#MeToo

A Chinese tennis star accused a former high-ranking government official of sexual assault, setting off a #MeToo crisis in the sports and political worlds. The athlete, Peng Shuai, has largely disappeared from public view, her tennis colleagues are worried and the International Olympic Committee is under criticism for its response. Here’s a look at the allegations and what followed.

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.

30 years after she testified about sexual harassment she faced from then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill has not seen the change she wants to see in society, though she will keep fighting. “We have a culture of dismissiveness, and silencing of victims. And that’s going to be a difficult thing to overcome as a society, but it is...

Almost four years ago, Time’s Up was formed by high-profile Hollywood women, aiming to ‘clean house’ regarding sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and beyond

Weinstein appeared in court in connection with a new grand jury indictment, which restores a count of sexual assault that had been dismissed by a judge. The defense asked for his arraignment to be postponed until Sept. 20.

Gloria Allred, the lead attorney for a woman accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault, plans to fight claims by Cosby’s defense that the law allowing her case to move forward is unconstitutional.

Harvey Weinstein is set to make his first court appearance in LA on Wednesday. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.

The pandemic hasn’t slowed down two of the most prominent #MeToo attorneys, who say they’re having their busiest year ever

The sexual assault charges that landed Bill Cosby in prison were overturned due to a nonprosecution agreement from a former DA in Pennsylvania. Such agreements are rare, says NBC News legal analyst and defense attorney Danny Cevallos.

A series of online messages from a long-ago schoolmate has a Gettysburg College graduate trying again to get authorities to make an arrest in her 2013 sexual assault

Hundreds of women claimed they were sexually abused by former USC gynecologist George Tyndall. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, March 25, 2021.

Attorneys representing hundreds of women who claim they were sexually abused by former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall will announce a “global settlement” of lawsuits against the university Thursday, describing the resolution as the largest of its type ever reached against a university.

A third woman who has leveled claims against Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid an investigation over sexual harassment allegations plans to meet with state attorney general investigators Thursday about the case. Ana Liss, who spoke in a TV interview earlier this month about the alleged “toxic workplace environment” in the embattled governor’s office, is one of seven women, several of...

President Joe Biden said during an interview Tuesday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign if the state attorney general’s investigation confirms the sexual harassment allegations against him. Biden made the remarks in an interview with ABC News that is scheduled to air Wednesday morning. When asked if the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should Cuomo...

An Associated Press investigation has identified at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years, including two new claims brought this week by women who say they were sexually assaulted by ranking agents

The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II announced on Friday that she was revoking Harvey Weinstein’s prestigious CBE honor in light of his rape convictions.

The New York Times looks looks back at Antioch College’s groundbreaking first affirmative consent policy for sex which was ridiculed 25 years ago but is now considered groundbreaking in the #MeToo movement.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday restored a major part of Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, finding that the producer had power over the actor which should make her able to sue under a California sexual harassment law.

A federal judge has rejected a proposed $18.8 million settlement that Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board reached with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, attorneys said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Heellerstein in Manhattan said Weinstein’s accusers in the proposed class-action settlement were too varied to be grouped together. The tentative deal, originally announced late last...

The death of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen has sparked a military “Me Too” movement online using the hashtags #IamVanessaGuillen and #JusticeforVanessa. Women are posting the hashtags along with graphic accounts of sexual assaults they say they experienced while in the U.S. military. One of those women, Marine combat veteran Kayla Carnevale said of her assault, “It ruined me for...