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Mary Peltola may put Alaska’s Senate race in reach for Democrats
Peltola, a Democrat who was the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, is challenging GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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Head Start can still use words like 'race' and 'women' for federal funding, judge says
Providers notched a legal win this week when a judge temporarily halted the administration’s requirements for grant applications.
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Here's what's really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota
Evidence is nowhere near the epidemic levels a viral YouTube video would suggest — but it hasn’t stopped a crackdown on child care funding. Here's a fact check.
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Supermajority, group organizing women around politics, is shutting down
Founders of the group, which started in 2019, pointed to the legacy of women organizers responding to the Trump administration and how the country thinks about gender.
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Five years after January 6, dozens of pardoned insurrectionists have been arrested again
The charges range from possession of child pornography to sexual assault, child molestation and aggravated kidnapping.
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How Trump turned a January 6 death into the politics of ‘protecting women’
Ashli Babbitt was killed while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election — and became proof to Trump and his followers that women need protection.
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House Republicans advance sweeping anti-trans bills ahead of holiday break
One bill would jail doctors who prescribe gender-affirming care to trans youth. Another would block Medicaid dollars from funding that care.
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How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for Trump’s second term impacted women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
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This single mom is squeezed by LA's cost of living. Now she's running for mayor.
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
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'History was made': Voters in Miami just elected the city’s first woman mayor
Democrat Eileen Higgins is a sharp contrast to her predecessor, Republican Francis Suarez, who leaned into masculinity politics during his term.