Beyoncé's Levi's jeans ad pulled into Sydney Sweeney backlash

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Beyoncé's Levi's jeans ad pulled into Sydney Sweeney backlash Caché McClay, USA TODAY NETWORK August 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM A Beyoncé ad for Levi's jeans is being compared to Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle campaign, but other social media users argue the two are far from similar.

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Caché McClay, USA TODAY NETWORK August 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM

A Beyoncé ad for Levi's jeans is being compared to Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle campaign, but other social media users argue the two are far from similar.

"Euphoria" star Sweeney is facing backlash as the face of American Eagle's newest campaign. The denim ad and its tagline "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" drew sharp criticism online with some users accusing the brand of promoting eugenics.

In a campaign video, Sweeney lies in a full denim ensemble as she leans into wordplay: "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans are blue." The camera then shows Sweeney's blue eyes before a message reads, "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans."

Sydney Sweeney joins forces with American Eagle for its Fall 2025 campaign.

The criticism wasn't about the denim itself, but the language used. Social media users argued the phrase "great genes" paired with a blond-haired, blue-eyed star echoed eugenic ideas — the discredited belief in improving humanity through selective breeding. Some also argued it contributed to the glorification of whiteness.

Sydney Sweeney x American Eagle, oh my god. pic.twitter.com/tDkeGT9R7G

— Sydney Sweeney Daily (@sweeneydailyx) July 24, 2025

Eventually, Beyoncé's recent Levi's campaign, where she poses in a similar position in a denim-on-demin outfit with blond hair, was dragged into the discourse.

So Beyoncé can pose in Levi jeans and it's art…But when a white woman does it, it's a national crisis? pic.twitter.com/aWu3h6nrL8

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) July 29, 2025

One user wrote, "So Beyoncé can pose in Levi jeans and it's art… But when a white woman does it, it's a national crisis?" as she shared a photo of the two ads side-by-side. However, many were quick to point out the differences between the two.

Just going to leave this pic from Beyoncé Levi's campaign right here for those saying Sydney Sweeney with her blond hair/denim/sultry look is racist… pic.twitter.com/ZyeMF6ouCI

— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) July 30, 2025

Another said, "Just going to leave this pic form Beyoncé Levi's campaign right here for those saying Sydney Sweeney with her blond hair/denim/sultry look is racist..." A user responded, "No one said that, what was said though was that the ad's inference that blonde hair and blue eyes are superior."

The Grammy-winning singer announced her collaboration with Levi's last fall. She has since released multiple campaigns with the denim powerhouse. But she has never alluded to genes or genetics, focusing solely on the quality and design of the jeans themselves.

One social media user, @dukepege, takes this notion a step deeper: "At what point will it be fully understood that proclaiming or implying 'my genes (jeans) are better' is frightening to any race who's ancestors for long generations have had to suffer at the hands of the very same race of people with the same kind of thinking — that their genes are superior?"

He added, "No, such statements are not benign; they are echoes of a violent and dehumanizing history and the fact that you involve Beyoncé explains very well how you're still unable to comprehend what's being felt."

The conversation comes after Beyoncé was baselessly pulled into another controversy when President Donald Trump accused her of being paid $11 million to endorse Kamala Harris' presidential bid — a payment the the Federal Election Commission has no record of.

The Grammy-winning singer concluded her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour in Las Vegas on July 26. The 32-stop stadium tour became the highest grossing country tour, earning over $400 million.

Follow Caché McClay, the USA TODAY Network's Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @cachemcclay.

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Paris Jackson and Fiancé Justin Long End Engagement as Star Says She Cried 'Breakup Tears'

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Paris Jackson and Fiancé Justin Long End Engagement as Star Says She Cried 'Breakup Tears' Rachel DeSantis, Elizabeth LeonardAugust 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM Rob Kim/Getty Justin Long and Paris Jackson attend the "One Spoon Of Chocolate" premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Theater on June 08,...

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Justin Long and Paris Jackson attend the "One Spoon Of Chocolate" premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Theater on June 08, 2025, in New York City.

Paris Jackson and her fiancé Justin Long have ended their engagement

She shared the news in a post shared to X on July 31, writing she'd been crying "breakup tears"

The former couple announced their engagement in December

Paris Jackson and her fiancé Justin Long have called it quits.

The singer-songwriter, 27, and her music producer beau have broken off their engagement, PEOPLE confirms.

Jackson shared the split news in a post shared to X on Thursday, July 31, in which she said that she was crying "breakup tears" in emotional photos published by the Daily Mail earlier this month.

