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A panel of judges in Louisiana has ended access to telemedicine abortion nationally.
“As NPR Selena Simmons' Duffen reports, doctors and attorneys are now scrambling to understand”
the implications of the decision." The case was brought by the state of Louisiana against the Food and Drug Administration. Their argument centered around the FDA's decision to remove an in-person requirement for patients receiving Mithra Priston. One of the medications used for abortion and miscarriage management.
A district court judge put the case on hold in April, but a panel on the fifth circuit court of appeals agreed with Louisiana. The fifth circuit ruling ends telemedicine Mithra Priston access for the whole country, effective immediately. The drug makers are expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Doctors say Mithra Priston is safe, that the in-person requirement is medically unnecessary, and then it makes it harder for women to access abortion. Selena Simmons' Duffen and PR News, Washington. Major tech companies, including Amazon and NVIDIA, are set to expand their classified military
“work as NPR's Bobby Allen tells us that Trump administration has announced new deals to”
tap leading Silicon Valley firms for battlefield operations. Pentagon officials say Microsoft Amazon Google, Open AI, and other companies will soon make
the U.S. military an AI-first fighting force.
The Pentagon's new deals mean cutting-edge AI tools will be used to generate target lists for military strikes and to analyze data before deploying lethal weapons. The deals come as anthropic refuses to let the defense department use its technology for things like mass surveillance and autonomous drones. Anthropics pushback has led till litigation and President Trump ordering the federal government
to cut ties with the company. Trump officials are hoping the new deals with Silicon Valley's biggest players will lead to a compromise from Anthropic, which did not return a request for comment. Bobby Allen and PR News President Trump has, again, called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a joke.
And former FBI director James Komi has been indicted again for posting a photo. Trump says is a threat. Empire's Frank Langford has more on what some voters think about all this. Democrats and Republicans I spoke to agree. Jimmy Kimmel's jokes are constitutionally protected.
Richard Conke's a Republican and electrical contractor in Norse Beach in Maryland. He's not a fan of Kimmel's humor. I don't like it personally. Well, I don't think he should be doing it, but I mean, it is freedom speech. Conke thinks Komi should be prosecuted for what Trump is characterized as a call for violence.
But other Republicans at Democrats I spoke with disagreed. Donald Long is a Democrat who owns a restaurant in Upper Morbrew. He says Trump criticizes and threatens others.
“I think if he's able to disit, he has to be able to take it.”
Long says the president is the biggest threat to free speech in the country. Frank Langford and PR News, North Beach, Maryland. And you're listening to NPR news. President Trump today issued an executive order that broadens U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government.
The expand penalties on the government along with businesses that do business with Havana. Cuba is calling them as just coercive and says it will not be intimidated by Trump's actions. On 2600 people from 150 countries were supposed to travel to Zambia this week for rights con to talk about human rights and technology. But now that's been canceled.
And as MPR's Emily Fang reports, conference organizers, say it's because of pressure from Chinese officials. Last week, China and Zambia signed a new economic development agreement. And two days later, even though conference organizers say that they received a public endorsement from the Zambian government, things changed.
A Zambian government official told organizers that Chinese diplomats were objecting to the attendance of people from Taiwan, the island, China, one day wants to control. And this week, Zambia canceled the event. China's embassy in Washington, D.C. did not respond to a request for comment. Earlier last month, Taiwan's president canceled travel to Africa after several countries
he needed to fly through, revoked Taiwan's use of their airspace. A decision-to-one blamed on Chinese pressure, Emily Fang and Pernus. The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby takes place Saturday and handicapers say no clear favor to standing out with less than 24 hours before the race begins. Renegades trained by Todd Pletcher and his open as a four-to-one favorite, but several other
horses including Commander or further ado also appear to be in contention for the roses. Post-time is 657 p.m. Eastern time. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
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