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A federal appeals court has issued a ruling restricting telemedicine access to the abortion pill, mythopristone nationally.
“The fifth circuit court of appeals granted a stay requested by the state of Louisiana that”
rolls back Biden era rules that allowed the pill to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail. Doctors argue an in-person prescriptions medically unnecessary and that the policy is a way for abortion opponents to make it harder to access the procedure the decision will likely be appealed.
The Supreme Court decision that struck down the Louisiana voting map that carved out a second
majority black congressional district has amplified and already intense national redistricting battle. The ruling limits the use of race as the basis for drawing voting districts and as NPR's Ashley Lopez reports, the decision will have long-term implications. For most states, it might actually be too late for them to consider redrawing and time for
the primary elections this year, but big picture, there is now very little to stop lawmakers from changing maps every two years.
“Already, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey said Democrats are eyeing big redraws in some”
blue states for 2028, so it is very unlikely that there will be anything to stop another drag-out fight for at least the next few cycles, which means voters might have these like ever-changing congressional districts from here on out. NPR's Ashley Lopez reporting, President Trump says he's not satisfied with Iran's latest proposal to end the war, NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reports Trump says Iran is asking for
things he can't agree to. President Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and that negotiations are continuing, but that it's difficult to make progress because of Iran's disjoined leadership. He says his team is trying to negotiate with two to four different groups of Iranian leaders. "And it puts us in a bad position.
One group wants to make a certain deal, the other group wants to make a certain deal." Speaking outside the White House on his way to Florida, Trump says negotiations continue by phone and that they've made strides during these talks, but he also said he wasn't sure
“if the Iranians would ever get to where they needed to be.”
Franco, Ordonia's, and Pianus, the White House. Revolution medicines got FDA approval to expand access to a promising new drug to treat metastatic pancreatic cancer and PR's Yuki Naguchi reports. The drug is called directs on rassip. In phase three trials, announced last month, it's extending the mean survival time for patients by more than six months.
Twice is long as chemotherapy.
That's a rare breakthrough for a stubborn cancer where most patients are diagnosed
late stage. Directs on rassip targets cancer cells that have a K-rass genetic mutation common to most pancreatic cancers. The company, Revolution medicines, received its expanded access approval a mere two days after applying FDA Commissioner Martin McCary says the agency's trying to facilitate early
access to promising new drugs. Yuki Naguchi and PR news. This is NPR. Facebook, parent company Meta, says it might shut down social media services in New Mexico. It comes in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to its platforms
to protect the mental health and safety of children. A trial begins next week on allegations that Meta poses a public nuisance. Pope Leo has appointed a new bishop of West Virginia. He's the first Salvadoran bishop in the country and migrated to the US in 1990 without legal status and PR's Sara Ventry has more.
Now an American citizen, Bishop of Elio Manjiva, Ayala, came to the US as an asylum seeker and his resume is unlike many others. In addition to his masters in theology and his work as the auxiliary bishop of Washington, he also did genitorial work, construction and painting. And he says that helped me to understand labor, hard labor to learn to work hard.
Manjiva has openly criticized the Trump administration's immigration policies and demonstrated against nasty deportations, emphasizing the need to uphold human dignity. Last fall, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement opposing the administration's immigration tactics, including what they called the "villification of immigrants." Sara Ventry and PR News.
Mexico City is sinking nearly 10 inches every year, making it one of the world's fastest sinking metropolitan areas that's according to newly released satellite imagery from NASA.
The megalopolis has a population of 22 million and was built on an ancient lakebed groundwater
pumping in development have dramatically shrunk the aquifer. This year, for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal funding. That means NPR needs your support now more than ever. I'm Brittany loose from its benefit. Please do your part to keep independent, reliable news coverage strong and support the podcasts that get you through the day by making a gift
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