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Schumer Warns Republicans That It’s About To Get Real On Abortion Rights
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Republicans that he is about to make it get real in the Senate on abortion rights.
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Democracy in Tatters? Only 24% of Americans Want Roe v. Wade Overturned
As the Republican/McConnell conservative activist Supreme Court hears a Mississippi abortion case, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows just 24% of Americans want Roe v. Wade overturned. Just 24% of Americans want Roe V Wade overturned: The Yahoo News poll shows “more than twice as many Americans (55 percent) say they want the court to…
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All Of The Ways That The Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie Police Stop Went Wrong
Moab police were under fire when they released the body camera footage of their August 12 stop with Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito for missing clear signs of domestic violence red flags and for ignoring a 911 caller’s report that Brian hit Gabby multiple times.
Lots of excuses were thrown out, some blaming the dispatcher, but now there’s confirmation of the dispatcher relaying the report to the responding officers.
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Opinion: Republicans Continue To Politicize If And When We Believe Women
On Friday, Joe Biden went on Morning Joe to answer questions posed by co-host Mika Brzezinski. I didn’t watch the interview because the very fact there was one demonstrated that nothing has changed since 2016. Before we go any further, I’m not about to pronounce guilt or innocence of Trump, Biden or anyone else. This…
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Trump Makes Sure Impeachment Sticks By Saying Only Women Do Dishes
President Trump went on a rant about toilets and dishwashers, saying that dishwashers now need to be pressed 12 times, “women tell me.”
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Opinion: Katie Hill Continues to Give Back As She Writes About Surviving Revenge Porn
There is no substitute for the powerful words of Katie Hill in her weekend article in the New York Times about surviving revenge porn. In taking on this cause, she’s showing that it can be done. She is also disempowering the very weapon used against her. You may recall, Katie Hill was one of the…
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When Threatened Trump Lashes Out at Strong Women Like Yovanovitch
As his weapon, Trump used the same creepy sexual domination he used to stalk Hillary Clinton during a televised debate to which he had invited women with whom her husband had had sexual relationships.
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Opinion: When Women Say No To Trump We Are Empowered And Safer
Donald Trump spends more time pushing boundaries than attending to affairs of state. That ranges from sublime efforts to erase what passes for etiquette on social media to the more consequential, such as badgering the white men who almost exclusively comprise Trump’s GOP in Congress and the Cabinet. They cower shamelessly as their lord and…
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Sexual Assault Lies Are So Much More Than Just Another Trump Scandal
This might seem like just another Trump scandal, another horrible person he’s put into power, but it’s so much more than that.
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U.S. judge blocks Ohio ‘heartbeat’ law to end most abortions
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Ohio from enforcing a new law that critics said would effectively ban most abortions in the state, starting as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
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It’s (still) a man’s world as equality pledges fail 1.4 bln women
World leaders are failing 1.4 billion girls and women on promises of a fairer future, according to a global index launched at the world’s biggest gender equality conference.
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Thousands protest against Trump in London as he is one of the least-liked foreign leaders
Among Britons, Trump is one of the least-liked foreign leaders, with just 21% of people surveyed by YouGov having a positive opinion of him. Among women, that figure fell to 14%.
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BUSTED: Secret Memo Exposes Republican Talking Points On Abortion Bans
The very secret, “’strictly OFF-THE-RECORD’ and not to be printed or reproduced by/for media” document was produced by the Republican Study Committee to offer “messaging guidance” on the Republican Party’s “pro-life platform.”
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Abortion-rights activists rally at Supreme Court to protest new state bans
U.S. abortion-rights campaigners, including several Democrats running for president in 2020, are set to rally in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest new restrictions on abortion passed by legislatures in eight states.
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Alabama Gov Ivey is Sure the GOP Abortion Ban Won’t Hurt Tourism or Business
In what might be seen as a dismissively antagonistic stance, Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said she doesn’t think the abortion ban that has no exception for rape or incest, which she just signed into law, will hurt tourism or business recruitment.
