selling weapons to Taiwan, though it is unclear what form they have taken.

The latest U.S. arms package includes sensors, missiles and artillery, and further congressional notifications are expected for drones and land-based Harpoon anti-ship missiles, to serve as coastal defense cruise missiles.

In Taipei, Taiwan Defense Minister Yen De-fa thanked the United States and said the weapons were to help Taiwan improve their defensive capabilities to deal with the "enemy threat and new situation".

"This shows the importance attached by the United States to security in the Indo Pacific and Taiwan Strait. We will continue to consolidate our security partnership with the United States."
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Yen said Taiwan was not looking for confrontation.

"We will not engage in an arms race with the Chinese Communists. We will put forward requirements and build fully in accordance with the strategic concept of heavy deterrence, defending our position and defensive needs."

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has made defense modernization a priority in the face of a rising Chinese threat.

Washington, which, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with Taipei though it is its strongest global backer, has been pushing Taiwan to modernize its military.

Taiwan has also been testing new surface-to-surface missiles that its media says have the ability to strike deep inside China, potentially giving the island the ability to attack far off Chinese air bases and command centers.

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China threatened on Thursday to retaliate against the latest $1.8 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, as the island welcomed the weapons package but said it was not looking to get into an arms race with Beijing. The Trump administration has ramped up support for Taiwan through arms sales and visits by senior U.S.

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Points for creativity! Patrick Mahomes and his fiancée, Brittany Matthews, learned the sex of their baby in the sweetest way - with help from their dogs.

The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, 25, posted an Instagram video of the reveal on Wednesday, October 21. While their loved ones watched along via Zoom, the couple's pups, Steel and Silver, dipped their paws in pink paint and walked across white paper to confirm the parents-to-be are expecting a girl. The twosome beamed as they stood in front of a large backdrop of pink and blue balloons and a sign that read "Boy or Girl."

A friend then presented Mahomes and Matthews, 25, with a shirt that said "Baby Daddy" and a denim jacket featuring the phrase "Baby Mama," respectively. They immediately changed into their new duds to pose for pictures and excitedly pop cannons of pink confetti.

The NFL star captioned the video, "My [heart]," while the personal trainer wrote of the same montage, "Baby Girl P.s- Yes, my dogs walked down a run way [sic] with pink paws for the reveal."

Mahomes proposed to his high school sweetheart in September. "My heart is so full! I love this man so incredibly much and today was so so special!" she gushed via her Instagram Story at the time. "Couldn't imagine this day being anymore perfect!"

The duo announced their pregnancy news later that month. "Mom & Dad, taking a small detour to the wedding," Matthews captioned Instagram photos of the football player holding her stomach as she showed off a sonogram.

Earlier this month, Mahomes divulged that he and the former professional soccer player slept in separate bedrooms after one of his teammates tested positive for COVID-19. "It's something I think about every day," he told reporters. "You have to think about that with her being pregnant, kind of in that high-risk category."

The Super Bowl champion added that he "stayed away from her as much as possible" when he went home for the weekend. Referring to possibly being exposed to the virus, he noted, "I'm doing my part to keep away from her and social distance whenever stuff like this arises."

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Points for creativity! Patrick Mahomes and his fiancée, Brittany Matthews , learned the sex of their baby in the sweetest way - with help from their dogs. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, 25, posted an Instagram video of the reveal on Wednesday, October 21.

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False news: Spanish pits latino voters against black lives matter

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False news: Spanish pits latino voters against black lives matter

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On family WhatsApp groups and in Spanish-language media, misinformation paints 2020 as a zero-sum game.

Misinformation proliferates first online and is often shared on WhatsApp, which is particularly popular among Latino immigrants. Credit... Maria Alejandra Cardona for The New York Times

MIAMI - Even by the permissive standards of partisan talk radio, the grave warning from the host of a program on a popular Spanish-language station in Miami one afternoon in September was outlandish.

Carinés A. Moncada, the host, claimed that a co-founder of Black Lives Matter practiced "brujería" - witchcraft.

"So you ask yourself, 'Why are they destructive?'" she said, referring to protesters who support the Black Lives Matter movement. "Because they are vibrating with the devil. They are vibrating with negativity. They are vibrating with the dark."

"And whoever votes for Biden, unfortunately, is supporting that," she concluded.

Ms. Moncada appeared to be citing News Punch, a website known to publish conspiracy theories. She posted a link to a story the site published about witchcraft on Twitter. It was based on an interview in which the Black Lives Matter co-founder mentioned invoking the "spirits" of people who have died.

By repeating the racist tropes on the radio, Ms. Moncada spread it beyond her 45,000 Twitter followers and into South Florida's mainstream broadcast media, a worrying circle of misinformation targeting Latino voters in the nation's biggest presidential battleground state.

