Deborah Ramirez

Several people who knew the Supreme Court nominee in high school or college tried to share their stories with the F.B.I., but not all of them were successful.

Several people who hoped to contribute information to the Bureau’s investigation said that they struggled to make contact with agents.

Kavanaugh’s nomination has presented the conservative movement with a golden opportunity to take a stand against the new culture of accountability for sexual abuse.

As reporters have investigated his past, a mountain of evidence has accumulated against the claims about Kavanaugh’s character as a teen-ager and young man.

The public is getting a crash course in what universities face when deciding how to evaluate accusations among students, with administrators having to know far more details than they might want to.

A Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s describes a dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I. to investigate.