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Missouri assembly passes restrictive abortion bill, days after Alabama
The lower house of the Missouri General Assembly passed a bill on Friday to prohibit women from seeking an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy, days after Alabama enacted the most restrictive abortion law in the United States.
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Republicans Are Running Away From Their Own Toxic Platform on Abortion
Republicans are very busy running away from Alabama’s tough abortion law, even though they not only enabled this exact situation by stealing a Supreme Court seat from President Obama and then installing two exceptionally far-right extremists to the bench but also, their platform insists on personhood for a fetus.
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U.S. anti-abortion groups plot course from state capitals to Supreme Court
Anti-abortion advocacy groups have pushed hard in recent months for the passage of bills to restrict or even ban the procedure outright at the state level, inspired by the perception that the U.S. Supreme Court has tilted in their favor.
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Missouri GOP-led Senate passes bill to ban abortions after eight weeks
The bills, along with similar measures proposed in more than a dozen other states, are the latest effort by conservatives to challenge Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1973 establishing a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.
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#youknowme – women mobilize against U.S. abortion crackdown
Celebrities revealed their abortion stories and ordinary Americans stood up to be counted as a backlash against tough new U.S. abortion laws gathered pace on Thursday and a social media campaign went viral.
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Women were there for you; Will you be there for us?
Stand up for women like you stand up for any other cause: We are real, we are right here, and we are in a crisis heretofore unseen.
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Republicans Come for Women’s Medical Rights as Georgia Governor Sign’s New Abortion Ban
Georgia’s Republican governor on Tuesday is expected to sign a bill outlawing abortion if a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, part of a concerted effort to restrict abortion rights in states across the country.
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Patricia Arquette Moves The House With Chilling Testimony In Support Of The ERA
Actress and activist Patricia Arquette argued for the ERA on Tuesday, saying women do not have equal protection under the law and laying bare with chilling examples how women today are often treated as sub-humans in America and do not have the same value as men.
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Republican-led States Pass Near-bans on Abortion Aiming for Supreme Court to Overrule Roe V Wade
Activists on both sides of the issue say such laws, which are commonly blocked by court injunctions, are aimed at getting a case sent to the U.S. Supreme Court, where conservatives hold a 5-4 majority, to challenge Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
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It’s 2016 All Over Again When It Comes to Media Bias in Election Coverage
Women and enlightened men know misogyny is baked into the media’s coverage of presidential elections. While Trump’s 2016 win was the result of a combination of forces, one of those forces was media bias. That isn’t merely the opinion of this writer; there is data proving Trump got preferential treatment, be it from the volume…
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Stop Using Women’s Sexual Assault and Harassment Trauma For Political Hit Jobs
It’s happening again.
The media is paving the way for Donald Trump to win 2020 with lazy, or perhaps purposeful, false equivalencies aimed at the top Democratic possible for 2020.
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Joe Biden doesn’t recall inappropriate kiss alleged by 2016 Sanders supporter Lucy Flores
“Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes,” Russo said on Friday in a statement.
Biden believes Flores has every right to share her own recollection, Russo added, and that it is a positive change for U.S. society that she has the opportunity.
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U.S. to expand abortion ‘gag rule,’ won’t fund certain groups: Pompeo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday expanded its anti-abortion policies, prohibiting U.S.-funded organizations from supporting other groups that support abortion and forbidding the use of U.S. tax dollars to lobby for or against abortion. In 2017, Trump reinstated a policy known as the Mexico City Policy which requires foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that…
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Mississippi GOP Gov signs abortion ban effective often before a woman knows she’s pregnant
(Reuters) – Mississippi’s Republican governor signed one of America’s strictest abortion bills on Thursday banning women from obtaining an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can often occur before a woman even realizes she is pregnant. Dubbed the ‘heartbeat bill,’ this is the second legislative attempt in less than a year aimed at…
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Gender equality, rights on agenda on International Women’s Day
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – Campaigners for gender equality marked International Women’s Day on Friday with protests, discussion panels and walkouts as well as celebrations. In one of the first protests of the day, several hundred women gathered in central Madrid around midnight to bang pots and pans and demand more rights for women…
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Supreme Court blocks restrictive Louisiana abortion law
The court on a 5-4 vote granted an emergency application by Shreveport-based abortion provider Hope Medical Group for Women to block the Republican-backed law from going into effect while litigation continues.
