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Rep. Susan Wild faced trauma. It transformed her priorities in Congress.
For the Pennsylvania Democrat, sheltering in the House gallery during the Capitol insurrection brought back the trauma of her longtime partner’s suicide — and helped cement her focus on mental health care.
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Boston will elect someone other than a White man as mayor for the first time
Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, both women of color, will advance to the two-person general mayoral election set for November 2.
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'No one wants to get sued': Some abortion providers have stopped working in Texas
Nearly half of the doctors at one of the state’s biggest providers stopped working after Texas’ new law went into effect. The law has created a chilling effect for some abortion care services.
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These two women have potential to play outsized role in Virginia abortion rights
What one lieutenant governor’s race previews about the politics of reproductive health care in next year’s midterm election cycle.
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EMILY’s List names first Black president as states pass new abortion restrictions
Laphonza Butler, a veteran union leader who is the first mother to lead the group, takes over after Texas’ abortion ban and ahead of crucial midterm elections.
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Barbara Lee is still warning about the perils of “forever wars” 20 years after 9/11
In 2001, the House Democrat was the only member of Congress to vote against the War on Terror. She says we need to “start reimagining our national security strategies.”
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Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava on what the world has to learn from the Surfside condo collapse
Daniella Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, talks about the experience of helping the public grieve one of the deadliest structural building failures in history.
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Texas’ governor got a basic fact about pregnancy wrong
When asked why the state’s new abortion restriction doesn’t provide exceptions for rape and incest, his answer misstated what six weeks of pregnancy really means.
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72 hours after Texas abortion ban, White House scrambling on federal response
It’s still unclear what the Biden administration can do to mitigate the law’s impact — beyond using the bully pulpit.
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Inside the Republican strategy for rolling out abortion bans in more states
Abortion opponents say they expect Republican-led states to copy Texas’ six-week abortion ban, which so far has withstood legal challenges.