Experts and survivor call for statutory consent definition to ensure clarity, fairness and stronger protection for victims Including clear, comprehensive definitions of consent in Hong Kong's reform ...

A transgender prisoner serving a sentence for murder has been charged with the sexual assault of a fellow inmate at a women's ...

The Tennessee legislature advanced a bill defining sex and regulating access to certain public facilities such as schools and ...

Damages for physical injuries or physical sickness are exempt from federal tax. Yet what constitutes physical injuries or ...

Spanberger recommended amendments to SB727 in the Nature of a Substitute — a rewritten version of the bill — which was ...

The General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday to consider Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s amendments and vetoes. Among the amendments they will take up are changes to a gun bill that tweak the definition of an ...

The parents of students who were sexually assaulted in school are pushing Illinois lawmakers to support a bill to mandate a ...

Gov. Abigail Spanberger has proposed changes to Virginia’s controversial assault weapons bill rather than signing, vetoing or ...

Timothy Hudson – the stepbrother of Titusville teen, Anna Kepner, who was murdered while on vacation with her family – is now ...

Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Sueanna P. Johnson, right, asks a question during oral arguments in the second of two Colorado Court of Appeals cases being held in the library of Conifer Senior High ...

Colorado’s second-highest court reversed an Arapahoe County defendant’s assault convictions last week, concluding the trial judge neglected to define a key, ambiguous term for jurors. Police officers ...

This National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, my Administration pledges to eradicate sexual assault and all forms of violence from our Nation by securing our border, deporting violent criminals, and ...