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On abortion, Trump agenda likely leads to Supreme Court, not Congress
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers in his State of the Union address to put new limits on abortion, but partisan division in the U.S. Congress means the Supreme Court likely will set the agenda on the divisive issue, as it has for decades.
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House Democrats Introduce a Bill to Finally Ensure Equal Pay for Women
Democrats in the U.S. Congress introduced a bill on Wednesday morning to ensure equal pay for women and transparency from employers.
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Gallery: Women to march in hundreds of U.S. cities for third straight year
Leaders of both groups say they will use this year’s marches to push policy related to raising the minimum wage, access to reproductive and healthcare and voting rights, among other issues. They are aiming to mobilize women to vote ahead of the 2020 elections, when Trump is expected to be the Republican nominee for president.
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Women to march in hundreds of U.S. cities for third straight year
By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women will march in hundreds of U.S. cities and overseas on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of demonstrations that drew millions of protesters to the streets the day after Republican President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017. Women’s March, a national nonprofit organization that evolved from the initial…
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U.S. judge partially blocks Trump administration birth control rules
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – A judge in California on Sunday partially blocked a set of Trump administration rules that allow employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers women’s birth control from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland granted a request by 14 Democratic attorneys general for a preliminary…
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Sex abuse by officials ‘endemic’ in North Korea: rights group
Sexual abuse by officials in positions of authority in North Korea appears to be “endemic”, a watchdog group reported on Thursday, as activists complain the isolated country’s rights record is being ignored amid an international push to improve relations.
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With record number of women running in U.S. elections, gender gap could boost Democrats
By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The record numbers of women running for office in the United States this year are mostly Democrats, and their party is banking on their candidacies and a widening gender gap on key issues to achieve big wins in the Nov. 6 elections. Reuters/Ipsos polling two weeks ahead of Election…
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Here Are The Facts: Right Wing Political Violence Far Outweighs Left Wing ‘Angry Mobs’
- black lives matter, Editors' Picks, Far right/White nationalists, Featured News, Feminism, Gun control
Republicans can’t talk about the issues that really matter to voters, so they gin up false narratives to get out the vote. This midterm, they’ve come up with “liberal mobs” and “antifa” coming to get everyone. In reality, the “liberal mobs” are angry about rape and jailed babies; they want a dialogue, they aren’t even…
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Women’s March Protesters Hold Inspiring Nationwide Protests Against Kavanaugh
Women’s March protesters are holding a “Cancel Kavanaugh” rally for survivors of sexual assault in DC Monday, with walkouts nationwide to say, “We believe survivors.” We’re marching out of the Hart Senate Building and back to the Supreme Court for a rally to #BelieveWomen and #CancelKavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/trp0fghxgs — Women’s March (@womensmarch) September 24, 2018 Meanwhile…
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Senate Democrats Try to Drag Republicans Into This Century on Sexual Assault Issues
- Democratic Party, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Feminism, sexual misconduct scandals, The Resistance, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
All ten Judiciary Committee Democrats tried to school Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to “learn from past mistakes,” that is, to ease himself into the modern era where sexual assault is no longer something to be ignored.
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A Sexual Assault Survivor Explains Things Slowly to GOP Rapist Enablers
People tell me I can’t speak about this because I am biased. I disagree. I have mentioned this in passing before, but now I’m going to come out with the story of an ongoing sexual assault that happened to me at work, so that I can use it to explain things very slowly to Republican…
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Susan Collins Called For Al Franken To Resign But Won’t Rule Out Voting For Kavanaugh
Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) called for Sen Franken’s (D-MN) resignation. Al Franken was accused of much less than Kavanaugh is. He was accused of trying to force a kiss.
