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From abortion rights to minimum wage hikes to legal marijuana, voters’ support for ballot issues didn’t correlate with their support for candidates.

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. A new reality set in for ob-gyns in Texas - “The standard of care can now be construed as a felony.”

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Idaho, Kansas and Missouri in seeking to establish standing to outlaw mifepristone argue cause "a loss in potential population or potential population increase,” and that “decreased births” were inflicting “a sovereign injury to the state itself.

Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time. Exit polls reveal a stunning race gap in how people voted in the 2024 presidential election.

The battle before, during and after the election

Getting out the vote in Pennsylvania

With just weeks before the presidential election, three Republican-led states have quietly filed an amended complaint against the FDA in the hopes of rolling back access to mifepristone across the country.

A new Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey shows Harris leading nationally by 38 points, with around a third of students reporting they are more likely to cast a ballot because she’s top of the ticket.