(CNN) — Who in Congress doesn’t want to pass a bill that helps protect women against acts of violence? No one, of course. But the Violence Against Women Act, first passed in 1994 and reauthorized previously without fanfare, hit a snag this time around. The hiccup in the bill involved groups of vulnerable people: Native…
In a 2012 interview with CBS, President Obama said that the biggest mistake of his first term was that he didn’t translate his policies into a story that would give the American people a sense of unity and purpose. He was right. The tragedy at Sandy Hook has handed him the perfect narrative for his…
HONG KONG (CNN) – On Friday morning, a man walked through the entrance of an elementary school and, without warning, began ruthlessly cutting down children at the school. Before he was subdued, nearly two dozen were hit. While it sounds like the horrific massacre in Connecticut, this attack took place about 8,000 miles away in…
(CNN) – The chilling sound of multiple gunshots shattered the relative quiet of the school day at Sandy Hook Elementary School at around 9:30 Friday morning — children screaming, then silence, as teachers did their best to protect their students and keep them quiet, hoping desperately the shooter would not find them. This is a…
Three firefighters who are charged with robbery, dissuading a witness and making a criminal threat to two brothers were in court Tuesday and will stand trial Feb. 21, 2013. San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Rogers was assigned the case for trial Tuesday for Andrew Brennen, 30, Gregory Econie, 27 and Vadid Cisneros, 37, who…
(CNN) – In Ireland it took years to weed out the details of systemic sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy. In Australia, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has put no time limit on what will be the most wide-ranging inquiry into child sex abuse in the nation’s history — one that will not be confined…
NEW YORK – A male-on-male sexual harassment suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against an upscale New York steakhouse has been settled. Sparks Steak House, once rated by The New York Post as “The Greatest Steakhouse in Manhattan” will pay $600,000 and take steps to introduce a number of anti-discrimination policies….
Three San Diego firefighters will stand trial Nov. 21 on charges of robbery, dissuading a witness, and making a criminal threat to two brothers in an alcohol-laced incident in which both the victims and the firefighters yelled anti-gay comments to each other. After an 8-day preliminary hearing last month, a judge threw out felony charges…
(CNN) – Attorneys releasing confidential Boy Scouts files on alleged child molestation are calling upon Congress to audit whether the group’s youth protections are working. The effort to seek a congressional inquiry came Thursday as the attorneys released more than 20,000 Boy Scout documents identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group…
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (CNN) – Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, after a judge sentenced him Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing boys entrusted into his care. Judge John Cleland ordered Sandusky, 68, to spend no less than 30 years…
