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Republicans have been trying, with some success, not to blame the accuser in the high-stakes he-said-she-said roiling the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. They have calibrated their comments to avoid antagonizing Christine Blasey Ford — and by extension female voters ahead of the ...
Kavanaugh hearing on alleged assault echoes 1991 showdown, but is U.S. set for replay?
In 1991, a visibly uncomfortable law professor named Anita Hill swore to tell the truth before an all-male panel as she leveled detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Nearly three decades later, the stage is set for another eerily ...
FBI probe of janitor's child porn led to closure of solar observatory in New Mexico
A mysterious 11-day closure of a New Mexico solar observatory stemmed from an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using the facility's wireless internet service to send and receive child pornography, federal court documents showed on Wednesday. The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New ...
Investigators detail 'crimes of the highest order' by Myanmar against Rohingya
U.N.-backed investigators who examined a bloody crackdown by Myanmar security forces that caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh issued a searing critique Tuesday of the United Nations' response to the rights crisis. In a 432-page report, the members of a ...
The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he has known about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since the 1990s and that such allegations are "nothing new." The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, made the admission during a four-day visit to ...
New York City Ballet fires two dancers over sharing nude photos
Two dancers were fired from the New York City Ballet on Saturday amid accusations that they were part of a ring of male dancers who inappropriately shared nude photos and videos of women. The ballet company said principal dancers Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catarazo, as ...
Myanmar victim of 'bride trafficking' tells of six years of brutal captivity in China
They were the first photos Marip Lu had ever taken of her son. It broke her heart to think they might also be the last. The 3-year-old was standing in their living room in the rural Chinese village of Gucheng, brown eyes beaming as he ...
No L.A. sex charges for Kevin Spacey, Steven Seagal, Anthony Anderson
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office said Tuesday it would not prosecute actor Kevin Spacey on a 1992 sexual assault accusation because it fell outside the California statute of limitations. The district attorney's office also said it would not charge actor Steven Seagal and television ...
Breaking social taboo, Tokyo cram school gives children chance to learn and talk about sex
On a recent Tuesday in August, a group of preschoolers and elementary school pupils in Tokyo listened carefully to their cram school teacher's explanation about what would normally be a taboo subject for kids this age — sex. "Sperm, ovum, sexual intercourse, fertilization," the children ...
National Enquirer hid damaging Trump stories locked up in safe: AP
The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on payments of hush money and other damaging stories it had killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement recently told AP. The ...
Trump former legal adviser Michael Cohen crowdfunds legal bills
Mired in financial woes, Michael Cohen is sticking his hand out and asking the public for help paying for his legal defense, and one anonymous donor already has ponied up $50,000. Through his lawyer, Donald Trump's former "fixer" says collecting contributions through a GoFundMe page ...
A onetime contestant on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" television show who accused him of groping her is demanding in her lawsuit that he come clean about accusations by other women of "illicit" sexual misconduct. Summer Zervos is seeking damages from Trump on the grounds that ...
