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BABB, Mont. (AP) — On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity — a COVID-19 vaccine — from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses. The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines last month to...

Montana tribe gifts vaccines to neighbours across the border by Iris Samuels, The Associated Press Posted May 5, 2021 1:04 am EDT Last Updated May 5, 2021 at 1:11 am EDT In this Wednesday, April 28, 2021, photo, Blackfeet tribe nurses take a brief break from administering COVID-19 vaccines at the Piegan-Carway U.S. Customs and Border Protection border port of entry between Montana and Canada, near Babb, Mont. The Blackfeet tribe gave out surplus vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border. (AP Photo/Iris Samuels) BABB, Mont. — On a cloudy spring day, hundreds l...

HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill Friday requiring a person to have gender reassignment surgery before changing the sex marker on their birth certificate, despite outcry from opponents who say it targets already marginalized transgender people in Montana. Republican bill sponsor Sen. Carl Glimm argued earlier this year that the state health […]

No big backlash for states passing anti-transgender laws By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Five states have passed laws or implemented executive orders this year limiting the ability of transgender youths to play sports or receive certain medical treatment. There’s been a vehement outcry from supporters of transgender rights – but little in the way of tangible repercussions for those states. It’s a striking contrast to the fate of North Carolina a few years ago. When its Legislature passed a bill in March 2016 limiting which public restrooms transgender people could use, there was a swi...

The Health 202: The FDA has until Thursday to respond to demands to ban menthol cigarettes Alexandra Ellerbeck with Paige Winfield Cunningham It’s been a dozen years since Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate the contents of cigarettes. So far, the agency has never used it.  But that could change this week.  The FDA has until Thursday to respond to a petition demanding a ban on menthol cigarettes. Past efforts to ban them have failed, but advocates say this time may be different and could even be the start of more aggressive tobacco reg...