As homicides in Connecticut have plummeted over the last five years, the number of domestic violence killings have largely gone unchanged in some areas and increased in others, according to data released by state officials.

Columbus City Council member Tiara Ross is exploring adding housing protections for victims fleeing domestic violence situations to city housing code.

A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently fight or show mild aggression are not necessarily more likely to kill rivals,

Violence against women remains one of the world's most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN partners.

This past week, the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, was thirty-one years old. Tyler Robinson, a twenty-two-year-old Utah resident, has been accused of ...

Rates of violence against women have remained largely unchanged in California for nearly two decades, with Black and multiracial women facing the highest risks, a sweeping new analysis by UC Berkeley public health researchers has found. Black women under ...

A tiny percentage of Americans support it in any meaningful sense, despite what some polls may show. By Nate Cohn A makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah. Credit...Kim Raff for The New York Times In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination ...

It could have been a scene from Cape Fear: a quiet evening, an ordinary home, a sudden intrusion by a stranger convinced that the law has betrayed him. In early July 2022, Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington and her husband were ...

Convulsions of political violence have a way of imprinting on the national memory. They become, in retrospect, the moments from which the rest of history seems to unspool. Yet they are forever intertwined with the possibility that things could have gone ...