Cities that don't allow ICE enforcement stand to lose federal funds for rape kits, police, and emergency services, Trump's ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country ...

The Mobile County Sheriff's Office says it's taken a major step toward resolving dozens of sexual assault investigations in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Santa Clara County officials announced the end to a backlog of rape test kits in the county along with an expedited forensic testing process in sexual assault cases leading to ...

Senate recently voted to renew the act, but the Democratic leadership in the House has yet to schedule a vote. Scott Berkowitz with the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN says law enforcement ...

A suspect already in federal prison was linked to open rape cases from 2007 and 2009 and became the 500th defendant in Cuyahoga County indicted as a direct result of my office’s Sexual Assault Kit ...

A bisexual woman has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after her civil lawsuit was dismissed against the San Francisco Police Department for failure to process hundreds of rape kits. Rape ...

Colorado’s backlog of untested rape kits shot to the forefront of state attention in January, when a sexual assault survivor detailed her “real-life nightmare” to lawmakers. Miranda Gordon had been ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. If testing rape kits represents a chance for justice for survivors and accountability for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — A law that helps state crime labs deal with the backlog of thousands upon thousands of untested rape kits is set to expire next month, unless Congress takes action. The ...