With a week and a half to go until the Iowa caucuses, former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson says she’s supporting Andrew Yang in the contest that kicks off the presidential primary and caucus nominating calendar

The allegations made by Evelyn Yang, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and multiple other women against New York City doctor Robert Hadden raise troubling questions about how white-collar sexual assault defendants like him, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein have appeared to receive favorable treatment at the expense of their victims from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance ... Vance"s office had an overwhelming case against the ob/gyn doctor, after 18 of his patients came forward with remarkably similar stories of being sexually assaulted by Hadden under the pretense of his doing medical examinations

BURLINGTON, Iowa—Not long ago, Andrew Yang would have considered his presidential campaign a success just for having injected a discussion of job automation into the race ... He was a novelty candidate, a single-issue candidate, known as much for joking around on the debate stage and for viral videos like the one that shows him squirting whipped cream into the mouths of two kneeling volunteers as for his signature policy position, the “freedom dividend,” a universal basic income of $1,000 a month

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Andrew Yang"s wife details alleged sexual assault by doctor The Associated Press

Businessman Andrew Yang was the fourth-most-tweeted-about candidate during the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020 despite not qualifying to take the stage Tuesday, according to Twitter ... Mentions of Yang on Twitter Tuesday evening

Andrew Yang will likely be absent from next week"s debate, if it happens, while Tom Steyer had a late surge to make it

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang at December 2019’s presidential debate ... | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Many candidates, like Sanders, Yang, Klobuchar, Biden, and Booker had the best fundraising quarters of their campaigns

Asian American donors may not perfectly reflect the Asian American voting population, an expert said

Yang has a son on the autism spectrum and has been talking openly about the disability ... But critics say his proposals lack policy heft and specificity