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Less than two years ago, Mark Halperin was accused of multiple accounts of sexual harassment and physical assault. Numerous women have come forward and accused Halperin of unwanted touching, inappropriate comments and aggressive behavior toward them. He lost his jobs on TV as a political commentator and an HBO project…
Two people — model Josh Kloss and TV presenter Tina Kandelaki — who have worked with singer Katy Perry have come forward, accusing her of sexual misconduct and harassment. The first was model Josh Kloss, who was Perry’s co-star and love interest in her 2010 “Teenage Dream” music video. Instead…
A photo of seven young white men wearing “Team Mitch” shirts and pretending to choke a cardboard cutout of Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfaced on Twitter Monday. Mitch McConnell and the men faced backlash — including from Ocasio-Cortez herself. The photo was originally shared on Instagram with the caption, “break me…
According to a lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania, the Boy Scouts conspired to keep hundreds of incidents of sexual assault a secret, decades before the recent complaints that have made national headlines. The lawsuit was filed against the Boy Scouts, the Penn Mountains Council and S.D.’s alleged abuser. A group…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and giving it to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) after it was revealed that Epstein was given shady plea deals and allowed out on work release when he served time more than…
Eight months after John Coughlin, renowned Olympic figure skater killed himself, a female competitor claims he assaulted her. Ashley Wagner has come forward as the second Olympic figure skater to give her account of his abuse, according to The New York Times. These allegations raise serious issues in figure skating…
A report by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News reveals criminals are being hired as police officers in rural Alaska villages with mainly Indigenous populations. Kyle Hopkins, the Anchorage Daily News reporter who broke the story with ProPublica, described the situation to NPR as part of a “two-tiered justice…
New Jersey judge John Russo Jr. who suggested a rape survivor could have closed her legs to prevent the attack is “remorseful,” his lawyer said during his judicial conduct complaint hearing July 10, NBC reports Related Story: Judge Gets 3-Month Suspension for Telling Rape Victim She Should Have Closed Her…
Despite intense public pressure, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said he will not reopen the thousands of cases handled by Linda Fairstein, who was the chief of his office’s Sex Crimes Unit from 1976 and 2002 and helped to prosecute the Central Park Five. New York City officials, including New…
Cook County Judge Mauricio Araujo has a history of inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances toward the women working around him. Araujo made sexual advances toward a police officer seeking his signature on a search warrant, cornered a court reporter in an elevator and made demeaning remarks about a prosecutor, state…