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The '80s thriller demonised women seen as a 'threat' to the nuclear family – and gave rise to a particularly harmful phrase. Now as a TV remake begins, not much has changed, writes Leila Latif. In a world where Super Mario films and sexless Marvel sequels reign supreme at the box office, it's hard to imagine a return to 1987, where the highest-grossing film in the world was a psychosexual thriller about an extra-marital affair. Adrian Lyne, the king of the erotic thriller, directed Fatal Attraction, which grossed $320 million globally and was nominated for six Oscars. Now Paramount Plus...

This seems like an explosive relationship. A Maine woman was so desperate to spend time with her boyfriend that she made bomb threats at his workplace so he could get the day off, police said Friday. Kayla Blake, 33, was arrested on a felony terrorizing charge after police tracked down the caller and learned she never had any bombs, authorities said. The woman’s bizarre attempt to get her boyfriend out of work happened Thursday in the city of Pittsfield. The suspect is accused of calling state police two separate times that day claiming she was going to bomb Puritan Medical...

It takes some audacity for someone with a spotty voting record to ask you to cast a ballot for them. But that's what is going on in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — one of at least a half-dozen Dems vying for GOP Sen. Ron Johnson's seat — was hired in August 2016 as a deputy political director for Hillary Clinton's Wisconsin campaign. In that post, she traveled the state trying to round up support among women. "My birthday is the day after the election on Nov. 9," Godlewski wrote in a Facebook post...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today received a signed statement from Mr. Dennis Ketterer, the former Democratic candidate for Congress and weatherman for WJLA Channel 7 in Washington, regarding the recent allegations made by Julie Swetnick against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Mr. Ketterer had a relationship with Ms. Swetnick in the 1990s. Below are excerpts of the signed statement, which was provided to the committee under penalty of felony. “During a conversation about our sexual preferences, things got derailed when Julie told me that she liked to have sex with more than one guy at a time....

Washington (CNN)The FBI has reached out to Deborah Ramirez, who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of inappropriate sexual behavior when they were in college, in its background investigation of the Supreme Court nominee, her lawyer has confirmed to CNN. "We can confirm the FBI has reached out to interview Ms. Ramirez and she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation," Ramirez's attorney, John Clune, said in a statement. "Out of respect for the integrity of the process, we will have no further comment at this time."

A woman who dated Brett Kavanaugh in 1998 has told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he never mistreated her, as alleged in an anonymous letter sent to Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican. The former girlfriend found the charge “offensive and absurd.” The anonymous letter writer said her daughter “occasionally socialized” with Mr. Kavanaugh in Washington while he was part of the Ken Starr prosecution team.

Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school, faced allegations from her former employer that she engaged in "unwelcome, sexually offensive conduct" in 2000. The woman claims she was gang-raped at a party where Kavanaugh was present.  She is represented by noted porn lawyer and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Avenatti. Daily Caller: WebTrends voluntarily dismissed its suit after one month. Avenatti told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the case was ended because it was "completely bogus." Swetnick's alleged conduct took place in June 2000, just three weeks after she started working at...

A Rhode Island man who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting his friend apologized on Wednesday and said he “made a mistake.” The man called Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s office and claimed that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge, a high school friend of Kavanaugh, drunkenly sexually assaulted one of his friends, according to interview transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Committee. A committee investigator asked Kavanaugh about the allegation during an interview on Tuesday, which he denied. The man’s name was redacted in the transcripts released to the public but the investigator quoted verbatim several outlandish...

Accuser Julie Swetnick owed over $100,000 in unpaid taxes in 2015-2017. She need(ed) some cash desperately! A spokesman for New York Life confirmed that Ms. Swetnick worked there as an agent for less than two years, from 2006 to 2008. She didn’t list her work there on a résumé posted online. A spokeswoman for Ms. Katz declined to comment. Records show Ms. Swetnick also had recent run-ins with tax authorities. In 2015, Maryland’s comptroller filed a lien against her in Anne Arundel County, a suburb of Baltimore and Washington, for more than $30,000 in unpaid taxes. The state demanded about...

Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, was accused of domestic violence by a former boyfriend in 2001, according to Florida court records. Swetnick’s former boyfriend, Richard Vinneccy, told Politico they dated for four years before breaking up, at which point Swetnick threatened violence against him and his family. The restraining order, filed in Miami-Dade, Fla. on March 1, 2001, was dismissed thirteen days later. “Right after I broke up with her, she was threatening my family, threatening my wife and threatening to do harm to my baby at that time,” Vinneccy said. “I know...

The story dominating today's news cycle is how woman-hater Donald Trump's campaign manager assaulted a truthful female reporter Michelle Fields as she approached the candidate with a reasonable question, demanding to know when he was going to stop beating his wife. According to Michelle Fields, Trump's male chauvinist pig campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, immediately pushed her to the ground...

Former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields has left her Washington, D.C. apartment after news outlets accidentally published Fields’ address and phone number, opening her up to harassment. Fields successfully filed police charges against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, leading to Lewandowski’s arrest for battery Tuesday. But when Fox News and Buzzfeed published Lewandowski’s arrest report online, they forgot to redact Fields’ personal information.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday condemned Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Corey Lewandowski is accused of grabbing the arm of a reporter after a Trump press conference in Florida earlier this month. “I am confident that neither President Obama nor President Bush would tolerate someone on their staff being accused of physically assaulting a reporter, lying about it and then blaming the victim,” Earnest told reporters. Earnest said Trump's response to the Lewandowski incident, as well his other controversial actions, is "completely outside the realm of acceptable behavior.”

Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been arrested and charged with simple battery after surveillance video showed him grabbing journalist Michelle Fields at a campaign event in Florida, police say. More at bnonews.com and on Twitter @bnonews

Donald Trump is a boor. He's a vulgarian, a liar, an ignoramus. He has only the most cursory grasp of policy, a stentorian voice and a great big set of self-assurance. He's winning the Republican nomination. Why? It is partly because of the Clintons. While the media point and laugh at the Trump reality show carnival, they forget that the Clintons originally took us all to the circus. This week, we found out that Hillary Clinton's email scandal now occupies the attention of 147 FBI agents, and that she will be questioned by the FBI. We found out that her...

Donald Trump should immediately fire Corey Lewandowski following the battery charge lodged against his campaign manager for allegedly roughhousing journalist Michelle Fields, a group of 15 conservative female writers are urging. In an explosive letter delivered to the Republican presidential front-runner on Wednesday, 16 women, considered key members of the right-leaning female media elite, write: "The press is to have an adversarial, yet civil approach to those in, or running, for elected office. Never in this line of work is it acceptable to respond to reasonable and legitimate questioning with use of physical force. "The photographs, audio, videos, and witness...

I’m demanding that Michelle Fields charge me with hacking her computer. She won’t, of course, because I didn’t do it. She only charges people for brushing past her at a campaign event. Nothing serious like hacking. In December of 2015 Fields falsely accused me of hacking her computer and has continued to repeat the lie even after her bosses told her to cut it out. She had sent me a LinkedIn request and I called her. We had a friendly conversation before she tweeted out to the world that I had hacked her. Seriously. I texted her and said something...

Megyn Kelly hit out at Donald Trump Thursday morning after he retweeted an unflattering picture of Ted Cruz's wife Heidi. Kelly, who has been the victim of many a Trump attack herself, posted Trump's retweet on her own Twitter account and wrote; 'Seriously?' The photo reweeted by Trump showed Heidi next to a very flattering image of Trump's model wife Melania and read; 'No need to "spill the beans." The images are worth a thousand words.' He posted the photo just one day after threatening to 'spill the beans' on Heidi after a super PAC backing Cruz released an advert...