A woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted by US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, has identified herself.

Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post Mr Kavanaugh had pinned her to a bed and tried to undress her when they were both teenagers.

Mr Kavanaugh denied the allegations when they first surfaced last week.

The top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are now expected to speak to both Mr Kavanaugh and Mrs Ford.

A spokesperson for Senator Chuck Grassley, t

Charles Katz lived in an apartment house on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles. Almost every day, he walked down the street to a bank of three telephone booths, entered one of them, and made a long-distance call. Katz was a handicapper; he was calling his bookie, in Massachusetts. He had been making his living this way for thirty years. To catch him, the F.B.I. placed microphones on top of two of the phone booths and put an “Out of Order” sign on the third.