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In his first major public speech since resigning from the U.S. Senate, Al Franken returned to the spotlight to deliver a blistering rebuke of tech companies, specifically Facebook, over abuse of users privacy data while speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

NBC won’t be launching a full internal investigation into new sex harassment allegations against former news anchor Tom Brokaw, network sources told Page Six on Friday. “She’s given her side, and he’s responded. They don’t feel there’s anything left to investigate in the case,’’ an NBC source said, adding, “We may make further inquiries if more information emerges.” A Message from DIRECTV NOW Former NBC News war correspondent Linda Vester accused Brokaw in an article in Variety on Thursday of groping her and trying to kiss her against her will in the 1990s. She said she finally came forward because...

On Wednesday, Juanita Broaddrick marked 40 years since her alleged sexual assault by Bill Clinton with a tear on Twitter, recalling the entire timeline of events that led up to what she calls the "forcible, brutal rape" that she said took place on April 25, 1978. "On this morning, 40 years ago, my life changed forever," Broaddrick wrote Wednesday morning. "On 4-25-78, I was brutally raped by Ark. AG Bill Clinton. I have spent the majority of my life trying to forget...and watching the Evil thrive." As Broaddrick—who was working on Clinton's campaign for Arkansas governor at the time—tells it,...

MERCER COUNTY, W. Va. (WVNS) - Officials are warning parents throughout the area to double-check their mail after several children have received "graphic and disturbing" letters, written in a sexual manner, from a predator out of Pennsylvania. According to Chief Deputy Joe Parks, a man named Joseph Polin took pictures of children off the internet and then mailed them to the child's home address with a note describing what he would do to them sexually.

AUBURN, Calif. (CBS13) -- A California dad has been called a hero after knocking out a kidnapper to rescue his 3-year-old daughter. Freddie Cantrell lives across the street from Regional Park in Auburn, California, where his two girls were playing with their mother and stepfather Sunday evening. He said park is a place they used to love, but now is part of their biggest nightmare. “I got a phone call from the mother saying, ‘Hey you got to get down here quick. Somebody tried to kidnap Aubrey,'” Cantrell told CBS Sacramento. The incident unfolded in front of their 6-year-old daughter,...

It's no secret that former Vice President Joe Biden has, well, let's call it an "issue" with women. There are enough examples out there of Biden's handsy behavior, but here is just a sample: "In this clip, former Vice President Biden uses a candid moment to fondle the chest area of a little girl -- in front of her entire family. Her visible discomfort is extremely obvious. https://t.co/PXZx68KEGe" https://i1.wp.com/thepoliticalinsider.com/content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-tpiIcon.png?fit=270%2C270&ssl=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=134&v=DKVNra5eJro That's creepy. It's Harvey Weinstein-style creepy, in fact. Now that Joe Biden is putting out some serious feelers about running for president, many are expecting his too-friendly behavior with women...

BC network late night TV talk show host and liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel posted a passive/aggressive apology on Twitter Sunday after he engaged in a pro-longed Twitter feud instigated by top rated conservative Fox News Channel host and talk radio king Sean Hannity. Hannity went nuclear on Kimmel last week after Kimmel mocked the accent of First Lady Melania Trump. In the course of the feud Kimmel made several anti-homosexual jokes about Hannity’s support for President Donald Trump. Kimmel apologized for the anti-gay jokes but not for his mocking Melania Trump’s accent. He portrayed himself and his family as the...

Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to a child in a Chicago Target women's restroom last week, prompting some to blame the store's gender-neutral bathroom policies for the crime. Hey @Target! We told you https://t.co/98V0XDhevb — Jaihawkk (@Jaihawkk) April 5, 2018 According to Chicago police, a mother entered the bathroom with her young daughter. A man, insisting that he needed to use the restroom too, went into the women's room soon afterward. The sicko pushed into the stall where the little girl was, exposed his genitals, used the facility, and then fled the scene, police said. He...

