Washington Today (6-13-24): Supreme Court ruling maintains wide access to abortion pill mifepristone

Supreme Court keeps in place access to the abortion pill mifepristone, ruling unanimously that the doctors and groups brought the case and claimed that the FDA decision to make the drug more available violated procedure, did not have standing to sue. We will hear from Vice President Kamala Harris.

The House passes an amendment as part of the defense policy and programs bill to overturn the Pentagon’s policy of reimbursing travel expenses and time off for servicemembers to go to another state, if necessary, to obtain an abortion.

Donald Trump, former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, meets with House and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, his first time back since the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.

President Biden is in Italy for the G7 leaders’ summit, commenting for the first time publicly on the felony conviction of his son Hunter, and meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker testifies before the Senate Transportation committee that his agency was too ‘hands off’ in its oversight of Boeing before the door plug blowout in flight on an Alaska Airlines plane in January.

Microsoft President Brad Smith goes before the House Homeland Security Committee on cybersecurity failures that allowed a Chinese hacking team to infiltrate Microsoft’s email systems last year, compromising many U.S. government departments.

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