Now, for the first time, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering what's called the "advance provision" of abortion medication. The initiative, shared exclusively with NPR, launched Thursday and is called "Just In Case Abortion Pills." It means people can have the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol on their shelf to be used in the future if they want to end an early pregnancy.

"As evidence supporting this model of care has continued to grow, and with supportive policy environments in Washington and in Hawai'i, this really is the right time for us to step into this space," says Rebecca Gibron, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky.

Oil markets will enter the “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the International Energy Agency warned on Thursday.

Fatih Birol added that the most important solution to the Iran war energy shock was a full and unconditional reopening of the strait of Hormuz.

Speaking to the London thinktank Chatham House, Birol said it was open to IEA members to release more strategic oil reserves as they had previously in March, and said the IEA stood ready to coordinate. As much as 80% of IEA’s collective reserves have not been released.

Zionism's anti-socialist activism was born with the movement itself. In talks with the German Kaiser and his ministers in the mid-1890s, the founder of the Zionist Organization, Theodor Herzl, assured the Germans that Zionism would distance Jews from socialism: "It was folly on the part of Jews to join the Socialism movement, which would soon rid itself of them."

Herzl added that the Kaiser "was impressed when I mentioned the fact that at the University of Vienna we have taken students away from Socialism". Zionism, he added, would also spur Jews not to join revolutionary and anti-Kaiser organisations: "We were taking the Jews away from the revolutionary parties."

Indeed, it was Zionist anti-communism that clinched the alliance with anti-Bolshevik Britain. The timing of the 1917 Balfour pledge of British support for Zionism's quest for a "national home" for Jews in Palestine - issued only five days before the triumph of the October Revolution in Russia - was not a coincidence.

Acting on false reports from Zionist informants claiming that most Russian Jews were Zionists who might otherwise support socialism, British officials grew anxious after the February Revolution regarding Jewish backing for the socialist movement.

In April 1917, Lord Robert Cecil, then parliamentary secretary to the Foreign Office, telegraphed the British ambassador in Petrograd, arguing: "We are advised that one of the best methods of counteracting Jewish pacifist and socialist propaganda in Russia would be to offer a definite encouragement to Jewish nationalist aspirations in Palestine."

NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.

The committee’s chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic operatives concerned with his leadership. Martin had originally promised to release the autopsy, only to keep it under wraps for months because he was concerned it would be a distraction ahead of the midterms as Democrats mobilize to take back control of Congress.