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Treat yourself: 2024 Election Day freebies and discounts
by Brook Bolen
| November 1, 2024
Here’s a look at some of the freebies and deals you can sport on Election Day this year.

‘MAHA’: What to know about the ‘movement’ gaslighting health and wellness followers in the US
by Lisa Hayes
| October 31, 2024
Here’s who RFK’s “health and wellness” political campaign is trying to reach, and why.

Op-Ed: It’s time to turn the page on Ted Cruz
by Glen Whitley
| October 30, 2024
Former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, a lifelong Republican, endorsed US Rep. Colin Allred in his race to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it’s a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage
by ProPublica
| October 30, 2024
ABORTION | HEALTHCARE | parenting | politcal | Repro Rights | reproduction rights | STATE | Texas Lead Story | women's health
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped. Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d […]

Op-Ed: Comstock is Trump and the GOP’s backdoor to a national abortion ban
by Kate Kelly
| October 29, 2024
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.