Some of the wild and baseless claims question the validity of the coronavirus death toll, and question whether Joseph R. Biden Jr. can be president because of his Catholic faith.

But some of the most insidious messages disseminated to Spanish speakers across the country, like the one shared by Ms. Moncada, are intended to pit Latino and Black voters against one another by using racist language - sometimes veiled, sometimes not - to cast those who protest police violence as untrustworthy and dangerous. The efforts aim to draw clear distinctions between Black and Latino voters, though Afro-Latinos make up a sizable part of the population.

Researchers say that the scale and extreme nature of misinformation, after ramping up in every election cycle for the past several years, have spiked this year.

"They feed into real fears, about the pandemic, about socialism and exploiting potential gaps within communities, between the Black community and the Latino community," said Jacobo Licona, who studies misinformation for Equis Labs, a liberal-leaning Latino research group. "There's misinformation from people not even understanding how they are spreading it, that continues to stoke real tension and anxiety right now."

It is difficult, if not impossible, to know how much of an impact the false information is having on voters so far. Some Democratic strategists privately noted that internal polling was not showing that the rumors were effective in flipping would-be supporters of Mr. Biden toward voting for President Trump.

But experts say that much of the disinformation is designed to suppress support for Mr. Biden and is likely to increase in the final weeks of the campaign. If people are bamboozled, or take a pox-on-both-their-houses attitude, they may not bother to vote at all. Many researchers believe that disinformation, particularly in the final days of the campaign, most likely contributed to lower turnout among Black voters during the 2016 election.

And it remains, for now, impossible to know whether the misinformation is coming from foreign influencers and to what extent the distribution of misinformation is coordinated.

But the outright disinformation - the deliberate spreading of falsehoods - is coming almost exclusively from conservatives, researchers say, including from a crop of right-wing Spanish-language websites that are designed to look like nonpartisan news outlets. Liberal activists and experts have struggled to keep up with an accurate response, in part because of language barriers and because so much has been spread in private, closed groups.

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Experts say that much of the disinformation is designed to suppress support for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and is likely to increase in the final weeks of the campaign. Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Last month, the media nonprofit Poynter Institute announced a collective that included the Telemundo and Univision networks to combat misinformation on the messaging platform WhatsApp. A spokesman for WhatsApp said in an email that the platform has taken other steps to "help address the challenge of misinformation - to limit abuse and empower users," including creating new limits on forwarding messages, in order to combat the spread of rumors.

Experts say that while YouTube took steps last week to remove content tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory, much of it remains in Spanish-language videos on the site.

And the private messaging has already seeped out to the public in Florida.

A vote for Mr. Biden, Ms. Moncada said on Actualidad Radio, Miami's most popular AM radio station, according to Nielsen, with a niche among Venezuelan-Americans, means supporting anarchy and violence. "That is what you are voting for," she warned.

Ms. Moncada did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

"This matter was handled internally and there are no further comments," Adib Edén, the president of Actualidad Media Group, said in an email, without elaborating on what internal action was taken.

Many experts fear that the conspiracy theories are more dangerous amid the coronavirus pandemic, when people are searching online for information to keep themselves safe.

On YouTube, for example, a viewer watching horoscope videos can quickly be led to see content on supposed homeopathic medical remedies, which can then morph to conspiracy theories calling the response to the coronavirus overblown.

It is something akin to a slip-and-slide of falsehoods.

Misinformation proliferates first online, then is often shared on WhatsApp, which is particularly popular among Latino immigrants. Then, in Florida, it trickles into the Miami media market's largely unchecked ecosystem of niche Spanish-language newspapers and radio and television stations, whose right-wing hosts and commentators amplify some of the pernicious messages.

Though this is most problematic in Florida, there is evidence of it spreading throughout the country.

Caroline Zepeda, a 30-year-old retail clerk in suburban Phoenix,chiming in on family text chains to offer legitimate facts about the spread of Covid-19 and proper precautions. But sometimes she is dismissed almost immediately.

"It's painful and scary to see people you love and think should know better fall into these traps," she said. "I do what I can: I talk to my mother and think I convince her, but it's like every time I put one rumor out, there's another one the next week or even the next day."

WhatsApp, which uses encrypted messages between groups of fewer than 250 people, is notoriously difficult to track. And because messages are typically shared among people who know one another, the information is often presumed to be fair and accurate.

WhatsApp is exceedingly popular among Latinos with families living both in the United States and Latin America, and experts have seen what they call a relentless deluge of false information being passed from those living outside the United States about American politics - and then back again. Many people are reluctant to leave groups they have long been a part of to join in friendly family gossip and nostalgia.

"In the U.S., there's not a huge WhatsApp penetration, but in certain diaspora communities, there is," said Jacob Gursky, a research associate at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, which has studied disinformation in the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico and has been looking into the messages proliferating in Miami.

