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Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

Kristen Eichamer, center, talks to fairgoers in the Project 2025 tent at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. The Project 2025 effort is being led by the Heritage Foundation think tank. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law

Even as the Biden administration publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. The issue became a focus for the administration following reports of women being improperly treated in emergency rooms after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago.

Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who is filing a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Opinion: The next thing to do after voting

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After voting, I think the second most important thing we can do this year is tell other people in our lives why they also must vote. Earlier this month,  my husband’s uncle Alan, who lives in Brevard, sent everyone in the family an email titled “November 5th.”
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control

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The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women's health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago. 
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How Dan Bishop could target abortion rights as NC attorney general

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In post-Roe America, states now have the final say on reproductive rights. If Dan Bishop were to be elected North Carolina attorney general, his past votes and comments suggest he would seek to use the power of his position to restrict access. 
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Opinion: Next year, your closest abortion clinic could be abroad

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Last year, more than 171,000 Americans were forced to leave their homes and travel across state lines for an abortion. That’s nearly a fifth of all Americans who needed abortion care in 2023 — and more than twice as many people who had to do the same in 2019.   It’s yet another jarring statistic […]
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New report: estimated 134 rape-induced pregnancies happened daily in Trump abortion-ban states

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A new analysis by the Center for American Progress Action shows the devastating day-to-day reality of state abortion bans.