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Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting.

A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion.

By Caroline Kitchener

After the Maui fires took Carole, her people honored her on the water

The memorials are starting for victims of the Aug. 8 Lahaina fire, as survivors take stock of loved ones they lost, and look for ways to heal.

Story by Elahe Izadi | Photos by Tamir Kalifa

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Pizza, the ‘Pineapple Belt’ and America’s hidden culinary divide

New York may be America’s favorite style of pizza. But things get weird in the swath of America where Yelp reviews tout toppings like “pineapple” and “ranch.”

By Andrew Van Dam and Dylan Moriarty

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Proud Boy who smashed Capitol window gets 10 years in Jan. 6 sentencing

By Tom Jackman

Ukraine says it has manufactured and fired a long-range missile

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Hurricane Idalia could not have hit this tiny Florida scalloping town at a worse time

Surviving storms on the water has become an endless, exhausting cycle of frantic preparation, destruction and rebuilding. But rebuilding has already begun.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

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