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CNN Fails To Report Attack On GOP Candidate — Five Days Ago

Matthew McDonald

According to the Daily Caller, CNN has yet to issue a single report about the accosting and attempted stabbing of a California Republican congressional candidate five days ago. As of Friday morning, a search of the CNN web site produced no mention of the incident. The Sunday, September 9 attack on California's 15th Congressional District GOP candidate Rudy Peters occurred while Peters was working an election booth at the Castro Valley Fall Festival in Castro Valley, California.

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Long-Closed Catholic Orphanage in Vermont To Be Investigated by Authorities

Matthew McDonald

Civil authorities in Vermont are forming  an investigative task force that will look into allegations of "physical, mental and sexual abuse and even murder" at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, according to the Associated Press.The orphanage closed in 1974. 

The report notes that Bishop Christopher Coyne of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington said the diocese will cooperate with the investigation. The diocese consists of the entire state of Vermont.

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