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Republicans Are Using Exceptions to Sell Their Abortion Bans. It’s a Scam.

Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Women’s March L.A. on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) This week, North Dakota’s governor signed into law one of the country’s most extreme abortion bans. It outlaws almost all abortions—and only allows people to get abortions in cases of rape […]

Some Trans People Are Preparing to Flee the US and Seek Asylum Abroad

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Rynn Azerial Willgohs, a 50-year-old transgender woman, has been rapidly researching ways to flee the United States. She’s from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise and lawmakers targeting transgender people with increasingly draconian legislation that criminalizes their very existence, Willgohs is worried. The national landscape, accompanied by […]

COVID Is on a Rampage Through Rural America

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Nursing assistant Monica Brodsky hands over a funnel and vial for a saliva test for COVID-19 in Middleton, Wisconsin (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) Coronavirus cases are once again spiking in the United States as the weather gets colder, and rural areas are particularly bearing the brunt of the damage. There were more than […]

The Keystone Oil Spill No One’s Talking About Will Be Nearly Impossible to Clean Up

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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When the Keystone Pipeline burst last week, half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of a particularly dirty fossil fuel spilled into wetlands in North Dakota. And the thick liquid, known as tar sands oil, will be nearly impossible to clean up. […]