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The Guardian
April 28, 2018
Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Maria Shriver are among a group of 65 women in the US television industry who circulated a letter in support of the longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, after he was accused by a former colleague of unwanted sexual advances.
KPRC Click2Houston
April 28, 2018
HOUSTON - A man attempted to kidnap two women in north Houston Saturday, the Harris County Precinct 4 office said. The man attempted to kidnap one woman in the 900 block of North Vista Drive and the other in the 16200 block of Bend Drive, the constable's office said. Witnesses told investigators thatÃâà...
New York Times
April 28, 2018
The realization launched Ms. Lublin, a schoolteacher in Las Vegas, on an extraordinary trajectory. By December 2014, she had joined the growing chorus of women who publicly counted themselves as Mr. Cosby's victims. In 2015, she and her husband led a successful fight to change Nevada's statute ofÃâà...
CBS News
April 28, 2018
NEW YORK -- A group of 65 women in the television industry have circulated a letter in support of NBC's Tom Brokaw after he was accused by a former colleague of unwanted sexual advances. The women said he has treated all of them with fairness and respect, giving them opportunities for advancementÃâà...
The Guardian
April 28, 2018
All three are Democrats, and have faced obstacles that they feel are related to their gender – including from their own party, which bills itself as being the party of women. Faced with everything from sexist double standards and gendered questioning to harassment and alleged assault, one woman changedÃâà...
New York Times
April 28, 2018
In one complaint reviewed by The Times, a woman described her manager bragging about the condoms he always carried and the magazines he kept on his desk with scantily clad women on the covers, despite being told to remove them. She reported him to human resources, and was told she had madeÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 28, 2018
The Johns Creek officers encountered the woman near Northview High School. According to public information officer Capt. Chris Byers, “several attempts were made to de-escalate the encounter through the use of less lethal force” including the use of a Taser and a foam impact round, but the suspectÃâà...
CNNMoney
April 27, 2018
"Being financially educated on the topics that are important for you, and not waiting, is critical. The reality is if you just focus on all the headwinds that women face, there's no reason to have a financial regret." As a single woman, Sabbia says she's already considered how to plan for her own retirement,Ãâà...
Vanity Fair
April 27, 2018
Since her arrest, stories have broken that Mack may have tried to recruit women including Emma Watson, Kelly Clarkson, and several feminist writers into a ... Shoaib also said that Mack met with her for dinner on one occasion and brought with her a woman that she says could have been India Oxenberg,Ãâà...
CBS News
April 27, 2018
NEW YORK -- A woman who worked as a war correspondent for NBC News said Tom Brokaw groped her, twice tried to forcibly kiss her and made ... his former colleague Matt Lauer, who left the "Today" show and the network in November 21017 after several women came forward with allegations.
The Guardian
April 27, 2018
Women whose sense of self has been worn down, by definition must depend on others, which only serves to breed fear and violence. Over 50% of Indian men and women still believe that sometimes women deserve a beating. One woman is killed every hour for not bringing enough dowry to a husband.
NJ.com
April 27, 2018
A 20-year-old woman stabbed outside a home in Montclair on Friday morning died less than an hour later, authorities said. Akirah Townes, of Orange, was stabbed on Hartley Street around 6 a.m., the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. Townes was brought to St. Joseph's RegionalÃâà...
NPR
April 27, 2018
What exactly makes a woman? Track and field's world governing body thinks the answer has to do with levels of serum testosterone, at least when it comes to female runners competing in middle-distance races. The International Association of Athletics Federation announced a new set of rules ThursdayÃâà...
The Guardian
April 27, 2018
Reni Eddo-Lodge's book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race has been named the most influential book written by a woman. ... Academics, booksellers and publishers curated a list of the “Top 10 books by women that changed the world”, which was voted on by members of the public.
GQ Magazine
April 27, 2018
With a few exceptions (looking at you, Michelle Obama) every woman has something. When I asked a group of women which habits they'd do away with, the answers ranged from compulsive niceties to one friend's habit of letting men walk in front of her. “If we're walking out of an elevator, I sort of huddle inÃâà...
Live Science
April 27, 2018
It all started when the woman's co-workers ramped up the air conditioning. For some reason, she broke out in hives. Concerned, the woman visited the doctor and got startling news: She was allergic to the cold. The condition, known as cold urticaria (ur-tih-KAR-e-uh), is rare, but it jibed with past herÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 25, 2018
UPDATED: Hagerstown man accused of shooting woman during dispute ... A 41-year-old Hagerstown man has been charged with first- and second-degree attempted murder after a woman was shot multiple times and two other women were assaulted Tuesday morning in Hagerstown's North End, policeÃâà...
