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Author Kyle Dillon Hertz opens up about bringing sex and anger to his fiery debut novel.

After a ten year search, my biological family finally made contact when I became an author. Did they want to claim me for all the wrong reasons? The truth about my adoption was stranger than fiction

After a ten year search, my biological family finally made contact when I became an author. Did they want to claim me for all the wrong reasons? The truth about my adoption was stranger than fiction.

​This season’s crop of promising debut fiction offers timeless human dramas from fresh perspectives.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday stared down two possibilities: If it decides a 2021 law designed to help survivors of childhood sex abuse is unconstitutional, many victims will have no avenue to hold their abusers or the institutions that harbored them legally liable. On the other hand, if the court upholds the law, then schools, churches and other organizations that sponsor youth programming may face financial ruin in order to defend against allegations from decades in the past.

In California, the lawsuits are mounting — middle-aged men, saying they were sexually assaulted as children by a Boy Scout leader or a priest. A...

Thompson who is coviering this story and mimi rocca. anne, lets start with the cases that we already know about that are filed and how this is going to work. >> they range the gamut from hospitals to school districts to obviously the catholic church, the boy scouts of america. what is going to happen is today is the first day of a year-long lookback window. the state supreme court here in new york has 45 judges who have been specially trained who are ready to deal with these cases. in fact, a do...

Roots that have caused a ton of damage and theyre hard to let go of. >> are you angry? what do you feel? >> im incredibly angry. ive been fighting for legislation in pennsylvania for 2 1/2 years since i became public. 30 of the names are still redacted. we dont know who they are, where they are, which diocese, are they in pennsylvania? the senate leadership in pennsylvania refuses to bring mark rozzis bill to a vote. >> why? this is against the law. >> senator joe scarnati, senate pro tem of pen...