He bribed a government employee in 1994 so that he could obtain a fake ID for the singer Aaliyah, a person familiar with the matter said.

Bishop Richard J. Malone “had become the lightning rod for all that was wrong,” a lay leader said.

The woman maintains that two of her children, ages 4 and 8, killed themselves in their Pennsylvania home in September.

For the first time, Virginia Roberts Giuffre told a British television audience about a trip she took to London in 2001, during which, she says, she was ordered to have sex with Prince Andrew.

A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier’s sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?

With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of the Protestant Reformation.

Losing tax-exempt status freed his foundation from disclosure requirements, allowing Mr. Epstein to exaggerate his giving — like in a wildly overstated Wikipedia entry.

“Why didn’t Mr. Epstein have a cellmate at the time that this happened?” a defense lawyer said.

An advocacy group says it has documented systematic sexual abuse by teachers, principals and other authorities of dozens of boys in one rural area.

Ohio counties want to reunite families that were separated because of drug use. But prioritizing that ideal has had deadly consequences.