What’s Current: Male trans activist indicted on charges of theft from Portland Women’s March

  • A trans-identified male activist and sponsor of the Women’s March on Portland is indicted on three charges of aggravated theft from the organization.
  • A Michigan man is arrested after murdering two women in what police say was a “killing spree,” where he intended to kill two more.
  • Toronto police say the “grooming process” of luring young girls into the sex trade has increased dramatically, reaching “an epidemic proportion now in Toronto, and really throughout the GTA and across Canada.”
  • Anita Hill writes in a New York Times op-ed that the #MeToo movement could have started decades ago if Joe Biden had not mishandled her 1990s sexual allegations.
  • The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls recommends that the justice system automatically treat homicides involving Indigenous women as first-degree murder.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.