Leland Keyser stood to be the perfect witness for Christine Blasey Ford by confirming critical events that would bolster her charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

As Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford gave their testimony in a hearing that spanned more than six hours on Thursday, the images on major news networks all looked fairly similar: Senators asking questions, Kavanaugh and Ford answering them. But, in an age where viewers’ attention spans are shrinking, the text bar at the bottom of the screen has become critical.

Senate Republican leaders agreed Friday to reopen the FBI background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh after two key Republicans suggested they would not vote to confirm him to

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual misconduct, testified for a combined eight-plus hours in an often-wrenching hearing Thursday that highlighted and exposed many of the raw divides in the nation.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Opening Testimony: Brett Kavanaugh, The Boy Who Sexually Assaulted Me. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford explained how Brett Kavanaugh was "visibly drunk" at a

The future of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court is now in the hands of the Senate after Thursday's dramatic and historic hearing. Now it's up to a few senators from both parties to decide if he'll be confirmed, and the voting process begins Friday morning.

If you want to know why women don’t come forward with allegations of sexual assault, today’s Senate hearings offered a clue.

Christine Blasey Ford began her testimony in front of a Senate committee by saying she was “terrified,” and at times she looked it.

What a study in contrasts: Where Christine Blasey Ford was calm and dignified, Brett Kavanaugh was volatile and belligerent; where she was eager to respond fully to every questioner, and kept worrying whether she was being “helpful” enough, he was openly contemptuous of several senators; most important, where she was credible and unshakable at every point in her testimony, he was at some points evasive, and some of his answers strained credulity.