son on tv, but you know that child of holocaust was reporting the news. the best revenge. is to survive and thrive. that s why it s so important that we educate and we show the world what was going on, and that s what we re doing. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and us diplomatic personnel and their families are now out of sudan. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti in a dramatic overnight evacuation more than 100. us special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the u. s embassy in her tomb has now suspended operations. violence in sudan broke out more than a week ago. heavy fighting between rival military factions, leaving more than 400 dead and thousands injured. cnn s or in lieberman is at the pentagon for so or in what more are you learning about this operation? this was an operation carried out effectively in the dead of night by a fairly small group of special operations forces right ar
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questions about the scientific evidence provided by the fda supporting its safety. the fifth circuit court of appeals, then froze parts of that texas judge s ruling but still left significant restrictions on this distribution. it prohibited pills sent by mail narrowed the window of its availability and blocked healthcare providers who are not doctors from prescribing the pills. this new ruling by the supreme court, requested by the vitamin ist rations removes all restrictions while the continues. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now with more so the justices had until midnight. the ruling didn t come down until well into the evening. do we know why well, we ve been waiting for this a week. anderson after that initial kind of extension on wednesday as well, and it s likely that justice alito, who is the one who wrote he needed time to maybe write this four page dissent, and it s possible even that during their conference this morning, maybe the justices wer
us from the united states and all around the world and leila rock, the u. s. supreme court delivers a win for abortion rights supporters and protects access to a widely used abortion pill. and fighting mars the latest ceasefire in sudan as countries way options to evacuate their citizens. and it s earth day will look at one man s quest to tackle what he calls the godzilla of climate change. man made carbon gasses. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila horak. in a striking victory for the biden administration and abortion rights supporters across the united states supreme court has moved to protect access to a commonly used drug for abortion and miscarriage. well at least for now. cnn s emily schmidt has details on what the court ruling means. all friday. all eyes were on the u. s supreme court each minute a minute closer to a decision about an abortion drug , which has been safely used for more than two decades. the decision when it came was to protect access to a
widely used for decades taken by millions of women? the decision sets up the most consequential abortion related disputes since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade a new appeals process must now play out a process that could take weeks or even months. cnn s larrionda vogue is following this major decision, ariane, the courts brief was left unsigned and the votes were not disclosed. why well, you make a really good point here because it really shows what the supreme court did. the biden administration went to the supreme court and asked for emergency relief. these lower courts had put restrictions on this abortion drug. the biden ministrations wanted the supreme court to lift those restrictions while the appeals process played out. so this supreme court in that order that you referred to agreed to do so it did not rule on the merits of whether the he a had the authority in the first place to approve the drug. it s simply said that right now that drug could remain widely a