On Thursday, two people who were teenagers in the 1980s found themselves in a very adult setting: a hearing room in the US Senate, where elected officials will decide the country’s future by ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice to head up the Pentagon, faced a Senate confirmation grilling from the Armed ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, faced a Senate grilling on Tuesday as lawmakers determine whether they will vote in support of the nominee.

In 2018, New York Times journalist Pagan Kennedy was working on a column about the origin of everyday objects when she became obsessed with finding out who created the rape kit. Rape kits are ...

Picture a cardboard box packed with envelopes, swabs, a comb, nail clippers - you know, stuff you could find in almost any drug store. Well, this box, as mundane as it sounds, represented a ...

An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata ...

An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national ...

An 18-year-old Dalit woman from the southern India state of Kerala has accused 64 men of sexually abusing her since she was 13 years old. Police have arrested 28 people in connection with the case ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — After a long and spirited debate, Virginia House Democrats have advanced a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

Ames police identified the man on Tuesday as Parker L. Stoneburner, 25, of Boone. They say no arrests have been made, ...