- The US-based classified ad website, Backpage.com, has been seized, and founder Michael Lacey charged, in a federal raid based on a 93-count sealed indictment alleging staff were knowingly abetting and profiting from sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.
- Bill Cosby will return to court based on charges brought by Andrea Constand. This trial will be longer, and the jury will be hearing different evidence.
- Zainab Fayez is the sole female prosecutor in Kandahar, and in two years she has put 21 men behind bars for violence against women.
- Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, chastised Tony Robbins, a popular American motivational speaker, for berating women reporting sexual harassment as “making themselves significant by making somebody else wrong.” He has apologized.
- Andrew Burke has been jailed in Liverpool Crown Court for murdering 28-year-old Cassie Hayes, survived by her four-year-old daughter, at the travel agency where she worked. He had been convicted the previous day of harassing his former partner, Laura Williams, who had left him for Ms. Hayes.