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Maine bill proposing one of country’s least restrictive …

The morning fog lifts beyond the Burton M. Cross Building, left, and the State House, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. The legislature is working to wrap up the current session. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill …

Transgender sports ban heads to North Carolina governor’s …

FILE - North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a news conference in Carthage, N.C., on Dec. 5, 2022. Transgender girls in North Carolina would no longer be allowed to play on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a proposal that received final legislative approval on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Cooper has little power to block it now that Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)

FDA warns stores to stop selling Elf Bar, the top disposable …

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Aaron Rodgers talks about taking ayahuasca at a psychedelics …

Exhibitor displays goods at the Psychedelic Science conference in the Colorado Convention Center Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A year after fall of Roe, 25 million women live in states …

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New Zealand debates whether ethnicity should be a …

Signs are posted on the Exterior of Auckland City Hospital, May 13, 2017. New Zealand, Thursday, June 22, 2023, has been debating a thorny healthcare issue — whether ethnicity should be considered in deciding when patients get surgery. (Doug Sherring/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Navajo Nation declares widespread Medicaid scam in …

A billboard is seen in Scottsdale, Ariz., Saturday, June 10, 2023, near the health care facility of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which has been affected by a gigantic Medicaid fraud scheme involving sober living homes that promised help to Native Americans seeking to kick alcohol and other additions. Navajo National Attorney General Ethel Branch said Monday, June 12, 2023, that Navajo law enforcement teams that fanned out over metro Phoenix in recent weeks made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes on the streets amid the state crackdown. (AP Photo/Anita Snow)

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Meat grown from animal cells? Here’s what it is and …

A scientist works in a cellular agriculture lab at Eat Just in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells. California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat were granted permission on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 to sell their products by the Agriculture Department. Proponents say this “cultivated meat” is better for animals and the environment because livestock doesn’t need to be raised and killed to produce it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Swedish appeals court ups surgeon’s sentence for …

Italian surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini arrives for a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday increased a prison sentence for Macchiarini over experimental stem cell windpipe transplants on three patients who died. (Magnus Andersson/TT News Agency via AP)

Hospital turns over transgender patient records to …

FILE - Vanderbilt University Medical Center stands in Nashville, Tenn., July 16, 2013. The medical center has turned over medical records for transgender patients to the Tennessee attorney general's team in what his office confirmed is an investigation into potential medical billing fraud. A Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokesperson confirmed to The Tennessean on Tuesday, June 30, 2023, that the hospital provided the records to Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's office. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender …

D Sellars, a nonbinary parent from Fuquay-Varina, N.C., stands outside the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Sellars was among dozens of LGBTQ+ people who showed up to speak in committee against a bill restricting gender-affirming care access but was not given time to testify. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)