ABC News
April 25, 2018
"She was a vibrant and engaging teacher who went out of her way to help grow the communications careers of students at the university -- young women in particular," the student told ABC News via email. "She was instrumental in creating a community of successful and aspiring communicationsÃâà...
wivb.com
April 25, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Dress for Success is a worldwide organization. The Buffalo chapter here on Hertel avenue is one of 152 affiliates. Through the non-profit hundreds of local women in need are given professional work attire like suits and dresses. "We know that there is a population of women outÃâà...
Gizmodo
April 25, 2018
Shen Yue works as a “programmer motivator” at a consumer finance company in China. As the name suggests, her job is to inspirit programmers at her company, which involves chatting them up, coordinating social activities, and even giving them massages, according to a recent report from the New YorkÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 25, 2018
Police say the attack happened last week on the No. 4 train in Manhattan. Witnesses say the woman asked the owner to move his dog when it bumped her on a seat. Onlookers say the woman pushed the dog off the seat repeatedly before the man hit her. Witnesses say the dog bit the woman's foot whenÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 25, 2018
A woman with multiple sclerosis has claimed that Delta Air Lines employees tied her “forcefully” to her wheelchair with a “dirty blanket off the floor” because they did not have the proper chair to accommodate her disability. Maria Saliagas told WSB-TV in Atlanta on Tuesday that Delta usually provides aÃâà...
NPR
April 24, 2018
The campaign to include a statue of a woman was launched by activist Caroline Criado Perez. She told the BBC that she was jogging past the historic square on International Women's Day in 2016 when she when noticed the absence of any female figures. She started the campaign "as she sat on a benchÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
Of the 24 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winners this year, nine were women, and none of the men were named John. That group, chosen by a committee for its creativity, diversity of thought and “promise for important future advances,” was more diverse than other groups in many ways, and that wasÃâà...
KCRA Sacramento
April 23, 2018
A man sitting in the passenger seat exited the car and told the woman to get into the car. She refused, then the man tried to grab her twice, but she fought him off, police said. After the man was unable to force the woman into the car, he got back into the Mustang. Before driving off, the driver hit the womanÃâà...
The Guardian
April 23, 2018
The increasingly prominent role of women in environmental activism has been recognised by this year's prizes. Since 1990, six awards – one for each habitable continent – have been announced by the Goldman prize foundation, which was set up by an member of the Levi Strauss family who made aÃâà...
The Boston Globe
April 23, 2018
NORTH ANDOVER — A woman found dead in the basement of a two-family home on Saturday was identified as Wendi Rose Davidson, 49, according to the Essex district attorney's office. Wendi Rose Davidson. Facebook. Wendi Rose Davidson. Davidson was apparently strangled, but an autopsy will beÃâà...
BBC News
April 23, 2018
A woman says she is facing a $500 (Ãâã357) fine from the US customs agency after a free apple she was given as a snack on a plane was found in her bag. Crystal Tadlock, travelling to the US from Paris, said she was saving the fruit for her onward flight to Denver. But the apple was revealed in a randomÃâà...
WLS-TV
April 23, 2018
An elderly woman was found pushing a shopping cart with a body in it Saturday evening in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responded to a well-being check at 7:53 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Calumet and found the woman with the body of a female, whose identity and age wasÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 23, 2018
A pregnant woman has faced a massive backlash on the internet after she was caught on a surveillance camera deliberately tripping over a four-year-old, giving him concussion. The woman was annoyed while eating at a small restaurant in Baoji in Shaanxi province, northern China, after the boy ran pastÃâà...
KTRK-TV
April 23, 2018
A man is accused of fatally shooting a woman over a cell phone. Donrdrick Flagg, 28, was arrested and charged with capital murder after authorities say he shot and killed 29-year-old Tiffany McKnight Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 2000 block of Reed Road around 12 a.m. after receivingÃâà...
Politico
April 23, 2018
Women to Watch highlights the women in D.C., across the country and around the globe who are at the forefront of politics and policy. From operatives navigating the midterm elections to those negotiating the terms of Brexit and leading a nationwide gun control movement, these women will be leading the politicalÃâà...
Politico
April 23, 2018
But multiple Republican lawmakers said that unless another woman moves into leadership, only a female member could replace McMorris Rodgers. The appearance of an all-white male GOP leadership team would be too damaging, they said. There's no dearth of more junior women looking to move up.
