Elisabeth Ponsot

This story has been updated.

On Nov. 9, four women told the Washington Post (paywall) that Roy Moore “pursued them” when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s. That number has since risen to nine named accusers alleging sexual misconduct by the Alabama Senate candidate.

In September, Matt Lauer sat down for a one-on-one interview with Bill O’Reilly, five months after the former Fox News anchor’s unexpected dismissal from the network.

Sean Spicer now says he thinks that all allegations of sexual misconduct “should be treated seriously”—including those made against his one-time boss Donald Trump.

Another day, another male media titan is shown the door for allegations of sexual harassment or misconduct. This morning, Matt Lauer, the famed Today show co-host, was fired by NBC after the network said it received a “detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” Journalists on Twitter suggested that media outlets, including Variety and the New York Times, had been investigating such allegations in recent weeks.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is worth more than $100 billion after shares for the online retailer jumped today, Bloomberg News reports.

After Donald Trump’s surprise victory in last year’s US presidential election, American progressives were in a dark place. Trump had won 306 electoral votes, including a swing state sweep with wins in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, and the White House for the first time since 2007.  The “highest and hardest glass ceiling” remained intact.

After a fifth woman accused Roy Moore of sexual misbehavior or assault, US senate majority leader and fellow Republican Mitch McConnell urged the Alabama senate nominee to withdraw, saying, “I believe the women.”

US attorney general Jeff Sessions will testify today before the House Judiciary Committee about oversight of the Justice Department. He is also expected to answer questions about Russian involvement in the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

A fifth woman who has come forward to accuse Roy Moore of sexual impropriety says when she was 15, the Republican Senate candidate behaved inappropriately toward her.

The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a five-star accommodation known for its grand indoor pool and gentlemen’s-only spa, is currently being used for a decidedly different purpose: housing elite political prisoners.

The man who intentionally drove a truck down a bike lane in lower Manhattan, killing at least 8 people and injuring a dozen more in an act of terror was a lone attacker radicalized as “a domestic jihadist” in the US, officials said today (Nov. 1).

Update (11:25pm US ET): The suspect has been identified by law-enforcement sources as Sayfullo Saipov, 29.

If Donald Trump wants some of his more controversial policies to actually take shape in Washington—he probably should consider hitting the pause button on Twitter. There are now a catalog of instances where Trump’s directives have been stymied at least in part because of his own words.

Paul Manafort, the one-time head of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential effort, and former Trump campaign aide Richard Gates have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a litany of charges, according to records unsealed this morning (Oct. 30).

On the island of Dominica, where a category-5 hurricane killed at least 27 and flattened the tropical landscape in September,  residents speak about their lives as being split in two parts: before Maria, and after.

Megyn Kelly, who left Fox News for NBC following the sexual-harassment scandal that took down executive Roger Ailes, is disputing Bill O’Reilly’s lawyer’s claims that no one complained to the cable-news outlet managers about the former primetime host’s actions.

Few things trigger Donald Trump like suggesting that he’s not as wealthy as he claims to be.

It was 11:30 at night on Sunday (Oct. 8) when Carol Dean first saw the flames flickering over a hill near her Santa Rosa home.

The sexual harassment and rape allegations against famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein have been snowballing. On Oct. 5 the New York Times reported (paywall) that several actresses and former colleagues had accused Weinstein of sexual harassment. A follow-up story (paywall) included accusations from stars such as Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow. Today the New Yorker published further allegations, including of rape.

Less than a week after a New York Times investigation disclosed decades of indecent and allegedly criminal conduct by Harvey Weinstein, and just three days after he was fired from his own company amid the fallout, new audio has emerged of the famed movie producer trying to coerce model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez to go into his hotel room with him in 2015.

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The fallout continues for Harvey Weinstein, who just yesterday (Oct. 8) was fired from his own company following the New York Times investigation that revealed the famed media mogul had paid off sexual-harassment accusers for decades. Today, Meryl Streep has issued a statement calling the behavior “inexcusable,” and praising the women who went on the record with the Times.

When Hurricane Maria made a direct hit on the Caribbean island of Dominica last month, residents fled to the safest corners they could find. They huddled in bathrooms, squeezed into cabinets, camped out in shelters—going anywhere they could to get away from shaking windows, rising floodwaters, and projectile debris.