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Under Louisiana's abortion ban, doctors face penalties of up to 15 years in prison, $200,000 in fines and loss of their medical license. Dr. Neelima Sukhavasi, a Baton Rouge OB-GYN, says that doctors are scared. Here, Dr. Sukhavasi poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday, March 18, 2024.
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Dominion Voting tabulator machines are shown in use for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Michigan is the last major primary state before Super Tuesday and a critical swing state in November's general election.
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In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gestures to students before she speaks at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., on Oct. 3, 2019. Ginsburg is being remembered during ceremonies at the Supreme Court on Friday, March 17, 2023.
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Angie Atkins, 37, lives with her two kids in an apartment in northwest Philadelphia. She's been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher, which would help subsidize her rent, for about seven years.
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Palestinian children receive free food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 23. More than a million Palestinians displaced by the war have taken refuge in Rafah governorate, including an estimated 600,000 children.
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Supporters cheer as former President Donald Trump speaks at the Waco Regional Airport last spring in Waco, Texas.
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The Sports Museum curator Richard Johnson, right, stands near an exhibit that displays cover photos from the sports magazine Sports Illustrated in the museum at the TD Garden, in Boston.
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Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a panel that fell off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees.
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The share of abortions that are performed with medication alone (a combination of mifepristone and misoprosotol) increased between 2020 and 2023.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a "Get Out The Vote" rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Ga., on March 9.
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