South Florida is home to robust diasporas from Venezuela, which has an abundance of sophisticated propaganda on social media, and from Colombia, where deep ties to the U.S. government have prompted Colombian politicians from both the right and the left to be increasingly vocal about supporting Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden. Senator María Fernanda Cabal endorsed Mr. Trump; Senator Gustavo Petro said that if he were an American, he would vote for Mr. Biden. Mr. Trump responded on Twitter by calling Mr. Petro a "major LOSER."

After she noticed disinformation spreading, Evelyn Pérez-Verdía pushed back on the administrator of a WhatsApp group chat for Colombian-Americans. Credit... Maria Alejandra Cardona for The New York Times

Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, a Democratic Latino issues strategist in Weston, Fla., first noticed the proliferation of political misinformation in a WhatsApp group for about 200 Colombian-Americans in 2018. When she pushed back, the group's administrator chided her, Ms. Pérez-Verdía said: "He said, 'Evelyn, you are going outside of the purpose of this chat, which is about Colombians.'"

Ms. Pérez-Verdía said she had a similar experience this year when she objected to someone in another group purportedly about coronavirus information saying that true Catholics cannot be Democrats. She also said she had received videos claiming that Black Lives Matter planned an assault on the White House and that opposing Mr. Trump amounts to supporting the likes of Cuba, the Islamic State and Hezbollah, the "filth of the planet."

"They're using these chats to lie," Ms. Pérez-Verdía said. "It's a massive disinformation campaign. They're definitely using these crazy tactics that they've also used in Latin America."

One example of how conspiracy theories have invaded the mainstream came last month when El Nuevo Herald, The Miami Herald's sister publication in Spanish, admitted that it published a supplement with racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic commentary for more than eight months.

In August, Radio Caracol, a Colombian network based in Miami, aired a paid program from a businessman who spewed racist and anti-Semitic claims about how a Biden win would lead to a dictatorship led by "Jews and Blacks." The network quickly apologized, barred the commentator and allotted time on a popular afternoon program to discuss what went wrong.

Last month, Representatives Joaquin Castro of Texas and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell of Florida, both Democrats, asked the F.B.I. to investigate disinformation targeting Latinos in South Florida, citing the Herald and Caracol incidents and a Politico report on some of the most vile videos circulating on WhatsApp. A second letter sent on Oct. 7 noted that they had not received a response and asked for a briefing by Oct. 14.

They said they had received no response.

Randy Pestana, the director of education and training on cybersecurity at Florida International University, said the aim of recent disinformation campaigns had been to create zero-sum relationships to blur reality so that in the voter's mind, "you're either for the police, or you're for Black Lives Matter."

Much of the misinformation has come from the Trump campaign itself. Social media accounts for Equipo Trump and Latinos for Trump, official campaign operations, have claimed that Latin American socialists are promoting Biden and connected protests to actions in Latin American socialists countries, and that Democrats in the United States are responsible for them. Others have claimed that Democrats are ignoring attacks on Hispanic men.

"I didn't see this in 2016," Mr. Pestana said.

On Actualidad Radio in Miami, Ms. Moncada's Black Lives Matter rant prompted a backlash, including from Christian Ulvert, a prominent local Democratic political consultant who also advises the Biden campaign. He yanked ads for some of his local candidates from the station.

About a week later, Ms. Moncada dedicated part of the program to thanking listeners for keeping it atop the local ratings.

Patricia Mazzei reported from Miami, and Jennifer Medina from Phoenix and Los Angeles. Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.

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False Political News in Spanish Pits Latino Voters Against Black Lives Matter

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On family WhatsApp groups and in Spanish-language media, misinformation paints 2020 as a zero-sum game. MIAMI - Even by the permissive standards of partisan talk radio, the grave warning from the host of a program on a popular Spanish-language station in Miami one afternoon in September was outlandish. Carinés A.

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The Conflict Over Nagorno-Karabakh

As the country's soldiers advance in the conflict with Armenia, every "liberated" territory is celebrated and tens of thousands of refugees plan their return to lost lands.

The funeral of Eldar Aliyev, 26, who died fighting in the war against Armenia, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday. "If the nation calls, he has to go," said his father, Suleyman Eldar Aliyev.

BAKU, Azerbaijan - As dusk fell, the sound of wailing carried on the soft evening breeze. Women filled the courtyard of a small house, keening over a coffin draped in the national flag. Men clustered in hushed groups in the narrow ally outside.

The working-class neighborhood of Ahmedli, in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, was mourning its first martyred son since war broke out anew between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the southern Caucasus three weeks ago. Eldar Aliyev, 26, a manager in one of Azerbaijan 's biggest finance companies and a volunteer soldier, had spent barely two weeks at the front before returning home in a coffin.

Azerbaijan has not released numbers of military casualties, but funerals are underway, bringing the war home to its people. As well as Mr. Aliyev, a colonel of the army was also buried in Baku on Sunday.