CNN
April 23, 2018
(CNN) A Florida judge who berated a woman in a wheelchair during her first appearance on a domestic violence charge has been told not to return to the courthouse, after the woman died. Judge Merrilee Ehrlich was seen in video of the April 15 court appearance yelling at Sandra Faye Twiggs.
PEOPLE.com
April 23, 2018
Flight attendants attempted to resolve the situation by “moving Mr. Garcia to another seat,” but, the report details that he began “to scream and insult” the woman and her boyfriend, and the crew was forced to ask all other passengers to deplane for their safety. Describing the incident, American Airlines saidÃâà...
KOMO News
April 23, 2018
Investigators talked to the woman who said she had fallen asleep in her living room while watching TV and awoke to a stranger rubbing his hand across her face and telling her "you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen," investigators said. The woman asked the man who he was and what he was doing, and heÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 23, 2018
As Waffle House executives assisted employees and spoke with law enforcement in the aftermath of Sunday's deadly rampage at the Antioch restaurant, a car drove up with a woman in distress. It was about 12:40 p.m. and the scene was swarming with investigators and police, surrounded by crime tape.
ABC News
April 23, 2018
When a woman dining at a Waffle House refused to pay 50 cents extra for plastic utensils, she ended up tackled on the ground by Alabama police ... "The call to cops was for some black women in the restaurant," Howard said, noting that his daughter was one of the few black women in the eatery, and that itÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 23, 2018
According to authorities, Mack is accused of recruiting women to join what was purported to be a female mentorship group within Nxivm that was designed to address their weaknesses. However, investigators claim it was actually a group created by Raniere, who allegedly took advantage of the womenÃâà...
CNN
April 23, 2018
(CNN) An apple and an honest mistake have saddled one Delta passenger with a $500 fine and a big bureaucratic headache. Crystal Tadlock got off a plane last week in Minneapolis after an 8Ãâý-hour flight from Paris. She was supposed to catch a connecting flight home to Denver, so she decided to saveÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 23, 2018
ST. CHARLES • A woman announced a robbery by handing a note to a teller at First State Bank, 206 North Fifth Street, at about 10 a.m. Monday, police said. The woman never presented a weapon, and she walked away with an undisclosed amount of money. The woman is described as black, about 5 feetÃâà...
CNBC
April 23, 2018
"If a woman has a bad experience in graduate school and decides not to become a professor, that is one less woman who applied to the same jobs I did, and that meant more room for me," he tells CNBC Make It. "All men have benefited from the reduced competition of women who have been dissuadedÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2018
Lauren McGoodwin couldn't find a good women's career-promoting business, so she built one herself ... Lauren McGoodwin, 31, is the founder and chief executive of Career Contessa, an online platform designed to help women search for the best job opportunities and perform at a higher level when theyÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 22, 2018
An elderly woman was found pushing a shopping cart with a dead man in it Saturday night on the South Side, Chicago police said. Officers were called to the 8600 block of South Calumet Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood for a well-being check around 7:55 p.m. and saw the woman pushing the cart,Ãâà...
The Hill (blog)
April 22, 2018
"What would you say to her, as a strong woman leader to a strong Republican woman leader, that she should be doing that she's not doing right now in the White House?" Jones asked. "Well, I mean, pretty much anything. I feel like right now, she's the daughter of the president but putting that aside she isÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 22, 2018
Wave of women making mariachi their own. Sat, Apr 21. More and more women are playing mariachi, a style of music typically performed by men—from the members of Mariachi Las Altenas to young women learning in high school classrooms. Share Video; Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ E-mail; Embed. Copy this code to your websiteÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
April 21, 2018
Joan Cousins was among a generation of young women who heard — and bought into the idea — that puffing on a cigarette was sophisticated, modern, even liberating. No one suspected it would make them more than equal to men in suffering a choking, life-shortening lung disease.
CNN
April 21, 2018
In 2018, a year where unprecedented, historic levels of women are registering to run for office, the Republican Party is seeing unchanged engagement from women. From the grassroots training organizations to the registration rolls of national candidates, the so-called Year of the Woman has largely beenÃâà...
HuffPost
April 21, 2018
Each week, HuffPost Women rounds up hilarious 280-character musings. To see this week's ... through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for our past collections. ... tonight's Law And Order: SVU ep has a guy who calls a woman a “millennial poptart.” please refer to me as suchÃâà...
CNN
April 21, 2018
Iran's Vice President for Women's Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar criticized the actions of the religious police after the video spread rapidly on social media. "What justifies this behavior?" she tweeted. "Where is the limit of an officer's action, even if they were insulted? I strongly condemn this treatment. No humanÃâà...
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