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The rapper paid over $300,000 to defend herself in the case and plans on fighting to recuperate those legal fees, her attorney said.

Buckingham Palace says that Prince Andrew’s honorary military titles and royal patronages have been returned to Queen Elizabeth II with her “approval and agreement.”

The “Sex and the City” star has denied allegations by the women in a report by The Hollywood Reporter that details alleged assaults in 2004 and 2015.

The IOC says Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has taken part in a 30-minute video call from Beijing with Olympic officials and told them she was safe and well.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka is calling for information about a fellow tennis player who has not been seen publicly since making a sexual assault allegation against a former top government official in China.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating allegations that a former Amateur Athletic Union girls’ basketball coach and basketball trainer from Hartford abused female student basketball players and they are urging any potential victims to come forward.

Ride-hailing company Lyft says more than 1,800 sexual assaults were reported by riders in 2019, and the number of incidents has been rising sharply in recent years.

More than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman on a train outside Philadelphia, police said.

U.S. Army officials have unveiled a new resource and training center at Fort Hood that aims to create a more supportive culture following reports of murder, suicide and sexual assault at the embattled Texas military installation.

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Monday on all counts in a high-profile sex-trafficking case by a federal jury in Brooklyn.

A crowd of about 300 students gathered in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house Sunday, calling for it to be shut down after sexual assault allegations circulated online and among students over the weekend.

Michaela Coel became the first Black woman to win the Emmy for best writing for a limited series for her HBO drama “I May Destroy You.”

A U.S. court will hold a pretrial conference Monday in the civil suit filed by a woman who claims Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her as the two sides argue over whether the prince has been properly served with documents in the case

Bail was set at $5,000 for defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. A not-guilty plea was entered on McCarrick’s behalf during his arraignment in Dedham District Court Friday, where he remained silent. Wellesley police charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, more than a month…

Police have arrested an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) who is accused of sexually assaulting a medical patient during an office visit in Farmington last month. Authorities said 46-year-old Steven Lamoureux, of Farmington, was arrested by warrant on Monday. According to investigators, detectives began investigating APRN Lamoureux after receiving a complaint on July 19 that he performed what he called…

Alibaba said it would set up a five-woman committee that will be the “decision-making body for matters related but not limited to sexual harassment prevention.”

Over the weekend, a female employee wrote a post on Alibaba’s intranet accusing her supervisor Wang Chengwen and a company client of sexual assault.

Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday. The Boston Globe was first to report the charges. McCarrick was…

Two more women have accused the owner of a Bridgeport furniture store of sexual assault.