The evangelical leader is accused of failing to disclose scandalous information about his personal life, including an alleged extortion attempt by his wife’s disgruntled former sexual partner.
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The Second Circuit seemed leery Monday about the push to strike down a 2012 ban against sexually explicit images as unconstitutional.
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Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative in Congress and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he is being investigated by the Justice Department over a former relationship but denied any criminal wrongdoing.
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The Ninth Circuit upheld the denial of the Bloom Firm’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to a press release it issued suggesting Steve Wynn instructed female “ShowStoppers” performers to strip to their bras and panties, put on heels and apply more makeup to be “sexually appealing.” The Bloom defendants published the release knowing that no witness could confirm Wynn had any role in giving the instructions, and a jury could find the defendants “acted with actual malice” in publishing the release.
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When the killer took aim at innocent women going about their daily business, many say it wasn’t solely about racism or misogyny; class or America’s gun laws; mental illness. It was about all of them, all at once.
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A senior Australian policeman suggested on Thursday a phone app be developed to document sexual consent in a bid to improve conviction rates in sex crime cases.
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The suspect had previously been a patron at three massage parlors targeted in a deadly rampage and he blamed the spas for his sex addiction, police said.
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Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from adult mentors. But when aspiring crooners lack proper role models, they hit all the wrong notes — and have less success attracting mates.
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Was the witty banter between a Costco pharmacist and a man’s ex-wife in good faith? The man will get a chance to prove it wasn’t.
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A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes.
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It’s been a busy and exciting time at Taiwan’s Leofoo Safari Park where zookeepers have been preparing to send one of their southern white rhinos over to Japan.
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A Malaysian man Thursday won the country’s first legal challenge against Islamic laws banning gay sex, a victory hailed as “monumental progress” in combating persecution of the LGBT community.
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The committee’s only two female members voted in support of the effort, which would compare the unsolicited sexual images to a kind of digital indecent exposure.
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An adult bookstore in Kentucky can keep its roadside billboard after a Sixth Circuit panel found state regulations on such advertisements violate the store’s First Amendment rights.
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France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures.
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Crickets and the birds that snack on them are not natural allies, but they do have a common enemy, according to a pair of studies published Wednesday: roadside noise pollution.
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The woman who took a flight back to New Zealand was supposed to avoid all physical contact with others for 14 days as she went into mandatory quarantine. The man working at the quarantine hotel was supposed to be the last line of defense.
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Reindeer lichens — named for their notable place in a reindeer’s balanced diet — are reproducing sexually at a rate that far exceeds what scientists would have ever guessed.
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The state of Kentucky argued on Friday before an appeals court panel that an advertisement for an adult bookstore on the side of a tractor-trailer violates state law and must be removed.
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A gay couple were flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province Thursday, justice officials said, in a public spectacle lambasted by human rights groups.
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