A bill that would have added a legal definition of consent to South Dakota's rape statute died in a Senate committee Tuesday afternoon. House Bill 1150 would have added a definition for "consent," ...

Holly Rider-Milkovich, director of the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, announced Sunday that SAPAC updated its website to reflect changes to language used to define ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Minnehaha County jury asked Judge Bradley Zell for the legal definition of consent while deliberating a sexual assault case in ...

The European Parliament has backed a consent-based definition of rape. But what constitutes rape under criminal law still ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For two months now, as accusations of sexual misconduct have piled up against Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced mogul has responded over and over again: “Any ...

Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, stands outside of the Capitol on Friday. Tarr sponsored legislation to update a 40-year-old definition of consent in state law, which the Legislature passed on the last ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For two months now, as accusations of sexual misconduct have piled up against Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced mogul has responded over and over again: "Any allegations of ...

NEW YORK (AP) - It may sound simple: You either consent to sexual activity or you don't. But just what constitutes an expression of consent is a hotly debated topic in the justice system and in ...