Even among rape convictions, it’s notoriously difficult to convict someone of incapacitated rape or sexual assault.
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YouTube Employees Report Active Shooter on San Bruno Campus
Employees are reporting a shooter on YouTube’s campus.
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If You Are Confused About Where to Draw the Line with Sexually Harassing Me at Work, I Will Invoice You
A solution I think we can all agree on.
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I Don’t Care About Democrats Setting a Good Example
Putting a stop to sexual harassment and sexual assault is the only thing that matters right now.
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What We Know About False Rape Accusations
It’s actually a sliver of social science, though one that’s rarely discussed on empirical terms.
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Six Dead After Vehicle Drives Down Lower Manhattan Bike Path, Law Enforcement Says
BREAKING: Law enforcement official: 6 people dead, 15 hurt after vehicle drives onto bike path near World Trade Center site.— The Associated Press (@AP) October 31, 2017 Reuters reports that several people were killed and more injured. In a series of Twitter posts, the New York City Police Department announced that a vehicle entered the […]
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Ask Northwest Earthquake Experts Anything You Want at Noon on Reddit
When’s the next one of these things due anyway?
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Reminder: Boeing CEO Stayed on Trump’s Council While Others Jumped Ship
“God bless Boeing,” Trump said in February. The company has cut more than 11,000 jobs in Washington State since 2013. Flightlevel80/Getty President Trump has abruptly disbanded his manufacturing council after several business and labor leaders decided to abort their ties to a president who has publicly defended white nationalist protesters. This morning, more leaders—including two […]
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An Inconvenient Sequel Review: God Bless Al Gore, But He’s Missing the Point
When former US vice president Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006, it landed with a bang. The documentary on the dangerous reality of global warming appeared to actually gain some traction with centrists—and maybe conservatives, too. But fast-forward a decade, and it seems that progress on the public perception of climate change […]
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An Inconvenient Sequel Makes a Convenient Argument for Capitalism
God Bless Al Gore, But He’s Missing the Point.
God bless Al Gore, but he’s missing the point.
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Fact Check: Does Oregon CPS “Err” On Believing Kids Who Allege Abuse?
Mayor Ed Murray’s lawyer, Katherine Heekin, defended her client against a CPS child sexual abuse finding by saying that CPS “is supposed to err on the side of believing a child’s accusations.” City of Seattle/The Stranger Over the weekend, the Seattle Times reported that the state of Oregon released new information showing that Child Protective […]
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Federal Judge Says Jeff Sessions Can’t Block Northwest Immigrant Rights Project From Doing Its Work (For Now)
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project has provided legal help to people like Daniel Ramirez Medina, the 23-year-old DACA-recipient formerly detained in Tacoma by immigration officials. HG A federal judge in Seattle on Wednesday said the Department of Justice cannot block attorneys from assisting immigrants they aren’t formally representing, freeing lawyers across the nation to continue […]