Lyon's archbishop, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and five other figures are on trial on charges of failing to act against sexual abuse allegations targeting a priest in his diocese.
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National Geographic Channel has pulled its long-running Neil deGrasse Tyson chat show "StarTalk" off the air, following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his chief lieutenants are offering contrition and defiance as they face allegations of sexual harassment that plagued his last presidential campaign and now threaten to derail a second White House bid before it begins.
Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge of sexual assault for allegedly assaulting a former Boston TV news anchor's teenage son in 2016, Variety has confirmed.
The Catholic Church in Illinois withheld the names of at least 500 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors, the state's attorney general said Wednesday in a scathing report that accused the church of failing victims by neglecting to investigate their allegations.
Attorneys in a class action suit against Harvey Weinstein say the former Hollywood mogul is improperly looking to mine the discovery process in Delaware federal court for information to discredit sexual assault claims against him in Manhattan federal court.
Les Moonves, the former boss of CBS, will not receive a $120m (£95m) severance package after an inquiry into alleged sexual misconduct.
In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, the Catholic church had a problem with Jesuit priests sexually abusing children. Priest James Poole was a repeat offender.
As the Catholic Church faces a wave of federal and state attorney general investigations into its handling of sex abuse, bishops around the country have struggled with how to react.
CBS News reached a legal settlement with three women who accused the network of not doing enough to stop one of its anchors, Charlie Rose, from sexually harassing them.
Those images have become part of the investigation into whether Tyndall sexually abused hundreds of students over his three-decade career at USC's student health center.
The women who have accused the famed science educator of sexual impropriety have made claims not just about traumatized minds, but also about traumatized careers.
In October, USC announced it would pay $215 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Tyndall's patients, the first in what is expected to be a wave of payouts stemming from case.
As a draft report prepared by CBS's outside lawyers now makes clear, many of the company's employees, including high-ranking executives and even members of its board, were aware of the former chief executive Leslie Moonves's alleged sexual misconduct and subsequent efforts to conceal it.
For the past year, those who work in the entertainment and media industries have been deluged with stories about harassment, toxicity, assault and rape on sets, in offices, in hotels rooms and just about everywhere else.
It's no longer a secret that the Catholic Church suffers from a pervasive, decades-old child-sex-abuse epidemic, perpetrated by "a huge network of men: priests and bishops and cardinals and possibly even the Pope himself," writer Caitlin Flanagan says.
The Department of Education has weighed these questions and has a message for women on campus: You better buy some mace.
Under the Trump administration's definition, harassment must be "so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access" to education.
Lou Anna K. Simon, the former president of Michigan State University who stepped down earlier this year, was charged today in a state court in Michigan with lying to state police during an investigation of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, the imprisoned campus sports doctor who sexually abused hundreds of female patients for years.
Former students who say they're victims of sexual misconduct by an Ohio State University team doctor allege more than 20 school officials and employees, including athletic directors, knew concerns about how he treated young men but didn't stop him.
