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Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial

Apr. 26, 2024 19:58 PM EDT

Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City court next week, the first step in potentially retrying the film mogul after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial. The...

#MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein's conviction is overturned

Apr. 26, 2024 17:48 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with...

Former Virginia hospital medical director acquitted of sexually abusing ex-patients

Apr. 26, 2024 16:48 PM EDT

NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — The former medical director of a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children and young adults was acquitted Friday of sexually abusing two teenage patients during physical exams. Dr. Daniel Davidow worked for decades as the medical director of the...

Andrew Tate's trial on charges of rape and human trafficking can start, a Romanian court rules

Apr. 26, 2024 10:29 AM EDT

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal ruled that prosecutors’...

Romanian court orders trial can start for influencer Andrew Tate on charges of human trafficking and rape

Apr. 26, 2024 09:59 AM EDT
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian court orders trial can start for influencer Andrew Tate on charges of human trafficking and rape.

A look at past and future cases Harvey Weinstein has faced as his New York conviction is thrown out

Apr. 26, 2024 01:19 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed. ...

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is overturned by New York's top court

Apr. 25, 2024 18:39 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie...

Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next

Apr. 25, 2024 20:02 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era that began in 2017 and helped launch the #MeToo movement. ...

Ashley Judd, #MeToo founders react to ruling overturning Harvey Weinstein's conviction

Apr. 25, 2024 16:24 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction on Thursday, saying the trial judge should not have allowed other women to testify about alleged assaults the movie mogul wasn't charged with. Here is some of the reaction to the decision: ...

Judge reject's Trump's bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case

Apr. 25, 2024 14:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial on Thursday after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation for calling her claim that he had sexually assaulted her in a...