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Schumer Demands Delay of Kavanaugh Vote Saying Women Have Been Ignored for Too Long
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer cited the “serious and credible allegations” that must be thoroughly investigated. “For too long, when woman have made serious allegations of abuse, they have been ignored. That cannot happen in this case.”
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein Calls For A Halt To Kavanaugh Confirmation While FBI Investigates Sexual Assault
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation to be put on hold until the FBI conducts an investigation.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Alleged Sexual Assault Victim Comes Forward As His Confirmation Process Must Stop
After months of silence, widely published Christine Ford, a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University who teaches with Stanford University, has come forward, and she comes having passed an FBI-administrated lie detector test to boot.
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Emails indicate Trump nominee Kavanaugh questioned abortion ruling: NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, raised questions as a White House aide more than a decade ago about whether the 1973 high court ruling legalizing abortion was settled law, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing leaked emails. The Times said an “unknown person” provided several confidential emails…
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As more women run for office, U.S. state legislatures are poised to change
By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As women line up to run for U.S. political office at historic rates, state legislatures – where some of America’s most critical policy decisions get made – could see a slew of new female lawmakers after November’s vote, according to a Reuters analysis of election data. In Michigan, for…
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Sexism in Action: The False Notion that Nancy Pelosi is ‘Polarizing’ But Mitch McConnell Is Not
- Editors' Picks, Featured News, Feminism, Nancy Pelosi, PoliticusUSA Editorial, POLITICUSUSA interviews, The Resistance
Why is Leader Nancy Pelosi labeled “polarizing” when Republicans, with whom the majority of the public does not agree, are not? I asked her this in an exclusive interview and she told me “They’re afraid of me, they’re afraid of women.”
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Top Supreme Court candidates’ views on abortion under scrutiny
From the moment Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court last week, speculation has centered on whether his replacement would vote to overturn a woman’s right to abortion.
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Glass ceiling for female federal investigators in FBI, DEA, and more
Women are not getting hired or promoted at the same rate as men in the U.S. Justice Department’s top law enforcement arms, leaving many female employees feeling they face routine gender discrimination in the workplace, the department’s internal watchdog has found.
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Notre Dame students sue school, White House over birth control policy
Students at the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday sued the Indiana school and the Trump administration over a move this year to drop coverage for some forms of birth control from the university’s health insurance plan, citing religious objections.
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Women candidates surge but face tough fights in battle for U.S. Congress
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Dozens of women on Tuesday won congressional and gubernatorial nominations as voters in eight U.S. states chose candidates ahead of November’s elections, including several who notched firsts in a year boasting a historic number of female contenders. But many of those women – particularly Democrats – will face tough contests…
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Voters remove California judge criticized over Brock Turner rape sentencing
oters removed from office a California judge who drew worldwide condemnation for giving a six-month jail sentence to a Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, unofficial returns from a special election showed on Wednesday.
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Judge to temporarily block Iowa’s restrictive abortion law
An Iowa judge has temporarily blocked the state’s new abortion law, the strictest in the country, from taking effect on July 1 while opponents and defenders of the measure present legal arguments, participants in the case said on Friday.
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After her apology, Trump calls for comedian Samantha Bee’s firing
U.S. President Donald Trump waded further into television controversies on Friday, calling for comedian Samantha Bee to be fired after she made a vulgar comment about his daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump on her program.
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Workers hit McDonald’s with new sexual harassment claims
Ten women who work at McDonald’s restaurants in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and six other cities have filed sexual harassment complaints in the past few days with the federal government against the company and its franchisees, which they said ignored or retaliated against them for such complaints.
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Trump proposes taking funds away from abortion providers
President Donald Trump on Friday issued a proposal that would effectively stop giving government funds that subsidize birth control for low-income women to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide abortions.