"If the nation calls, he has to go," said Mr. Aliyev's father, Suleyman Eldar Aliyev, standing against a wall and leaning on a crutch. His face deeply lined, he had few words. "Long live the nation," he said.

Azerbaijan is in full war mode as it engages in the heaviest fighting since the original conflict with Armenia in the early 1990s over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian district inside Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan suffered a bitter defeat then, losing 20 percent of its territory, with as many as 26,000 dead and around 800,000 displaced.

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The Martyrs' Alley cemetery and memorial in Baku is dedicated to the hundreds killed by the Soviet Army in a crackdown in 1990 and to the 26,000 soldiers and civilians who died in the original Nagorno-Karabakh War.

That's where matters stood for 26 years of a frozen truce, interrupted periodically by spasms of violence that were quickly tamped down by outside powers. But Azerbaijan, an oil-and-gas-rich former Soviet republic, has been quietly rearming for years. When clashes broke out three weeks ago, the country plunged into an all-out war to reclaim the lands it lost.

Around the capital of Baku, signs of war fever are not hard to spot. The country's bright three-colored flag hangs from every public building, while giant screens along the main streets downtown play horrifying video footage of precision drone strikes on Armenian soldiers. Every few days, President Ilham Aliyev, who has ruled the country since inheriting the office from his father in 2003, speaks to the nation and announces the names of villages and towns that have been newly "liberated."

Anar Mamedov, 36, a cousin of the volunteer soldier who was buried in Baku on Sunday, said, "The Azerbaijani Army has shown its power."

"This will continue until we liberate the last piece of our land, and at the end I would like to note that everyone will finally understand Azerbaijan," added Mr. Mamedov, himself a war veteran who lost an arm.

"We were all waiting for this," he said. "We were waiting for Ilham Aliyev to give the order."

Azerbaijan is a tightly controlled society where dissent is quickly quashed. Criticism of the war, where it exists, is muted. Yet the general mood is overwhelmingly supportive. In numerous interviews, Azerbaijanis expressed their frustration that peace efforts led by France, Russia and the United States have never brought a resolution, despite repeated United Nations resolutions in Azerbaijan's favor.

"This is not Aliyev's war," said Zaur Shiriyev, the South Caucasus analyst for the International Crisis Group, in reference to the president. "It is all of the people's war."

Mr. Shiriyev said that many Armenians, and Western officials working in the region, had never fully understood how important the losses of both life and territory were to Azerbaijanis.

An award-winning investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, who was jailed by the Aliyev government for her work in 2015, said that she and other activists were keeping a moratorium on dissent while the war raged. "You keep it down because soldiers are dying there," she said.

But she said she could feel popular anger building in recent months as the Armenian side adopted an increasingly aggressive stance. "I am usually cool about politics," she said, "but Iwas angry."

In a dilapidated, half-built school building in a northern suburb of Baku, more than 1,000 refugees still live in cramped, unsanitary conditions where they first found refuge from the war decades ago. Their rooms are divided by flimsy plywood walls and residents cook and hang washing along a narrow underground corridor.

"Everyone lost hope with the peace discussions," said Ulriya Suleymanova, 34, who lives with an extended family of eight in a damp set of rooms that smelled of the sewers below. "Our president offered peace for years, but nothing changed."

But now she has reason to celebrate. Both her family and that of her husband are refugees from Jabrail, a district near the Iranian border. She pulled out her cellphone and played a video of Azerbaijani soldiers celebrating a day earlier as they raised the national flag at a bridge near her village.

"From 1993, we were called refugees, but now our lands have been liberated, we are no longer refugees," she said. "We have proof. We saw the bridge and the flags in Jabrail. Of course we are very happy when we see these things. I was 7 when we left."

For Ms. Suleymanova, there is no doubt they will return home. In Baku, she works cleaning houses and her husband sells security cameras. But work has dried up with the coronavirus, and they are struggling, she said.

"My grandfather had lands, we had fruit and vegetable farms," she noted wistfully. "It was not like now, this poor life."

Many of the Azerbaijani refugees come from agricultural villages and towns in seven districts, including Jabrail, that surround Nagorno-Karabakh, which was populated mainly by ethnic Armenians and was always the focus of the dispute between the two countries.

The districts now lie largely abandoned except for military defenses. The withdrawal of occupying Armenian troops and the return of the Azerbaijani refugees have long been considered first steps in any negotiated settlement.

The Azerbaijani Army has sought to push back the Armenian troops by force, focusing on three of the southernmost districts, Fizuli, Jabrail and Zengilan, that border Iran. On Tuesday, the president, Mr. Aliyev, announced that troops had secured Zengilan, the third district, though an Armenian government spokesman said that heavy fighting was continuing.

The declared capture of some of their home districts has fired the refugees with excitement but also brought painful emotions flooding back.

