Donald Trump’s private calendar helps support a former “Apprentice” contestant’s claim that he subjected her to unwanted kissing and groping, her attorney said in a court filing Thursday.
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The Houston Astros fired their assistant general manager Thursday amid an investigation by Major League Baseball into comments he shouted at a group of female reporters as the team celebrated a pennant-clinching win last Saturday.
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Actress Rose McGowan filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Harvey Weinstein and two of his former attorneys, including well-known David Boies, engaged in racketeering to silence her and derail her career before she accused him of rape.
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Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades.
Read moreTwo years after Matt Lauer was fired by NBC News for sexual misconduct, more questions are emerging about the former “Today” show host’s behavior and whether bosses looked the other way at problems involving one of the network’s biggest stars.
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Several thousand conservative activists marched through Paris on Sunday to protest a French bill that would give lesbian couples and single women access to in vitro fertilization and related procedures.
Read moreNorthern Ireland’s strict abortion law violates the United Kingdom’s human rights commitments, a High Court judge in Northern Ireland ruled Thursday.
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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning surgeon whose hospital in war-torn Congo has treated more than 50,000 victims of sexual violence has launched a fund with the goal of providing reparations for survivors of conflicts around the world.
Read moreWhat happened to Trudy Scheele-Gertsen in 1968 wasn’t unique. She was one of over 10,000 women forced to give up their children by the Dutch government because they were unwed. But she is the only person to sue the state for damages.
Read moreA former employee claims that the part owner of West Valley Insulation told her that “people who wear sexy clothing deserved to be raped” and that “he would be happy to take care of her,” in Garfield County Court, Colo.
Read moreA teenager brought a federal complaint seeking an alternative to parental permission for an abortion, as “she will be disowned by her family and lose their good opinion and financial support if she is discovered to be pregnant.”
Read moreLinda Constant and a couple hundred other women gathered at the Tampa Convention Center on Thursday evening, pledging to reelect President Donald Trump in 2020, even as polls show his approval ratings plummeting among this key constituent group.
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A young rape victim whose miscarried baby died at birth was found not guilty of first-degree murder Monday in El Salvador, which prosecutes miscarriages as homicides. Prosecutors in her retrial sought a sentence of 40 years.
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Iowa Congressman Steve King on Wednesday defended his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest.
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Retrial begins Thursday for a young Salvadoran woman facing 30 years in prison for the “aggravated homicide” of her fetus in a miscarriage. Though a judge cleared her in the first trial, the state appealed, raising profound questions for the country’s progressive new president and the nation’s powerful Catholic Church.
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Two major music companies have canceled appearances by Plácido Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it would launch an investigation in response to an Associated Press story in which numerous women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior for decades.
Read moreThe federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of Arkansas abortion restrictions extended her order Tuesday while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the laws proceeds through court.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that a South Dakota high school punished a student after falsely claiming that her statement in an edition of the student newspaper that her hobby was to “Netflix and chill” with her boyfriend referred to having sex, and that the school did not punish male students who had said the same thing.
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Saudi Arabia published new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a longstanding policy that gave men control over women.
Read moreA federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of a set of Arkansas laws that would have eliminated abortions in some cases and likely would have forced the shuttering of the state’s only surgical abortion clinic.
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