Rewire News Group - News, commentary, analysis and investigative repor...

Florida is at the front lines of a partisan battle over access to the ballot.
On April 29, 2026 the state legislature approved a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans four additional seats in the House of Representatives. The new map, submitted by Gov. Ron DeSantis just two days prior, was approved within hours...

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to states’ ability to investigate anti-abortion pregnancy centers on April 29, 2026, with its ruling in favor of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers.”
Anti-choice pregnancy centers are ideologically-based facilities masquerading as health clinics. In recent years, their conservative anti-choice backers have pushed a national strategy to exempt these centers from basic privacy and accountability regulations...

Eight women, aged 20 to 34, were all murdered by the same man between 1993 and 2010. At least six of the women were sex workers.
The victim’s names are Amber Lynn Costello, Jessica Taylor, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Valerie Mack, Megan Waterman, Sandra Rajkumar-Costilla, Melissa Barthelemy, and Karen Vergata. I’m enshrining their names here, because too much media coverage of the...

The Kansas Legislature is determined to make it harder for Kansans to access safe, medically sound reproductive care—even defying the governor to further their agenda.
On March 27, 2026, both legislative chambers overrode Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of an anti-choice bill that proposed to weaken government oversight of “crisis pregnancy centers” and exempt them from the standard patient-protection regulations that...