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The approval of a voucher program in the nation’s second most populous state could create a ripple effect across the U.S., where the voucher movement has gained momentum in recent years in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida + Wisconsin—often w the help of billionaire backers. 19thnews.org/2025/04/texa...

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As Kennedy tries to respond to the spread of measles cases in the United States, medical experts say that messaging has been mixed. And any focus on vaccination is also being undermined by the anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy chaired from 2015 to 2023. 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...

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"“We could see five million deaths in the next five years unless the spigots turn back on — fully, fast." 19thnews.org/2025/04/aids...

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"The Black women I talk to said they are being strategic, pragmatic and creative about what their resistance looks like now, preparing for a long fight ahead, and rejecting narratives that suggest their lack of visibility in this moment translates into inaction." 19thnews.org/2025/04/blac...

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Even those who’d also been found guilty of “conspiracy against rights” got a get-out-of-jail-free card. Trump told reporters present that it was “a great honor” to sign the pardon. 19thnews.org/2025/04/anti...

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“Once it starts spreading to other platforms, often you’re playing whack-a-mole at that point, and it becomes incredibly, incredibly difficult to get your images off of every possible website and application.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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Experts say this new rule will raise health care costs for transgender people and possibly encourage health insurance companies to deny claims involving gender-affirming care, since the Trump administration is taking so many actions to oppose it. 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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These are some of the pioneering astronauts, scientists, engineers and mathematicians who have redefined space travel for all of humankind. 19thnews.org/2025/04/wome...

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Overall 62 percent of these so-called climate voters are women, compared to 37 percent of men. The gender gap is largest among young people, Black and Indigenous voters. 19thnews.org/2025/04/wome...

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Lawmakers told The 19th they are anxious to pass something this year before the existing bill sunsets this fall and reverts the credit to a baseline $1,000. 19thnews.org/2025/04/chil...

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“That will affect the health of pregnant people throughout the century and beyond,” she said. “We’re making choices for our grandchildren’s pregnancies right now.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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Advocates say that the cumulative loss of services will be devastating for older people living with HIV, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+. 19thnews.org/2025/04/hiv-...

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Voting rights groups have said the bill will pose a barrier for millions of American women and others who have changed their legal name because of marriage, assimilation or to better align with their gender identity. 19thnews.org/2025/04/save...

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Just as his family was forced to use documentation that exposed them to violence, he and other trans Americans are carrying documentation that exposes them to abuse when they travel, he said. 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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“Some cases make the newspapers but only systematic study can tell us how often it happens, quantify the added health risks of the law and help us understand how to mitigate the harms.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/abor...

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As the number of measles cases grows around the country, experts worry that parents and other caregivers are getting mixed messaging about the safety of vaccines. 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...

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Luna and Johnson reached a deal Sunday, in which Luna would not raise her discharge petition again while Johnson would pursue options to make the House more accessible to new parents. 19thnews.org/2025/04/prox...

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The bills, filed in Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas, stem from the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, model legislation crafted by the Texas-based advocacy group the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. 19thnews.org/2025/04/stat...

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“[Beauticians] had the three elements that were really essential for a lot of political grassroots, political mobilizing. They had access to women’s lives, they had access to space, and they had their own economic capital." 19thnews.org/2025/04/blac...

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The proclamation, issued Thursday evening, is narrowly focused on blaming “a dramatic increase of sexual violence in our neighborhoods and communities” on “the invasion of illegal aliens at our southern border." 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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“What we saw during COVID-19, which we still see at this moment, is a radicalization of this workforce — they have to fight not only for the public, but really to protect their very lives." 19thnews.org/2025/04/nurs...

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In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

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Beginning this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it is temporarily withholding millions of dollars of grants through Title X, the federal program that supports family planning services for low-income people. 19thnews.org/2025/04/repr...

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“What is more needed now is less people sitting on the sidelines. Less people being witnesses of American history and more people being determined to make it. To make history, to call to the conscience of this nation,” he said. 19thnews.org/2025/04/cory...

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“I can’t say that I’m disappointed yet, because we are just — what? — two months into his administration,” Woods told The 19th recently by phone. “That being said, some of the people he’s chosen to be in his administration, I am not excited about.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/lady...

