7 h. ago Date rape survivors file lawsuit accusing Hinge and Tinder of ‘accommodating rapists’

Civil suit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists but don’tThe Dating Apps Reporting Project produced this story in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and copublished with The Guardian and The 19th.Six women who were drugged and raped or sexually assaulted by the same Denver cardiologist filed a lawsuit against Match Group on Tuesday, accusing the world’s largest dating app company of “accommodating rapists across its products” through “negligence” and a “defective” product. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago US date rape survivors file lawsuit accusing Hinge and Tinder of ‘accommodating rapists’

Civil suit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists but don’tThe Dating Apps Reporting Project produced this story in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and copublished with The Guardian and The 19th.Six women who were drugged and raped or sexually assaulted by the same Denver cardiologist filed a lawsuit against Match Group on Tuesday, accusing the world’s largest dating app company of “accommodating rapists across its products” through “negligence” and a “defective” product. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Hunt for predator who sexually assaulted three women in Edinburgh streets within minutes

Detectives have reassured the public they are doing everything they can to trace the man responsible and there will be an increased presence of police officers.

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10 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Three women sexually assaulted within minutes in affluent Edinburgh neighbourhood

Officers believe the same man was involved in the three incidents.

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12 h. ago Uni student jailed for sex assaults on three women in under a year

David Ekpe, 23, who has been described as a "a danger to women", was convicted of sexually assaulting three vulnerable women after preying on them while intoxicated or asleep.

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30 h. ago Policeman made 'sexually explicit' comments to women, court told

The officer denies the improper use of police power or privileges

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32 h. ago Fiend sexually assaulted nine women after offering them ‘touching therapy’ while they exercised on UK beach

A FIEND sexually assaulted nine women after offering them "touching therapy" while they worked out on a popular beach. Fattah Derrahi told the victims they had "good energy" after watching them exercise on Brighton seafront. The care home head chef carried out the sickening assaults over a five-year period between 2021 and 2025. Derrahi was...

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41 h. ago Bruno Langley's new career after being replaced by Welsh actor in Coronation Street

Bruno Langley, who played Todd Grimshaw on Coronation Street from 2001 to 2017, was sacked from the soap after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two women in a Manchester bar

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41 h. ago ITV Coronation Street Bruno Langley's new life eight years after Todd Grimshaw axe

Bruno Langley was dismissed from Coronation Street in 2017 after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two women in a Manchester bar. He's since carved out a new career in photography and music

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41 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Man charged in connection with man's death at Edinburgh flat

Police were stationed near the property overnight on Sunday.

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67 h. ago Women fleeing Mali's conflict say they were sexually assaulted but silence hides many more

Women and girls from Mali are alleging rape and sexual assault by Russian fighters with Africa Corps, a new military unit under Moscow's control

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3 d. ago Two people dead and nine wounded in mass shooting at Brown University, as suspect remains at large

Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, says ‘shooter’ still at large, as officials embark on widespread manhuntBrown University shooting: follow live updatesWhat we know so far about the Brown University shootingAt least two people were killed and nine more critically injured in a shooting on Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with the suspect still at large hours after the first shelter in place orders were issued.Police scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighbourhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, back yards and porches for hours late into the night after the shooting was first reported in the afternoon. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago David Walliams's glamorous girlfriends (and platonic girl friends) after 'playing up' to assumptions about his sexuality led to women seeing him as a 'gay BFF'

David has questioned himself if if he could be gay. Yet while he played up to the assumptions, David, 54, has only publicly ever had relationships with women.

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5 d. ago Man fired live ammunition through window amid ‘personal dispute’, court told

Nicky Robertson, 39, has admitted targeting the property in Edinburgh in March this year.

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5 d. ago ‘Human trafficking behind prison walls’: women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse

Women at FMC Carswell – long a focus of sexual abuse investigations – say prison officials have turned a blind eyeEleven women incarcerated at a federal prison in Texas allege they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by staff members in the past seven years. The allegations are the latest accusations of abuse within a federal prison system rife with claims of inhumane conditions.The allegations at FMC Carswell, a federal medical women’s prison in Fort Worth, Texas, are particularly troubling because the facility has been the focus of sexual abuse investigations for years, with 13 staff members convicted of abuse and misconduct since 1997 and promises of reform at various times. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Influencer accused of luring women into home abandoned after LA fires to sexually assault them

Clinton Adams, 32, is facing multiple rape charges. Police believe there may be more victims

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6 d. ago Girls and women 'are being targeted by sexual predators in mixed changing rooms'

Eighty sexual assaults, 16 rapes and 65 incidents of voyeurism happened across leisure centres in England and Wales in 2023, according to police data obtained by the Women's Rights Network.

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7 d. ago White supremacist who says women shouldn't vote admits he's a virgin as Piers Morgan grills him on gay rumors

Self-professed misogynist Nick Fuentes admitted he's a virgin and finds women annoying as he tried to defend his sexuality to Piers Morgan.

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8 d. ago Aspects of Peggie tribunal findings ‘hugely problematic for women’ – solicitor

An employment tribunal upheld Sandie Peggie’s claims she was harassed by NHS Fife but other claims were dismissed.

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8 d. ago Tim Westwood pleads not guilty to ‘carrying out sex attacks at BBC studios and raping woman at hotel’

DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting women at the BBC studios and raping another at a hotel over a 33-year period. The ex-Radio 1 DJ is accused of carrying out the alleged offences against seven women between 1983 and 2016. Westwood, 68, appeared at Southwark Crown Court where he denied 15 counts in...

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