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Mormon-owned BYU eases rules on ‘homosexual behavior’

By BRADY McCOMBS | February 19, 2020

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University in Utah has revised its strict code of conduct to strip a rule that banned any behavior that reflected “homosexual feelings," which LGBTQ students and their allies felt created an unfair double standard...

Understanding Weinstein’s charges and potential punishment

By MICHAEL R. SISAK | February 19, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — A look at the charges against Harvey Weinstein and the punishment the former Hollywood producer could face if convicted at his New York City rape trial. A jury of seven men and five women started deliberating Tuesday in the closely watched...

Abuse victims look to Vatican after UN meetings in Geneva

By JAMEY KEATEN | February 19, 2020

GENEVA (AP) — Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva on Wednesday, hoping to build pressure on the Vatican — and Pope Francis himself — to come...

Deliberating a 2nd day, Weinstein jury revisits ’06 account

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS | February 19, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial spent much of their second day of deliberations Wednesday revisiting a former film and TV production assistant's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in July 2006.Jurors sent a note shortly...

Utah lawmakers get tough on porn, ease up on polygamy

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST | February 18, 2020

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers voted Tuesday to put new regulations on pornography and remove some on polygamy in separate proposals moving quickly through the Legislature in the deeply conservative state.Senators voted unanimously to change state...

Jury ends 1st day of deliberations in Weinstein’s rape trial

By TOM HAYS and MICHAEL R. SISAK | February 18, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday with lots of questions and no verdict in the landmark #MeToo case that could put the once-powerful Hollywood producer behind bars for the rest of...

French health minister to run for Paris mayor to end scandal

By ELAINE GANLEY | February 16, 2020

PARIS (AP) — France's Health Minister Agnes Buzyn was named on Sunday as a new candidate for mayor of Paris, a late entry by the country's governing party after a scramble to replace the original contender who abruptly withdrew after a leak of sex videos...

Prosecutor: Weinstein saw victims as ‘complete disposables’

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS | February 14, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating aspiring actresses like "complete disposables," a prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments Friday at his New York City...

RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79

February 13, 2020

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has died after recent heart surgery. He was 79.Pachauri’s death was announced late Thursday by...

Weinstein lawyer: Prosecutors have a ‘tale,’ not a case

By TOM HAYS, JENNIFER PELTZ, and MICHAEL R. SISAK | February 13, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer told jurors Thursday that prosecutors in the rape case against him were acting like moviemakers, conjuring up a world "where women had no free will.”“In the alternative universe that prosecutors have created...

Former law clerk alleges harassment by late prominent judge

By MARK SHERMAN | February 13, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former law clerk said she was repeatedly sexually harassed by the prominent federal judge she worked for, the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt, and that the judiciary's new system for reporting misconduct remains inadequate.The former...

Amsterdam bans tour groups from sex workers’ windows

February 13, 2020

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The local government in Amsterdam has banned guided tours that take groups past the famed windows in the city's red-light district where visitors watch semi-naked sex workers pose.The move announced Thursday is the city government's...