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Out-of-staters have long traveled to Minnesota for abortions, but as neighboring states restrict access to the procedure, data suggests patients of color may not make the trip.
Some lost their homes. Some emptied their retirement accounts. Some struggled to feed and clothe their families.
The league, long known for focusing on voter registration and other fundamentals, has been more visible in advocating for racial equity and fairness in recent years, particularly after George Floyd’s murder.
The pandemic laid bare the gaps and disparities in the U.S. public health system. But one positive outcome is that health workers have started adapting lessons they learned from their COVID-19 response to other aspects of their work.
Can monkeypox spread on the subway? Can it kill like COVID-19? Misconceptions, myths and a lack of public knowledge on the monkeypox virus are widespread.
Students graduate with the best of intentions to go to college, even committing to a school, but then life happens: jobs, family, and fear all get in the way.
Schools often discriminate against parenting students, and services for them have dwindled. New abortion restrictions could force more young people to drop out.
More than 30,000 people wait for homes from the Chicago Housing Authority. Meanwhile, a site that’s gone undeveloped for two decades is set to become a Chicago Fire practice facility.
Metro Transit idled its first batch of electric buses due to mechanical and charging problems. They’re now back in service, along with a plan to convert almost 12% of its fleet to electric models over the next five years.
While some experts praised the move as an appropriate shift from a pandemic to an endemic public health posture, others worried that the government was letting down its guard too early.
The legislation makes Wisconsin the latest state to push back against a 2011 federal order promoting competition.
There are over 8,700 cooperative observers across the U.S. who send in their weather data to the National Weather Service each day. Some of them have been doing it for more than 75 years.
While home antigen testing remains a useful — and underutilized — tool to curb the pandemic, experts say, it is often misused and may provide false confidence.
Consolidation in the poultry industry may be fueling widespread salmonella outbreaks. Turkey companies worked with researchers to eradicate one. So why can’t the chicken industry do the same?
While the unusually high number of mutations in the omicron variant is surprising, the emergence of yet another SARS-CoV-2 variant is not unexpected.
ProPublica won access to search warrants showing a child pornography investigation of South Dakota’s richest man, confirming our reporting from last year.
The memorials can be especially meaningful for those processing their experiences and remembering those they lost, and physically represent the emotional weight they carry every day.
In third-party solar, a company installs panels for a customer and then either leases the panels or sells the power or net-metering credits to the property owner.
A membership roster for the Oath Keepers, a violent extremist group whose followers have been charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection, includes state lawmakers, congressional candidates, and local government and GOP officials.