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Cosby conviction could mean hefty damages in civil cases: legal experts
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – On top of the years in prison comedian Bill Cosby faces for sexual assault, his criminal conviction increases the likelihood he will have to pay hefty damages in civil lawsuits brought by women who say he assaulted or defamed them, legal experts said. “The idea that ‘I never…
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Another GOP Predator Bites The Dust As Rep. Patrick Meehan Resigns
Married father of three Representative Patrick Meehan (R-PA) resigned Friday to put an end to an ethics probe into sexual harassment after reportedly using taxpayer dollars in settlement with aide who alleged sexual harassment. Meehan says he will repay U.S. Treasury for the $39,000 payment.
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Appeals court declares Pence’s ‘selective’ abortion law unconstitutional
A federal appeals court on Thursday declared unconstitutional an Indiana law signed by then-Governor Mike Pence that banned women from having abortions because of the gender, race or disability, including Down’s syndrome, of their fetuses.
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U.S. actors’ union calls for end to meetings in private hotel rooms
The United States’ largest actors’ union on Thursday called for an end to auditions and professional meetings in private hotel rooms and residences to protect its members from “potential harassment or exploitation.”
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Baylor University paid ex-football coach $15 million after sex scandal
Baylor University in Texas paid more than $15.1 million to its former head football coach Art Briles after firing him in 2016 for failing to address students’ complaints of rape and sexual assault by football players, new tax filings show.
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Trump ends Obama-era presumed freedom for pregnant immigrants
President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday it would no longer presume that many pregnant women detained by immigration authorities should be released from custody, reversing an Obama-era directive.
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Michigan university paid firm to monitor Nassar victims’ social media accounts
A public relations firm billed Michigan State University for more than $500,000 for January as it tracked social-media activity surrounding the case of convicted physician Larry Nassar that often included the accounts of his sexual assault victims and their families, USA Today reported on Wednesday.
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Scotland’s female leaders to Twitter: Clamp down on abuse of women
Scotland’s three most powerful female politicians have called on Twitter to do more to stop online abuse and harassment of women.
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Trump’s Forest Service chief resigns amid sexual misconduct accusations
The head of the U.S. Forest Service, Tony Tooke, resigned on Wednesday amid an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct made against him.
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Federal judge blocks Down syndrome abortion ban in Ohio
U.S. District Judge Timothy Black’s decision came after the Ohio state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court in Cincinnati, arguing the legislation violated the liberty and privacy clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Former Obama official to buy The Weinstein Co and use a majority female board
A former Obama administration official on Thursday reached a deal to purchase assets of The Weinstein Company and said she will use a majority-female board to rebuild the Hollywood studio tarnished by sexual misconduct allegations.
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Ivanka Trump Says She Doesn’t Believe Her Father Is Guilty Of Sexual Assault Or Harassment
First daughter Ivanka Trump once again failed to live up to her role as a supposed champion for women in a NBC News interview aired on Monday. Asked by Peter Alexander if she believes her father’s sexual misconduct accusers, of which there are over a dozen, she first pushed back against the question being asked in…
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CPAC Communications Director Blames Obama For His Racist Attack On Michael Steele
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele was the victim of a racist attack by CPAC Communications Director Ian Walters who then tried to blame his racist language on former president Barack Obama. Jon Levine of The Wrap tweeted: CPAC communication director Ian Walters at Reagan dinner “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a…
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Republican Idaho Senator Yells “Abortion Is Murder” At Students Advocating For Birth Control
Idaho Sen. Dan Foreman has been caught on video disrespecting his constituents yet again, this time angrily saying “abortion is murder” to supporters of women’s reproductive rights who weren’t even trying to discuss the specific issue of abortion with the senator at the time. A group of students from the University of Idaho traveled 300…
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Democratic Congresswoman Calls on Trump to Fire John Kelly
Repulsed by the Trump White House’s defense of alleged violent abuser Rob Porter, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-MN) called on Trump to fire White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for what she called “his domestic abuse cover-up.” “President Donald Trump’s comments today defending White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter demonstrate that the Trump-Pence White House…
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Rob Porter And Trump’s Disturbing Pattern Of Surrounding Himself With Men Who Abuse Women
One of the most important players in the Trump White House is resigning from his job as White House staff secretary amid accusations of abuse – a job Rob Porter got even though one of his ex-wives told the FBI about the charges during his background search. Thus it’s impossible to miss the fact that…
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Casino magnate Steve Wynn steps down as CEO after sexual misconduct claims
U.S. casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as CEO of his company Wynn Resorts following claims he routinely subjected women who worked for him to unwanted advances, becoming the latest prominent business leader to quit over sexual misconduct allegations.
