Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics. Part 3 in our series on repro health care. From @kelciemmorris.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cerv...

Medicaid patients lose quick access to basic care after Planned Parenthood cuts and closures. Advocates and providers say Black and Latino people with low incomes “bear the brunt” of funding losses. Part 2 by @elishabrown.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

Texas advocates see familiar health care turmoil brewing as the federal Medicaid "defunding" rule hits the rest of the U.S. Part 1 in our series on repro care access. From @kelciemmorris.bsky.social and @sofiaresnick.bsky.social /@statesnewsroom.com: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/texa...

National parks in Colorado will remain open during shutdown despite concerns about damage. Gov. Polis says keeping popular Rocky Mountain National Park open is a top priority. by @lindseytoomer.bsky.social / @coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/01/n...

Alaska and Hawaii are mostly inaccessible by road. Recent Medicaid cuts for certain reproductive health providers could make travel for care harder. From @statesnewsroom.com's series on access to car. By @kelciemmorris.bsky.social: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thes...

Trump canceled 94 million pounds of food aid. Roadrunner Food Bank in New Mexico — where the line starts forming before daylight — lost about 850,000 pounds. From @propublica.org: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

More than 400 people were charged with pregnancy-related crimes during the two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights, research released this week shows. by @elishabrown.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pros...

Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave National Park remain open with limitations. Jewel Cave and Minuteman Missile site close temporarily. Federal shutdown leaves South Dakotans guessing. @joshuahaiar.bsky.social / @southdakotasearchlight.com southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/10/01/f...

We've got a series rolling out about how the block on federal Medicaid funds for certain reproductive health care providers is impacting patients and straining systems. Find stories from all over the country here all week long: www.newsfromthestates.com/tags/unravel...

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"Research on brain tumors in children that has been supported by the federal government will wind down in March due to cuts in funding from the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the NIH." @lindseytoomer.bsky.social / @coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/17/c...

"The U.S. Justice Department sued Oregon and Maine on Tuesday for rejecting demands that the states turn over troves of personal voter information." @jmshumway.bsky.social / @oregoncapitalchronicle.com: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/16/t...

Today, we’re bringing you a Special Edition of Evening Wrap that examines the fallout in the states from decisions of the Trump administration that slashed hundreds of millions in medical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/S...

Southern University has lifted a lockdown in placed on its campus Thursday morning, though classes have been canceled for the remainder of the week. via @lailluminator.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sout...

Colorado law requires the Corrections Department to lower the state's prison population when it hits a certain threshold. That just happened in August for the first time since the law took effect. by @lindseytoomer.bsky.social / @coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/08/c...

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance. https://cal.news/4nq5YZk 📝 @wendyfry.bsky.social 📸 Etienne Laurent, AFP via Getty

Maine leaders push back on a federal policy change that will bar nonprofits and other nonpartisan organizations from helping new citizens register to vote immediately upon taking their oath. by AnnMarie Hilton / @mainemorningstar.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/08/a...

Orgs assisting victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, and child sexual abuse in Tennessee got notice that they would no longer receive federal funding if some of the survivors they serve are also immigrants without legal status. @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/08/t...

"Well before he canceled and skipped meetings with the state’s top school board in recent weeks, (Oklahoma) Superintendent Ryan Walters has been chronically absent from multiple state boards where he holds a seat, including one he’s supposed to lead." oklahomavoice.com/2025/09/05/r...

FEMA cut $14 million from funding promised to New Mexico for dealing with the aftermath of the South Fork and Salt fires near Ruidoso, according to documents from the state's emergency management department. sourcenm.com/2025/09/03/d...

Victims of the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, filed a lawsuit against the United States for negligence in failing to respond to warning signs in an Army reservist and an explicit threat, attorneys announced Wednesday. mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/03/l...

“If Minnesota lets this moment slide and we determine that it’s okay for little ones to not be safe in a school environment or a church environment, then shame on us,” Walz said. “I’m going to call (lawmakers) back.”

The Trump admin's intention to call National Guard to other cities could create "a national police force with the President as its chief,” warned Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in his ruling on troops in L.A. From our D.C. Bureau: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/judg...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released today pending trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. His wrongful deportation to a Salvadoran prison brought scrutiny of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown tactics. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports:

Colorado Senate committee approves bill to fund Medicaid reimbursements for abortion providers coloradonewsline.com/2025/08/21/c...

A federal judge ruled today that Alabama’s state Senate district map violates a section of the Voting Rights Act that bans racially discriminatory voting laws. @annabjournalist.bsky.social / @alabamareflector.com alabamareflector.com/2025/08/22/f...

A federal judge ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to the Everglades ICE detention in Florida. The judge also called upon the government to begin dismantling much of the facility. The decision will be appealed. via @floridaphoenix.com floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/22/f...

