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Abortion rights advocates scored huge wins final night time as a number of states held off-year elections. Ohio voters backed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. While abortion wasn’t straight on the poll in Virginia, it was central to campaigns. Democrats there took full management of the state legislature.

Issue 1 supporters have a good time at a watch occasion, Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voters permitted a constitutional modification that ensures the fitting to abortion and different types of reproductive well being care. The consequence of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the most recent blow for abortion opponents.

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Issue 1 supporters have a good time at a watch occasion, Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voters permitted a constitutional modification that ensures the fitting to abortion and different types of reproductive well being care. The consequence of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the most recent blow for abortion opponents.

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• On Up First, NPR’s Sarah McCammon says these outcomes present that voters can use the ballot box to push back on abortion restrictions, even in purple states. Similar poll initiatives are anticipated subsequent yr in battleground states like Arizona and Florida.

Five Republican presidential candidates take the stage tonight in Miami for the third GOP debate — as soon as once more with out former President Donald Trump. Here’s how to watch.

• This is the primary GOP debate since Hamas attacked Israel. While Democrats are break up over the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, there isn’t as much infighting amongst Republicans, NPR’s Ashley Lopez says. She provides that they may “draw contrast” with Democrats by this debate.

Twenty-two Democratic House members joined Republicans yesterday in a vote to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, accusing her of “promoting false narratives” concerning Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel. Four Republicans voted towards censuring Tlaib, who’s the the one Palestinian American in Congress. She says her phrases have been distorted and she or he was merely exercising her freedom of speech.

• NPR’s Leila Fadel caught up with Americans Wafaa Abuzayda and Abood Okal, who have been visiting relations in Gaza when the warfare broke out. They crossed into Egypt final week after being trapped in Gaza for practically a month. Abuzayda says it is “hard to express” whether or not she’s completely satisfied as a result of she left family behind.

Check out npr.org/mideastupdates for extra protection, differing views and evaluation of this battle.

The variety of infants born within the U.S. with syphilis is 10 occasions larger than it was a decade in the past, in line with a brand new CDC report. Experts say it is a symptom of the nation’s epidemic in sexually transmitted infections and a failure in maternal care.

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Daniel Ramos

When Mexican American photographer Daniel Ramos moved together with his spouse to Monterrey, Mexico, they anticipated to remain for six months. Instead, they lived there for practically six years. During their keep, he spent lots of time at cantinas — the native bars. His newest exhibit, “Eres Muy Hermosa,” consists of portraits of cantina regulars and gives a glimpse of Mexico’s working class.

Living higher

People who observe cognitively enhanced tai chi considerably improved their scores on reminiscence assessments.

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People who observe cognitively enhanced tai chi considerably improved their scores on reminiscence assessments.

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Living Better is a particular sequence about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

Do you neglect the place you place your keys or stroll right into a room with out remembering what you got here there to do? Exercise is one approach to maintain your mind sharp and fight forgetfulness. A brand new research exhibits that tai chi, a type of slow-moving martial arts, may also help slow cognitive decline and shield towards dementia.

Listen and study extra about how tai chi challenges your brain and body, or learn the article here.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

An epaulette shark pup that hatched from an obvious parthenogenesis is now on show at Brookfield Zoo, in a Chicago suburb.

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An epaulette shark pup that hatched from an obvious parthenogenesis is now on show at Brookfield Zoo, in a Chicago suburb.

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• An epaulette shark at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo hatched a pup this summer time with out the assistance of a shark daddy. The zoo says it is a rare example of parthenogenesis, a kind of asexual replica.
• New York’s superstar owl, Flaco, has been spotted far outside of Central Park for the primary time since he escaped from his zoo enclosure in February.
• A pod of orcas within the Strait of Gibraltar repeatedly rammed into a yacht, sinking it. Rescuers saved crew members and returned them safely to port.

This publication was edited by Olivia Hampton.