New Yorker fires writer after he exposed himself on video call Grand jury returns murder indictment in teen’s 1974 killing Pope reacts to sexual abuse report on former cardinal Mccarrick

NEW YORK — Jeffrey Toobin, the Supreme Court scribe at The New Yorker who became the talk of the town last month after he exposed himself during a video call with co-workers, lost his job at the magazine on Wednesday.

The New Yorker said in a statement to the Daily News that Toobin’s exit resulted from an investigation into the star writer’s conduct on the call.

Toobin, 60, wrote on Twitter that “I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work.”

Toobin, who has frequently brought his acerbic analysis to CNN as a face of their political coverage, joined The New Yorker in 1993.

VICE reported in October that Toobin was masturbating during the embarrassing flap, which occurred on a Zoom call. He said in a statement to VICE last month that he thought he was off-camera, describing it as “an embarrassingly stupid mistake.”

CNN said at the time it was giving Toobin, the author of nine books, time off as he dealt with a personal issue.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County grand jury on Wednesday returned a capital murder indictment against a man accused of killing a 17-year-old girl in Fort Worth in 1974.

Police in September arrested Glen Mccurley, 77, in Carla Walker’s strangling death, and he was charged in a complaint with capital murder.

Mccurley has been jailed since his arrest. A Criminal District Court No. 1 judge on Oct. 14 raised his bond from $100,000 to $500,000.

A DNA profile from semen collected from Walker’s bra matches Mccurley, authorities allege, and Fort Worth police arrested him on Sept. 21. He is accused of abducting Walker on Feb. 17, 1974, while she was on a date with her boyfriend, before raping and torturing her.

Mccurley was identified as a suspect after the crime because he owned a .22 Ruger

ROME — Pope Francis on Wednesday briefly reacted to a report on the Vatican’s investigation of sexual abuse allegations against former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick, calling the issue a “painful case.”

Pope Francis professed his “closeness with victims of any kind of abuse” and said the church was committed to “eradicating this evil” in his weekly video audience published online.

Mccarrick, 90, was last year labeled as a serial sexual predator by the Vatican’s disciplinary office. He was kicked out of the clergy after being found guilty of soliciting during confession and abusing adults and minors.

Tuesday’s report, more than 400 pages long, looked into suspicions that Mccarrick’s habit of sleeping with young seminarians was known about for decades, but that his superiors in the US and the Vatican turned a blind eye.

The report acknowledged misjudgments and missing information regarding the investigation of sexual abuse allegations in the past decades, but said Pope Francis had swiftly reacted when he found out about the allegations against Mccarrick.