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Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Abortion Bans
In the hours after the Supreme Court released its decision overturning the legal right to abortion in the United States, nearly 100 requests for ...
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Politics
Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe
WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1985, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Justice Department, Samuel A. Alito Jr., cautioned the Reagan administration ...
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World
Gov. Hochul’s Second-in-Command Faces Sharp Challenge From the Left
With a little more than a week until Primary Day in New York, the Democratic Party’s left wing is focused on a contentious statewide race shaped ...
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With Child Care Scarce, States Try to Fix ‘a Broken Market’
In New Mexico, child care workers got pay raises. In Iowa, 16-year-olds can now supervise 15 children. In Montana, caregivers can watch more ...
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Politics
Biden Just Proposed a Gas Tax Holiday. Will It Work?
When President Biden on Wednesday proposed a three-month suspension of federal taxes on gasoline and diesel, many Republicans rolled their eyes ...
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Politics
‘There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe’: Election Officials Describe Threats Fueled by Trump
WASHINGTON — Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of Arizona’s House, braced every weekend for hordes of Trump supporters, some with weapons, who ...
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Senators Present Bipartisan Gun Safety Bill
WASHINGTON — A group of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate on Tuesday released a compromise bill aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands ...
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World
Synagogue Sues Florida, Saying Abortion Restrictions Violate Religious Freedoms
Religion, particularly the influence of Christian conservatives, has been at the heart of the anti-abortion movement and the push to overturn Roe ...
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Two U.S. veterans fighting in Ukraine have gone missing, family members say.
Alex Drueke in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in March, before he left for Ukraine.Credit...Lois Drueke, via ReutersA photo of Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, provided ...
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Eric Adams to Give Gov. Hochul a Valuable, if Belated, Endorsement
As Gov. Kathy Hochul seeks a full term as New York’s first female governor, she has moved quickly to secure the backing of nearly every major New ...
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