The "Hit Your Knees" singer — who has spent the summer on tour with Incubus — announced her engagement to Long in December, writing in an Instagram post that she "couldn't dream of anyone more perfect" for her.

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Paris Jackson and Justin Long seen on Lower East Side on June 08, 2025 in New York City.

"Doing life with you these last years has been an indescribable whirlwind," she wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. "Thank you for letting me be yours. I love you."

In June, Jackson told Access Hollywood that she was in wedding planning mode.

"The dress is being made, the venue has been picked and the date has been picked by an astrologer, because I'm from L.A.," she said. "I'm all about the crystals and the astrologer, and all that stuff."

That same month, Long joined her on the red carpet for the Tribeca Festival premiere of her film One Spoon of Chocolate.

Jackson, the daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, previously spoke about marriage in a 2021 episode of Red Table Talk.

"I'm not against marriage and if I love someone, sure, but right now my main thing is my spirituality and my music," she told Willow Smith, adding that it's a "maybe" when it comes to having children in the future.

She also revealed on the Unfiltered: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn Facebook Watch series that she's "dated more women than men" in her life.

"I thought I'd end up marrying a chick," she said. "I say I'm gay because I guess I am, but I wouldn't consider myself bisexual because I've dated more than just men and women, I've dated a man that had a vagina… It has nothing to do with what's in your pants, it's literally like, what are you like as a person?"

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Jackson, who celebrated five years of sobriety from alcohol and heroin addiction in January, released her debut album Wilted in 2020. She's since released a number of EPs and singles.

On July 18, she celebrated her time on the road with Incubus, writing on Instagram, "It's been a hell of a summer so far."

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50 Smart And Hilarious Lies Parents Tell Their Kids

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50 Smart And Hilarious Lies Parents Tell Their Kids Shelly FourerJuly 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM Santa, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny are just a few of the lies parents tell their kids.

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Santa, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny are just a few of the lies parents tell their kids. They're innocent, and sometimes a little white lie can save the day when a child refuses to eat anything but plain pasta or thinks that putting on a hat is the most offensive thing in the world. Parents can get really creative if it means that they have to defuse fewer tantrums, and the examples you'll find below are perfect proof of that. Scroll down to find some of the funniest and biggest lies parents have told their kids, and don't forget to upvote those you might be using next time your little one tries to test you.

#1

When new teeth grow in, I told her that they create new tastes. Now she tries to figure out which new foods she will like every time a new tooth comes in.

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#2

She's older now, and knows that it's a lie, but I used to change the name of foods. She didn't like tomato soup, but loved ketchup soup. She wouldn't try lasagna, but spaghetti cake is her fave food lol

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#3

Raised my kids to know that parents have to send Santa money for toys/presents. That's why some kids get a lot and some don't. At 17 and 13, they never brag about gifts until they know what everyone else recieved.

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#4

When their tablets need updating I have to mail it directly to Amazon and we have no clue how long it will take days,weeks or months. In reality they are in my closet and I just want them outside catching toads and bugs. 🤣🤣🤣

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#5

Our sons didn't eat cooked onions ( in casserole, etc l.). " It's not onion. It's Japanese Clearfruit." They cleaned their plates.

#6

That if we saw the moon - it would follow us home to make sure we made it safely. My daughter believed this until like middle school and still talks about it

#7

My mom told me that coffee stunted your growth. One day, working as a dental assistant at 20, my patient goes "what's your fav coffee place around here" I respond with "oh I don't drink coffee, my mom said it stunts your growth" right then my mom walks into the room (she was also an assistant and friends with the patient) so the patient looks at her and goes "do you wanna tell her or should I?" 😭😭😭

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#8

My step son is an extremely picky eater but very much a foodie. He loves watching cooking shows and Gordon Ramsay. So now every time I try a new recipe, I tell him it's Gordon Ramsay recipe (even if it's not)😂😂 falls for it every time! Now he will eat just about anything😂

#9

We told our daughter she couldn't go to Disney World unless she learned how to go potty in the toilet. We told her Mickey doesn't allow diapers.

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#10

For every bite of vegetables at dinner, they could stay up 5 minutes later. But, they didn't know how to tell time.

#11

My mom used to tell me that the AC in the car only worked when I was quiet.🙃

#12

We live on a lake and all our granddaughters know the lake doesn't open until 9am. LOL

#13

I told my daughter that whenever a kid lies to their parents they eyes glow… now if she's lying she squints at me!

