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A Roman Catholic priest with links to Texas and Louisiana who is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing his position of authority within the church to pursue sex with vulnerable women fathered at least two children with victims of his behavior, authorities have alleged.

The stunning information about Anthony Odiong surfaced at a bail hearing on Tuesday in Waco, Texas, where prosecutors have charged him with several counts of sexually assaulting women to whom he ministered.

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is the latest company to make changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives under pressure from a conservative activist.

The retail giant said it would not renew a racial equity center it created following the 2020 murder of George Floyd and it would no longer participate in an annual benchmark index from LGBTQ+ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign.

Robby Starbuck said he warned Walmart last week he was working on a report about “wokeness.” According to Starbuck, the company then engaged in “productive conversations” to make changes.

"Removing wokeness from Walmart has both downstream effects on suppliers and it sets the tone for corporate America," Starbuck told USA TODAY. "Changing the normal operating policy at a nearly $1 trillion company is a gargantuan feat that many have tried to achieve but no one until now has actually been able to get done.”

TVNL Comment:  They've just  lost me as a customer.  It won't hurt Walmart, but it will make me feeo better.

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Pepsi workers in Chicago are out of a job after the company announced the immediate closure of the only plant left in the city on Monday.

All Pepsi employees, including 55-year-old Daryl Smith, were informed of the closure at about 5:45 a.m. ET around the same time that Teamsters Local 727 received written notice from Pepsi attorneys. Smith noticed a "high presence of security" on site, but didn't think much of it until he was called back into work at a quarter to six.

"As I walked through the door, I asked them 'What's going on? Are they about to shut the plant down?' And she put her head down," Smith told USA TODAY on Monday. "They said ... it's an old plant. It has a lot of work that needs to be done to it, and they weren't going to put any more money into it. And as of today, the plant was shut down."

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Another random knife attack on a tourist in less than a week. The latest one happened Saturday morning on bustling Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

According to authorities, the victim received medical attention on location by EMS. The woman who allegedly cut him fled right after.

As we get closer to the Thanksgiving Holiday, Madison Avenue in Midtown gets busier and busier with visitors from all over the world.

Police are looking for a woman who allegedly slashed in the right hand a 42-year-old tourist from Italy in what they say, was a random attack.

“New York City is a big city there are a lot of tourists and expect to be safe for the police to manage,” said Cosmin who is visiting from Romania.

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Clear signals President-elect Donald Trump plans to make good on his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants in his second term has sparked concerns among some in Texas' business and economic sectors who say mass deportations could upend some of the state's major industries that rely on undocumented labor, chief among them the booming construction industry.

"It would devastate our industry, we wouldn't finish our highways, we wouldn't finish our schools," said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. "Housing would disappear. I think they'd lose half their labor."

Talk of a mass round up comes as Texas is booming. Texas cities regularly appear on lists of the country's fastest growing communities, and construction cranes and workers donning safety vests are common sites in most major cities.

That Texas relies on undocumented labor is one of the state's open secrets, despite Republicans' tough-on-immigration stances.

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A small group of neo-Nazis carrying swastika flags marched near Downtown Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday shouting antisemitic and racist slurs. Local police were called after one of the group reportedly fired mace or pepper spray at a passerby.

• The small parade was just the latest display by a neo-Nazi group in recent months. Other such events have happened in Florida and at an all-age drag show in Ohio.

• "The vile display of hate by a small band of masked neo-Nazis in the Short North is another sad example of the bigotry that we have witnessed across the country," American Jewish Committee regional director Lee C. Shapiro said in a statement.

• "AJC is grateful to the Columbus police for acting to quell this unauthorized march

• The White House also condemned the march, calling it a “sickening display.”