The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing Thursday for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who says he sexually assaulted her as a teenager, as a claim of sexual misconduct emerged from another woman. The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday night that Senate Democrats were investigating a second woman's accusation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh dating to the 1983-84 academic year, Kavanaugh's first at Yale University .
Byline picture of Literary Editor Rosemary Goring whose historical novel 'After Flodden' is about to be published. Pictures Kirsty Anderson Herald & Times ON holiday in South Carolina a few days before the United States presidential election last November, my sister met anxious middle-class Americans who feared what lay ahead.
In the hours that have followed the revelation that Trump has used vulgar and aggressive language about women in 2005 - a moment caught on a live mic and likely not the last of similar instances to flow from opposition research against him - the least traditional presidential candidate in American history was felled by an American political tradition: the dreaded October surprise. From the sidelines of soccer fields to college football game tailgates in southwestern Pennsylvania, supporters of both Trump and Clinton had plenty to say about the revelation that, 11 years ago, Trump said something very vulgar about a woman.