The co-founder of the United Farm Workers talked about her relationship with Cesar Chavez, and the night he raped her.

She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.

In a long career, she was best known for starring opposite Jane Curtin in “Kate & Allie,” a 1980s sitcom about two divorced women raising three children in New York City.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking steps to roll back progress for women in the military. This isn't based on data – it's based on archaic stereotypes. Tell Congress that every qualified service...

The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

Obama said it as clearly as it can be stated.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fended off a right-wing movement led by Flávio Bolsonaro, whose father was convicted of a coup attempt after the 2022 election. Transportation delays and bad weathe...

A Washington Post journalist, she was one of the few Western reporters in Kuwait in 1990 when Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded.

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She published new voices like Haruki Murakami at the magazine and translated stories and books by Milan Kundera and Balzac from French.

Linda Williams says police force’s handling of her attack in 2004 was ‘like being raped all over again’ A detective who was raped by the former Scotland Yard officer David Carrick has called for the head of the Metropolitan police to resign, saying the handling of her case was “like being raped all over again”. Linda Williams, 60, who has waived her right to anonymity, was attacked by Carrick in 2004. She launched a legal case against the Met for failing to protect her against the serial rapist, and has now settled for an undisclosed six-figure sum without the force admitting liability. Continue reading...