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Abortion Clinics Reported A Surge In Trespassing, Vandalism & A Historic High Of...
Alejandra Salazar
May 25, 2019
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Jayme Closs Says Her Kidnapper "Can't Take My Freedom" In A Powerful Statement
Sarah Midkiff
May 25, 2019
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Missing Yoga Instructor Amanda Eller Found Alive After Two Weeks In A Hawaiian ...
Ashley Chervinski
May 25, 2019
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Disney World Employee Arrested For Trying To Sexually Abuse 8-Yea...
A Walt Disney World employee named Frederick Pohl, Jr. has been arrested for trying to arrange an encounter in which he would sexually abuse an 8-year-old
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Missing 4-Year-Old Maleah Davis Is Likely Dead, Says Houston Poli...
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said that he believes 4-year-old Maleah Davis, who has been missing since May 4, has been murdered. Her mother's ex-f
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Natalie Gontcharova
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The 10-Year-Old Migrant Girl Who Died In U.S. Custody Has Been Id...
The 10-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador who died in federal custody last September has been identified as Darlyn Valle. According to CBS News, Darlyn
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Nancy Pelosi's Body Language Sends A Strong Message About Her Fee...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may not be completely sold on impeaching President Donald Trump (yet), but she made her feelings about his loyal advisor Kellyan
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Natalie Gontcharova
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Everything We Know About Amanda Eller, The Yoga Teacher Who Went ...
Amanda Eller, a 35-year-old yoga instructor and physical therapist from Hawaii, went missing during a hike in Maui on Wednesday, May 8. Eller, who is an av
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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A 10-Year-Old Migrant Girl Died In U.S. Custody & We Only Found O...
A 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died in U.S. custody last September, but the government did not release this information until Wednesday. She is one of
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Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils Bold Child-Care, Maternal Health & Pai...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand released an ambitious family-oriented proposal Wednesday, tackling a wide range of issues that include investments in maternal and
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Mississippi Lawmaker Arrested After Punching His Wife For Undress...
Mississippi State Rep. Douglas McLeod was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly punching his wife in the face for undressing too slowly when he wanted t
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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An Interview With An Asian Student At Stuyvesant High School
Salma* is the youngest of three daughters in her Bangladeshi-American family. Every weekday, Salma commutes an hour and a half from her multiethnic neighbo
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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"It's About Free Will": 3 Conservative Women On Why They're Pro-C...
Since 1973's Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision giving women the right to access safe abortions, Republicans have worked to incrementally suppress abo
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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Kamala Harris Reintroduces Maternal Mortality Bill, Aiming To Pre...
On Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris is reintroducing the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies (CARE) Act, which seeks to tackle the nation's cri
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Andrea González-R...
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AOC & Elizabeth Warren Had Some
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Our watch has ended, but that doesn't mean we're anywhere near done dissecting the Game of Thrones series finale. After nearly a decade, the hit
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Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's Son Remains In Critical Condition After Bein...
Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's family is hoping that her newborn son, who was cut from her womb after she was murdered last month, will survive, despite being i
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Andrea González-R...
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Don't Boycott Alabama Because Of The Abortion Bill — Come Fight W...
I still remember the first time I told someone I was a survivor of sexual assault. It was years after the rape, and it would be years before I found the co
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Robyn Hammontree
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Maleah Davis' Mom Holds Out Hope That She's Alive
In a new interview, Brittany Bowens, the mother of Maleah Davis, the 4-year-old who went missing in Houston on May 4, said she holds out hope that her daug
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Natalie Gontcharova
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Kamala Harris Has A Plan To End The Gender Wage Gap
Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled a proposal Monday aimed at closing the gender wage gap by requiring corporations to certify that women and men receive equal pa
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Muhlaysia Booker, The Transgender Woman Attacked By A Mob Last Mo...
Muhlaysia Booker, a 23-year-old transgender woman who made headlines after being attacked in a Dallas parking lot in April, was murdered on Saturday, autho
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Anti-Birth Control Group Reportedly Lied To Get Government Funding
The anti-abortion group Obria received Title X funding from the government despite promising “to never provide hormonal contraception nor abortion,
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Natalie Gontcharova
Work & Money
This Class Of 2019 Is Graduating College Debt-Free Thanks To Thei...
Imagine waking up on graduation day with a tiny bit of dread in the back of your mind, knowing that in just a few months Sallie Mae would be calling to col
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Alexis Reliford
US News
How Marlen Ochoa-Lopez Was Deceived By The Women Who Stole Her Un...
Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, the missing 19-year-old Chicago pregnant woman who was found dead last week, was the victim of an elaborate plot to steal a baby, accor
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Alejandra Salazar
US News
Missouri Passes Extreme Bill Criminalizing Abortion After Eight W...
Missouri has become the latest state to pass a restrictive policy that would criminalize abortion after eight weeks, following the footsteps of Alabama and
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Sarah Midkiff
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The Women Running In 2020 Lead The Fight Against Extreme Abortion...
Welcome to Hindsight 2020, Refinery29's column reflecting on the women running for president and the lessons learned (or not!) from 2016. As many watc
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Andrea González-R...
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The House Just Passed A Bill To Protect LGBTQ+ Workplace Rights
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the historic Equality Act, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would protect against discrimi
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Anabel Pasarow
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What It's Like To Run For Office As A Republican Woman Of Color
In 2018, the Year of the Woman, I ran for Congress as a Republican in the 14th district of California. I ran where Republican registration was 13.6%, a dis
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Cristina Osmeña
Politics
The Biracial Bind Of Not Being Asian Enough
There’s a photo of my great-grandmother I look at often. She is small, wearing thick black frames, with my grandmother, my aunts, and my mother huddled a
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Kristin Wong
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3 Charged In Murder Of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, Whose Baby Was Cut Fro...
A mother and daughter have been charged in the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, the pregnant 19-year-old woman who was strangled before her baby was cut from
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Andrea González-R...
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Knock Down The House
's Cori Bush Is Running Again In 202...
Before 2018, many of us thought that you had to be privileged, wealthy, or an established politician to run for office. Many say you should start at the bo
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