According to a report from the UK-based Daily Mail’s Rachel Quigley, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said they have “serious doubts” over a woman’s allegations she was sexually assaulted by TV anchor and son of New York police commissioner Ray Kelly, “and will likely not file criminal charges against the TV anchor.”

More bombshell revelations have leaked about the Greg Kelly rape allegations, a source told the Associated Press that a woman became pregnant and had an abortion after being allegedly sexually assaulted by Kelly in October.

ABC legal analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams spoke to Good Morning America about the rape allegation against Greg Kelly, host of Good Day New York and son of New York police commissioner Ray Kelly.

HBO’s Bill Maher paid a little visit to E!’s Chelsea Lately, where he revisited a certain pesky little story that has been following him around for nearly a year now. Maher told host Chelsea Handler that his February 2011 joke involving The View‘s Elisabeth Hasselbeck and CBS’ Lara Logan had not been in reference to the sexual violence Logan endured while covering the uprising in Egypt. Maher, for those who don’t remember, joked that the U.S. should trade Hasselbeck for Logan, who had been captured the day before.

Casey Anthony reportedly told her psychiatrist Jeffrey Danziger she believed her deceased child, Caylee, was conceived after she was raped at a party, according to newly released documents. She claims someone “may have drugged her” and that she “woke up unclothed bottom,” and had no idea of the identity of Caylee’s real father. RELATED: Watch [...]

Media mogul Tyler Perry — who has been open about his own childhood experiences with violence and abuse — has penned a letter to the 11-year-old boy involved in Jerry Sandusky‘s widely-reported rape scandal.

TheGrio.com’s Goldie Taylor appeared on The Last Word last night, sharing with host Lawrence O’Donnell her own personal experience with sexual abuse in the wake of the Penn State rape scandal. O’Donnell pointed out that, earlier, Taylor had tweeted that she had been angered over the scandal’s cover-up by those at PSU, but later felt [...]

Wednesday night, whilst filling in for Bill O’Reilly on The Factor, Laura Ingraham took a look at the instances of sexual violence going on within the Occupy movement. The situation has gotten so out of hand in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, she added, that women have been given their own separate area within the protesters’ so-called “tent city.”

On Sunday’s State Of The Union, CNN’s Candy Crowley interviewed Vice President Joe Biden and pressed him on his comments that tied failing to pass Obama’s jobs bill to an increase in rape and murder. “Is it your intention to say, when you give these speeches that if Republicans don’t pass the president’s jobs bill, they will be responsible for increases in rape and murder?” Crowley questioned, alluding to Human Events reporter Jason Mattera‘s heated exchange with the Vice President. Biden disputed that he was playing politics.

Prosecutors in the case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn have filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him, citing issues with Nafissatou Diallo‘s credibility. Diallo, you’ll recall, is the Sofitel Hotel maid who alleged Strauss-Kahn raped her in his hotel room. Her attorney, meanwhile, maintains that she was not treated fairly throughout the case and that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. essentially “turned his back” on his client.

You might recall the story of Iman al-Obeidi, the woman who put a name and face to the plight of many women living in revolution-rocked Libya after she burst, wounded and disheveled, into a hotel housing several foreign journalists and informed those present that she had been gang-raped and badly beaten.

Well, wow, al-Obeidi is ready to carve out a new future in the United States.

A lawyer for French novelist Tristane Banon has shared that she will file a lawsuit against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accusing him of attempted rape. Just last week, Strauss-Kahn was released after the credibility of his original accuser, a Manhattan-based hotel maid, was called into question given she had lied before a grand jury.

You may be aware that there has been one persistent question surrounding a passage of Bristol Palin‘s new memoir wherein she describes her first ever sexual encounter, with then-boyfriend Levi Johnston, as being fueled by too many wine coolers. Was this young woman, people wanted to know, raped? Was she coerced into having sex? Could she have said no if she wanted to?

Palin is addressing those concerns, telling USA Today that the drunken encounter was “a dumb decision,” and sharing that she had agreed to it with the hope that she and Johnston would one day marry.

Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip (You know: Cubicles, vaguely amorphous dog, quiet desperation) has a blog where he’ll occasionally share his take on current events like, for example, the “alarming trend in the news” regarding men powerful men doing bad things like textin’ and rapin’ (which, one must admit, encompasses quite a wide range of what can be considered “bad behavior”).

Adams begins his blog entry by asking which animal, if any, would be to blame if a lion happened to eat a zebra at a watering hole. He answers that, obviously, both animals are simply acting in accordance to their natural instincts. Now, next question: How can we apply this to humans in a way that would allow us to be as offensive as possible to both men and women? Ah, yes. We can claim that men who behave badly are merely acting naturally.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn entered a “not guilty” plea this morning to charges that he raped a maid at a Manhattan hotel. Strauss-Kahn was previously released on bail and permitted to have home detention, where he is being monitored by at least one guard at all times (not to mention the many journalists camped outside his new residence).

Strauss-Kahn’s wife, TV journalist Anne Sinclair, was with her husband as he entered his plea. Outside the courthouse, a group of hotel workers gathered together to chant “shame on you” as the couple made their exit.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released on bail. Bail was set as a $1 million bond, with an additional insurance bond of $5 million.

Charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a Manhattan hotel, Strauss-Kahn had been previously told by a judge that he would be held without bail, at least until his next court hearing. He has resigned from his post as the IMF’s managing director, although he had not been forced to do so by the court.

NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and another reporter were able to sneak a visit to Iman al-Obeidi’s home, where she is finally recovering. Al-Obeidi, who has been unable to leave her house in light of a television smear campaign against her, recounted the details of her ordeal.

Eman Al-Obeidy, the woman who recently burst into a press dining room to report her gang rape, may still be in the custody of Gaddafi’s forces – in other words, the very people she holds accountable for her rape. Her mother reports that her daughter is still not home, despite conflicting reports from officials in Tripoli.

As gathering outrage over the “forcible rape” language in a proposed anti-abortion law crested with a piece of devastating satire on Wednesday night’s The Daily Show, Politico reports that the phrase has been stricken from the bill. The law seeks to restrict the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, and although they have restored the [...]

Kristen Schaal, who often stops by The Daily Show in order to discuss important issues impacting Today’s Woman, weighed in on recent efforts to cut taxpayer funding of abortions resulting from so-called “forcible” rape.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is rasing eyebrows with her suggestion that a movement to replace the term “illegal immigrant” with “undocumented immigrant” is analogous to “re-brand(ing) the use of the word rapist to nonconsensual sex partner.”

Although her remark was clearly meant to evoke what some see as an Orwellian manipulation of language, the intense heat given to the mighty #Mooreandme protest over the dismissive treatment of rape allegations on MSNBC’s Countdown could spark a similar surge of outrage over Kelly’s remark. Here’s why I don’t think it should.

It would be hard to find a media personality who is more experienced than Rush Limbaugh at carefully constructing a convincing argument, before quickly shattering any of its impact with over-the-top hyperbole. Case in point: today Rush was justifiably angry with the determination of elected officials to fulfill a non-existent mandate to pass as much legislation as possible before the end of the year. This, according to Rush, is the equivalent of Congress sexually violating every American and is also where many listeners might focus on the rape and forget what issue it was that originally upset Rush.

It seems Wikileaks’ latest project– a compilation of several millions of diplomatic cables replete with confidential information embarrassing to a wide array of nations– was the last straw for editor-in-chief Julian Assange. After a verbal lashing from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Assange is tossing the ball back into her court, telling Time he would like to see her step down. Meanwhile, his Swedish misadventures have landed him an arrest warrant from Interpol.

News of of the arrest and scheduled extradition of film Roman Polanski has caused somewhat of a debate on the true nature of the film director’s crime. The internet is abuzz about a comment that Whoopi Goldberg made on ABC’s “The View” yesterday regarding the definition of “rape-rape.”