"We were crying and smiling at the same time," said Ulker Allahverdiyev, 78, a refugee at the derelict school building who lost her husband and a son in the war. A widow with five children, she worked as a cleaner in a school, but lost two more daughters in the years as a refugee. "I was working day and night," she said. "I was scared of my own shadow."

A teenager lay asleep under covers on the sofa beside her. "Her uncle and her neighbor went to the war and we cannot reach them and we are worried about them, so we are taking care of her," she said.

Her memories from the earlier conflict were crowding in. "It makes it harder," she said. "Our children become martyrs and I am very worried. All of them are my children."

But she said she supported the war. "Of course, I want to see peace. I don't want people to die, but of course it is worth it."

Along an underground passage, another refugee, eager to talk, opened the door to a cramped single room where his wife and two sons have lived for two decades. Ceyhun Seymur Khudiyev is from the city of Agdam, a ghost town today, that remains under Armenian control. But he was fired with confidence.

"I believe that we are going to get our lands back," he said. "Justice is taking its place."

Even refugees who have been able to build businesses and buy property have started plans to return to their homes, said Eldar Hamzali, 26, whose family comes from Fizuli.

He pulled up a page from Google maps to show his family house and land. Although the government has said it has secured much of Fizuli, the village where Mr. Hamzali's family comes from is apparently not yet under Azerbaijani control. Nonetheless, he said his uncles had already decided where each would rebuild their homes. Mr. Hamzali has even been asked to calculate the costs of transporting the remains of relatives who died in exile for reburial in the village, he added.

"The feeling that you are temporarily here never left us," he said of his life growing up in Baku. "I think I could find some peace of mind. Here I'm a guest, but there it's my village. I think I would feel much more secure."

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The Conflict Over Nagorno-Karabakh As the country's soldiers advance in the conflict with Armenia, every "liberated" territory is celebrated and tens of thousands of refugees plan their return to lost lands. BAKU, Azerbaijan - As dusk fell, the sound of wailing carried on the soft evening breeze.

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Cardi B reveals death threats to daughter amid feud with Nicki Minaj

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This is considered conflict because it tells how Cardi B acused Nicki Minaj of leaking her phone number and she goes on and reads the messages shes been getting.

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Cardi B has accused Nicki Minaj of leaking her phone number to the public, which led to death threats against her daughter.

In one of a series of Instagram videos, Cardi B accuses Minaj of the leak following an altercation at a New York fashion week party that left Cardi B with a bruised forehead after she reportedly threw one of her shoes at Minaj. "How come my phone number got leaked one hour after that altercation at the Harper's Bazaar party?" Cardi B says. "How come everybody that y'all have issues with, y'all have the numbers in your camp and they numbers got leaked?"

She goes on to show text messages she received after the number became public, including one that reads: "We coming to find you and your daughter. We ain't resting till we kill Kulture", her daughter with rapper Offset. She describes Minaj as "sick in the head".

Minaj has denied leaking the phone number, saying: "I've never leaked a number in my life and y'all continue to lie on me to make me look like a bad person."

Minaj has since tried to move on from the dispute, tweeting: "Let's focus on positive things only from here on out", with Cardi B agreeing, saying on Instagram: "Alright then! Let's keep it positive and keep it pushing!"

Elsewhere in the Instagram videos, Cardi B moots legal action after Minaj accused her of using payola, the illegal practice of paying radio stations or other outlets to play music. "Maybe I should sue you for defamation of character since you wanna claim that I'm using something called payola, because you don't understand why I'm so fucking successful," Cardi said.

This week, Minaj distanced herself from the fashion week altercation, claiming that Cardi B's injuries from the party came from an attack by reality TV star and friend Rah Ali, who "held her head and punched her like eight to nine times. The punches was so hard in your head, I was like mad at Rah ... but Rah didn't like [Cardi's] attitude, the way she came at me." Ali has not commented on the accusation.

Minaj said the altercation was "something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper-echelon people who have their life together", and on Twitter described Cardi B as a "fraud" who doesn't write her own lyrics - an accusation that Cardi B has not responded to.

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Cardi B has accused Nicki Minaj of leaking her phone number to the public, which led to death threats against her daughter. In one of a series of Instagram videos, Cardi B accuses Minaj of the leak following an altercation at a New York fashion week party that left Cardi B with a bruised forehead after she reportedly threw one of her shoes at Minaj.

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United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War

What was the American Revolution?

How did the American Revolution begin?

What were the major causes of the American Revolution?

Which countries fought on the side of the colonies during the American Revolution?

How was the American Revolution a civil war?

American Revolution, (1775-83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect. Until early in 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France (in 1778) and Spain (in 1779) joined the colonies against Britain. Meanwhile, the Netherlands, which provided both official recognition of the United States and financial support for it, was engaged in its own war against Britain. From the beginning, sea power was vital in determining the course of the war, lending to British strategy a flexibility that helped compensate for the comparatively small numbers of troops sent to America and ultimately enabling the French to help bring about the final British surrender at Yorktown.

