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AES Indiana’s Petersburg Generating Station in Petersburg, Indiana, has been burning coal since the 1960s but will shutter all of its coal-firing units over the next few years. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. (Robert Zullo/States Newsroom)

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Milly Gonzales, who works with domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking survivors, supports abortion rights. She said the repeal of Roe v. Wade in 2022 was "devastating." (Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)

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The Wisconsin Citizen Solutions on Abortion and Family Well Being has brought together 14 residents from a diversity of backgrounds and viewpoints to create proposals for state lawmakers on abortion. (Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)

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Because of Idaho’s abortion ban and a court decision that does not protect emergency room physicians from prosecution under that law, some Idaho physicians are advising their pregnant patients, or those trying to become pregnant, to purchase memberships with companies like Life Flight Network or Air St. Luke’s in the Boise area to avoid potentially significant costs if they need air transport in an emergency. (Courtesy of Life Flight)

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West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell, Idaho, closed its labor and delivery unit on April 1 for financial and staffing reasons. A former OBGYN who worked at West Valley for decades said the state’s abortion laws made it difficult to fill vacant OB positions. (Kelcie Moseley-Morris/States Newsroom)

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024, in New York City. Former President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)

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A rally in support of abortion rights drew hundreds to downtown Nashville on Saturday, May 14, 2022. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

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Doctors from across the U.S. march to the U.S. Capitol to protect abortion access and demand an end to the current and future criminalization of providers who perform lifesaving abortion care on November 03, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Doctors for Abortion Action)

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The director of the Republican National Committee’s department for “election integrity” spoke at an online meeting hosted by two Florida activists who are close allies of the pillow entrepreneur and leading election-conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, pictured above. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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A collection of mementos, including footprints and handprints, were provided by a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to Kelly Shannon of Alabama after she had to terminate a pregnancy because of fatal anomalies. (Courtesy of Kelly Shannon)

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Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare Alabama mom who needed an abortion

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People work in a donut shop in Manhattan on Jan. 5, 2024 in New York City. As the American economy continues to outperform expectations, the March jobs report showed that employers added 303,00 positions for the month with an unemployment rate of 3.8%. For the first time, hospitality and leisure has returned to its pre-pandemic level after adding 49,000 jobs. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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March jobs report shows strong labor market with job gains in health care and government

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Sal Miranda (right) and Tony Chang install solar panels on the rooftop of a household on Oct. 19, 2023, in Pomona, California. Grid operators, utilities, state regulators and lawmakers across the country are exploring a concept known as virtual power plants, which pays customers who opt to install solar panels or battery storage systems so that stored electricity can be used to help balance flows on the electric grid. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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According to March of Dimes, nearly 7 million people of reproductive age live in a county that is considered a maternity care desert as of 2022. About 2.2 million of those people live in an area with no hospital providing obstetric care, no birth center and no obstetrics providers. (Getty Images)

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Health and Human Services increases loan forgiveness for OBs, midwives who practice in rural areas

Apr 04, 2024

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Concern over illegal immigration and border security was Donald Trump’s central campaign issue when he won the presidency in 2016, and polls show it as the GOP’s most potent political weapon again in 2024. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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GOP, Trump build on immigration fears to push voting restrictions in states

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