Elijah Nouvelage

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Elijah Nouvelage

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Carney's mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant. That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends purchased from Home Depot on a shoestring budget in 1995, painted "Mardi Gras pink" and installed on Twin Peaks on a dark June night. He's stepped up as the annual event organizer ever since, inspired by the legacy that started with a light-hearted renegade (and technically illegal) craft project to add a DIY pop of color to San Francisco's Pride.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Elijah Nouvelage

ATLANTA - During her lone term as mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms struggled to navigate Atlanta through a deadly pandemic and waves of mass protests against police violence. Then she shocked the political world by abruptly abandoning the reelection campaign she had just launched. Bottoms' entry into the governor's race this week has revived scrutiny of her tumultuous tenure as mayor, which was defined by twin crises and capped by her dramatic decision to walk away from City Hall in 2021.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Elijah Nouvelage

Donald Trump held his first major rally of the 2024 campaign in Texas. But he gave a shoutout from the stage to Georgia's U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had traveled with him. "Marjorie Taylor Greene, you happen to be here," Trump said with a smile. "Would you like to run for the Senate? I will fight like hell for you, I tell you."Greene said later she had not considered a Senate run at the time. But fast-forward two years, with Trump back in office and Democratic U.S. Sen.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Elijah Nouvelage

Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state's attorney general can't prosecute - or threaten to prosecute - people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by traveling to another state. One of the plaintiffs, the reproductive justice nonprofit Yellowhammer Fund, wasted no time in returning to one of its core missions: to provide financial support to traveling patients.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Elijah Nouvelage

A survey of 38 of Georgia's OB-GYNs found that nearly half of doctors participating said they have personally encountered cases where care had to be delayed, causing death or health complications for the mother, as a result of ambiguity in the state's abortion law. The survey, done by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in conjunction with Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, aimed to get a collection of narratives on the impacts of Georgia's abortion law.