Colorado will defend its ban on conversion therapy for minors in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. AG Weiser filed a brief outlining that state law protects patients from "substandard care." via Lindsey Toomer / coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/08/19/s...

South Dakota’s court system declared a judicial emergency due to an ongoing statewide computer systems outage. Law enforcement has been forced to find workarounds for warrant checks and crime victim notifications. southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/08/20/s... John Hult / @southdakotasearchlight.com

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says Trump wants all 600-plus miles of the border barrier painted black so it will heat up and burn anyone trying to climb it. She made the announcement Tuesday in Santa Teresa, NM, near the deadliest stretch. via @prokopdani.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/08/19/u...

Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding some of their royalties, ND mineral owners pushed for change. Lawmakers made an oversight program that owners say fails to address the issue it was meant to solve. @northdakotamonitor.com / @propublica.org northdakotamonitor.com/2025/08/11/n...

Frequent immigration-related searches of Denver Flock camera data revealed in logs

Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz outspent every US House member on Trump's inauguration weekend, using federal money allocated to his office to pay for more than $16,000 in hotels for staff, records show. By @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social / @oregoncapitalchronicle.com oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/07/o...

"A leader of a government watchdog group says U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, had a conflict of interest when he voted to approve his son-in-law’s nomination to a federal job." via @southdakotasearchlight.com southdakotasearchlight.com/briefs/ethic...

Memphis organization Just City dedicated $50,000 toward paying bail for nonviolent offenders on Friday in honor of Rockez McDaniel, a 33-year-old who recently died in jail while awaiting arraignment. by @cstephenson.bsky.social / @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/05/m...

Even using an oil industry lobbyist’s estimate, North Dakota mineral owners lost at least $322M in withheld royalties in 2023. “It’s a matter of fairness,” one owner said. “You feel like you’re being cheated.” Jacob Orledge / @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social‬ www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nort...

Oil and gas companies can't deduct their own expenses from what they pay North Dakota in royalties. But the same isn't true for the state's roughly 300,000 private mineral owners, @northdakotamonitor.com and @propublica.org found: northdakotamonitor.com/2025/08/04/n...

Maine Public will “still be here for you tomorrow,” said the organization’s president and CEO, Rick Schneider, after news broke Friday that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be closing its doors due to a lack of federal funding. mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/01/m...

South Dakota’s secretary of state is taking responsibility for the release of sensitive personal info after @southdakotasearchlight.com reported that her office published a list labeling thousands who registered to vote at SNAP, TANF or WIC offices. southdakotasearchlight.com/briefs/secre...

Thousands of South Dakotans have been publicly labeled as applicants for government assistance and thousands more had their email address and phone number exposed, due to a new law and how the election office implemented it. @southdakotasearchlight.com southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/07/31/s...

Newsline's @chasewoodruff.bsky.social recounts the saga of one Mexican family's arrival in El Paso in pursuit of the American Dream and how decades later a grandson in Colorado who was elected to Congress pursued policies that would have led to the deportation of his forbears.

Commentary: The real falsehood in the story Rep. Gabe Evans told about his family's immigration history was not that his grandfather had actually immigrated the "wrong" way. It was that it was ever so easy to define what the wrong way even is.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans' ancestors "belonged to a generation of immigrants who faced obstacles and prejudices closely resembling the ones faced by immigrants today." from @chasewoodruff.bsky.social / @coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/31/g...

A lawsuit filed against the Trump admin alleges personal data mined from federal agencies could be used illegally to build a surveillance state unlike the nation has ever seen, putting SNAP recipients and others at risk. from @michiganadvance.com michiganadvance.com/2025/07/29/n...

The feds asked Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to provide access to the state’s voter registration list and other sweeping election data. “My answer to the DOJ is, ‘Go jump in the Gulf of Maine,'” she said. by Emma Davis / @mainemorningstar.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/29/t...

Family members of 6 workers killed in September during Hurricane Helene flooding say Impact Plastics kept people on the job site even as flash flood warnings began to roll out. TN investigators find “no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.” @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/briefs/tbi-i...

U.S. Rep. Evans mischaracterized the story of how his Depression-era ancestors achieved the American dream, and misstated key dates and details in his grandfather’s biography, according to archival research and government records requests. @coloradonewsline.com coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u...

Breonna Taylor’s family is ‘heartbroken’ over the U.S. Department of Justice recommendation that a former Louisville police officer should get a one-day sentence, according to the family's attorneys. kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/17/b...

The DOJ is trying to get the voter rolls from several states ahead of the 2026 midterms, "raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information." stateline.org/2025/07/16/t...

Cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funding — including rural and tribal radio stations that often count on this money — have been approved by the U.S. Senate. The bill heads back to the House. Friday's the deadline. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...