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Politics
Former GOP House Speaker reaches settlement for molesting teen boy
Disgraced Republican Dennis Hastert is out of prison, but he’s still on the hook for the hush money he promised to pay the victim.
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News (USA)
Is the coverage of the Jim Jordan sexual assault scandal homophobic?
When a coach sexually assaults male athletes, it’s major news. When the victim is female, why isn’t America as angry?
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Commentary
Donald Trump is ringing the death knell of the religious right
They said we were all made in God’s image, then Trump became their God and they remade themselves in his profane image.
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News (USA)
Former House speaker sentenced to over a year in prison
“I am sorry to those I hurt and misled,” Dennis Hastert said. “What I did was wrong and I regret it.”
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News (USA)
Four ‘credible’ men accuse former GOP house speaker Dennis Hastert of sexual abuse
All of the accusers are men whose allegations stem from when they were teenagers and Hastert was their high school coach.
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News (USA)
Sister: Brother was sexually abused by ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert
A Montana woman says the FBI interviewed her last month about her allegations that her brother was sexually abused while in high school by Dennis Hastert, the wrestling coach who would become speaker of the House.
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Life
Report: Hastert was concealing prior sexual misconduct with another man
The indictment against Hastert accuses the Republican of agreeing to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep a person from the town where he was a longtime schoolteacher silent about “prior misconduct.”