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At the time of the killings, Clancy had recently given birth to her third child. She reported intense feelings of anxiety and depression + sought psychiatric care. On Tues., her husband said she had begun describing intrusive thoughts of harming herself and the children a month before their deaths.

What is postpartum psychosis?

As it becomes a key issue in the Lindsay Clancy trial, here's what experts say about the rare psychiatric condition, its symptoms and how it's treated.

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The August 4 primary is a rematch between Bush and Bell and a test of whether their district will again vote for change — but this time, in a familiar candidate.

Cori Bush is making her case for a comeback

Black women aren’t expected to make significant gains in representation in the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms, but a Bush primary victory on Tuesday could help hold the line.

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"Under the Trump administration, groups were now eligible to apply only if they swore to abide by executive orders erasing mentions of transgender people and racial diversity. Applicants were given extra consideration if they agreed to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement."

This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities

Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...

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“So what hospitals will do, as they contemplate their fiscal statuses, is they look at services that aren’t pulling their weight in terms of financial viability,” he said.

As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground states

Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospi...

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“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said. “The work is getting harder of providing for your family.”

You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this year

From lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.

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“They deserve to be on my team as much as anybody else,” she said. “At the end of the day, we’re just a team trying to play together, and we’re just a group of girls supporting each other and hanging out on and off the field.”

How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girls

A ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to ‘verify’ their identity.

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“For the first 20 years of my life,” Taylor said, “it was everybody eats, everybody breathes air, everybody needs clean water, and so that racial dimension to it wasn’t there.”

Meet the woman behind the world’s first environmental justice encyclopedia

Dorceta Taylor spent decades pushing back on the idea that environmentalism ‘wasn't a Black thing.’ Now she's rewritten its history.

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“The stuff you expect to be hard got harder. But the alarming part is that the easy stuff got harder, too,” Dennis said. She struggled to write emails. Her company was undergoing a large reorganization, and during a 1-to-1 meeting with her boss, she realized she couldn’t remember any of the details.

An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed their lives. They decided how.

Women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer's diagnoses. Three women share how catching it early let them take control of what comes next.

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“Another waitress comes in and she has her kids, and she puts her kids on this back table, and it clicked in my head that they’re bringing their kids here because they have nobody else to watch them, so their kids are literally going to work with them,” she said.

The island without childcare for babies

Kaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.

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Starting this year, women seeking to compete in WTA tournaments must be screened for the SRY gene, which is normally found on the Y chromosome. The result is meant to determine if someone is a “biological male,” but it doesn’t show the full picture.

Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testing

This policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.

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“Those are just the cases that were confirmed,” he said. “It could be two or three times that actual number.”

The U.S. has already surpassed last year’s number of measles cases. Here’s what’s driving the surge.

New data data shows the resurgence is being fueled by falling childhood vaccination rates, misinformation and outbreaks concentrated among unvaccinated people.

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“Dredd’s motivation is just to uphold the law,” he told The 19th. “Whoever it hurts, it doesn’t matter. There’s no gray areas for him. So, if innocence gets caught up in the system, that’s very unfortunate, but that’s the way it goes.”

Trump is reshaping immigration courts with help from a brutal comic book character

DHS used the authoritarian comic book character Judge Dredd to recruit immigration judges, as the Trump administration fires hundreds of sitting judges.

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Amid cuts under the Trump admin, tribal organizations reported being unable to fulfill 690 safe housing-related requests and 466 requests related to other services. Almost a quarter of those were for children, according to the survey, which collected responses between May + June 28 of last year.

Indigenous survivors of violence see fewer services after federal cuts

A U.S. House committee hearing raised questions about public safety resources in Indian Country.

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"She remembers the guns they held, and how the sight of them caused her to drop her lunchbox in the snow, turn on the spot and run as fast as she ever had back into the safety of her apartment, back to her daughter. When she shut the door, she didn’t leave again for nearly three months."

Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers

They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.

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The AP reported Thursday that the agent, David Brouillette, had a long history of verbal and physical abuse documented in the state’s family court system. Two women who were once married to Brouillette also spoke to the AP, detailing the abuse they say Brouillette subjected them to.

Maine ICE agent linked to fatal shooting has history of domestic violence accusations

Relatives of David Brouillette told reporters he was the agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. They also alleged he has physically and verbally abused women in his life.

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It’s been a year since the 988 hotline’s LGBTQ+ youth services shut down. The Trump administration says it is working to bring back “Option 3″ — the line’s former place in the menu — by the end of 2026, but that timeline is not guaranteed.

One year later, 988 still doesn’t have a hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

Congress granted funds to restore this critical service months ago. But it may not be back until the end of 2026.

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Darline Graham has never run for or held elected office — until she was appointed to serve the remainder of the U.S. senator’s term this week. Instead, she has worked in vocational rehabilitation, publicly funded programs that help people with disabilities overcome barriers to employment.

Darline Graham's career centered disability. Now she could help shape national policy.

Lindsey Graham's sister has spent decades in South Carolina's disability services, earning praise from advocates who hope she'll bring that expertise to Congress.

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“I thought, here’s my opportunity because that’s all I really wanted... I wanted to play sports, and I wanted to hang out with people my own age. I don’t think I really understood marriage. I think I saw it as just kind of a piece of paper and a get-out-of-jail-free card.”

What would it take to end child marriage? There's a new federal push to limit it.

Child marriage is still legal in most states. Democrats in Congress introduced a bill Thursday that provides states with a practical roadmap to end the practice.

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“Everyone had a dream, and everyone was doing something, and I was like, OK, I wanted to catch up,” Ellick said. “Especially Black women, they were progressive and doing their own thing and stepping out on faith and trying different things, and that was exciting for me.”

For Black women hit by anti-DEI backlash, this election is personal

The career Kecia Ellick spent decades building was upended by political backlash. She sees voting for Keisha Lance Bottoms as a way to assert — and reclaim — her power.

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