New York's Metropolitan Opera suspended its famed longtime conductor James Levine on Sunday while it investigates allegations of sexual misconduct. In a statement, the opera's general manager, Peter Gelb, said Levine wouldn't be in involved in performances or other activities during the investigation.

Walter Rodriguez said his daughter told him a 29-year-old man named German Acosta, who she met through WhatsApp, was sending inappropriate messages and demanding to meet her, El Pais reported. The girl also said he was trying to convince her to lie to her parents and kept asking for pictures of her in undergarments.

Report: Court to release documents from Bill Clinton probe Federal court is reportedly set to unseal long-secret documents stemming from former Independent Counsel Ken Starr's investigation into then-President Bill Clinton; reaction and analysis from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of documents from then-Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s two-decade old probe that led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the order Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from CNN. According to the...

Disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein's personnel file has gone missing from his former company, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday. Schneiderman said at a press conference in New York that his office was told the file was missing during an investigation into Weinstein's company. "We obtained a form of Mr. Weinstein's personnel file; we were told that the physical personnel file had gone missing, which is another issue of concern to us," Schneiderman said. "I don't know the number of complaints, but there were certainly dozens of formal complaints and many more informal complaints over the years."

Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” while discussing Family Research Council president Tony Perkins saying evangelical voters gave Trump a “mulligan” for his alleged sexual indiscretions, co-host Meghan McCain said “young Republicans” are not going to “stand for” evangelical groups’ anti-LGBTQ “crap.”

We hear a lot about “vested interests” in America these days. Here in California – it is the cry of Global Warming alarmists who are opposed to proposition 23 that is to be voted on in the November election. Prop 23 will suspend a “Global Warming solutions” act that will push up energy prices and drive even more jobs out of the state during one the biggest recessions in living memory. Understandably there is a lot of opposition to the Global Warming Act and Prop 23 is proving surprisingly popular in a state that practically invented the Green movement. Two...

WASHINGTON — Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist and Democratic political donor, announced Monday that his advocacy group, NextGen America, will spend $30 million to help Democrats retake the House in 2018, with the aim of eventually impeaching President Trump. Mr. Steyer also announced that he would not run for Senate or governor in California, as had been speculated. Mr. Steyer, who was a major donor to President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, emerged as the largest single political donor of the 2014 midterm election. His group spent $74 million to back Democrats that year, and $87 million in the 2016 elections....

FULL TITLE: Pictured: Registered sex offender and former college staff member who was the third victim of the deadly Amtrak crash The third person killed in the deadly Amtrak crash has been identified as a convicted sex offender found in possession of child porn while working in IT at a college. Benjamin Gran, 40, of Auburn, Washington, died of multiple traumatic injuries on Monday when the Amtrak Cascades train 501 plummeted off the rails at 80mph, along a curve south of Seattle, killing three and injuring dozens. Authorities have revealed that Gran, who was autistic and a huge train enthusiast,...

Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted a female NBC staffer during the Rio Olympics, sources told Page Six. The staffer, who has not been named and wishes to remain anonymous, complained to NBC bosses yesterday, prompting NBC News bosses to move fast and fire him. A source told Page Six, “An NBC staffer come forward with a claim that Matt sexually assaulted her at the Olympics. There have been rumors about Matt having affairs with subordinates at NBC for years, but those were believed to be consensual. This incident in Rio was not.” Another source tells us that the decision to...

Just saw on Today show. Matt Lauer Fired!!!

Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas. The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS, also co-hosts “CBS This Morning” and is a contributing correspondent for “60 Minutes.” There are striking commonalities...

PARKVILLE, Mo. — A former yoga instructor for children is accused of molesting one of his 6-year-old students. Christian A. Hammond, 22, is charged with child molestation in Platte County. On Nov. 9, police received a tip regarding someone molesting a child at Parkville Children’s Cottage, Montessori School, according to court documents. Police spoke to the 6-year-old victim and the victim’s mother, and the victim told police that on Nov. 7, he got a hug from Hammond, the yoga teacher at the school.