Land campaigns to 1778

Americans fought the war on land with essentially two types of organization: the Continental (national) Army and the state militias. The total number of the former provided by quotas from the states throughout the conflict was 231,771 men, and the militias totaled 164,087. At any given time, however, the American forces seldom numbered over 20,000; in 1781 there were only about 29,000 insurgents under arms throughout the country. The war was therefore one fought by small field armies. Militias, poorly disciplined and with elected officers, were summoned for periods usually not exceeding three months. The terms of Continental Army service were only gradually increased from one to three years, and not even bounties and the offer of land kept the army up to strength. Reasons for the difficulty in maintaining an adequate Continental force included the colonists' traditional antipathy toward regular armies, the objections of farmers to being away from their fields, the competition of the states with the Continental Congress to keep men in the militia, and the wretched and uncertain pay in a period of inflation.

By contrast, the British army was a reliable steady force of professionals. Since it numbered only about 42,000, heavy recruiting programs were introduced. Many of the enlisted men were farm boys, as were most of the Americans. Others were unemployed persons from the urban slums. Still others joined the army to escape fines or imprisonment. The great majority became efficient soldiers as a result of sound training and ferocious discipline. The officers were drawn largely from the gentry and the aristocracy and obtained their commissions and promotions by purchase. Though they received no formal training, they were not so dependent on a book knowledge of military tactics as were many of the Americans. British generals, however, tended toward a lack of imagination and initiative, while those who demonstrated such qualities often were rash.

Because troops were few and conscription unknown, the British government, following a traditional policy, purchased about 30,000 troops from various German princes. The Lensgreve (landgrave) of Hesse furnished approximately three-fifths of that total. Few acts by the crown roused so much antagonism in America as that use of foreign mercenaries.

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American Revolution | Causes, Battles, Aftermath, & Facts

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American Revolution (1775-83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and many North American colonists.

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The Spiritual Exercises

The story of a priest who left the Catholic Church for love.

