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Several members of the Swedish Academy have left over the controversy which which followed the #MeToo movement. An investigation revealed on Friday there had been abuse within its ranks. 
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The #MeToo movement has empowered thousands of women to tell their stories of harassment and abuse throughout America's workplaces. But advocates say women abused at home often face a more dangerous path.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. - Police are looking for a man who they say has been charged with attempted arson and domestic violence. Martin Tomas Anderton, 32, is wanted by law enforcement after he did not appear in court to a show cause hearing.
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The adult-film star used the show to defend her credibility in describing an alleged affair with Donald Trump.
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The weekend started off with a bang and ended with a whimper. In concert with U.S. allies, President Trump ordered a missile strike against Syria on Friday night, in retaliation for the apparent chemical attack on civilians in Douma earlier in the week. The precision strike was limited to some weapons facilities and so far there are no reports of deaths on the ground, which is likely because the U.S. warned Russia and the Syrians in advance. Trump had tweeted to the world that he was planning to launch missile strikes so it’s not as if anyone was surprised. (This is a good thing, although it certainly calls his “Pearl Harbor doctrine” into question.) This article was originally published at Salon By Saturday night, Trump was tweeting out “Mission Accomplished,” with no apparent sense of irony whatsoever. The White House made sure that it was widely reported that Trump really wanted to teach Russia a lesson and had pushed hard for a major bombing campaign but was talked out of it by his Pentagon chief. Everyone is now supposed to believe that Trump is chomping at the bit to be tougher on Russia than even Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, but in the end Trump bowed to the defense secretary’s advice because he’s always restrained when he needs to be. (If you believe any of that I’ve got some Trump steaks to sell you.) Despite the Syrian strike, with all its Pentagon-provided, video-game footage of fire and fury, the White House couldn’t black out the news of the forthcoming book by James Comey or the astonishing story unfolding around Trump’s personal lawyer and former Trump Organization executive Michael Cohen. When I say the weekend ended with a whimper, I’m referring to Trump’s petulant, puerile Twitter rant on Sunday: Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018 I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his many lies. His “memos” are self serving and FAKE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018 Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018 Trump is obviously sincerely agitated about James Comey’s book, but his unhinged tweets are also part of a coordinated response by the Republican Party and are therefore to be expected. What’s more interesting is the fact that he tweeted about the FBI raid on Cohen’s office, commenting for only the second time since his overwrought TV appearance with the joint chiefs on the day it happened. He was obviously watching his unofficial adviser Alan Dershowitz opine on television when he tweeted this: Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018 I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that only the lawyers who have engaged in criminal conspiracies with him are nervous. While Trump was ordering airstrikes on Syria last Friday it’s fair to assume he had one eye peeled on TV. There were reports from the federal courtroom where Cohen’s lawyers were protesting the searches and to everyone’s surprise, Trump had his own lawyers in the courtroom arguing — you guessed it! — that the warrants served on Cohen by federal prosecutors violated attorney-client privilege. Judge Kimba Wood was reportedly miffed that Cohen was not available in the courtroom to answer questions that his lawyers couldn’t. Where was Cohen, anyway? Well, he was hanging around with his pals on the street, smoking cigars. I’m not kidding. This brilliant satire about Cohen’s day by Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo says it all: omg this is amazing pic.twitter.com/TOlAIKvPl5 — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2018 At any rate, Judge Wood has ordered Cohen to appear in court Monday. In one of the three hearings held on Friday, prosecutors revealed that they’ve been investigating Cohen for months. Their filing added that the searches were meant to “seek evidence of crimes, many of which have nothing to do with his work as an attorney, but rather relate to Cohen’s own business dealings.” Those business dealings include suspected money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud and nefarious criminal partnerships in the New York taxi industry. How all this fits into Trump’s business in the U.S. and overseas or with the Russia probe, if it does at all, remains to be seen. We do know that Cohen was in the middle of all of it. What is becoming clearer every day is that Cohen seems to have made a lot of money, and I do mean a lot, in schemes arranging payoffs to women to keep them quiet. It appears to be a kind of side service he has provides to other clients, not just his patron the president. It was also reported this week that Cohen had arranged for another woman who had an affair with a high-ranking Republican official to be paid more than a million dollars in hush money. The man, a wealthy Trump donor and confidant named Elliott Broidy, paid Cohen another quarter of a million on top of that. (Broidy is also entangled in the Russia probe, having participated in that mysterious meeting in the Seychelles, just before Trump’s inauguration.) Furthermore, the woman involved in the Broidy case was represented by Keith Davidson, the same lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who allegedly had affairs with Trump and were paid to keep their mouths shut about it. There is some kind of remarkable racket going on here. On Sunday the Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen also managed to shut down a story in US Magazine in 2013 about Donald Trump Jr.’s rumored affair with singer Aubrey O’Day, who had appeared with Don Jr. on “The Apprentice.” It’s all in the family. If there’s one person in America who prepared the ground for this scandal, that would be Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti. He is as smart and clever as Michael Cohen is — or rather, as Cohen evidently isn’t. Avenatti’s TV appearances and legal strategy in Daniels’ civil case have been perfectly calibrated for the Trump era of reality TV and gangster series. He tweets, he talks and he doles out information for maximum impact. He was in court on Friday and stood outside giving interviews while Cohen was being filmed hanging with his goombahs on the sidewalk. Trump evidently realizes that taking Avenatti’s bait would do him no good, but you can bet it’s driving him crazy. Monday’s hearing promises to be quite a circus. Trump’s lawyers are demanding to see everything the feds seized before prosecutors can review it, to determine if any of the material violates attorney-client privilege. Cohen will be there, presumably in a more subdued, lawyerly suit than he wore on Friday. Oh, and did I mention that Avenatti is bringing Stormy Daniels to court today? The only one missing will be Donald Trump himself but you can be sure that he’ll be glued to the screen watching every move, even if he has to put Jim Comey on the DVR. This case goes straight to the heart of the Trump con — and maybe even his marriage.
