Researchers have analyzed 153 court rulings that include descriptions of the victims' behavior prior to the rape.

The study was based on 2054 rape case rulings from Norwegian courts of appeal between 2013 and 2023 .

The findings showed defendants in cases where the victim is described in accordance with the IRMAS-SAFI questionnaire receive lighter sentences.

Rape myths suggest that certain behavior implies an invitation for sexual activity.

The NTNU study is the only quantitative Norwegian study that investigates—and shows—a correlation between rape myths and sentencing.

It highlights cases where the victim and the defendant are not aligned with the common perceptions we tend to have of them.

Not being believed in a rape case can make an already distressing process even harder for victims.

Barbershops and salons are regarded in the Black community as safe, sacred spaces.

When those refuges are violated by gun violence, an unspoken bond is broken.

A 2020 study found that exposure to gun killings was linked to higher levels of depression, suicidal ideation.

In 2024 , there were about 20 shootings in the police district that includes Four Corners , five of them fatal.

Most of the victims were Black men, according to a KFF Health News analysis of Boston Police Department data.

Recovering from the trauma of witnessing gun violence is often more difficult for onlookers when they still live and work where the shootings happened.

The Education Department laid off more than 1,300 employees across its divisions this week .

The department’s staff is being cut nearly in half .

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general sued the Education Department in federal court.

The agency's workforce in the Office for Civil Rights was cut by half , or possibly more.

Conservatives who support closing the Education Department see the cuts as a step toward that larger goal.

It's unclear how the agency will be able to function or produce its most important work, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress , or NAEP .

Administration officials have promised the NAEP test, also known as the Nation’s Report Card , would not be touched, but that seems impossible.

People can still turn to the companies that service their loans for help, but there will be no one to ensure those contractors do their job.

There are also fewer people at the department to handle changes to the loan portfolio, which could be disastrous when a Biden -era program ends and students are required to resume making loan payments.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 324 points, or 0.8 per cent , as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.

The S&P 500 was down 0.9 per cent in midday trading, coming off a dizzying stretch where it set a record and briefly tumbled as much as 10 per cent from the mark within just a few weeks .

The turbulence is because of uncertainty about how much pain Trump will let the economy endure through tariffs and other policies in order to reshape the country and world as he wants.

While few are predicting an imminent recession, particularly with the job market remaining relatively solid, recent reports have shown a souring of confidence among U.S. consumers and companies. In stock markets abroad, indexes fell across much of Europe and Asia , but the moves were relatively modest..

The release of at least six U.S. nationals follows a recent visit to the region by Adam Boehler , the Trump administration's top hostage envoy.

The names of the released prisoners were not immediately made public.

Kuwait did not acknowledge the release on its state-run KUNA news agency and did not immediately respond.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been cheerleading a congressional investigation into ActBlue , the largest Democratic online fundraising platform.

Last year , it took in $3.8 billion , more than double the amount raised by the equivalent Republican PAC, WinRed .

The assault on ActBlue could do plenty of damage to Democrats all by itself, but it could also be merely the start of a broader Republican tactic.

For his own part, though, the Florida trial lawyer says he isn’t spooked. “If I have to be Navalny , well, that’d be a good way to go,” Morgan says. Given Trump ’s admiration for Vladimir Putin , the reference is equal parts apt and unnerving..

The Justice Department asks the justices to narrow a judicial block imposed on a key element of his hardline approach toward immigration.

The administration says the injunctions should be scaled back from applying universally and limited to just the plaintiffs that brought the cases.

The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority includes three justices appointed by Trump during his first term.

U.S. agencies are defying a court order blocking President Donald Trump 's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, groups suing over the ban say.

The groups, along with the city of Baltimore , say federal agencies are continuing to threaten contractors with loss of funding if they do not sign contracts with anti-DEI language.

The White House and Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Thursday is the deadline for agencies to hand their cost-cutting proposals in to the White House and the Office of Personnel Management .

More than 103,000 federal workers have been laid off as part of efforts by Trump and the tech billionaire Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency to reduce spending.

It's unclear whether those plans will be made public or when agencies will implement them.

At NOAA , sources say the agency’s reduction in force plan involves laying off around 1,000 people across the organization.

NOAA oversees NOAA Fisheries , NOAA Weather Service and NOAA Fisheries .

Social Security has already announced that it is seeking to shed 7,000 positions, or 12% of its workforce.

Union leaders say they have been kept in the dark about agencies' plans.

IRS 's acting chief counsel, William Paul , has been removed from his role at the agency.

He clashed with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's alleged push to share tax information with other agencies.

The IRS is drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts.