Boy Scouts Of America
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Almost 90K sex abuse claims filed against Boy Scouts as bankruptcy deadline loomsThe number far exceeds the initial projections of lawyers across the United States who have been signing up clients since the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy protection in February in the face of hundreds of lawsuits alleging decades-old sex abuse by Scout leaders.WorldNov 16, 2020
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Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid barrage of sex-abuse lawsuitsThe Boy Scouts’ finances have been strained in recent years by declining membership and sex-abuse settlements.WorldFeb 18, 2020
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Cash-strapped Boy Scouts mortgage vast ranch amid growing wave of sex-abuse lawsuitsThe Boy Scouts of America used the ranch as collateral to secure $446 million of debt with J.P. Morgan Chase.WorldNov 22, 2019
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Boy Scouts of America accused of covering up decades of sexual misconductTuesday's press conferences expand on a 14,500-page list created by the Boy Scouts of America between 1965 and 1985 naming "ineligible volunteers" who once worked for the organization. These files became known as the "Perversion Files."CrimeApr 23, 2019
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Mormon Church severs ties with Boy Scouts, ending century-old relationshipThe Mormon church said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of next year.WorldMay 9, 2018
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11-year-old Cub Scout kicked out of Colorado den after questioning senator on gun controlAmes Mayfield asked about Senator Vicki Marble’s stance on gun control, her controversial comments she made in 2013, and on health care in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting.WorldOct 24, 2017
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Boy Scouts apologize for allowing Trump’s ‘political rhetoric’ into jamboreeThe Boy Scouts of America issued an apology addressed to its "Scouting Family."PoliticsJul 27, 2017
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‘America is proud of you’: Was this the speech Trump was supposed to give to the Boy Scouts?Donald Trump's angry, partisan speech to U.S. Boy Scouts Monday was widely criticized. Inside it was a better speech trying to get out.WorldJul 25, 2017
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Meet the transgender boy who helped change a century-old Boy Scouts policyFor 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America used gender on birth certificates to determine eligibility, but that all changed once one transgender boy took a stand.WorldJan 31, 2017
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Boy Scouts of America to begin accepting transgender boysThe Boy Scouts of America will begin accepting transgender boys, bucking its more than a century-old practice of using the gender stated on a birth certificate to determine eligibility.WorldJan 31, 2017
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