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We need to talk about rape, and those who are its victims need this most of all.
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A history of the scandal surrounding Bill Cosby from first accusations of sexual assault to criminal trial in Pennsylvania (Photos)
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A senior financial advisor at Morgan Stanley was accused by four different women of domestic violence over 15 years and yet kept his job despite his employers knowing, it has been claimed.
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Advocates for survivors of domestic violence and supporters of stricter gun control are applauding passage of a new measure included in the new budget ...
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There are no nationwide statistics on rates of domestic violence in rural versus urban communities, though a number of regional studies have found women in small, isolated towns and in rural areas experience domestic violence at an equal or higher rate as their urban peers. And those experiencing abuse in rural spaces have less access to resources, often endure more severe physical attacks and are more likely to be killed by their partner, according to a 2015 report by the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services.
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Aldon Smith was reportedly arrested, again, after allegedly violating an order in his domestic violence case.
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The Seattle Seahawks released quarterback Trevone Boykin shortly after his girlfriend alleged in a television interview that he physically assaulted her in Texas.
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Queen Brunhilde still wears her crown as a horse drags her through the streets by her hair in Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio’s early 1400s manuscript “Concerning the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women.” She looks young there, though the Frankish queen, who led a kingdom and its military, was 80 when her enemies executed her in 613 A.D. She tells her own story in Boccaccio’s book, sharing the ways that she was wronged. But the narrator — Boccaccio — continually interjects to remind her that her devious femininity and power hunger actually ruined her until, eventually, she’s contrite.
Often, Boccaccio’s manuscripts are commended as some of the earliest deep looks at strong historical women. The women are powerful, but the exhibition “Outcasts,” at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, points out the prejudices inherent in his approach. The queen “fell victim to the misogyny of later medieval authors who cast her as the archetypal ‘nasty woman,’” reads the exhibition label about Boccaccio’s manuscript, paralleling Brunhilde’s treatment with insults hurled at Hillary Clinton.
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A Co Mayo-based chicken-processing firm has been ordered to pay €17,000 to a woman it unfairly dismissed while off sick days after suffering a miscarriage.
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TMZ Sports has obtained the incident report for ex-MLB pitcher Matt Mantei's arrest.
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Daniels' reward offer comes a week after Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen had his office and home raided by the FBI for files that include information about a payoff Cohen made to the porn star.
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The Joyful Heart Foundation has identified more than 225,000 untested rape kits sitting in police, crime lab or other storage facilities across the United States.And with nearly 20 states remaining…...
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A Missouri House of Representatives committee was set to release a report on Wednesday on its investigation of a scandal embroiling Governor Eric Greitens, who has been charged with invasion of privacy in connection with an extramarital affair. Greitens was indicted in February on a single felony count of invasion of privacy. He stands accused of taking a compromising photograph of a woman without her consent, then making it accessible by computer in order to prevent her from disclosing their sexual relationship. The alleged offense occurred in March 2015. Greitens, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, has admitted to having an affair with the woman, identified in the indictment only as K.S., but has denied he tried to blackmail her to cover it up or that he did anything that was criminal. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Tuesday imposed a gag order on attorneys, witnesses and other parties to the criminal case pending against the 44-year-old Republican. The judge said his gag order would not preclude the parties from making statements about the general nature of the case, schedules or the substance of court rulings that he had entered into the public record. Burlison indicated he had no power over state legislators, who “have their jobs and their authority,” but hoped “consideration is being given to any … defendant’s rights to have a fair trial in front of an impartial jury,” according to a transcript released by the defense. Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Bernadette Baum
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How should companies address the ongoing problem of sexual harassment in the workplace? Experts at Harvard Business School weigh in on what employers can do better.
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Gao Yunxiang was denied bail after being arrested for sexual assault after a woman reported an assault to the Sydney police.
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New data released by the Utah Department of Health showed that nearly 20 percent of women in the state have experienced some form of domestic violence. The data was based on a 2016 poll of ten thousand men and women.
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Rapper was accused of striking girlfriend, former reality TV star Emily Bustamante
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A judge in Long Island, New York confessed to stealing several “soiled” pairs of his neighbor’s underwear on multiple occasions — but nevertheless entered a “not guilty” plea in court. ABC 7-NY reported Friday that Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale, a Republican from the Long Island town of Islip, was removed from the bench and faces up to 15 years in prison for the underwear burglary. A married father of three, Cicale admitted to stealing underwear …
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Steven Wright's health status heading into opening day was a question mark for the Red Sox. Now, it won't matter much.
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