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Fifteen-year-old Audrie Pott got drunk at a party and passed out. What happened next, according to her family, was that she was sexually assaulted by multiple young men, who took photos and circulated them in their high school of more than 1,000 students. Not long afterward, Audrie, devastated and hopeless, committed suicide.

Jacob Tillman, a skateboarder and artist, wants to help his sister Lydia continue to recover from a savage 2011 attack and has created an IndieGogo fundraising campaign called ‘Still Kickin’’ to raise money for her medical costs. The campaign’s goal is $65,000, the price of a special reconstructive jaw surgery she is slated to receive in January.

So now that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been rounded up in Britain on a warrant out of Sweden, where he's wanted for questioning in two sex assault cases, what would it take for the US government to prosecute him for publishing ...