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New Jersey Environmental Agency Accuses Itself of Harming Bird Habitats
A construction project meant to improve conditions for the American woodcock has worsened them for the barred owl and the red-shouldered hawk.
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World
Florida Legislature Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban
The prohibition would be among the most restrictive in the country, and Florida would no longer be a destination for women from across the Deep South seeking the procedure.
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World
North Dakota Bars Trans Girls and Women From Female Sports Teams
The governor signed the laws late Tuesday night, part of a package of anti-trans legislation heading to his desk.
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World
‘They Are America’s G.O.P. Leninists’
Republican leaders are now adopting increasingly autocratic measures, using the police powers of government to impose moralized regulations, turning private citizens into enforcement officers and expelling defiant elected Democrats just as county ...
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World
DeSantis Pushes Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation
The Florida governor is pushing an aggressive proposal to penalize those who aid undocumented immigrants and to track costs for providing them with health care.
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Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight?
Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others that have expanded Medicaid.
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Health
Two Federal Judges Issued Opposing Rulings on Abortion Pills. Here’s What’s Going On.
One invalidated the F.D.A.’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The other ordered the F.D.A. to do nothing to restrict the pill’s availability.
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Business
Biden Administration to Curb Toxic Pollutants From Chemical Plants
The rule would affect the majority of chemical manufacturers, which have plants spread across the Gulf Coast, the Ohio River Valley and in West Virginia.
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World
5 Lessons for Democrats From Victories in Wisconsin and Chicago
The Wisconsin results show that the salience of abortion is not fading, and in Chicago, a “tough-on-crime” message fell short.
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World
As Young People March for Their Lives, Tennessee Crushes Dissent and Overrides Democracy
NASHVILLE — Yesterday the eyes of the country were on the indictment of a former president, along with the all too real possibility that political or public chaos would erupt as a result. Here in Tennessee, we were watching a different kind of chaos ...