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The Wisconsin race was viewed by both sides as an early referendum on Trump’s second term and on Musk, who became a flashpoint in the race and a bogeyman for Crawford and Democrats, who accused him of trying to “buy” the Supreme Court seat. 19thnews.org/2025/04/wisc...

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“Everything has been very stressful recently, so having this sort of event is nice,” Mackenzie said. “It makes it a little bit less scary and isolating.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/tran...

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“We are relieved that, with today’s ruling, we will once again be able to provide our patients and the communities we serve with the assistance that we feel ethically obligated to provide, without the threat of being thrown in jail for doing so." 19thnews.org/2025/04/alab...

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“I would also ask my colleagues to remember up until 1916, female representation was not a common thing in Washington, D.C... I urge all of my colleagues to give this a fair shot..." 19thnews.org/2025/04/hous...

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John was a nonprofit journalism mastermind, a true believer who changed the trajectory of my career not once but twice. My heart is broken, but his legacy lives on in the hundreds of nonprofit newsrooms that followed his lead. Miss you already, JT. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/01/j...

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@19thnews.org is hiring a brand designer!! Could this be you? Apply by April 30 at 5 p.m. CT. Benefits include: 🟣 20 vacation days 🟣 10 sick days 🟣 Paid family leave (100% up to 6 months) 19thnews.org/brand-design...

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“I didn’t think I was going to start posting on TikTok,” Walz said. “But then I’m like, ‘Okay people are pretty distraught over this. I should maybe say something.’ And then it kind of just went from there.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/hope...

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Cutting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid could have big impacts: Planned Parenthood clinics provide other forms of medical care, such as testing for sexually transmitted infections, cancer screenings + birth control services, all of which Medicaid is supposed to cover. 19thnews.org/2025/03/supr...

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At a time when transgender people are facing unprecedented vitriol and attacks, it’s more important than ever to seek out accurate and affirming portrayals of trans life. Here's what movies 10 trans icons recommend. 19thnews.org/2025/03/tran...

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“If we no longer include women or females in our research, we’re obviously going to go back to not having answers that are going to be applicable to both sexes,” she said. “And I think that’s a big step backward.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/wome...

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This readathon aims to support Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual celebration to recognize the contributions and lives of trans people, while raising awareness of the discrimination that they face. 19thnews.org/2025/03/book...

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Although technically nonpartisan, judicial elections in Wisconsin have become increasingly political and seen record amounts of outside spending as the U.S. Supreme Court has delegated hot-button issues, like abortion, to the states. 19thnews.org/2025/03/elon...

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“There is dissent about how we came to this place,” Fairfield County Auditor Carri Brown, an elected Republican, acknowledged during her remarks. But “when we’re told we cannot celebrate women, we’ll respond by saying, ‘Yes we can’ … and we’ll rally and we’ll rise!” 19thnews.org/2025/03/wome...

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Between unprecedented mass layoffs, President Donald Trump’s reshaping of labor boards, and a targeted backlash to diversity advancements, many gains made among the federal workforce could disappear, experts say. 19thnews.org/2025/03/equa...

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“I am sure things would look differently with a different outcome of the election, but these are the systems and circumstances in which we have to make adjustments based on the financial situation we find ourselves in." 19thnews.org/2025/03/marc...

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The executive order is also expected to state that the “delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely” will not be interrupted by the agency’s dismantling. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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“Biblically responsible investing was sort of an evolution from the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement...This was a faith-based application of [it]." 19thnews.org/2025/03/bibl...

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@shoeleatherkate.bsky.social's latest story answers so many questions circulating about what trans travelers should expect. 19thnews.org/2025/03/safe...

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“The Military Ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext,” Judge Ana Reyes wrote. “Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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With different parties controlling the legislature and governor’s office in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court plays a critical role in ruling on policies ranging from abortion to labor rights and election disputes. 19thnews.org/2025/03/wisc...

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Here’s what to know about the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) — and their futures under this administration. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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“We had a few days there where we literally thought that funds that we had spent months ago — that we hadn’t yet been reimbursed for — might never be reimbursed,” Roberts said. “We continue to have that concern, honestly." 19thnews.org/2025/03/safe...

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“Just because you commit a crime doesn’t mean you deserve to have violence against you,” said Michelle García, deputy legal director of the ACLU of Illinois and one of the attorneys who ultimately represented Iglesias. 19thnews.org/2025/03/tran...

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These are the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. 19thnews.org/2025/03/texa...

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