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Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States

Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…

Elizabeth Warren Tore Into Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Nominee Over Family Separations

Bill Clark/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following…