The U.S. military has decided to put independent lawyers in charge of how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, sidelining commanders after years of pressure from... Read more »
49 Utah women who went to Provo police over the last nearly two years to report that their OB-GYN had sexually assaulted them during examinations experienced delays, confusion and denials over their... Read more »
The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban... Read more »
Illinois officials are questioning whether the state’s roughly 1,000 judges should be required to undergo the same training to better respond to rape survivors that illinois police officers have participated in 2018,... Read more »
A sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County has been arrested and accused of sexually assaulting an inmate while he was on duty at a women’s jail in Lynwood, California, Keri Blakinger reports... Read more »
New York City mayor Eric Adams was accused of sexually assaulting a Florida woman three decades ago, according to a summons filed with the Supreme Court of New York on Wednesday. The... Read more »
A Connecticut business owner is accused of lying to several women about a fake medical study in order to physically violate and photograph them for money, Angela Fortuna reports for NBC Connecticut.... Read more »
The World Health Organization (WHO) lost contact Sunday with Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in Northern Gaza, with the latest reports stating the hospital had been surrounded by Israeli tanks. The Palestinian Red... Read more »
Following the mass shooting in Maine on Wednesday that left at least 18 people dead, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden has reversed his previous opposition to legislation largely backed by fellow Democrats that... Read more »
A federal judge has declared a California law banning assault weapons unconstitutional, saying the prohibition enacted in 1989 against semi-automatic weapons could not stand under last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding... Read more »