The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court’s order that suspends the federal approval of mifepristone, the nation’s most widely used abortion drug. In a brief order issued on April 14 by Justice Samuel Alito, the high court halted the enforcement of a decision issued earlier this month by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, asking both sides of the dispute to file their responses by noon of April 18 over whether access to mifepristone should be restricted while the legal battle proceeds.
The man arrested for allegedly leaking top-secret U.S. military documents appeared in court for the first time after being charged with obtaining and leaking classified information. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s intelligence wing, is being accused of taking classified military documents and transmitting them online….