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A partisan audit of the 2020 election in Arizona continued this week, with further accusations of ineptitude against the firm running it and a gubernatorial campaign launch from a top Democrat opposing it. The audit of votes in Maricopa County, which has drawn criticism from a number of local Republican officials, will not affect the actual results of November’s election but has been used in right-wing media to justify the widespread belief among Republicans that the 2020 results were… Source link

Neymar said on Instagram that he “was not given the opportunity to defend himself” against sexual assault allegations from a Nike employee. (John Berry/Getty Images) Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar responded to Nike’s “lies” on Friday after a report claimed the reason he and the company’s split was due to the fact that he declined to cooperate with a sexual assault investigation. Nike and Neymar parted ways in 2020, though no reason was given at the time. On Thursday, The Wall Street… Source link

A woman filed a lawsuit against Yasiel Puig last year, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in a Staples Center bathroom in 2018. (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images) Former MLB outfielder Yasiel Puig denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2018 in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. The woman filed a lawsuit over the incident in October, and alleged that Puig sexually assaulted her in a bathroom at the Staples Center while they were at the Lakers’… Source link

HOUSTON — For the past 16 days, the NFL had the luxury of time and patience as civil suits piled up against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. While lawyers slung accusations back and forth through litigation and media statements, the league has been able to go about its due diligence without a ticking clock of criminal investigation hanging over its own disciplinary process. The bottom line? If Watson wasn’t part of a police probe, the demand on the NFL to do something about his… Source link

Editor’s note: This story contains an explicit account of alleged sexual misconduct. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee filed three new civil cases against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson late Sunday night, bringing the total litigation filed to 19 suits, each alleging some type of sexual assault or sexual misconduct during massage sessions. While the latest suits resemble the pattern of previous filings — each accusing Watson of sexualizing his massage sessions — Buzbee included a… Source link

HOUSTON — An attorney for 12 women claiming to be victims of sexual assault at the hands of Deshaun Watson said in a Friday news conference that his office has been “informally” contacted by the Houston Police Department and will be turning over information regarding the alleged incidents. That claim came from Tony Buzbee – a Houston attorney representing at least 12 different women filing civil lawsuits against Watson – on the same day when Watson’s NFL agent, David Mulugheta,… Source link

Vanessa Bryant has made public disturbing allegations against four Los Angeles police officers who are claimed to have taken and shared disturbing images of the aftermath of the helicopter crash which claimed the life of her husband Kobe and seven others. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) In an Instagram post Wednesday, Vanessa Bryant named four Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies who allegedly took and shared unauthorised graphic photos… Source link

QINGDAO, China, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SOS Limited (NYSE: SOS) (the “Company” or “SOS”) was recently attacked by short sellers with distorted, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims regarding the Company. The Company also believes certain social media accounts of some Company board members may have been impersonated or disabled for short periods of time. The Company believes these attacks were purposefully designed to manipulate the price of the Company’s shares, with the aim of… Source link

Dive Brief: Google has agreed to pay $3.8 million to 5,500 employees and applicants to settle charges of pay discrimination at California and Washington state locations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) said it identified the pay disparities during a routine compliance evaluation. The gaps, the agency said, affected female employees in software engineering positions. It also detected hiring rate differences that… Source link

Google must pay more than $3.8 million to settle allegations that it systematically discriminated against female and Asian engineering employees and applicants in pay and hiring, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday. Under the early-resolution conciliation agreement (ERCA) dated Jan. 15, Google agreed to pay more than $1.35 million to 2,565 female employees in engineering positions. If divided evenly, that amounts to about $526 each. It must pay more than $1.23 million… Source link