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Protest against Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade via FLickr By Chris Walker / Truthout The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear oral arguments about the legality of the approval process for abortion medication this spring. The medication mifepristone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000. In April 2023, a conservative federal judge in Texas sided with plaintiffs who said the drug was improperly approved, even though it took several years of scrutiny

Photo of barbed wire via Flickr By Chris Walker / Truthout The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court’s injunction on federal action to remove razor wire installed by Texas state officials last fall on a stretch of the state’s border with Mexico. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) ordered the razor wire to be installed in October to deter migrants from crossing a 29-mile stretch of land along the Rio Grande River. Migrant rights organizations have said the order violates international law, and

Protester holding a banner with the message “System change, not climate change” via Wikimedia Commons By Chris Walker / Truthout Average global temperatures set a new 12-month record high, according to a new analysis of climate data, coming alarmingly close to a threshold at which scientists believe the climate crisis will become irreversible for many of the world’s ecosystems. Climate Central, an organization that describes itself as “an independent group of scientists and communicators who