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This Dec. 2, 2021, photo provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing rope being sighted with a newborn calf in waters near Cumberland Island, Ga. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP)
Courts & Law

Weak protection for vanishing whale violates law, judge says

Judge Boasberg ruled the government has violated both the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act by failing to protect the North Atlantic right whale.

4 years ago

In this March 12, 2020, file photo, the sun shines through clouds above a shale gas drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Courts & Law

Court blocks Pennsylvania’s carbon emissions plan

The court granted a preliminary injunction that prohibits the Wolf administration from “implementing, administering, or enforcing” the carbon-pricing policy.

4 years ago

File photo: Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Road to Majority conference June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Courts & Law

Appeals court: Congress can see some Trump financial records

Friday’s decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won’t be the last word in the legal fight that began in 2019.

4 years ago

Up-close view of emergency contraception packages.
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Health

Emergency contraception: How it works, how effective it is and how to get it

Many advocates suggest women and all those who can get pregnant have emergency contraception on hand before they need it.

4 years ago

(Unsplash photo/Jonas Leupe)
Radio Times

Protecting digital privacy post-Roe

How is our personal data tracked, collected, used and sold? How might law enforcement and abortion opponents use it post-Roe?

Air Date: July 8, 2022 10:00 am

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Health

Self-induced abortions can raise medical — and legal — questions for doctors

Doctors are thinking about how to help women who have questions or concerns after taking abortion pills at home — without putting themselves or their patients in jeopardy.

4 years ago

Smoke rises from a power plant, as the lights glow red in a snowy landscape at night.
Courts & Law

In light of EPA court ruling, new focus on states’ power

Eighteen states have set 100% clean energy goals, according to the U.S. Climate Alliance, and they represent 42% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

4 years ago

People hold signs and march, with officers standing in the background between protesters and a house.
NPR
Courts & Law

The Supreme Court marshal asks state officials to act on protests at justices’ homes

The protests have carried on for weeks since the leak of a draft of the court's eventual decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

4 years ago

A doctor holds a sign that reads,
NPR
Health

Doctors weren’t considered in Dobbs, but now they’re on abortion’s legal front lines

Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

4 years ago

Silhouettes of the hands of different people in a crowd waving signs are visible in the foreground, with the U.S. Supreme Court building in the background.
NPR
Courts & Law

The end of Roe v. Wade raises fear of more prosecutions for pregnancy loss

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, experts warn that prosecutions will increase for miscarriages, stillbirths and self-induced abortions.

4 years ago

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Community
Billy Penn

Protests for women’s liberty and reproductive freedom will fill Philadelphia on the Fourth of July

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe. v. Wade, many plan to demonstrate on the nation’s birthday.

4 years ago

People hold signs and demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Courts & Law

‘Revolutionary’ high court term on abortion, guns and more

In its first full term together, the court’s conservative majority ruled on abortion, guns, and religion, and limited the government's regulatory powers.

4 years ago

A woman cries as she is embraced by another person.
Community

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas have began to confirm their worst fears.

4 years ago

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Politics & Policy

N.J. Gov. Murphy signs bills protecting abortions for out-of-staters

The legislation moved swiftly in the Democrat-led Legislature, just a week after the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

4 years ago

Voters line up to cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election in Durham, N.C. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a North Carolina redistricting case this fall about how much power state legislatures have over how federal elections are run. (Gerry Broome/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

How the Supreme Court could radically reshape elections for president and Congress

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it has agreed to hear a case next term that could upend election laws across the country.

4 years ago

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