The article reports, “The Obama administration says it is expanding the FBI’s more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to reflect a better understanding of the crime and to broaden protections. The new definition counts men as victims for the first time and drops the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers. Vice President Joe Biden, author of the Violence Against Women Act when he was in the Senate, said the new definition announced Friday is a victory for women and men ‘whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years.’ Calling rape a ‘devastating crime,’ the vice president said, ‘We can’t solve it unless we know the full extent of it.’ ”
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