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Matt Corey, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, is calling for a congressional hearing on the growing scandal of sexual abuse and assault in Hollywood.

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The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Even as Silicon Valley is being exposed for its dark sides — everything from its diversity shortcomings, to its focus on money, to scandals around sexual harassment, ageism and the cost of living — it's provided a playbook for growth and innovation for the rest of the world.

The startup has been accused of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, is involved in an acrimonious lawsuit with self - driving car firm Waymo, and has had to replace CEO Travis Kalanick, who stepped down amid the scandals and the sudden death of his mother.

She had, however, dismissed suggestions that the octogenarian media mogul and his sons would not be «fit and proper» owners in the light of the sexual harassment scandals at Fox.

The physicist in charge of the «Doomsday Clock» has resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal

In July, American Apparel appointed the first two women to its board of directors after its now ousted CEO got caught up in a sexual harassment scandal.

She took a more active role this year following a series of scandals, including sexual harassment allegations, a video of Kalanick berating a driver, and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

Just this year, there have been numerous scandals with Bay Area VC funds involving sexual harassment of female founders.

A ballooning sexual harassment scandal in Westminster claimed its first victim late Monday as Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon, saying his conduct had fallen below the high standards demanded of his position.

Still, the timing and seeming abruptness of O'Reilly's vacation announcement sparked some speculation that his absence is connected to the ongoing scandal stemming from The New York Times «recent report that Fox and O'Reilly have paid out $ 13 million to five women who accused the anchor of sexual harassment.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi appeared on NBC's Today Show on Thursday morning, addressing a number of hot topics tech in rapid succession, ranging from Facebook and privacy rights, self - driving cars, and the company's sexual harassment scandals.

Many offices are doing away with alcohol, or the party altogether, in the wake of sexual misconduct scandals currently plaguing a range of industries.

Here is a rundown of the current sexual harassment scandals rocking Silicon Valley, along with the long history of how the tech industry got here.

Last week, a scandal sprouted on Canada's east coast after it was discovered that part of Frosh Week activities at Saint Mary's University in Halifax included the chanting of a song promoting the sexual assault of underage girls.

The company has suffered through a series of mishaps and scandals that included claims of sexual harassment, multiple lawsuits, and serious fights with regulators.

Sexual assault and harassment in the US military is largely under - reported and came under renewed scrutiny last year after a scandal involving some Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light.

Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) gave up on Twenty - First Century Fox stock earlier this year, it disclosed Monday — just as the owner of Fox News was embroiled in a widening sexual harassment scandal that culminated last month in the ouster of political commentator Bill O'Reilly.

It is also recovering from a year of scandals that saw co-founder Travis Kalanick forced out as chief executive in June amid U.S. criminal inquiries and a workplace marred by sexual harassment allegations.

Tokyo Japan's finance ministry said on Friday it would dock the pay of its top finance bureaucrat for sexual harassment and apologized for betraying public trust in a scandal that has further damaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ratings.

This wave of scandals coincided with the #MeToo movement, a national conversation on workplace sexual harassment.

The company has been buffeted by one scandal after another in 2017, from alleged sexual harassment to software designed to evade law enforcement, now the subject of a federal probe.

A sexual dalliance, a casino kickback scandal, early elections and the lure of the Chinese market have resulted in the postponement of a high - level Canadian trade mission to Australia, reports the Australian Financial Review.

Given changes in the business at home — namely CEO Travis Kalanick resigning amid a host of scandals involving sexual harassment and other bad management practices — the company appears to be having a wider thinking of its overall strategy.

The promised reforms, which include stripping Kalanick of some of his power when he returns and hiring an independent board chairman to rein him in, represent the company's most dramatic effort yet to move past the sexual harassment allegations and other scandals that have plagued Uber.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest sexual harassment scandal to shake Silicon Valley, the co-founder of a venture capital firm resigned this week after six women accused him of making unwelcome advances ranging from late - night texts to groping.

He joins a growing list of male investors and tech executives who recently lost their jobs or faced public shaming over sexual harassment scandals as more women come forward to report incidents — a trend experts say is reshaping how Silicon Valley deals with allegations of inappropriate behavior.

«Uber refused to address the situation or investigate the driver responsible... Since then, Uber's national scandals regarding the New York taxi strike and now sexual harassment in the workplace have only confirmed that this company has an unacceptable way of treating its customers and even employees.»

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Vatican secretary of state and the dean of the College of Cardinals, did not specifically mention the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church in recent months.

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

In the SGM scandal, one of the most important outcomes was a much greater awareness of the necessity of reporting of all incidents of sexual abuse in churches.

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church while at the same time presenting a case for the necessity of the institutional priesthood?

That fall Robert Kennedy, still eager for intelligence on King and now fearful that Hoover would reveal that the president's wayward lust had led him to the bed of an East German woman who surfaced in the Bobby Baker scandal, authorized the wiretaps on King that uncovered evidence of King's sexual infidelities, which Hoover then tried to use to blackmail and discredit him.

For the most part, it would seem that «the gay community,» as it regularly calls itself, is keeping a careful distance from the criminal aspects of the scandals, repeatedly insisting that it does not endorse man - boy sexual relations.

As my American friend observed, this was present under the surface long before the scandals broke, and at the root of it is probably the widespread rejection of Catholic teaching on sexual morality, which emerged later in Ireland than other Catholic countries.

(CNN)-- The results of the investigation into the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, released last week, suggest a crisis of conscience in the academy.

Jonty Langley writes an open letter to Oxfam in the light of the sexual abuse scandal currently being highlighted by the press More

In a section that is painful to read, the authors give a number of examples of the «sexual apology» even after the abuse scandals.

«The elephant of catechetical illiteracy, the acculturation of the laity, the loss of identity of religious women, the loss of identity in Catholic higher education, the embrace of sexual promiscuity, microscopic attendance of Mass, acute vocational shortages, and impending episcopal and clerical scandals.»

When the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal broke earlier this month, the shocking number of victims who came forward left many stunned — but others felt that it was a long time...

Certainly the sexual abuse of teenage boys» which is what the scandal is mainly about» will not be treated cavalierly as it often was in the past, and that is a great gain.

The left complains about an ascendant «neo-Puritanism,» especially in relation to sexual ethics, and especially in the aftermath of the scandals surrounding Bill Clinton.

But in face of the present scandals about sexual misconduct in the ranks of the clergy, there is no room for laxity.

Of course, charismatic and Pentecostal ministries do not have a monopoly on sexual scandals and neither is it just a modernday phenomenon.

It is gratifying that, since I wrote «Scandal Time III,» many more priests and lay people are speaking up in defense of priests who are falsely accused, denied due process, or guilty, repentant, and forgiven in connection with offenses that have nothing — absolutely nothing — to do with the imperative purpose of protecting children from sexual abuse.

Much has been written about the widely publicized sexual scandals of prominent ex-gays, but in the ex-gay movement it is far more scandalous to abandon Jesus than to yield to same - sex desire.

Jonty Langley writes an open letter to Oxfam in the light of the sexual abuse scandal currently being highlighted by the press