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It Has Been 1,000 Days Since the Taliban Barred Girls From an Education

Protesters Block Access to Citibank, Get Arrested

The U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled unanimously to keep a controversial abortion drug on the market even after the court ruled two years ago to overturn Roe v. Wade.In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a group of pro-life medical practitioners and their organizations had sued the FDA for relaxing restrictions on mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a medical abortion. The plaintiffs argued that these relaxed standards would "jeopardize women’s health across the nation."SCOTUS justices apparently considered the case on technical grounds rather than on the ethical issues regarding killing unborn children and ruled 9-0 that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the FDA. Writing on behalf of the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee who voted to overturn Roe, claimed that "federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions."Kavanaugh did acknowledge that the plaintiffs in this case have "sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone." However, such objections do not amount to legal standing, he explained."A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue."President Joe Biden — who has long supported unfettered access to abortion even though the Catholic Church, of which he is a member, considers abortion a "moral evil" — gave a tepid response to the ruling. "It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states," he said."But let’s be clear: attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials’ extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide."Several outlets believe that Democrats view abortion as a winning issue this November, and recent referenda in traditionally red states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio indicate that Americans as a whole still support allowing women to kill their unborn children.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A manager of a popular bar in Santa Monica was killed after getting punched once by a patron he had kicked out of the establishment to avoid a fight, police say. The Santa Monica Police Department said officers responded to reports of a fight at Jameson's Pub on Monday evening just after midnight. When they arrived, they found a man unconscious and not breathing and immediately performed CPR. The Santa Monica Fire Department also tried to perform life-saving measures on the bar manager, but he was transported to a hospital, where he was later declared dead. Police learned that the manager had been punched by a man who had been kicked out of the pub along with other patrons after they scuffled outside of the bar. Investigators said they believed that the man hit his head when he went down. Lt. Erika Aklufi confirmed that only one punch was thrown and there was no violence leading up to the assault. Initially, police arrested three people involved in the melee, but through witness statements and surveillance video they were able to identify 26-year-old Leonard Hector Korpie of Venice as the alleged attacker. Korpie was charged with homicide and given a bail of $2 million.Police did not release the names of the other two patrons involved and did not indicate whether they would face any charges. A spokesperson for the pub emailed a statement about the incident to McClatchy News. “We are still in shock at the sudden loss of a person who was a respected and esteemed member of our restaurant’s family,” the statement read. “He was well liked by both customers and staff and his passing has been deeply felt by all of us.”Police are asking for anyone with information about the incident to contact Detective Hector Tavera of the Santa Monica Police Department. Residents of southern California have reported worsening crime despite the skyrocketing cost of living in the region. In a recent alarming incident, witnesses at a Santa Monica beach said a homeless man grabbed a jogging woman by her ponytail and was dragging her toward a public bathroom before they intervened. The median home price in Santa Monica is about $1.7 million, according to Reddit.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Jumping Ship: Gen Z Increasingly Turning Away From Biden

'Reporter' Gets Exactly the Reaction He Deserves After Term He Used to Describe Inverted US Flags

Members of Congress on Thursday pressed Microsoft to explain a "cascade of avoidable errors" that allowed a Chinese hacking group to breach emails of senior U.S. officials.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said his committee has uncovered at least three additional trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow as part of the panel's ethics investigation into the Supreme Court.