Domestic violence survivors and their families frequently ask Amanda Cost for financial assistance, spots in a shelter, or other help. Lately, Cost and her staff have gotten used to turning down these requests. “As we continue to see reductions in funding, we have to say no,” says Cost, executive director of Partners for Peace Maine, … Read more
In the days and months after the Supreme Court rendered a 2022 decision gutting the U.S. constitutional protection for abortion, advocates predicted many negative impacts to come for women and their families. At least one such prediction has come true: there has been an increase in intimate partner violence in places with a near-total ban … Read more
MEXICO CITY — In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel. I like to work/ And if the order is to kill / You don’t question it. And for those who misbehave/ … Read more
Martin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 drama “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on — or perhaps even a eulogy for — the kind of gangster film that the pair made famous, like Scorsese saying farewell to the genre, ruminating on what it means to tell stories about men of violence. … Read more
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United Nations-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The allegations came in one of the most extensive reports of its kind on the issue since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel ignited … Read more
The wave of violence that has killed hundreds of civilians across Syria reached the major cities of Damascus and Aleppo on Monday, hours after interim leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa vowed to bring those responsible to justice. The reported fighting in the capital, Damascusand the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the … Read more
The interaction transformed Goodmark’s outlook. She began to notice a chasm between what her clients needed—a stable income, a place to live, a safe way to co-parent, an apology, family therapy, substance-use treatment for their partner, health care, child care—and what the state was offering: arrest, prosecution, complete separation. The legal system was not only … Read more
Kansas City rookie Xavier Worthy has been arrested on a felony domestic violence charge, the second high-profile wide receiver from the reigning AFC champions to be facing serious legal trouble in Texas in less than a year. Williamson County online jail records Saturday showed that Worthy was arrested Friday by deputies and held in the … Read more
At least 240 people have been killed in northwest Syria as fierce clashes escalate between government forces and loyalists of former President Bashar al-Assad, marking the deadliest violence since the fall of Assad three months ago. The dead include around 140 people killed in apparent revenge attacks, as well as 50 government troops and 45 … Read more
