Tag: women
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Harris says Trump needs to trust women to make their own reproductive decisions
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized former President Donald Trump’s recent comments about reproductive rights, saying he needs to trust women to make their own decisions. “I don’t think the women of America need him to say he’s going to protect them,” Harris said during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, referring…
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Kamala Harris campaign seizes on suburban women as key in North Carolina strategy
When Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of the Democratic nomination in late July, something happened in North Carolina. Volunteers started pouring in by the thousands. Of the more than 23,500 people who stepped forward, 94% of them had never done so before, according to the campaign. In the week after President Joe Biden…
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Former CIA officer jailed for 30 years for drugging and sexually assaulting women
A former CIA officer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing and filming multiple women without their consent, in one of the most serious misconduct cases in the agency’s history. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, from La Mesa, California, photographed and filmed 28 women while they were unconscious or unable…
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Black women are more likely than white women to die of all types of breast cancer
Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found. The findings, experts say, underscore that it’s racial disparities, not biology, driving the biggest differences in death rates between Black and white women. While Black…