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Guess shares slump after model Kate Upton tweets about exec
Guess Inc shares fell more than 17 percent on Thursday following a tweet by model and actress Kate Upton accusing the company’s co-founder of using his power to harass women.
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Olympic officials failed to act on Nassar sex abuse claims: report
U.S. Olympic Committee officials were told in 2015 that an investigation by USA Gymnastics had uncovered possible criminal sexual abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar but they failed to intervene, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Calls Out Hypocrite Republicans Who Won’t Return Money Given To Them By Steve Wynn
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called out Republicans for their lack of public denunciations against Steve Wynn, the former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee who’s been accused of sexual assault and harassment by dozens of women who worked at his Las Vegas businesses. During an appearance on The View, Gillibrand responded to the question…
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Trump Shocks No One By Confirming That He’s Not A Feminist
ITV aired Donald Trump’s interview with Piers Morgan on Sunday, and the president shared one of the least surprising revelations about himself — he’s not a feminist. “No, I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist,” he told Morgan. “That would be, maybe, going too far. I’m for women. I’m for men. I’m for everyone. I think…
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Trump Pal And RNC Finance Chair Steve Wynn Accused By Dozens Of Sexual Misconduct
Steve Wynn, the Finance Chair of the RNC and a man President Trump described as a great friend, has been accused by dozens of people of sexual misconduct, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks About #MeToo And Her Own Experience Being Sexually Harassed
During an interview at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talked about women’s rights and the legal work she’s done over the course of decades pushing for equality. She also opened up about her own experiences with sexual harassment. When discussing the recent #MeToo movement of women speaking up about…
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‘Three Billboards’ biggest winner at female-flavored SAG awards
Dark comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Sunday in a ceremony marked by women and their stories amid the sexual misconduct scandal that has swept Hollywood.
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In Women’s March finale, Las Vegas rally kicks off voter drive
Thousands of protesters gathered for the Women’s March “Power to the Polls” rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, kicking off a national drive to register a million new voters as well as put more female candidates in office and stymie President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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Power to the Polls: Women’s March 2.0 aims to harness Trump opposition
Tens of thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets of New York, Los Angeles and Washington on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a multi-city mass rally hailed as the start of a new era of female political activism.
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People Are Reminding Ivanka Trump Of Her Father’s Sexual Assault Allegations After She Praises Oprah’s Speech
Ivanka Trump has a talent for publishing tweets showing her complete lack of self-awareness and prompting widespread ridicule. Like her Equal Pay Day tweet on the importance of pay equity for women, which she posted just one week after her father rescinded the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order implemented by former President…
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An Arson Investigation Is Looking Into The Fire That Destroyed The Home Of A Roy Moore Accuser
Tina Johnson, one of the women who accused Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore of sexual harassment, is facing tragedy after her home burned down on Tuesday. The Etowah County Arson Task Force have opened up an investigation looking into whether there was any foul play. Though the task force said Friday that, so far, the…
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s 9-Year-Old Son Asked Her About Trump’s Tweet Sexually Harassing Her
Earlier this month, President Trump fired off a tweet insinuating that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has in the past offered him sexual favors in exchange for campaign contributions. Trump’s attack came after Gillibrand called on him to resign as a consequence for the sexual assault and harassment allegations that have been lodged against him by…
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Miss America CEO Sam Haskell Resigns After His Sexist Emails About Contestants Were Exposed
Sexist emails insulting Miss America contestants written by the pageant’s CEO, Sam Haskell, were published in a Thursday report by HuffPost. On Saturday, after suspending Haskell on Friday, Miss America’s board of directors revealed in a statement that he had resigned: This afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Miss America Organization accepted the resignation…
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Nancy Pelosi Holds Strong And Refuses To Work With Republicans Until They Respect Democrats
As Republicans scramble to avert yet another GOP government shutdown by midnight on Friday, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned them that if they want Democratic help, they will need to show some respect via concessions.
