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Mel Leonor Barclay
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Virginia could be key to abortion access in the South. Its laws could hinge on this Democratic primary.
Lashrecse Aird is challenging incumbent state Sen. Joe Morrissey, a disbarred defense attorney who has faced a number of personal scandals and who has not been clear on what, if any, restrictions he would support or oppose.
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Trump uses CNN town hall to insult a woman he assaulted
The crowd of potential GOP primary voters in New Hampshire responded to Trump’s attacks on E. Jean Carroll, who won a civil suit against him Tuesday, with laughter.
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Florida advocates set to launch campaign to get abortion rights on the ballot in 2024
Supporters will be racing against the clock to get enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot. Then, the campaign will need to mobilize Democrats and rope in independents and moderate Republicans.
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For Native women in power in Minnesota, confronting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people is personal
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, said that more attention to the issue was sparked when Native women won election to decision-making roles.
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Nikki Haley calls for a ‘consensus’ on abortion restrictions. It’s not clear what she supports.
The GOP presidential hopeful, addressing a prominent anti-abortion group that says it would not back any candidate who doesn’t support at least a 15-week ban, said the issue should be addressed with ‘sensitivity and respect, not judgment and hate.’
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Florida Democrats can’t stop the GOP right now. But Nikki Fried says they’re willing to fight.
The Florida Democratic Party chair hopes protests of a recently signed six-week abortion ban and moves to energize voters around the Jacksonville mayor’s race are the start of a “rebrand” for the party.
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Florida’s new restrictions will chip away at the little abortion access left in the South
A six-week abortion ban that just passed in Florida, along with recent shifts in power in North and South Carolina, could make getting an abortion in the South go from hard to near impossible.
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Trump’s charges are about business records. They’re also about how he treats women.
The way Trump is fighting criminal charges in New York — and the allegations underlying those charges — puts a spotlight on his history of insults and accusations.
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Florida moves one step closer to banning abortion after six weeks
The state Senate approved a bill that would significantly restrict abortion access in the nation’s third most populous state, with significant implications for the South.
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What a landmark sweatshop case tells us about Julie Su’s approach to labor
In 1995, dozens of garment workers, most of them women, were freed from a California sweatshop. The lawyer who is now Biden’s nominee to head the Labor Department took their case.