#14

Told my daughter I could open the car trunk with my eyes. As we would walk to the car I would squint while pushing the button in my pocket 😂

#15

I told my kiddos to brush good the tooth fairy is like a jeweler the whiter the tooth the more $ it's worth…

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#16

Cows know when rain is coming. so when you see them all laying down in a field it means it's about to rain and they want to keep their spot dry (source: my dad)

#17

I have a gold tooth because I was a pirate before I was a firefighter. Gold teeth is how we tell each other apart offer retiring from piracy.

#18

All the candy at the front at checkouts is expired. That's why it's up front

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#19

You don't just go to Chuck E. Cheese. You have to be invited 🥴😂

#20

Some of these are straight savage 😂Once forgot to play the tooth fairy, told the kids that the tooth fairy had to wait until the bank opened to get cash out.

#21

They think the car doesn't start unless their seatbelt is fastened. Facts.

#22

My mom told me McDonalds was a farm!

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#23

When my son was little I told him he couldn't wake me up until the "9s" on the clock, but I set his clock back an hour so it was actually 10. 🫣

#24

My younger brother thought that North Carolina was the windshield capitol of the world until he was in college because one time we were driving through the state during a really bad storm and he was a super nervous kid so my dad had to reassure him that we were safe because we were in the windshield capitol of the world.

#25

When the ice cream truck plays music, it means they're empty.

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#26

We're in a semi-rural areas so there are multiple wild rabbits around the house. I told my son they're all easter bunny spies who report back daily, all year.

#27

The word "Vegetarian" comes from an old Indian word, meaning "Bad Hunter" 💯

#28

I've got so many but my fave is telling them that Santa's elves went on a union strike due to unfair wages and hours so Santa has to ask parents to help wrap gifts

#29

Dead animals on the side of the road/shoulder were "taking naps."

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#30

I told my kids they didn't like soda, and every time they wanted to try it, I gave them club soda. They are now teens and both hate soda :)

#31

Before my kids could read they thought every fortune cookie at Chinese restaurants said, "listen to your mommy and daddy" One day when my daughter was about 10 she asked how come they never say that anymore 🤣

#32

When my oldest has terrible growing pains in her knees we put lotion on them telling her it was easing the pain. She bought it and went back to sleep. #placebo

#33

I told my daughter when she lies only I can see a red dot on her forehead. If she tells me something I think is a lie I'll look from her eyes to her forehead and she says the dot is there isn't it. She's 9 😂😂

#34

I told them I was allowed to sing in the car because I was one of the founding members of KidzBop 😂😂😂

#35

My daughter decided to clean her fishy tank and refilled the water boiling hot and cooked the poor fish. We told her he had a heart attack from old age I think she bought it. 🤣 RIP Potato chip

#36

You can only have so much stuff. if you get a new stuffy, you have to donate an old one or there will be a kid who doesn't have one at all. usually ends up choosing not to try and convince me to buy another stuffed animal

#37

Salmon is pink chicken

#38

I told my kid she'd been vaccinated against mesothelioma when she was freaking out about it.

#39

When my son was small he always wanted to go to Walmart. I changed my cousins name in my phone to Walmart and told him to say we're closed today. 😂😂

#40

McDonald's is closed. The cars you see in the parking lot are all broken down and abandoned.

#41

Every single car accident we passed was bc the kids were fighting in the back seat

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#42

If I replay a song more than twice, Spotify will kick me out 😂

#43

Gremlins live in the trees around our house and they get their strength from bad manners. If they get strong enough they come into your room and eat your favorite toys. Saying please, thank you, and being polite hurts their ears and keeps them away.

#44

I tell them I'm 27

#45

Told my kid I was the original green power ranger. Google home told him it was Tommy Oliver. Cover blown.

#46

My son thinks his name is Wilson. it's just Will. he's 13

#47

Any time they want something from the store I say "ok just put it on the list". The list doesn't exist

#48

Before I could read my mom would tell me every sign in a store said "all children must have their hands behind their backs"

#49

Blippi is on vacation (can't watch it today!) and before a Disney cruise we said we needed to call in to report if our child ate their vegetables that day because he couldn't go if he didn't properly eat every night and we would do a fake call

#50

My son used my credit card to buy stuff on Fortnite when he was 9. Called a cop friend to come scare the shit out of him. My son is 16–he still thinks we called the cops on him and they just happened to send our friend.

