Domestic Violence, Women | featured news

The Senate is trying again to accomplish what Congress failed to do last year - extend the federal government's chief means of protecting women from domestic abuse while broadening those protections for Native Americans, gays and lesbians....

Her head was ringing from the blows. Once, twice, three times, her husband slammed her face into the living room floor. Kim Lee tried to twist her tall but skinny frame out from under his 91-kilogram (200-pound) body, scraping her elbows and knees on the carpet. He kept on pounding. Eight, nine, 10 times – she thought she might black out.