Showing posts with label sexual misconduct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual misconduct. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2026

House Ethics panel investigating Chuck Edwards for sexual misconduct - Live Updates - POLITICO

The leaders of the bipartisan panel said Thursday they were probing whether the North Carolina Republican “created or fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment in violation of the Code of Official Conduct or any other applicable standard of conduct.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/14/congress/house-ethics-investigating-edwards-00922440


Sunday, November 2, 2025

Christian Nationalist vs. Zohran Mamdani's "Values" (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #607)

— Donor pulls scholarships after University of Arkansas Fayetteville posts Ten Commandments. (1:05)

— Christian HVAC tech fired after invoking the “Billy Graham Rule” sues employer. (11:08)

— The leader of the Anglican Church of North America is mired in a sexual misconduct scandal. (28:45)

— Indiana’s Christian Nationalist Lt. Gov. says Zohran Mamdani wants to “force his values” on NYC. (44:19)

— Colorado’s “first public Christian school” is a constitutional disaster waiting to happen. (58:19)

— Christian Nationalist linked to Pete Hegseth defends slavery as “not inherently evil.” (1:15:53)

— The Republican war on science is rapidly becoming a public health emergency. (1:30:21)
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Friday, February 7, 2025

Cuny graduate school rolls back pregnant students’ protections after Trump letter

The Biden-era regulations explicitly required that schools set up a lactation room and made it easier for pregnant students to take leaves of absence. The erasure of these protections, advocates say, would seem to be at odds with Republican claims about the importance of raising families. 

"The fact that the Trump administration is rolling back these protections just shows that they don't actually care about pregnant people's lives, even though they claim to be pro-life," said Emma Grasso Levine, senior manager of Title IX policy and programs at the organization Advocates for Youth. "If they actually cared about the rights of women and folks who can get pregnant, they would be cementing protections like these."…

Friday, December 15, 2023

Mike Bickle, founder of international prayer movement, confesses to past misconduct - The Washington Post

In late October, former leaders of the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer publicly accused Bickle of clergy sexual misconduct, based on allegations from several women about misconduct that allegedly went on for decades...


Thursday, September 16, 2021

FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh

…Wray is likely to face scrutiny on why information that was specific to the allegations of sexual misconduct was not fully explored, including evidence that was reportedly offered to investigators by an alleged witness named Max Stier, an attorney and former classmate of Ramirez, who reportedly notified senators that he had witnessed an event similar to the one recounted by Ramirez...


Friday, July 23, 2021

FBI failed to fully investigate Kavanaugh allegations, say Democrats

Whitehouse had in March of this year asked the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to help facilitate "proper oversight" by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing and said he was seeking answers about "how, why, and at whose behest" the FBI conducted a "fake" investigation.


Monday, January 20, 2020

These 2020 candidates were previously accused of sexual misconduct - Vox

Roy Moore’s 2017 Senate campaign ended in defeat after multiple women said he had pursued them sexually or romantically when they were teenagers. One, Leigh Corfman, said that he removed her clothes and touched her sexually when she was 14 and he was 32. Another, Beverly Young Nelson, said that he sexually assaulted her when she was 16. Now, just over two years after the allegations came to light, Moore is running for Senate again.....
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/16/21065460/sexual-misconduct-me-too-2020-trump-moore

Friday, January 18, 2019

Despite denials, D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegations against Theodore McCarrick and reported them to Vatican - The Washington Post

Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegations against ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and reported them to the Vatican in 2004, church officials confirmed Thursday evening, despite portraying himself since last summer as unaware of any complaints surrounding McCarrick....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/2019/01/10/b542cbba-1513-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html

Saturday, November 11, 2017








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