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The easy, immediate and accurate analysis of Roy Moore's loss in Tuesday's election for the U.S. Senate is that the allegations made against him cost him the race. Without those allegations of sexual misconduct, which Moore repeatedly denied, he certainly would have sailed to victory.
Mei Rui, a cancer researcher and concert pianist, boarded a Spirit Airlines flight from Houston to Newark on Friday night with her 2-year-old son, mother and father. A mother from Houston was asked to leave a Spirit Airlines flight after breastfeeding her son.
As the country grapples with a national reckoning over sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men from Hollywood to Capitol Hill, three women who accused the most high-profile man in the country again questioned Monday why their claims did nothing to stop him from winning the presidency. It was "heartbreaking" for women to go public with their claims against President Donald Trump last year, only to see him ascend to the Oval Office, said Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant who in October 2016 said Trump inappropriately inspected pageant participants.
President Donald Trump on Friday urged voters to elect a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, warning that America "cannot afford" to have a Democrat win the hard-fought campaign instead. When Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama came hat in hand to Capitol Hill last month to ask his state's senior Republican for help raising money, Sen. Richard C. Shelby had a blunt reply.
A uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area's uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and top Utah Republicans have said repeatedly that questions of mining or drilling played no role in President Trump's announcement Monday that he was cutting the site by more than 1.1 million acres, or 85 percent.
Prominent appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual misconduct - Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, pictured in 2003. Six women - all former clerks or externs in the 9th Circuit - alleged to The Washington Post in recent weeks that Kozinski Female aides fretted Franks wanted to have sex to impregnate them - Arizona Rep. Trent Franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female staffers in his office and retaliated against one who rebuffed him, according to House GOP sources with knowledge of a complaint against him.
Scarborough cited numerous incidents over the past few weeks and the statements of those close to the president to back up his claims. In a searing op-ed published in The Washington Post on Thursday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough accused President Donald Trump of being unfit for the presidential office, characterizing Trump's recent behavior as a "mental meltdown."
James O'Keefe, the right-wing activist whose Project Veritas organization recently attempted to plant a false story in The Washington Post, was honored Wednesday night by a conservative religious organization. The award was presented by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a ceremony at Washington's Trump International hotel.
The Washington Post reported that a former top FBI official, Peter Strzok, who had been assigned to and then removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, had "exchanged politically charged texts disparaging [President Donald Trump and supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton" and that Strzok was "also a key player in the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server." This is a blockbuster revelation, carrying the possibility of shattering public confidence in a number of long-held assumptions about the criminal-justice system generally and the FBI and the Justice Department specifically.
They used to say that a lie could make it halfway around the world before the truth could get its pants on. In the internet age, the truth shouldn't even bother getting out of bed.
An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members. An attorney for U.S. Rep. John Conyers says the 88-year-old lawmaker will fight allegations of sexual harassment involving former female staff members.
The Washington Post says it won't distribute any more columns by Garrison Keillor because he didn't reveal he was under investigation in his most recent effort. The Washington Post says it won't distribute any more columns by Garrison Keillor because he didn't reveal he was under investigation in his most recent effort.
White House Envisions Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo, Within Weeks - WASHINGTON - The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo Army veteran says Franken groped her during USO tour in 2003 - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - An Army veteran says Sen. Al Franken groped her in December 2003, telling CNN that while she was deployed in Kuwait, the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a photo op.
White House Envisions Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo, Within Weeks - WASHINGTON - The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo Army veteran says Franken groped her during USO tour in 2003 - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - An Army veteran says Sen. Al Franken groped her in December 2003, telling CNN that while she was deployed in Kuwait, the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a photo op.
Rep. Barbara Comstock , who is emerging as a leader in Congress on the issue of sexual harassment, talks about the issue Tuesday in her office in Washington. Wherever Rep. Barbara Comstock goes these days, she's stopped by women who thank her for speaking out about sexual harassment on Capitol Hill.
James O'Keefe's latest sad attempt to own liberals included hiring a woman to pose as a sexual assault survivor in order to defend a reported child molester -- and that says a lot about the political media world that allows him to thrive. Weeks after the The Washington Post first broke the story that several women reported that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had sexually harassed or assaulted them when they were teenagers, the paper published several new stories on the matter -- this time detailing an apparent "undercover sting operation" aimed at its reporters.
A former deputy chief of staff for Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan has accused the Detroit Democrat of unwanted sexual advances. Deanna Maher said the congressman harassed and touched her on three occasions while she ran the congressman's Michigan office between 1997 to 2005, the Detroit News reported.