Young girls in Iraq who are years away from becoming teenagers could be forced to become wives if a new Shia-backed law passes. The new law would lower a girl’s consent from 18 to age 9.

In 1961 three young Montgomery County Negroes were charged with raping a 16-year-old white girl who had parked with ... denied the brothers due process of law. A lower court agreed and granted ...

the father of the 14-year-old boy who fatally shot a 13-year-old girl nearly a year ago. Brown is the first person to be charged under the Bennie Hargrove Gun Safety Act, aka "Bennie's Law," a New ...

Last year, 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham was abducted and killed. Her case inspired a new law that goes into effect in ...

A transgender teenage girl can rejoin her teammates on the soccer field — at least temporarily — after a federal judge ruled in favor of her challenge to a new New Hampshire state law that ...

The Maine House of Representatives advanced a bill Friday that would bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports ...