Tag: MeToo

First Lady Melania Trump announced on Friday that she’s launched her own production company, “Muse Films,” ahead of the release of a controversial Amazon documentary billed to focus on her life as she prepared to return to the White House alongside her husband, President Trump. “PRESENTING: MUSE FILMS, my new production company,” she wrote on…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein faces sentencing and a possible retrial in his New York City sex crimes case, but when they’ll happen — and whether he’ll be back in front of another jury — is still up in the air. Manhattan Judge Curtis Farber…

Meg Waite Clayton has a thing for the past. While not all of the author’s nine novels are works of historical fiction, her most recent works, including “The Race for Paris,” “The Last Train to London,” and “The Postmistress of Paris,” have taken readers to World War II-era Europe. For her latest book, “Typewriter Beach,”…

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Harvey Weinstein ’s sex crimes case declared a mistrial on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson said he wouldn’t continue deliberating. Deliberations were ended Thursday, a day after the jury delivered a partial verdict in Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial. The jury got stuck on a third charge. It…

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’ssex crimes retrial are drilling down on one of the three charges against him: a rape accusation from a woman who also said she had a consensual relationship with him. Related Articles Big changes are being proposed for a US food aid program. Here’s a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinsteinn’ssex crimes retrial appear to be moving past some interpersonal tensions and focusing on one of his three accusers as deliberations stretch into a fourth day Tuesday. At the end of Monday’s session, jurors requested to start off Tuesday with electronic copies of emails and…

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinsteinn’ssex crimes retrial appear to be moving past some interpersonal tensions and focusing on one of his three accusers as deliberations stretch into a fourth day Tuesday. At the end of Monday’s session, jurors requested to start off Tuesday with electronic copies of emails and…

When news broke earlier this year that 30 officers at a Los Padrinos juvenile detention facility were charged with facilitating gladiator fights between youth inmates, it evoked scenes straight out of Gladiator II. But this is the United States, not Ancient Rome. And this is real life, not cinema.  According to California Attorney General Rob…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend told Combs that she cried for three days after reading R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit against the music mogul, a case that described hundreds of drug-laced marathon sex sessions with Combs and other men as…

By ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving in the U.S. at the Detroit airport, the second case in days involving the alleged smuggling of biological material, authorities said Monday. The scientist is accused of shipping biological material months ago to staff at a laboratory at the University…