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  Map: Where medication abortion is and isn’t legal

  NBC News - Jasmine Cui, Danica Jefferies

  As of February 2023, the pills necessary for medication abortions were legal in some form in 37 states. A consequential lawsuit in Texas seeks to upend the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. In a consequential lawsuit filed in Texas, an anti-abortion group is seeking to upend the Food …

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  Labor force participation is back to pre-pandemic levels

  NBC News - Jasmine Cui

  Women are at the forefront of the recovery, according to the latest jobs data. As Friday’s employment report showed strong job growth across the country, labor force participation rates among prime-age workers have recovered to levels last seen three years ago. In February, labor force participation …

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  The 118th Congress is the third oldest since 1789

  NBC News - Joe Murphy

  The average age of Congress has been climbing since the early 1980s. Congress did not get older this year. But don’t call it young. The 118th Congress enters Capitol Hill as one of the oldest in the past century, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the @unitedstates project, a group of …

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  Elon Musk is growing a social network. Just not the one he expected.

  NBC News - Nigel Chiwaya

  New sign-ups have spiked several times on Twitter alternative Mastodon since Musk bought Twitter in October. One of the biggest beneficiaries of billionaire Elon Musk’s chaotic ownership of Twitter is a small social network most people hadn’t heard of two months ago. Mastodon, an alternative …

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  Map: Track Covid-19 death hot spots

  NBC News - Joe Murphy

  The omicron variant sent Covid-related deaths above 2,000 per day for weeks. Welcome to The Data Point, a series from the NBC News Data Graphics team that explains a slice of the latest news through charts and visuals. Omicron took a month and a half to match the death rate that the delta wave took …

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  Maps: Track hospital stress levels in your state

  NBC News - Joe Murphy

  Higher numbers of Covid patients limit the ability of hospitals to provide a full range of services. Welcome to The Data Point, a series from the NBC News Data Graphics team that explains a slice of the latest news through charts and visuals. Hospitals in all but two states are, on average, …