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A group of activist clinicians are turning to telehealth to provide abortion pills by mail, available even for patients who aren't yet pregnant and want to keep them on hand in case they want an abortion in the future. This has the potential to drastically change the experience of terminating a pregnancy in the U.S.

Telehealth abortions are simple and private — but restricted in many states

Pien Huang

Recent rule changes made it easier for patients to get abortion pills through the mail, using telehealth services. Now there is growing demand for these services – and new legal battles brewing.

Ukrainians wait in a miles-long jam full of trucks, buses and cars to cross to the border at Medyka, Poland.

Millions rushed to leave Ukraine. Now the queue to return home stretches for miles

Ayen Bior

If you want to get into Ukraine by vehicle, you might have to wait hours at the Medyka border, where people sit in a line of cars that stretches for miles and takes hours to move.

Abortion-rights demonstrators yell as they walk down Constitution Avenue during the Bans Off Our Bodies March on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Much of the U.S. could criminalize abortion. But how will those laws be enforced?

Emily Feng

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.

Rahima Banu, pictured with her mother in Bangladesh in 1975, is recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form of smallpox.

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How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and help ensure its end

Alissa Escarce

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Germany.

'Elon Musk's Crash Course' shows the tragic cost of his leadership

Eric Deggans

A New York Times/FX documentary explores the dangers of Tesla's self-driving technology and the fatal accidents it has caused.

Jack Harlow is a rising star in the hip-hop world, someone that legends praise and peers envy.

Jack Harlow wants to be legendary. His new album proves he's still finding his voice.

Reanna Cruz

A cultural chameleon with a handful of viral hits, the rising rapper's Come Home The Kids Miss You misses the mark.

Delaware State University says it has filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday to investigate the women's lacrosse team bus stop and search. Here, the main gate of the Delaware State University campus in Dover in September 2007.

Georgia NAACP is investigating a traffic stop involving a college lacrosse team

Jonathan Franklin

Delaware State University filed a complaint Wednesday to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division calling for an external investigation of the traffic stop.

Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California. The National Geographic channel has announced that Cooper will host a series called <em>Extraordinary Birder</em>. Cooper was in the spotlight after a woman in New York City's Central Park called the police and falsely accused him of threatening her in May 2020.

Bird-watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird-watching TV show

Jonathan Franklin

In the series, Christian Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) speaks during the Elections Subcommittee field hearing on 'Voting Rights and Election Administration in Florida' at the Broward County Governmental Center on May 06, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Jan. 6 panel wants answers from lawmaker it says led a Capitol tour before the attack

Claudia Grisales

Republican Barry Loudermilk denies he showed people around the complex before the insurrectionists laid siege. The committee says it has evidence contradicting that denial.

Rev. Denise O. Walden-Glenn and Alia Williams each raise a fist— a symbol of solidarity and Black power— at the VOICE office in Buffalo, New York.

After the Buffalo slayings, parents struggle through talks with their children

Alana Wise

Some of the children want to know how someone could do something so horrible. Others are too young to fully comprehend. Parents say there are no easy answers to the questions the children ask.