Education Mar 23 School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning With schools shut down for the coronavirus outbreak, districts and educators are launching a massive, unplanned test of virtual teaching.
Education Mar 13 NYC keeping schools open, defying novel coronavirus trend Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision leaves the Big Apple as an outlier amid a growing list of cities and states that have elected to close schools for a week or more as part of a nationwide attempt to limit the…
Nation Mar 11 Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for sexual assaults Weinstein, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month of raping a woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006.
Nation Feb 25 How Weinstein's conviction could influence other sex crime prosecutions If any case seemed to encapsulate the #MeToo reckoning with sexual misconduct, gender dynamics and power as a form of coercion, it was Weinstein's.
Nation Jan 31 Woman testifies Weinstein raped her twice A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein's trial says he raped her twice, once bellowing that she owed him as he dragged her into a bedroom.
Nation Jan 30 E. Jean Carroll's lawyers request DNA sample from Trump Lawyers for a woman who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s are asking for a sample of his DNA. The attorneys for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll say they want to determine whether Trump's genetic material is…
Nation Jan 23 Actress Annabella Sciorra Testifies in Weinstein Trial Actress Annabella Sciorra is confronting Harvey Weinstein at his New York City rape trial.
Nation Jan 09 Judge denies Trump effort to stop columnist defamation suit President Donald Trump has lost a bid to block an advice columnist's lawsuit over his remarks that she lied in accusing him of rape.
Nation Jan 07 Court freezes woman's defamation suit against Trump The decision, by a midlevel state appeals court, holds off further proceedings and evidence-gathering — including sworn pretrial questioning of Trump — in Summer Zervos' defamation case.
Nation Dec 10 Exxon Mobil wins lawsuit over climate change risks Exxon Mobil won a closely watched lawsuit over the costs of climate change, with a judge saying there was no proof the energy giant duped investors about the toll that regulations could take on its business.