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    Rockville teen charged with threatening mass violence

    Alex Ye, 18, of Rockville, Md., was charged with threatening mass violence after state, county and federal officials uncovered multiple social media posts and a 129-page "manifesto" describing his desire to shoot up both a local elementary and high school.

  • National cabinet to tackle men's violence against women

    Australia’s leaders will convene for an emergency meeting to tackle violence against women after mass marches across the weekend. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would hold a national cabinet meeting on Wednesday to address the issue. The announcement came after Mr Albanese joined demonstrators in Canberra on Sunday alongside Minister for Women Katy Gallagher […]

  • Violence persists in Ecuador despite state of emergency

    Quito, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) Violence persists today in Ecuador despite the militarization and the state of emergency President Daniel Noboa decreed again on April 19. The post Violence persists in Ecuador despite state of emergency first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • Leaders to meet as thousands rally to end violence

    An emergency meeting of Australian leaders will be convened to tackle the scourge of violence against women after tens of thousands of people marched throughout the nation. A crowd of thousands marched on Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday for the last of 17 weekend rallies following an estimated 15,000 people demonstrating in Melbourne and […]

  • PM joins weekend of rallies against gendered violence

    The prime minister will join thousands of demonstrators as they march for a third day throughout Australia to demand action to end violence against women. A dozen rallies will be held in major cities and regional towns on Sunday as part of a series of national events calling for a break in the cycle of […]

  • Your academic privilege will not save you from state violence

    We may have reached a moment, as with the anti-Vietnam war protests on US campuses in the late 1960s that became mass protests after disgraceful police/national state trooper violence on campus. When a professor gets roughed up by thuggish policing, you have reached a tipping point. The aggressive crackdown on dissent in the US against […]

  • Australians demand end to violence against women crisis

    Australians have taken to the nation’s streets to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. Thousands of attendees at protests in Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart on Saturday demanded concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in […]

  • Rallies highlight 'horrible fear' of gendered violence

    Thousands of Australians will gather at rallies across the nation to demand “no more” to gendered violence following a surge of killings of women at the hands of men. About 15 rallies will be held across states and territories over the weekend as women and their allies call for concrete action to break the cycle […]

  • KCPD Chief Graves addresses recent violence in city

    At Friday’s meeting, KCPD reported that year to date homicides are down this year compared to 2023.

  • LA Mayor Bass Calls for Investigation Into UCLA Violence

    Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is calling for a full investigation into the violence that erupted at UCLA.

  • Why Biden finally decided to speak out on college protest violence

    The president had asked his team to get a speech ready just in case. And then, UCLA happened.

  • 'No easy answer' as ministers meet on gendered violence

    The country’s police ministers have come together in an effort to determine more preventative measures to stop violence against women. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus hosted the meeting of state and territory ministers in Canberra on Friday, saying greater collaboration was needed to address the scourge. “There are no easy answers. It will take efforts across governments […]