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Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would ensure the government or insurance companies would fully pay for people’s IVF treatments, without providing details on how. He also indicated he would vote for a Florida ballot measure that would overturn a six-week abortion ban, though his campaign later said that he has not yet disclosed how he would vote on the measure. The GOP presidential nominee’s statements came the same week that several leading voices in the anti-abortion movement publicly denounced his campaign and called for millions of anti-abortion voters to withdraw their support. The Florida ballot measure is opposed by anti-abortion activists, and some also oppose in vitro fertilization (IVF) as it is commonly practiced.

Care, a site that connects users with caregivers, will pay $8.5 million to settle the FTC's claims that it inflated the number of jobs available and how much providers could expect to earn.

“Watershed” charts Paralympic swimmer and five-time medalist Mallory Weggemann’s struggle to have a child and to continue her athletic career.

For years, lawmakers have been rewriting state legislation meant to benefit students, veterans and beyond — but it’s starting to backfire.

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Sarah Adam will become the first woman to compete with Team USA’s wheelchair rugby team when she takes the pitch Thursday, 7:30 am ET, and she’s doing so as one of the team’s principal ball carriers. Wheelchair rugby is a mixed-gender event at the Paralympic Games. Adam first encountered the sport before she discovered her disability, while working as a volunteer for a local team in St. Louis around 2014. Two years later, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a central nervous system disease that can affect mobility, vision or speech. Adam began playing wheelchair rugby recreationally in 2017. “Being an athlete is such a core part of my identity and who I am, and I can’t imagine where I would be if I wasn’t able to reconnect with that through adaptive sport,” Adam told the International Paralympic Committee in an interview last month. Adam made the national team in 2021. In 2022, she competed in the Americas Championship, where she earned a silver medal. She became the first woman to win a gold medal with the U.S. wheelchair rugby team at the Parapan American Games in Chile, which qualified the team for the Paris games. There has been an uptick in women competing in wheelchair rugby over the last few years. Four women competed in the sport at the 2020 Tokyo games. A record number of 13 women participated in the wheelchair rugby world championship in 2022. And 2023 saw the creation of two national women’s teams. Adam’s participation in wheelchair rugby at this year’s games follows the U.S. women’s rugby team taking home their first medal at this year’s Olympics. “Right now, there is so much media attention on women in sport,” Adam told the International Paralympic Committee. “Hopefully I can be a small part of that conversation, being a female in what is typically considered a male dominated sport.” Team USA won the gold medal at the Sydney games in 2000, wheelchair rugby’s first year as a medal sport. They won gold in 2008, bronze in 2004 and 2012, and silver in 2016. ✍️: Darreonna Davis, reporting fellow 📸: Courtesy of USOPC

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By nearly every academic measure, girls in New York City’s public schools are outperforming boys. Yet despite their academic success, girls report far less satisfaction with their school experiences. From Chalkbeat New York:

The Harris-Walz campaign is turning its attention to south Georgia as part of a bet that voters there — a Whiter, more rural, more conservative area — may be open to what the Harris campaign has embraced as its core value: freedom. https://bit.ly/3AJvHJ5

Over the years, as states have started to block trans people from using bathrooms and participating in other areas of public life, courtrooms have moved in the opposite direction by trying to make facilities available to people of all genders, experts say. That movement is not only key to providing a roadmap for inclusivity for the nation. It also ensures that juries reflect the general population and that everyone gets the opportunity — or burden, in some cases — of serving on them. Courtrooms may illustrate practical solutions to bathroom access as the nation grapples with increasing trans visibility and more traditional ideas about the safety and comfort of a larger public.