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Marriage is not always the bed of roses it's supposed to be
Whenever you read about people doing things you yourself would never dream of doing, you naturally wonder: Is it a warped individual nature that is to blame? Is it the nature of the time, the place, the circumstances? Warped or not, an individual need never ...
After 9 years in fear, ex-wife of man suspected in 6 Arizona killings grateful to be alive
Connie Jones' life wasn't routine. She switched up her commute to work, went to different grocery stores, constantly looked over her shoulder, and took firearms training and defensive driving to protect herself and her son from an ex-husband she said was a maniac. Authorities have ...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Monday that victims of domestic and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum, in an effort to stem a flow of illegal immigrant families from Central America. In a deciding opinion on a case of an unidentified woman ...
Japan court orders damages be paid for wrongful spousal abuse claim
A court ordered an estranged wife and the Aichi Prefectural Government to pay a combined ¥550,000 in damages to the woman's husband for incorrectly declaring him a perpetrator of domestic violence. The man's wife, in her 40s and a resident of Aichi Prefecture, sought help ...
Death during childbirth of Paraguay teen rape victim fuels South American country's abortion debate
The death of a 14-year-old rape victim in Paraguay during childbirth has put the spotlight on the country's high levels of sexual violence against girls and its strict abortion law, campaigners said. The girl, identified as J.S.P., spent 22 days in a hospital with pregnancy ...
The White House on Tuesday defended its handling of the background check for a former top aide accused of domestic abuse by two ex-wives despite contradictory comments by the head of the FBI earlier in the day. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters at ...
Under pressure to explain how top White House staff worked for a year without full security clearance, Donald Trump's administration on Monday pointed its finger toward the FBI and intelligence agencies. The White House has struggled to explain how disgraced aide Rob Porter came to ...
Husband admits grisly killing that gripped France, inspired sympathy jogging events
A French IT worker on Tuesday admitted to killing his wife in a case that has gripped the country since her charred corpse was found in woods in October. The body of Alexia Daval, a 29-year-old bank employee, was found hidden under tree branches near ...
Deputy killed, six wounded in 'domestic disturbance' shooting near Denver
Washington A sheriff's deputy was killed and six other people, including four deputies, were wounded Sunday in what police called a "domestic disturbance" in a residential suburb near Denver, Colorado. The lone suspect was "shot & believed to be dead" after the standoff at the Copper ...
The NFL players' union sued the league on behalf of Ezekiel Elliott late Thursday night, seeking to vacate the upcoming ruling of an arbitrator on the appeal of the Dallas Cowboys running back's six-game suspension in a domestic violence case. The lawsuit, filed in federal ...
Japanese women more likely to keep domestic abuse secret than EU peers: survey
When Japanese women are physically or sexually abused by their partners, they tend to keep quiet and refrain from reporting the violence to the police. But, in Europe, women who go through the same demeaning experience are more inclined to let the authorities know, according ...
Japan's shelters provide little comfort to abused children
Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