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Grandma Took 16 Grandkids on One-on-One Trips, Now the Adults Are Taking Her to Hawaii

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Grandma Took 16 Grandkids on OneonOne Trips, Now the Adults Are Taking Her to Hawaii Colson ThayerJuly 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM Britney Lindgren/Tiktok; Courtesy of Britney Lindgren L: Family vacation to Hawaii; R: Grandma Noreen Over 24 years, grandma Noreen took all 16 of her grandkids on oneonone tri...

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L: Family vacation to Hawaii; R: Grandma Noreen

Over 24 years, grandma Noreen took all 16 of her grandkids on one-on-one trips

In 2024, the adults surprised her with a trip to Hawaii — Noreen's first visit to the islands

Noreen's oldest grandchild, Britney, shared the experience on TikTok where viewers found happiness in the family's story

Noreen is a grandparent unlike any other — she took all her grandkids on one-on-one trips when they were just out of middle school.

Grandma Noreen, who prefers to be identified without a last name for privacy, had a lot of plans for retirement with her husband. However, he suddenly died in 1996, leaving Noreen "at a loss." But four years later, she asked the parents of her oldest grandchild to take her on a trip. From there, a new tradition for the family was born.

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L-R: Erik, Britney, Katie, Lyz, Grandma Noreen, Anna, Scott, Tristan, Bill

"It was always their choice, with maybe a tiny bit of help from grandma," the 87-year-old tells PEOPLE. "It took 24 years to do 16 grandchildren and I finished last year."

Britney Lindgren, the oldest grandchild who is now 39, chose New York for her trip in 2000. Others opted for East Coast destinations like San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego. There were even a couple Midwest road trips, leaving their home state of Illinois to tour Iowa, Nebraska and Lake Michigan.

"I don't know where it came from to be honest," Noreen says of her love of traveling. "I enjoyed every trip, every single trip and I did not lose a grandchild."

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Grandma Noreen on Royal-Moana Beach

She adds: "I've always been close to my grandchildren. But doing one-on-ones is wonderful… And you have to remember they were 14-year-old grandchildren."

In 2024, Noreen took her youngest grandchild to San Diego, marking an end to the tradition. But it got the kids thinking. Noreen always wanted to go to Hawaii, but never had the opportunity to do so."I hate to hear my grandma say she's never done something and she wants to do something," Katie Spyniewski, 27, says. "So then the wheels started turning and I talked to my cousins and my parents and I was like, 'What if we took grandma? Do you think we could make it happen?'"

So the grandkids split the duties to make this dream a reality. On Christmas day 2024, the kids presented Noreen with a Hawaiian lei and a card, explaining their trip for next year.

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L-R: Anna, Lyz, Grandma, Scott, Tristan, Britney, Erik, Katie and Bill in front of a tank on Schofield Barracks, their grandpa was a tank commander.

"There was much crying and sighing," Noreen remembers. "In fact, I didn't even tell some of my friends right away because I couldn't even believe it myself."

"It sounds a little weird, but then when I let loose, I let everybody know I was going to Hawaii and who was taking me," she adds.

In July 2025, Noreen and eight of her grandkids flew to Hawaii for a one-of-a-kind vacation. The family enjoyed gorgeous sandy beaches, a lei making class at the hotel, a visit to where Jurassic Park was filmed and a stop at Schofield Barracks — where their grandpa was stationed during the Korean War in the 1950s. And of course, the family opted to tour the island in a large travel van, big enough to fit the entire crew.

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L-R: Tristan, Scott, Katie, Anna, Grandma, Lyz, Erik, Bill, Britney with their travel van for the week, outside of Kualoa Ranch

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"Traveling with a big group was wonderful because I was never, ever, ever alone," Noreen says. "The kids took care of absolutely everything, whether it was a drink or a full dinner or the hotel, everything was taken care of by them."

As a way to remember the trip, Lindgren asked her family if she could film some TikToks along the way. To some of her cousin's embarrassment, they reluctantly participated. But, the trip and the family's story went viral.

"[Seven] million people have seen the two videos, which is hard to comprehend," Britney tells PEOPLE. "That is incredibly overwhelming in a great way because it's 99.9% positive feedback."

The first video, posted on July 23, shows the family jumping over a phone in the airport and landing their feet on a Hawaiian beach. The second video captures the moment a flight attendant gave a shoutout to Noreen, explaining her story to the entire cabin — to which fellow passengers celebrated with applause.

"She didn't just build a life, she built a legacy. Enjoy your vacation, grandma Noreen," one comment with over 27,000 likes says.Another viewer wrote: "Now she's OUR grandma."

