The Legislature ended its session Friday without fulfilling an $18.5 million request from organizations that support victims ...

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After three sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a bill last month that defines consent and fixes what advocates called a loophole in Texas sexual assault laws.

Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls.

The Trump administration approved disaster relief loans for Los Angeles small businesses hit by anti-ICE riots, Fox News ...

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Legislation has been introduced in the Ohio Statehouse that would increase penalties for anyone convicted of killing a first ...

A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012. June 16, 2025.

Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, is a faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and an adjunct clinical ...