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Former vice president Joe Biden released a statement Sunday — his second in three days — in response to allegations that he had touched women inappropriately throughout his public life.

In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump offered a path forward for a divided nation–unifying even his fiercest critics behind at least some of what he is trying to do.

Statistics released by the Swedish criminal statistics agency Brå reveal that 42 percent of women aged 20 to 24 feel insecure in their everyday lives, fearful they could be victims of various crimes.

President Donald Trump pointed to the one in three women sexually assaulted on the journey through Mexico to the U.S. southern border as evidence of the humanitarian crisis.

California Democrats with lots of seniority are expected to dominate the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives if their party flips 23 Republican House seats on Tuesday.

“You’re not allowed to use the word beautiful anymore when you talk about women,” he said as the crowd booed.

Several Democrat women stripped to their skivvies for a photo shoot that is part of a campaign to urge people to vote against Republicans this election season.

“You have a lot of women that are extremely happy. A tremendous number of women,” Trump said to reporters who asked him to respond to the women who were upset by the ruling.

“I pray for them to recognize that Jesus took their pain and that they can give it all to Him… And I pray that our hearts will always remain soft towards them no matter what, no matter how they treat us, no matter how they talk about us. That we will love them in spite of all of it.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Bette Midler is apologizing for a tweet that caused a social media backlash when she compared the struggle of women to the history of racism.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that will require companies to meet quotas for the representation of women on corporate boards.

A Japanese medical school deliberately marked down women’s test scores for at least a decade, an investigation panel claimed on Tuesday, describing it a “very serious” case of discrimination.

Some would say the mistake was having a daughter in the first place…. No, this isn’t the standfirst from an Onion parody of the kind of bleeding-heart, enviro-doom drivel they like to run every now and then in the New York Times.

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Iranian women were permitted to enter Iran’s Azadi Stadium on Wednesday to watch a broadcast of the country’s second World Cup match (against Spain), following the regime’s decision to relax a ban on females at sporting events.

Less than a month before the June 24 date on which Saudi Arabia will officially lift a decades-old ban on women drivers, the Kingdom introduced a law on Wednesday that criminalizes sexual harassment.

She grew up shooting guns with her dad, is busy pursuing her concealed carry permit, and she’s just out of college. On this week’s Bullets, meet Morgan Sachs, an organizer with “March 4 Our Rights,” who has a few things to say about the Second Amendment and how gun ownership empowers women.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is urging Democrats to vote, asserting that “women are dying” because the left is losing elections.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes her experience in politics serves as a model for women around the world.

“I worry that they fall into the trap at large, that they fall into the trap of becoming the enemy which is Trump,” he said. “They’re using the social media in a similar way, many of them are, and there is an increasing divide where there is less and less any ‘we’ available.”

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her controversial comment trying to explain why the majority of white women voted for her opponent Donald Trump.

The transgender ideology is being covertly funded by a network of wealthy transgender donors and a variety of investors in the drug, surgery and healthcare industries, says Jenifer Bilek, a New York-based feminist.

RIYADH – Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the consent of a husband or male relative, as the kingdom pushes to expand a fast-growing private sector.

Women are more likely to find men attractive if they are sought after by other women, according to a study published Monday.

Many Pennsylvania women who voted for President Trump in the 2016 election say they still support him one year later.

Participation in the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) welfare program hit a 17-year low in 2017, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards will only feature female presenters amid the film industry’s widening sexual misconduct.

President Donald Trump again described the sexual harassment accusations from several women as false, accusing them of joining a politically motivated plot against him.

“Certainly as a woman myself I’ve never felt anything but treated with the highest level of respect and been in power to do my job,” Sanders said. “And I think that’s what I’ve seen the president do day in and day out since we’ve been here and during the campaign.”

A panel of distinguished policy experts discussed the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran on Friday, emphasizing the need for the international community to hold Iran accountable for numerous, ongoing atrocities.

The Pentagon recommended that women be required to register for the draft to boost military enrollment, according to a Defense Department report addressed to Congress.

Hillary Clinton said on MSNBC Saturday that women who support President Trump are “publicly disrespecting themselves.”

Among the 58,000-plus names etched on the Vietnam War Memorial are the names of eight American civilian and military women, all nurses, who died from accidents or wounds sustained in Vietnam. On Memorial Day Monday, their names were remembered once again.

TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the Western perception of women as a “Zionists’ plot to destroy human community” in a tweet on Sunday.

Although geeks have long merrily been celebrating Pi Day by dressing-up as ancient mathematicians, marching around in circles, and eating fruit pies since 1988, this year’s Silicon Valley festivities were hijacked to protest President Trump.

An initiative to start a ‘Women’s Council’ in the repressive Muslim state of Saudi Arabia has become the target of criticism and mockery after a photo emerged of the first meeting online, confirming the council does not have any women on it.

Thousands of women, and men, took the day off work on International Women’s Day to participate in at least three rallies and strikes throughout Washington D.C. to call for more rights, equality, and freedom.