[MUSIC PLAYING] He was Jewish, and she was Roman Catholic, but we were brought up totally Roman Catholic. The whole family went to Mass on Sunday, including my father. But I took to it right from the beginning, and being an altar boy, it just came naturally. I was also always, even as a little boy, interested in art. But I wasn't at all interested in becoming a priest until my last year at Georgetown Prep. And more and more, it became clear to me that I belonged in the Jesuits. Did you foresee the sacrifice that it would involve? Enough to know that it would take sacrifice, but sacrifice had already become a value to me. People make sacrifices all the time for love, and to do it for God was not - it was not extraordinary for me to think that way. What does Bernstein say? (SINGING) "When love comes along, there is no right or wrong. Da, da, da." Voilà. [TRAFFIC NOISE] I, pretty much, was not looking for a partner. I was not sure I even wanted to be married. I always felt like I didn't fit in because why didn't I want the same things that everybody else wanted? I just was different, and I didn't know why I was different except, I think, I really was trying to live a spiritual life. I wasn't sure exactly where I was going, but I was looking for something deeper, richer, with more meaning. [FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL] [CAMERA CLICK] Ten years after I entered the Jesuits, they sent me to Austria to the University of Innsbruck. On the faculty at that time was the leading Catholic theologian, I think, of the 20th century. Karl Rahner was his name. He awakened me from my dogmatic slumber, and I began to see everything in a different light. It had nothing to do with my faith, the deep faith, that I have. But one of the things that was clear as a bell, even then, is that there was no reason not to have a married priesthood. [AIRPLANE NOISE] And when I came back, the American Catholic church seemed to me to be getting more and more conservative, so I immediately felt some change in myself. It's also observed - And this year the Vatican has asked priests to renew their vows of celibacy and the - And our group is going to see that optional celibacy becomes a fact. Because we're here, we're going to stay and fight and change that law. Better to have married priests than no priest at all. Do you remember the first time you met him? I was introduced to him on the grounds of Georgetown University. He was my brother's philosophy teacher. My brother had a great friendship with him and had spoken about him frequently at home about this outstanding mind. [SUBWAY DOORS CLOSING] I studied Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard after I studied theology. And Hegel, he puts art, religion and philosophy above science, even. He defined art - and I remember the day I read this, it still rings in my head as true - art is nature reborn through the free consciousness of the human spirit. So that every artist creates a world. So, after 15 years, I went in to the provincial, and I said, "Since the Jesuits teach philosophy and theology and science and math and everything else, I'd like to teach art, so I'd like to get a degree in art." He gave me permission, and I went to George Washington University. At the end of an M.F.A. program, you have to do a thesis. So I did a series of paintings on "The Spiritual Exercises" of St. Ignatius. [MUSIC PLAYING] I remember walking into that exhibit and just being stunned by what I saw on the walls. And I fell in love with the one of the suffering Christ. Oh, I immediately asked his brother Billy, "Billy, how much is this painting?" I offered to put a down payment and pay it off on time, and he wouldn't let me. I became famous overnight. [MUSIC PLAYING] [CAMERA CLICKING] I went to Fordham and accepted my professorship there, and they took me very seriously as an artist. I looked for a loft, and I found it in a furniture factory. But the very day that I rented that studio, I went down to Fifth Avenue and met my brother Bill. I'm standing there just, you know, waiting for the light to change. My brother Bill said, "Look who's there." I started to smile, and then they had the recognition, they saw me. So we were just in the middle of the street saying, "Oh, what are you doing here?" So I said, "Therese, how are you?" "I'm wonderful, and how's Tony?" We went to the sidewalk, and he told me that he had a loft and that he was going to have services there, and I might like to come some time. We chatted amiably, and I said, "Where are you?" And I said I had just accepted a job at Lincoln Center at the Metropolitan Opera. So I said, "What are you doing at the opera?" She said, "I'm Rudolf Bing's personal assistant." Sir Rudolf Bing was the impresario of the time. Every Monday - it was a ritual - he'd say, "How did you spend your weekend?" And I would always say, "Oh, I went to this extraordinary Mass at Father Netter's." And finally, he said, "Who is this Father Netter?" She called me up. "Why don't you invite him to the opera?" She said, "I've got two tickets at the box for 'La Bohème' this afternoon, can you come?" And I said, "Well, I'm not dressed, but I'll put on a black overcoat and no one will know the difference." [OPERA SINGING] It's a simple love story between a poet and a young woman who embroiders, lives a simple life in a loft, but who also has a terminal disease. [OPERA SINGING] In the beginning, Rodolfo introduces himself, right, and then Mimi says, "You shouldn't be interested in me because I'm nobody." Basically, what she says, you know, I just embroider things. And he says - I'm getting emotional - "That's not why I love you, because what you do," or something, "it's who you are." So it's very beautiful. [OPERA SINGING] The music etches this story of devotion and a deepening love between two people that are ultimately going to face tragedy. In any case, I ... took Therese's hand. He took my hand, and I thought, hmm. But it wasn't putting a move on her, or anything. It was a felt appreciation of the beauty of this art. Did you have any romantic feelings at that moment? No, I think I had fear. I had fear. What is this about? Yeah. Fear because he was a Jesuit priest? Of course, of course. He was a priest and he was Father Netter to me. I knew I felt something for her right then, but it was more like friendship, or something, than romance. But I felt something, yes. Did you say anything to each other afterwards? No, neither, nothing. I went home, she went home. I guess it was an odd opera to invite him to, but there it is. (LAUGHS) [MUSIC PLAYING] Jesuits live in the world but not of it, so I wasn't a monk, and I was a professor at Fordham. I had other women that were also interested in me, many of them, as a matter of fact. But I wasn't interested in them, you know, I didn't - I wasn't breaking my vow. One of them, she bought two paintings and tried to buy me with them. And I got very angry at her. I mean, I was yelling at her. I kicked her out. When I was yelling at her, I kept thinking of Therese because Therese has a very, very quiet voice. He called me, and he sounded terribly upset. And it gave me peace from the beginning whenever I was in her presence. And he said, "I really need to talk to you. Do you think you could meet me?" We went to a little bar near my loft called Joey Archer's Bar. She understood why it upset me so much. I guess I was upset with myself. He did most of the talking because he was really upset. And she was so sympathetic, so - And then, he blurted it out. It just came out. I said, "You know, Therese, I think I'm falling in love with you." That kind of broke this spell of tragedy because I started to laugh. And she said, "That's funny. I called my mother today, and I said, 'I'm not going to see Father Netter anymore. I think I'm falling in love with him.'" He said, "Well, what are we going to do about it?" I said, "There's absolutely nothing we can do about it except to acknowledge that we have been given this wonderful moment of grace and love, and I think we just have to accept it and offer it up." So you both accepted the fact - We did. - that you wouldn't see each other again. Yes, we did. The next day, I came home from work. When I opened the door to my apartment, he had hung the painting that I had wanted to buy in the apartment, and he gave me a note that asked me to remember him. That was it. That was it. After the school year was over, I went out to East Hampton, and I went on retreat myself. [MUSIC PLAYING] The last meditation in "The Spiritual Exercises" of St. Ignatius is "the Contemplation for Obtaining Love." St. Ignatius said, when you make the right decision you feel something he calls consolation. I made a decision, and I felt peaceful. I called her up and asked her if she'd meet me at a place called the Swordfish. We sat down, we had a drink. And he told me he was going to be leaving the Jesuits. I am in love with you, and love is from God. He hoped that priests would be allowed to marry eventually in the Catholic church, and he wanted to know if I would marry him and share that journey with him. I became very emotional with joy, and said, "Oh, that's a wonderful idea, and yes, of course. I would love to walk that journey with you." Yes, I said yes. All the Jesuits were happy for me - not one was unhappy - and delighted that I'd chosen her. [MUSIC PLAYING] If you talk to the next 10 Jesuits you meet and ask them, or the next 100, or the General, do they think priests should be allowed to marry, they'll all tell you yes. On Sunday, Pope Paul VI tried flatly and finally to end all discussion among the clergy of abolishing the church rule on celibacy. He said, absolutely the rule would not be changed, and that there should not be any more talk about it. Our case is on record in Rome. They use this word, which I think say so much. They "reduced" me to the state of the laity, which kind of says, well, from a high state to a low state, which says what they think about laity. When we didn't get the permission that we were hoping to receive from Rome, when it ultimately was received, it was conditional. So in order for us to be married within the Catholic church, which is what we had said we wanted and that we wanted to work with the church, not against it, he had to resign from Fordham, which was a very sad day. And then these are just pictures from our other four months. This is really just a scrapbook of memories. There was a lot more pain than I foresaw. But did some of the reaction hurt? Oh, yes. Oh, yes, of course, yeah. Very much so. But here we are 50 years later. We lost our first son; he was stillborn. And then, the second major tragedy, of course, was that our second son was born and died. There were some people who thought that that was God's way of telling us that we were evil people. This is me, that's Terence. That's the baby. There's Pop Netter and Terence and Dylan. And Dylan is our third son. One of the things that keeps people together is to love somebody as other, not as an extension of yourself. It's a beautiful show. It's a beautiful show. [LAUGHTER] I just finished it yesterday. Oh, did you? [MUSIC PLAYING] What did you think, Therese? I just said, I thought it was beautiful. Has it met your expectations? Oh, marriage? Holy smokes! (LAUGHS) It's given me what I was looking for. It's given me a true sense of meaning, and that's what I was looking for, a meaningful life. [MUSIC PLAYING] I think for all great love stories, no one can predict them. They're all improbable, when you meet the right person or you don't. [MUSIC PLAYING]

