2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1231+ words) World-class athletes like Allyson Felix are redefining the limits of what’s possible while pregnant and postpartum. Felix was instrumental in fighting for policy changes on behalf of women in sports. Two-time track and field Olympian Molly Huddle was pregnant past…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (497+ words) When you were small, those words were often enough to send a chill down your spine. One quick tattle to the woman who bore you, and you were in trouble. That simple phrase always kept you in line, at least…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (493+ words) WASHINGTON — The Stonewall National Monument, the President's House Site and the Women's Rights National Historic Park are among 11 sites on this year's annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (746+ words) NEW YORK — About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades, according to federal data released…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (572+ words) Elections aren’t supposed to stop midstream, but in Louisiana they did. After the Supreme Court stepped into the state’s redistricting fight, Gov. Jeff Landry halted congressional primaries that were already underway. People were voting, and the rules changed in real…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1179+ words) Midwife Sheila Simms Watson leaned to gently press on the pregnant woman’s belly. Me’Asia Taylor lay on a bed fitted with tie-dyed purple printed sheets in the corner of the RV. Far from a typical camper, this RV houses a…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1385+ words) Heidi Anderson never imagined she would take a former professor to court. Not as a university president, and certainly not over her decades-old dissertation. But the University of Maryland Eastern Shore leader, who is Black, and former professor Donna Satterlee,…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) NEW YORK — The Treasury Department will take over the management of student loans whose borrowers are in default, according to a new agreement announced Thursday. The U.S. Education Department's handing off these student loans is the next step in President…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (619+ words) They hoped we weren’t paying attention. While the country was watching fighter jets and debating troop deployments, while the administration’s shock-and-awe news cycle churned through one manufactured crisis after another, a quieter and far more dangerous move was playing out…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (930+ words) Barack Obama’s past comments are haunting Democrats’ efforts to draw new congressional districts in Virginia as they try to give their party an edge in the battle for control of Congress. The former president, still one of the Democratic Party’s…...