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“When most people say I’m not electable, what they’re pointing at is my name and my faith in a state that elected Barack Obama twice,” El-Sayed later told The 19th in an interview.

Who is electable? Michigan’s Senate primary asks a familiar question.No one can agree on what, exactly, electability is — but both Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are making the case that they have it.19thnews.org

“They do whatever they want,” Bowe said, speaking about ICE. “They just harm whoever they want, whenever they want. And so, this is a step in making them accountable.”

This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.19thnews.org

“We’re constantly making those judgments as parents about our kids’ health and safety, and this is unfortunately another level of judgment that we now have to make."

Has the cyclospora outbreak impacted berries? What parents of berry-aged children need to know.Some previous outbreaks have been linked to berries, which may have parents fretting over how to handle their toddlers' bottomless appetites for the fruit.19thnews.org

In the past decade, more than 5,000 women have served in combat roles. And the occupation standards for these roles have always been gender neutral by law, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s false insistence that requirements were lowered for women and that there were quotas made for women.

Women have served in combat for a decade. Lawmakers want to protect that right.“As far as I’m concerned, the only person who doesn’t think that women should have the opportunity to serve in these roles is Hegseth,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono, a lead sponsor of a new bill.19thnews.org

“What gives me hope is that I know that educators are doing all that they can do to ensure that their students have the best possible education,” she said.

From rural Virginia music teacher to the nation’s top teachers union leaderThe Virginia native is the second from her commonwealth and the fourth Black woman to lead the country’s largest labor union.19thnews.org

At the time of the killings, Clancy had recently given birth to her third child. She reported intense feelings of anxiety and depression + sought psychiatric care. On Tues., her husband said she had begun describing intrusive thoughts of harming herself and the children a month before their deaths.

What is postpartum psychosis?As it becomes a key issue in the Lindsay Clancy trial, here's what experts say about the rare psychiatric condition, its symptoms and how it's treated.19thnews.org

The August 4 primary is a rematch between Bush and Bell and a test of whether their district will again vote for change — but this time, in a familiar candidate.

Cori Bush is making her case for a comebackBlack women aren’t expected to make significant gains in representation in the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms, but a Bush primary victory on Tuesday could help hold the line.19thnews.org

"Under the Trump administration, groups were now eligible to apply only if they swore to abide by executive orders erasing mentions of transgender people and racial diversity. Applicants were given extra consideration if they agreed to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement."

This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s prioritiesTrump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...19thnews.org

“So what hospitals will do, as they contemplate their fiscal statuses, is they look at services that aren’t pulling their weight in terms of financial viability,” he said.

As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground statesMillions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospi...19thnews.org

“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said. “The work is getting harder of providing for your family.”

You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this yearFrom lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.19thnews.org

“They deserve to be on my team as much as anybody else,” she said. “At the end of the day, we’re just a team trying to play together, and we’re just a group of girls supporting each other and hanging out on and off the field.”

How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girlsA ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to ‘verify’ their identity.19thnews.org

“For the first 20 years of my life,” Taylor said, “it was everybody eats, everybody breathes air, everybody needs clean water, and so that racial dimension to it wasn’t there.”

Meet the woman behind the world’s first environmental justice encyclopediaDorceta Taylor spent decades pushing back on the idea that environmentalism ‘wasn't a Black thing.’ Now she's rewritten its history.19thnews.org

“The stuff you expect to be hard got harder. But the alarming part is that the easy stuff got harder, too,” Dennis said. She struggled to write emails. Her company was undergoing a large reorganization, and during a 1-to-1 meeting with her boss, she realized she couldn’t remember any of the details.

An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed their lives. They decided how.Women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer's diagnoses. Three women share how catching it early let them take control of what comes next.19thnews.org

“Another waitress comes in and she has her kids, and she puts her kids on this back table, and it clicked in my head that they’re bringing their kids here because they have nobody else to watch them, so their kids are literally going to work with them,” she said.

The island without childcare for babiesKaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.19thnews.org

Starting this year, women seeking to compete in WTA tournaments must be screened for the SRY gene, which is normally found on the Y chromosome. The result is meant to determine if someone is a “biological male,” but it doesn’t show the full picture.

Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testingThis policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.19thnews.org

“Those are just the cases that were confirmed,” he said. “It could be two or three times that actual number.”

The U.S. has already surpassed last year’s number of measles cases. Here’s what’s driving the surge.New data data shows the resurgence is being fueled by falling childhood vaccination rates, misinformation and outbreaks concentrated among unvaccinated people.19thnews.org

“Dredd’s motivation is just to uphold the law,” he told The 19th. “Whoever it hurts, it doesn’t matter. There’s no gray areas for him. So, if innocence gets caught up in the system, that’s very unfortunate, but that’s the way it goes.”

Trump is reshaping immigration courts with help from a brutal comic book characterDHS used the authoritarian comic book character Judge Dredd to recruit immigration judges, as the Trump administration fires hundreds of sitting judges.19thnews.org

Amid cuts under the Trump admin, tribal organizations reported being unable to fulfill 690 safe housing-related requests and 466 requests related to other services. Almost a quarter of those were for children, according to the survey, which collected responses between May + June 28 of last year.

Indigenous survivors of violence see fewer services after federal cutsA U.S. House committee hearing raised questions about public safety resources in Indian Country.19thnews.org

"She remembers the guns they held, and how the sight of them caused her to drop her lunchbox in the snow, turn on the spot and run as fast as she ever had back into the safety of her apartment, back to her daughter. When she shut the door, she didn’t leave again for nearly three months."

Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papersThey survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.19thnews.org

The AP reported Thursday that the agent, David Brouillette, had a long history of verbal and physical abuse documented in the state’s family court system. Two women who were once married to Brouillette also spoke to the AP, detailing the abuse they say Brouillette subjected them to.

Maine ICE agent linked to fatal shooting has history of domestic violence accusationsRelatives of David Brouillette told reporters he was the agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. They also alleged he has physically and verbally abused women in his life.19thnews.org