Well, this is absolutely awful and heartbreaking. Read… 10/17/13 8:30pm 10/17/13 8:30pm

Today in horrible, depressing reminders of what it's like to live under rape culture: last year an Omaha woman, Megan Hunt, was sexually assaulted by a 24 Hour Fitness employee. Even though the attack was caught on tape, the company's corporate HR told Megan that they could not fire the employee for "legal reasons" and … Read… 10/13/13 2:00pm 10/13/13 2:00pm

Just everything is wrong with this video discussing the "rapey" qualities of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. Everything. It is the worst. The second I started playing it, my toes curled up, my hair fell out, a wine glass shattered next to me, my boyfriend called from two rooms over "Is that Gilbert Gottfried?" Read… 8/01/13 9:30pm 8/01/13 9:30pm

Here's some news to cry yourself to sleep with tonight. Read… 3/06/13 11:30pm 3/06/13 11:30pm

This is the most upsetting thing I've reported on in, well, a few days, I guess. Read… 3/05/13 9:30pm 3/05/13 9:30pm

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) released a report yesterday on Syrian refugees that shines some light on the horrific reality Syrian women and girls are currently facing. Read… 1/15/13 12:50pm 1/15/13 12:50pm

Well, here's a double whammy of saddening and maddening. This past Sunday, Maria Sanchez, 26, died in her Houston home from the effects of an inoperable spinal tumor. Just four days earlier U.S. Customs and Border Protection denied a humanitarian parole to her parents, so they were unable to see their daughter on her… Read… 1/09/13 10:25am 1/09/13 10:25am

It should not take an hours-long violent gang rape to convince India's government to take sexual assault and violence against women more seriously. But that's what happened: a 23-year-old was savagely raped and beaten with iron rods on a bus that passed through several police checkpoints on its way around the city. Read… 12/19/12 4:30pm 12/19/12 4:30pm

It has been an especially violent year in Chicago. The murder rate is up a terrifying 37 percent, and the number of people killed this year so far was at 252—until last night when a seven-year-old girl became the 253rd murder victim of the year. Heaven Sutton was with her mother selling snow cones and candy at a little … Read… 6/28/12 9:15pm 6/28/12 9:15pm

A terrifying attack has shaken Portland, Texas, a quiet community outside of Corpus Christi with a low crime rate. They hadn't had a murder there in two years, but that all changed on Saturday, when two teenage girls were found in a park after having been shot in the head. Mary Christine Chapa, 18, was still alive and… Read… 6/25/12 11:55pm 6/25/12 11:55pm

Just when you think all of the horrible things in the world have already happened, something like this comes along. Last week, Susan Orellana-Clark was Skyping with her husband, Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, a 43-year old Army chief nurse who was stationed in Afghanistan. Everything seemed completely normal when Clark… Read… 5/07/12 11:10am 5/07/12 11:10am

When one talks about being in the right place at the right time, that place isn't usually a cemetery. Yet that was exactly where 21-year-old Jaymisha Pires was this weekend with a friend when she saw a man starting to slice the arms of a young boy with a sharp object. The man turned out to be 30-year-old Joseph… Read… 4/30/12 11:55pm 4/30/12 11:55pm

Yeah, so, while it might be a little early for news this gross, we ought to get it out of the way, or else, like old strawberries sitting in your refrigerator, it'll crinkle, soften, and sprout fuzzy spores of white mold. Cleveland radio personality Dominic Dieter, a surely sonorous voice that squawks to every morning… Read… 4/29/12 11:30am 4/29/12 11:30am

No matter how one hears about it, finding out about the death of a loved one is bound to be awful. But one military wife had a particularly terrible experience—she found out her husband had been killed in action via Facebook. Ugh, yet another downside to being able to instantly contact anyone. Read… 4/19/12 11:00pm 4/19/12 11:00pm

I hope you spent the morning warming up your What The Everloving Hell reaction muscles, because this will require you to use all of them. It's the Swedish minister of culture cutting up a taxpayer-funded cake baked to look like a racist caricature of a black woman at the opening of an exhibit about the horrors of… Read… 4/17/12 12:15pm 4/17/12 12:15pm

Just when you think all of the saddest uses for social media have been discovered, someone finds a way to do something even more depressing. For instance, a woman in Taiwan, Claire Lin, killed herself earlier this month while chatting on Facebook with nine of her friends—none of whom alerted the authorities. Read… 3/27/12 11:15pm 3/27/12 11:15pm

Rapper The Game was on tour in Australia in February, and he seems to have behaved very badly while he was down there. This disturbing little piece of NSFW footage from his show in Adelaide has just emerged. It shows a girl from the audience on stage looking increasingly more uncomfortable as she is harassed by The… Read… 3/06/12 11:40am 3/06/12 11:40am

Briana and James Cox had only had their baby girl Addison a few weeks when they got some terrible news: Briana had stage IV metastatic melanoma. Her prognosis was bad, and the couple worried that it might have spread to their newborn daughter while Briana was pregnant with her. The doctors assured them that was unheard … Read… 3/02/12 10:00am 3/02/12 10:00am

It's tempting to believe that if a grandfather was carjacked at a gas station in plain sight of other customers, someone would rush to help him. But, alas, humans are horrible. Aaron Brantley, an 86-year-old WWII vet, learned that the hard way a few days ago at a gas station in Detroit. Carjackers broke his leg and… Read… 2/26/12 11:00pm 2/26/12 11:00pm

After-school fights have been happening for as long as there has been school, but an altercation in California has had an unusually tragic result: An 11-year old girl died after fighting with one of her classmates over a boy. The girl, who has been identified as Joanna Ramos, and an unnamed classmate had a pre-planned… Read… 2/26/12 8:00pm 2/26/12 8:00pm