Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.

The first family to quit Pastor Clark Frailey’s church during the pandemic did it by text message. It felt to Frailey like a heartbreaking and incomplete way to end a years-long relationship. When a second young couple said they were doubting his leadership a week later, Frailey decided to risk seeing them in person, despite…
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/26/1007611/how-qanon-is-targeting-evangelicals/?source=Snapzu

Cops admit vandalizing cars of man who filed complaint against them, prosecutor says

Two Asbury Park police officers admitted Tuesday that they vandalized a pair of cars last year belonging to a man who filed an internal affairs complaint against them, authorities said. Asbury Park Police Officer Stephen Martinsen, 31, and former SLEO-2 Thomas Dowling, 27, both of Asbury Park, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and as part of their plea deals they must forfeit any future public employment in the state, according to a statement from Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.
Read more: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2020/08/cops-admit-vandalizing-cars-of-man-who-filed-complaint-against-them-prosecutor-says.html?source=Snapzu

Julian Assange in 'a lot of pain', says partner after prison visit

Julian Assange’s partner has said he is in " a lot of pain" as she visited him in prison for the first time in almost six months.  Stella Moris took the couple's two children to meet their father, who is being held at Belmarsh Prison in south-east London.  The WikiLeaks founder is awaiting an extradition hearing on behalf of the US government.  Ms Moris said that Assange looked much thinner than last time she saw him.
Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/julian-assange-prison-medical-condition-partner-a4532866.html?source=Snapzu

Africa to be declared free of polio

Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. Resigns As Liberty University President

The move by the political evangelical leader and Trump loyalist comes after reports about his sex life led him to take a leave of absence from the school.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jerry-falwell-resigns-liberty-university-president_n_5f442845c5b66a80ee1696b4?source=Snapzu

The pandemic’s indirect hit on the Caribbean

The region has been spared the worst ravages of covid-19. That has not protected its economies
Read more: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/08/22/the-pandemics-indirect-hit-on-the-caribbean?source=Snapzu

So much tear gas has been sprayed on Portland protesters that officials fear it's polluted the water

Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/08/24/so-much-tear-gas-has-been-sprayed-on-portland-protesters-that-officials-fear-its-polluted-the-water/?source=Snapzu