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Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Trump

Oct. 26, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday, with the superstar telling the Democratic nominee’s biggest crowd ever that it was “time to sing a new song” as Harris warned that her GOP opponent was dead set...

‘I would have been a great mom’: California finally pays reparations to woman it sterilized

Oct. 07, 2024 13:57 PM EDT

Geynna Buffington knew she had little time to become pregnant once she was released from prison at age 40. For over a year, she tried to have a baby. She didn’t know pregnancy would be unlikely because of a procedure she had nearly a decade earlier. In 1998, while Buffington was...

In 60-year-old Tim Walz, Kamala Harris found a partner to advocate for reproductive rights

Aug. 23, 2024 13:59 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The makings of a presidential ticket began in an unusual spot six months ago: a Minnesota abortion clinic. At the time, it was a historic visit for Vice President Kamala Harris — no president or vice president had ever made a public stop at one. But the visit...

Tim Walz has described his family's IVF experience. But they used a different procedure

Aug. 21, 2024 16:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In March, after an Alabama court halted in vitro fertilization procedures in the state, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided to speak about his struggle to have children with his wife, Gwen. The same month, his team sent a fundraising email titled “our IVF journey” sharing an...

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country

Aug. 16, 2024 18:18 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in...

She fought to become a midwife. Now she’s fighting to save mothers and their babies in South Sudan

Aug. 16, 2024 00:23 AM EDT

BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth. She vowed to become a midwife to spare others from the same fate in South Sudan, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. “If I saw...