The increased public conversation surrounding sexual assault, harassment, and abuse is an important step forward. It’s helping lead a national and global movement that aims to address this prevalent ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — There’s a push by Democrats, and President Joe Biden, to revisit the idea of an “assault weapons ban” following a shooting at a Texas elementary school where 19 students and two ...

Sexual assault can be verbal, visual, or anything that forces a person to join in unwanted sexual contact or attention. Examples of this are voyeurism (when someone watches private sexual acts), ...

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James Hopper, Ph.D., is an independent consultant and Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trains investigators, prosecutors, judges and military ...

Assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines are weapons of war that have no place in America’s communities and should be banned. Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines have repeatedly ...

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It was an explosive claim — that a Virginia school district covered up a crime in order to protect transgender rights. But was it true? Credit...Model and photograph by Nix + Gerber Supported by By ...

Nearly one in four U.S. servicewomen reports being sexually assaulted in the military. Why has it been so difficult to change the culture? Florence Shmorgoner was raped by a fellow Marine in 2015.

SACRAMENTO — Born of a long history of gun violence, California’s pioneering assault weapons ban was enacted in 1989 after a herculean effort by lawmakers driven by outrage over a mass shooting at a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A federal judge in downstate Illinois has ruled the state's ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, but will hold off on prohibiting the state from enforcing it for one month to ...