A proposal to lower the age of consent in India has reignited the debate over the legally appropriate age for engaging in ...

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Consent. A word that may seem heavy for little ones, but which is actually an essential concept to teach them to respect ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A bill to raise Oklahoma’s age of consent from 16 to 18 is now on Governor Kevin Stitt’s desk, with lawmakers largely in agreement on the need to close what they called a ...

The economies of the United States and Mexico are deeply integrated through the USMCA and decades of trade cooperation, yet the multiple rounds of tariffs imposed on Mexico since January have injected ...

A rumor that circulated online in August 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump, and the Republican Party, planned to federally act to reduce the age of consent for sexual activity, or the minimum ...

Two basically identical bills that would raise the age, from 14 to 18, at which people can make their own medical decisions moved through the Alabama Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health on ...

Lynne Graziano is a senior analyst at Bellwether Education Partners. Earlier this year, she co-authored the report “The Edge of Seventeen: What Does It Mean To Be a Young Adult in America in 2024? ” ...

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One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws are “meant to be broken.” Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI ...

In August 2025, online users shared a rumor that said U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican politicians sought to lower the age of consent for sexual activity, or the minimum age for marriage, to ...

Alaskans ages 16 and 17 would be able to consent to talk therapy under a bill introduced in the state Senate in February that would lower the age of consent from 18. A parent or guardian would still ...