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The prince may be be staying at Balmoral with the queen, but there is no easy way to escape a new civil claim from Virginia Giuffre.
Sen. Martha McSally has broken gender barriers right and left. Despite the power she amassed over a career of firsts, she felt ‘powerless’ when raped. She’s not the only woman to feel that way.
Before the courts, LGBTQ asylum-seekers have historically had to face bias and ignorance about gender identity and sexuality. Has anything changed?
Forensics has a way to go before it’s a mature, academic science. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just terminated an independent commission charged with helping it get there.
TV cameras will be coming to a court near you.
50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
The novel’s two main characters represent the constitutional conundrum that many Americans grappled with in the pre-civil rights era.
More than 40 years after the release of Stairway to Heaven, English rock band Led Zeppelin are facing allegations that its iconic guitar riff was stolen from Taurus, a song released in 1968 by the American…
American exceptionalism on the death penalty is at it again, and this time we have truly outdone ourselves: we tortured someone to death. Last month, the Ohio execution of Denis McGuire using untested…
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