New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani argued an "expanded definition" of rape was behind rising rape numbers in recent police ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law Tuesday that broadens the state’s rape laws to ensure that additional forms of nonconsensual, forced sexual conduct can be prosecuted as rape. The chief change ...

ALBANY, N.Y.ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The ...

A new law designed to increase protections for victims of sexual assault in New York by redefining rape in the state's penal code is set to take effect in September. The Rape is Rape Act, which was ...

The Metropolitan Police Department reported a significant increase in reported rapes last year, coinciding with the department changing its definition of rape to match FBI-Uniform Crime Reporting’s ...

Until now, definitions of what constitutes rape under criminal law had varied significantly across the EU, ranging from "only yes means yes" to "only no means no." About half of all women in the ...

Highest risk for flooding today is east of San Antonio, along the Guadalupe and Colorado Rivers SUNDAY: Flooding risk high east of San Antonio, but strong storms are still possible for the Alamo City ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – An uptick in rape reports to the NYPD has drawn significant attention online this week after Mayor ...

Corroborating findings of the National Sexual Violence Research Center (1918), the Center for Disease Control (2022) reports that sexual violence is common: Over half of women and almost one in three ...