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Fri Mar 7 2025

 
Women of the Year 2025

Women of the Year recognizes distinguished women making our lives and communities better.

International Women's History Month 2025
 

Women's History Month celebrates the past and inspires change

Find out the theme for International Women's History Month 2025 and where the celebration first started.

The Texas Longhorns celebrate being co-SEC regular-season champions after their victory over the Florida Gators on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at Moody Center. Mandatory Credit: Scott Wachter-Imagn Images
 

Inside Texas women's basketball journey to national title contender

A coin toss went South Carolina's way. Just about everything else is coming up Texas. Vic Schaefer's Longhorns are among national title frontrunners.

Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during a pro-life rally in Washington, D.C. on January 22, 2004.
 
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Podcast: States with abortion bans see rise in infant deaths

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially for women of color.

Qudsiyyah Shariyf, deputy director at Chicago Abortion Fund, speaks at City of Chicago Press Conference.
 

These clinics are overrun by out-of-state patients. Can they keep up?

Abortion clinics in protective states like Illinois are extending their hours to support demand. It takes a toll on staff and funding networks.

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VIDEO: How one veteran faced racial discrimination in the national guard

After he was passed over for a new job, George Ross fought back and exposed racial discrimination in the Maryland Army National Guard.

People begin to gather in Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. on January 5, 2021, ahead of Congress certifying electoral votes giving Joe Biden victory in the 2020 presidential race.
 

DC to repaint Black Lives Matter Plaza

The move comes as congressional Republicans threaten to revoke federal funding if the plaza is not repainted and renamed.

President Barack Obama (2L) and Representative John Lewis (L), Democrat of Georgia and one of the original marchers, sing as they lead a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches on March 7, 2015. President Barack Obama rallied a new generation of Americans to the spirit of the civil rights struggle, warning their march for freedom "is not yet finished." In a forceful speech in   Selma, Ala. on the 50th anniversary of the brutal repression of a peaceful protest, America's first black president denounced new attempts to restrict voting rights.
 

60 years since Bloody Sunday: The 'most inspiring stories of courage'

As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,'' said Bryan Stevenson.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at Shasta College in Redding on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. Newsom, 57, is among a generation of Democratic politicians under 60 who are seen as the future of the party.
 

'Deeply unfair': Newsom breaks with Democrats on transgender athletes

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested in his latest podcast episode that it was unfair for transgender athletes to compete in women's sports.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are pictured conducting an arrest in Chicago as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants.
 

Illinois landlords ordered to pay former tenants $80K after threatening to call ICE

A judge ordered a pair of landlords to pay $80,000 to tenants they had threatened to call immigration enforcement on amid a rent dispute in 2020.

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