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"It just made me feel good that there's so many good people in the world," Noreen says of the response to the videos. "So to know that people are happy and it made them happy and maybe gave them a good thought, I don't know how to express it, but it gives me a feeling that there's a lot of good people in the world."As for the family tradition, the kids plan to continue it on with the next generation.

"Making memories and keeping your connections with the people you love is far more important than any single thing you could ever own," Lindgren says.

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Survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru visits pope's hometown to call for more reforms

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Survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru visits pope's hometown to call for more reforms SOPHIA TAREEN July 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM FILE A crucifix is silhouetted against a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans, Dec. 1, 2012.

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SOPHIA TAREEN July 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM

FILE - A crucifix is silhouetted against a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans, Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ()

CHICAGO (AP) — A Peruvian survivor of clergy sex abuse brought her public campaign for reforms to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, saying he failed in investigating her case when he was a bishop in her home country and needs to step up now as leader of the world's Catholics.

"I've been quiet since the pope has been elected," Ana María Quispe Díaz said in Spanish at a news conference in downtown Chicago. "But I'm not planning to be quiet forever."

She appeared with members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The advocacy group sent a letter to the pope on Thursday renewing demands for more accountability on clergy sex abuse complaints and released documents related to Díaz's case.

The doesn't name people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they consent to being identified or decide to tell their stories publicly, as Díaz has. She began speaking out on social media in 2023, and has faced threats and harassment in Peru because of it, SNAP officials said.

Ahead of Leo's May election, SNAP filed a formal complaint against then-Cardinal Robert Prevost with the Vatican secretary of state, alleging he abused ecclesiastical power in his handling of two cases.

Díaz said she is a victim in one of those cases which overlapped with Prevost's tenure as bishop of Chiclayo, Peru. According to the complaint filed in March by SNAP, Prevost's diocese didn't fully investigate in April 2022 when three women accused priests Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles and Ricardo Yesquén of sexually abusing them as minors.

Díaz said Thursday that she had spoken briefly with Prevost on the phone in 2020, telling him how she was abused by Vásquez Gonzáles, but wasn't given assurances that much could be done. All three women spoke with Prevost in person in 2022 about both priests, according to Díaz.

"How much more damage can he do now that he is the pope?" she asked, speaking through a translator.

Following a protocol set by Pope Francis

But Prevost did everything he was supposed to do, according to the Chiclayo diocese and Vatican, including restricting the priest's ministry, sending a preliminary investigation to the Vatican's sex crimes office, offering the victims psychological help and suggesting they go to authorities, who archived the case because it happened too long ago.

Pope Francis had a mixed record on responding to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, bungling a major case in Chile in 2018 before reversing course, ordering an investigation and apologizing to the victims. Ultimately, it became a turning point for how he directed the church to handle cases of priests sexually abusing children for the rest of his papacy.

In these cases, the Vatican investigation found Prevost acted correctly in imposing preliminary restrictions on Vásquez Gonzáles while Peruvian authorities conducted their own civil investigation. The Vatican office archived the case for lack of evidence, then reopened it in 2023 after it gained traction in the media.

Victims' groups are demanding an accounting from Leo. Meanwhile, his supporters say the Chiclayo case is being exploited by his opponents to undermine him after he made enemies by helping shut down Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a scandal-plagued lay Catholic community in Peru.

No one has accused Leo of abuse himself, nor of knowingly keeping confirmed abusers in public ministry, which has been the biggest issue affecting the Catholic Church recently.

SNAP wants this accused priest removed ASAP

SNAP has asked for accused priests to be removed, which Díaz has sought as well.

The organization provided copies of letters sent in July between Peruvian church officials and Díaz. In them, Peruvian church officials say Vásquez Gonzáles requested earlier this year "to be dispensed from the obligations arising from his ordination as a priest and to leave the clerical state."

The process would take at least six months to complete, according to the letters. Díaz said that's too long.

Fidel Purisaca, director of communications for the Diocese of Chiclayo, neither confirmed nor denied Vásquez Gonzáles' request. "That is a confidential matter between the priest, the bishop, and the Vatican Dicastery," he told The in a WhatsApp message.

The diocese said Yesquén was too sick to continue his ministry, and neither priest has commented publicly on the accusations.

While in Chicago, Díaz did interviews with Spanish language media and for podcasts. She also appeared at SNAP's annual conference in Pennsylvania last week.

Now 29 and a mother of two young children, Díaz said she still isn't always ready to talk about it. But she said something changed when her daughter turned 1.

"Everything came back to me about the abuse," she said, wiping tears at times. "I couldn't leave her alone. Since then it's been a real fight for me to be able to leave them alone."

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writer Nicole Winfield in Rome and Franklin Briceño in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.

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Federal court denies Boston bomber's request for new judge to oversee death sentence appeal

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Federal court denies Boston bomber's request for new judge to oversee death sentence appeal LEAH WILLINGHAM July 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM 1 / 2Boston Bomber AppealFILE This photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on April 19, 2013, shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of carrying out...

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BOSTON (AP) — A federal court on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence.

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument made by Tsarnaev's lawyers that U.S. District Court Judge George O'Toole should be recused from the case because, the lawyers contend, he is not impartial. During an August 2024 hearing, Tsarnaev's attorneys pointed to what they said were comments O'Toole made about the case on podcasts and at public events during the appeals process.

In a two-page judgment released Thursday, appeals court judges ruled that O'Toole should continue to preside over the case, determining that "two panel discussions and a podcast in which Judge O'Toole discussed various aspects of organizing complex jury trials and the problems associated with social media in that context" did not constitute grounds for his removal.

One of O'Toole's attorneys, David E. Patton, didn't immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.

A federal appeals court in March 2024 ordered O'Toole to investigate claims of juror bias by the defense and to determine whether Tsarnaev's death sentence should stand. He was convicted of helping carry out the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds of others near the marathon's finish line.

It's unclear when O'Toole might rule on the juror bias issue. If he finds that jurors should have been disqualified, he should vacate Tsarnaev's sentence and hold a new penalty-phase trial to determine if Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death, the appeals court said.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence given to Tsarnaev after the 1st Circuit threw out the sentence in 2020. The circuit court found then that the trial judge did not sufficiently question jurors about their exposure to the extensive news coverage of the bombing.

The 1st Circuit took another look at the case after Tsarnaev's lawyers urged it to examine issues the Supreme Court didn't consider. Among them was whether the trial judge wrongly forced the trial to be held in Boston and wrongly denied defense challenges to the seating of two jurors who they claim lied during questioning.

Tsarnaev's guilt in the deaths of those killed in the bombing was not at issue in the appeal. His lawyers have argued that Tsarnaev fell under the influence of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a gun battle with police days after the bombing.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him. Prosecutors portrayed the brothers — ethnic Chechens who moved to the United States from Russia more than a decade ago — as full partners in a brutal and coldblooded plan to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries.

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Rays AllStar 1B Jonathan Aranda exits game after collision with Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton Andy BackstromJuly 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM The Tampa Bay Rays got hit by rain and bit by the injury bug during Thursday's series finale in New York.

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Andy BackstromJuly 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM

The Tampa Bay Rays got hit by rain and bit by the injury bug during Thursday's series finale in New York.

Three Rays players — first baseman Jonathan Aranda, designated hitter Yandy Díaz and left fielder Chandler Simpson — left the ultimately rain-delayed game with injuries.

Aranda's looked the most serious.

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It occurred in the top of the fifth inning, half an inning before the delay in the Bronx. With rain dressing the infield, Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton hit a soft ground ball to third base, where Junior Caminero scurried to make a play on the slow roller.

Caminero, who came into the day with 10 errors at third base this season, rushed the throw to first. It was off the mark, and Aranda extended to reel it in for the putout. As the first-time All-Star reached to catch the ball, he made contact with a sprinting Stanton.

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Aranda's glove, and left wrist, collided with the 6-foot-6, 245-pound Stanton. Aranda dropped the ball and then his mitt before clutching his wrist, hopping in pain and then crouching and falling to the ground. He was attended to by an athletic trainer and Rays manager Kevin Cash.

The 27-year-old entered the afternoon slashing .315/.393/.478 with 12 home runs and 53 RBI. He added an RBI single in the top of the fourth inning, helping Tampa Bay chip away at a then-7-0 Yankees lead.

Following his injury, Aranda eventually left the field and was replaced by Brandon Lowe, who began the game at second base. José Caballero took Lowe's spot at second.

Díaz sustained a right forearm contusion in the top of the fourth inning, when he was struck by a pitch from Yankees righty Marcus Stroman.

Simpson left the game in the bottom of the third with a left hand injury. He had grounded out in the top half of the frame but didn't remove himself from the contest until he was in left field on the other side of the inning.

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