The story of a priest who left the Catholic Church for love. Credit Credit... Lloyd Kramer and Scott Chestnut

Terence Netter and Therese Franzese fell in love in New York City in the 1960s. She was an assistant to Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. He was an accomplished painter and Jesuit priest. They sought to marry and dreamed the Catholic Church would embrace a married priesthood.

There was reason for them to be hopeful. At the time there was a robust dialogue happening around optional celibacy for priests. And so they were deeply disappointed when in 1967, Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the rule of celibacy for priesthood. Netter left the ministry, and the couple built a life together. In the short documentary above, we see their love story unfold as they grew their faith in each other and in God.

Lloyd Kramer is a Directors Guild of America-nominated filmmaker. Scott Chestnut is a filmmaker, editor and cinematographer.
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Op-Docs They wanted to marry. But he'd taken a vow of celibacy. Terence Netter and Therese Franzese fell in love in New York City in the 1960s. She was an assistant to Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. He was an accomplished painter and Jesuit priest.

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The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is offering a reward to anyone who help police locate its missing lemur.

Tips and any other information provided to the San Francisco Police Department that lead to the safe recovery of the zoo's 21-year-old lemur, Maki, will be rewarded $2,100 - which is an amount that was purposely picked to represent $100 for every year Maki has been alive.
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The SFPD can be contacted through its 24 Hour Tip Line at 415-575-4444 or through its "Text a Tip" system at TIP411. All text messages should start with SFPD before writing specific details.

"We are extremely concerned about Maki's welfare," said Tanya M. Peterson, the CEO and executive director at the San Francisco Zoological Society, in a press release.

"After a thorough investigation yesterday by SFPD, we feel a reward will hopefully help to generate some leads, as this is a precious life at stake," she added regarding the zoo's choice to issue a reward.
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Maki, a male ring-tailed lemur, was discovered missing on Wednesday morning. Local police reportedly arrived at the scene at around 9:40 a.m. and have deduced that Maki was taken from his animal enclosure on Tuesday night.

The lemur was kept in the zoo's Lipman Family Lemur Forest and the SFPD found signs of forced entry, according to a statement issued, the same day zoo officials found out Maki was missing. An investigation is underway to locate the mammal.
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Maki's age and status as a "highly endangered" species is a large cause of concern for the San Francisco Zoo.

In its latest press release, Maki was described as "an older animal that requires special care."
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The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is offering a reward to anyone who help police locate its missing lemur. Tips and any other information provided to the San Francisco Police Department that lead to the safe recovery of the zoo's 21-year-old lemur, Maki, will be rewarded $2,100 - which is an amount that was purposely picked to represent $100 for every year Maki has been alive.