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In the wake of the April 10 San Bernardino school shooting in which North Park Elementary special education teacher Karen Smith and student Jonathan Martinez, 8, were killed, it was learned that shooter Cedric Anderson, Smith’s estranged husband, had a history of domestic violence.

An advocacy group said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog fielded more than 1,000 complaints of sexual assault or sexual abuse from people in custody in a little more than two years.

Threat and fear of firearm violence affects nearly one in four female victims of domestic abuse, according to a first-of-its-kind study by two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers on the relationship between firearm threat and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Following an investigation by The New York Times over the weekend that revealed multiple settlements over allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior by Mr. O’Reilly, the network faced a major advertising revolt as more than a dozen marketers said that they were withdrawing their ads from “The O’Reilly Factor.”

For some trauma survivors, engaging in tattooing can be a healing practice, an opportunity for changing their self-image or relationship with their bodies.

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Monday announced the creation of a permanent, statewide human trafficking task force.