An inquest into the death of a 12-year-old girl who said she was raped by an older boy has found none of the authorities who had contact with her could have prevented her death. Semina Halliwell, of Southport, died at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in June 2021, three days after taking an overdose of prescription […]
Beyond Matt Gaetzthere has been perhaps no Donald Trump nominee with as fraught a path to confirmation as Pete Hegseth. Soon after the president-elect announced him as his pick for defense secretary, the former Fox News host was beset by the publicization of a sexual assault accusation (which he’s denied), as well as reports about […]
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegationsincluding sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s bid to lead the Justice Department. Citing text messages, travel receipts, online payments and testimony, the bipartisan committee paints a picture of a lifestyle in which Gaetz and […]
NEW YORK — ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s […]
On the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2017, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente called the Monterey Police Department to report that a patient had come in for a sexual assault exam. The woman, the nurse told police, said she had been sexually assaulted four days earlier while at a Republican women’s conference at the Hyatt Regency […]
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was the subject of a fourth wave of sexual misconduct lawsuits filed on Tuesday night by Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee and his California co-counsel Andrew Van Arsdale, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Five more anonymous accusers — three men and two women — claim they were sexually assaulted, abused […]
