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The Associated Press reports: [Sen. Kirsten] Gillibrand is on the Senate Armed Services Committee. She says sexual assault should be...

Sen. Patty Murray and Sen. Kelly Ayotte write for Politico: Our bill, the Combating Military Sexual Assault Act, would attack...

Jessica Machetta reports for Missourinet on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Member Brian Lewis: “My original bill, which was introduced...

David Lerman reports for Bloomberg News on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Member Brian Lewis: Brian Lewis, a former Navy...

NBC’s Maria Shriver interviews Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Susan Collins and Protect Our Defenders Honorary Chair, Rep. Jackie Speier: Visit NBCNews.com...

Stephanie Gaskell reports for Politico: The Army said Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, a 23-year veteran who did two tours...

Rick Maze reports for Air Force Times: Draft legislation released Tuesday showed the committee chairman, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., gathered...

Sig Christenson reports for San Antonio Express-News: An Air Force boot camp instructor faced an evidentiary hearing Wednesday on charges...

Marci Greenstein reports for GIMBY on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: According to the DoD’s SAPRO, 74% of women...

Thom Shanker reports for New York Times: “We’re losing the confidence of the women who serve that we can solve...

David Alexander reports for Reuters on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: Nancy Parrish, the head of the Protect Our...

Ernesto Londoño reports for The Washington Post: A defense official said Roberts got into a physical altercation with a woman...

Mark Thompson reports for Time: The suspension was the latest in a string of suspected sex-related cases that has rocked...

Margaret Carlson reports for Bloomberg News: Reporting a rape is never easy, but it’s much harder when the perpetrator is...

Tom Vanden Brook reports for USA Today: It was not clear whom Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts struck or with whom...

Lolita C. Baldor reports for The Associated Press: The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been...

Samantha Allen reports for The Nashua Telegraph: “The more I have spoken out, the stronger I have gotten,” [U.S. Army...

Karisa King reports for the San Antonio Express-News: Decades after sexual assaults in the military started producing a highly publicized...

Karisa King reports for the San Antonio Express-News: When she returned for her next weekend training in May, she was...

Fox News interviews Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Member and Former Navy Lieutenant Paula Coughlin-Puopolo: It took years for Ruth...

A seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation into the pervasive and long-standing problem of sex assaults in the military shows victims...

Karisa King and the San Antonio Express News spent seven months examining how the military treats sexual assault reports, interviewing...

The West Hartford News reports: The Military Rape Crisis Center, an advocacy organization, is urging state legislatures to ensure that...

The San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board writes: Escalating degrees of authority are invested in each link up the military chain...

Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes in the San Antonio Express-News: Rather than assure victims that their distress about...

Tabassum Zakaria and David Alexander report for Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Under pressure to fight sexual assault, the U.S. armed...

The San Antonio Express published an editorial today on military sexual assault. It reads, in part: It is tragedy when...

The Washington Post reports: Two senior military officers said for the first time Friday that they were “open” to proposed...

UPI reports on survivors, including Protect Our Defenders’ Advocacy Committee member Brian Lewis, speaking up about their assaults: WASHINGTON, May...

NBC News has the following report: A “direct threat” against a U.S. congresswoman — posted on a military-oriented Facebook page...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand blogged about military sexual assault on the Huffington Post Friday, writing in part: I was outraged by...

The LA Times reported on May 15, 2013: Another day, another military sexual assault scandal. On Tuesday, a week after...

Robin Abcarian reports today for the LA Times: “The one lesson they have learned out of Tailhook is try not...

Sig Christenson reports for San Antonio Express News: A chief proponent of the STOP Act, which has languished since it...

Chelsea J. Carter and Ashley Fantz report for CNN on POD Advocacy Committee members Jennifer Norris and Brian Lewis: Former...

Joseph Morton reports for World-Herald on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: “The military justice system elevates an individual commander’s...

Kevin Miller reports for Portland Press Herald on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee member Jennifer Norris: Maine resident Jennifer Norris...

Patricia Zengerle reports for Reuters: Two cases in as many weeks in which members of the armed forces tasked with...

Bill Briggs reports for NBC on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee member Geri-Lynn Matthews: Assaults on men have been “carefully...