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PROBLEM: Mann said he was gratified by the findings  the second report from Penn State to clear him. An earlier report had exonerated him of related charges that he suppressed or falsified data  destroyed e-mail and misused confidential information.
 The new report did criticize him on a minor point  saying that he had occasionally forwarded to colleagues copies of unpublished manuscripts without the explicit permission of their authors.
 The allegations arose after private e-mail messages between Mann and other scientists were purloined from a computer at the University of East Anglia  in Britain  and posted on the Internet. In one  a British researcher called a data-adjustment procedure Mann used a "trick."
 The e-mail messages led climate-change skeptics to accuse mainstream researchers  including Mann  of deliberately manipulating the findings of climate science in order to strengthen their case that human activity is causing the earth to warm up.
 "I'm aware  and many researchers now are keenly aware  of the depths to which the climate-change disinformation movement is willing to sink  to the point where they're willing to criminally break into a university server and steal people's personal e-mail messages " Mann said in an interview.
 "It's no surprise that it's a whitewash of Mann's misconduct  because it was designed to be a whitewash " said Myron Ebell  director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute  a Washington advocacy group. He accused the panel of failing to interview important witnesses.
 The panel did not try to vet the accuracy of the science published by Mann  including a famous finding that the temperature of the earth had jumped recently  compared with past climate inferred from indicators like tree rings. Instead  it examined his methodology -- his analytical techniques  his willingness to share data with those skeptical of his findings and the like. The panel unanimously found his approach "well within the range of accepted practices."
 Mann remains under investigation by the attorney general of Virginia for research he did at the University of Virginia.

SOLUTION: PENN STATE PANEL CLEARS SCIENTIST OVER CLIMATEGATE

PROBLEM: Catalan President Carles Puigdemont  said  he  favored mediation to find a way out of the crisis but that Spainâs central government had rejected this. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoyâs government responded by calling on Catalonia to âreturn to the path of lawâ first before any negotiations.
 Puigdemont  told the BBC  he  would ask the regionâs parliament to declare independence following the referendum  which Spainâs government and constitutional court say was illegal and in which only a minority of Catalans voted.
In a televised address on Wednesday night   Puigdemont  said: âThis moment calls for mediation. We have received various offers in the last hours and we will receive more.â
Without specifically mentioning plans for an independence declaration   he  added: âI am sure that in the next few days we will show the best of our country when the institutions of Catalonia will have to apply the results of the referendum.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoyâs government replied that  Puigdemont  had wasted an opportunity to put Catalonia back on a legal course. âIf  Mr. Puigdemont  wants to talk or negotiate  or wants to send mediators   he  knows perfectly well what  he  must do first: Return to the path of the law â it said in a statement.
 Puigdemont  criticized Spainâs King Felipe VI who on Tuesday lambasted the âirresponsible behaviorâ of the Catalan leaders.
 He  said  the king  had disappointed many people in Catalonia by failing to call for dialogue and  he  accused King Felipe of endorsing the policies of Rajoy  which  he  said had been âcatastrophicâ for Catalonia.
Catalan Regional President Carles Puigdemont gestures as  he  makes an statement at Generalitat Palace in Barcelona  Spain  October 4  2017. Catalan Goverment/Jordi Bedmar Handout via REUTERS

SOLUTION: Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday

PROBLEM: Leigh Corfman   left  in a photo from 1979  when she was about 14. At right  from top  Wendy Miller around age 16  Debbie Wesson Gibson around age 17 and Gloria Thacker Deason around age 18. (Family photos)
 Leigh Corfman  says  she  was 14 years old when an older man approached  her  outside a courtroom in Etowah County  Ala.  She  was sitting on a wooden bench with  her  mother  they both recall  when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore â now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat â was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation   Corfman  and  her  mother say  and offered to watch  the girl  while  her  mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
âHe said  âOh  you donât want  her  to go in there and hear all that. Iâll stay out here with  her  â â says Corfmanâs mother  Nancy Wells  71. âI thought  how nice for him to want to take care of  my little girl .â
This undated family photo shows  Leigh Corfman  with  her  mother  Nancy Wells  around 1979 when  Corfman  was about 14 years old. (Family Photo)
Alone with  Corfman   Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number  she says. Days later  she says  he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden  drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods  told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit  she says  he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants  she says  and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
âI wanted it over with â I wanted out â she remembers thinking. âPlease just get this over with. Whatever this is  just get it over.â  Corfman  says  she  asked Moore to take  her  home  and he did.
Two of Corfmanâs childhood friends say  she  told them at the time that  she  was seeing an older man  and one says  Corfman  identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later  as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.
Aside from  Corfman   three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s  episodes they say they found flattering at the time  but troubling as they got older. None of the three women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.

SOLUTION:
Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14 he was 32