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In Unsurprising News, Most Women Want Trump To Resign Over Sexual Assault Accusations
More than 20 women have accused Donald Trump of either sexually assaulting or sexually harassing them, and a new poll by Quinnipiac found that the majority of U.S. women — 59% — think the allegations are grounds for him to resign from the presidency. On the other side, 41% of men think he should step down…
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Ohio Supreme Court Justice Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near The Bench After Minimizing Sexual Assault
Ohio Democrat Bill O’Neill wants you ladies to stop with the sexual assault complaints, or as he calls them, “sexual indiscretions.” He is “sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.”
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Backlash To Trump Is Directly Responsible for the Sudden Shift in Power for Women
Without the backlash to Donald Trump’s presidency — a thing built on the backbone of his own admission on tape that he sexually assaults women whenever he wants to and 16 women coming forward to say that Trump harassed and/or assaulted them — we would not be here right now…
… Having sometimes heartbreaking discussions about the predators among us.
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The Republicans’ Roy Moore Problem Just Got A Whole Lot Worse And Potentially Criminal
Rep. Ted Lieu pointed out that contrary to some reporting today, there is no statute of limitations in Alabama for criminal charges for sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 16.
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Alabama Republican Defends Roy Moore from the Accusation of Child Rape with Bible
Just in case you missed that Republicans are the party of Excusing Assault Against Women, Alabama Republican State Auditor and alleged Christian Jim Zeigler used the Bible to defend Republican Judge Roy Moore from accusations of child rape, claiming that Joseph was an adult, while Mary, Jesus’ mother, was a teenager.
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U.S. women gather in Detroit to build on anti-Trump Women’s March
Thousands of women who marched to protest Republican President Donald Trump’s inauguration gathered in Detroit on Friday to organize around issues like the viral “Me Too” movement exposing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and violence.
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Rose McGowan Stands Tall And Blasts the Pussy Grabbing Culture Saying It Will Not Stand
For the first time since accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of raping her, actress Rose McGowan spoke out, blasting the pussy-grabbing culture saying it cannot and will not stand.
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Bill O’Reilly Tries to Intimidate CBS’s Norah O’Donnell Into Shutting Up About Sexual Harassment
When Norah O’Donnell asked Bill O’Reilly about sexual harassment Monday on CBS This Morning, the former Fox host sneered aggressively, “I’m not that interested in this!”
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France gets serious over sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal
The Harvey Weinstein scandal is forcing a rethink of attitudes toward sexual harassment in France, a country that cherishes its self-image as the land of seduction and romance, said the minister tasked with cracking down on violence against women.
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Twitter’s Animal Farm TOS Enforcement Greenlights Misogyny, Trump, his Followers and Russian Bots
Last week, Twitter suspended Rose McGowan’s account because, according to Twitter, she violated TOS.
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Republicans Won’t Regulate Gun-Toting Domestic Terrorists But Plan to Regulate Women
Next Tuesday, House Republicans will be voting on an abortion ban bill. Yes, these are the same Republicans that refuse to discuss any kind of gun control, and in fact planned to push a bill loosening gun silencer restrictions this week until the Las Vegas Strip shooting killed 58 people and wounded over 500.