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Over the past two decades, Bryan Singer’s films—The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Superman Returns, four of the X-Men movies—have earned more than $3 billion at the box office, putting him in the top tier of Hollywood directors. He’s known for taking risks in his storytelling: It was Singer’s idea, for instance, to open the original X-Men movie with a scene at Auschwitz, where a boy uses his superpowers to bend the metal gates that separate him from his parents. Studio executives were skeptical about starting a comic-book movie in a concentration camp, but the film became a blockbuster and launched a...

Bryan Singer, the director of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” is facing new allegations published in the Atlantic on Wednesday that he engaged in sexual misconduct with underage boys. In the report, four men allege that Singer had sexual encounters with them when they were teenagers in the late 1990s. One of the men, Victor Valdovinos, says he was a 13-year-old extra on the set of “Apt Pupil” when Singer fondled his genitals. The three other accusers are identified in the story by pseudonyms. One, identified in the story as Andy, says that he had sex with Singer when he was 15. Another...

By his neighbors' account, Juan Manuel Rivera-Rondon lived a quiet life in an insular, upscale Montgomery County community where few truly know each other's past. LocalLinks A legal immigrant from Peru, he had married, had two girls and later divorced while living in the United States, court papers show. He had prospered in the home mortgage business, acquiring two expensive houses outside Washington, taking trips with his girlfriend to the Cayman Islands and traveling back to Peru to visit his sick mother. But the placid nature of his seemingly successful suburban life was belied by accusations this week by Peruvian...

Fairleigh Dickinson University last week dismissed an adjunct professor who is a leader of the National Socialist Movement of the United States, also known as the American Nazi Party. The university says that it dismissed Jacques Pluss for missing too many classes. He denies this and says that he lost his job because of his political views. Pluss has taught for several years in the history department at Fairleigh Dickinson and was previously a tenured professor of history at William Paterson. In an interview Saturday, he said that he became active in Nazi politics only in the last year. He...