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Conservative organizations are targeting Republican senators, saying that they will pay a price if they do not back the president-elect's choice for defense secretary. As Pete Hegseth prepares for confirmation [...]

A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for attorney general, who denies [...]

It's been a little more than three decades since Daniel Patrick Moynihan published his famous essay on 'Defining Deviancy Down.' Every society, the senator-scholar from New York argued, could afford [...]

Republicans and Democrats alike insisted that the findings of the House Ethics Committee, which has been investigating the Florida Republican for years over sexual misconduct and other charges, be made [...]

On Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel and filmed itself committing scores of human-rights atrocities. Some of the footage was later captured by the Israeli military and screened to hundreds of [...]

The state comptroller wants eXp Realty to look into allegations that female real estate agents were drugged and assaulted during company events. The New York state comptroller has asked the [...]

The party on Sunday removed almost all the authority of Christian Ziegler, who faces a criminal investigation and has resisted calls to resign. The embattled chairman of the Republican Party [...]

Israel has accused Hamas of committing abuses against large numbers of women. Hamas denies the allegations. From the first days after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Israel has accused [...]

Joël Guerriau, a centrist representing a region of western France, is under investigation over suspicion that he spiked a colleague's drink with the intention of sexually assaulting her. A French [...]

Accusations against the band's frontman had been swirling on social media and in reports by German news outlets for nearly two weeks. Berlin's state prosecutor said Wednesday that it had [...]

Peter K. Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization dismissed a lead investigator into the origins of the Covid-19 [...]

The first attack in Hudson River Park set off searches, but investigators made no arrest until two more women had been victimized. Before dawn one morning in March, a man [...]

The House oversight committee wants the Pentagon to report on sexual misconduct in the high school programs and how it holds instructors accountable. Congressional investigators have opened a review of [...]

Letters from victims and activists drew the Justice Department's attention after city and state officials failed to act on the same complaints. By the time the U.S. Justice Department announced [...]

KYIV, Ukraine -- When Lyudmyla Denisova became Ukraine's human rights commissioner four years ago, a job that she thought would round out a career in public service, it rekindled a [...]

The investigation that led to charges against Jonathan Vance, a former chief of Canada's defense staff, is one of several that have ensnared current and former Canadian military commanders. OTTAWA [...]

Julian Wachner has been accused of sexually assaulting a Juilliard School employee during a music festival in 2014. He denies the accusation. Trinity Wall Street, one of New York's wealthiest [...]

Peter Foley denied the accusations that were made by a former athlete. A U.S. Olympic snowboarding coach is under investigation after a former athlete accused him of inappropriate behavior. Callan [...]

Zhang Gaoli was best known as a low-key technocrat. Then a Chinese tennis star's allegations made him a symbol of a system that bristles against scrutiny. Before Zhang Gaoli was [...]

Accustomed to forcing messages on audiences at home and abroad, its propaganda machine hasn't learned how to craft a narrative that stands up to scrutiny. The Chinese government has become [...]

The tennis world is outraged over the latest twist in a star player's complaint of assault and abrupt disappearance from public life. First came the shocking #MeToo accusation by a [...]

In March 2018, a 31-year-old instructor in the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu was arrested at a gym in Naples, Fla. He was charged with three counts of sexual assault [...]

Paul Riley became the third N.W.S.L. coach fired for misconduct since August. All were men, leading prominent women's players to demand action, and protection. A prominent head coach in the [...]

Liam Scarlett killed himself after he was accused of misconduct. Now the dance world is grappling with the aftermath. MUNICH -- The choreographer Liam Scarlett's ''With a Chance of Rain,'' [...]

The district attorney's office in Los Angeles cited the statute of limitations, which expires after 10 years, in declining to pursue criminal charges regarding an alleged 2005 incident. Prosecutors in [...]

The number of cases of online sex exploitation, including of children, appeared to skyrocket last year as people spent more time on computers. WASHINGTON -- Predators worldwide took advantage of [...]

The indication of a potential cooperation deal came as investigators were also examining a trip by Mr. Gaetz to the Bahamas and whether he discussed running a so-called ghost candidate [...]

Trouble for the Florida fanboy. Hey, we've got our first political sex scandal of the spring. Not as charming as an Easter basket, but maybe livelier. What would you guess [...]

The Justice Department is said to be investigating the congressman's encounters with women recruited online for sex and whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. The Justice Department is [...]

The Buccaneers receiver has been one of the most electrifying players in the N.F.L., but he is facing accusations of sexual assault and harassment. Get over it. That was the [...]

Until Jeffrey Toobin's fateful appointment with Zoom on Oct. 15, his quarantine was going better than most people's. In August, his eighth book, ''True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of [...]

The payment companies said they would investigate financial links after The New York Times reported that videos on Pornhub depict child abuse. Visa and Mastercard said they would investigate their [...]

The Manhattan district attorney's office said it was investigating the Rev. George William Rutler after a security guard said he attacked her at his church. A nationally prominent Catholic priest [...]

A sexual assault accusation against the presumptive Democratic nominee is being used to troll the #MeToo movement. It would be easier to know what to do with Tara Reade's accusation [...]

The announcement by Michigan came months after a former student told the university that Dr. Robert E. Anderson had engaged in sexual misconduct. The University of Michigan said Wednesday that [...]

Finance Secretary Derek Mackay is said to have sent a 16-year-old boy the messages over several months, telling him he was ''really cute'' and inviting him to a rugby match. [...]

The publication of the allegations came a week after Mr. Sondland testified before Congress in the impeachment proceedings. Three women have accused Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to [...]

He also said that he was willing to help law enforcement agencies in their investigations, and that he ''unequivocally'' regrets the ''ill-judged association.'' LONDON -- Prince Andrew announced on Wednesday [...]

A second complaint came as the mixed martial arts star waited to see whether prosecutors would charge him in another case. Conor McGregor, one of the biggest stars of the [...]

Several Democratic presidential candidates called for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on Sunday after The New York Times published new information about allegations of sexual misconduct [...]

Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there. A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Last February, Jill and Faith Soloway were filming the final episode of ''Transparent'' here at Paramount Pictures, in the studio's cavernous Stage 14. It was the last [...]

[Read our latest story: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide at a Manhattan jail on Saturday, officials said .] A rotating cast of girls would sit around Jeffrey Epstein's waterfront mansion, drinking [...]

For much of her life, Linda Fairstein was widely viewed as a law enforcement hero. As one of the first leaders of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit, later [...]

PARIS -- An investigation of allegations of rape and sexual assault involving the French film star Gérard Depardieu was dropped on Tuesday because of a lack of incriminating evidence, the [...]

When David J. Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sat down last spring to dig through a trove of previously unreleased government records, [...]

The N.B.A. and the Sacramento Kings announced a joint investigation on Thursday into allegations of sexual assault against Luke Walton, recently hired as head coach for the Kings. Two lawyers [...]

An Arizona legislator resigned Wednesday amid an ethics investigation into reports that he was charged with sex crimes decades ago, a sudden surrender just months after colleagues had called on [...]

GENEVA -- Some women were tied to trees, raped for hours and then beaten. Others who resisted were pummeled with rifle butts, sticks and cable wire. The assailants were armed [...]

For nearly two decades, Ryan Adams, one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of his generation, has been heralded as a mercurial creative genius and a respected industry tastemaker.Equal parts punk-rock [...]