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Appeals court embraces abortion-pill limits, sets up Supreme Court review

Despite the court’s ruling against the government and the drug manufacturer, mifepristone will remain available for now under existing regulations while the litigation continues, in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling this spring. Today’s decision is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.

By Perry Stein, Ann E. Marimow and Rachel RoubeinUpdated 33 minutes ago

A burned truck sits outside a destroyed house on Honoapiilani Highway in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Tuesday. (Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post)

Desperate families turn to sticky notes for help finding missing Maui fire victims

For many families, the agony of not knowing what happened to their relatives in Hawaii has spread to a second week.

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Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant on July 14. (AP)

Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say

A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a brain-dead man. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator.

By Lenny BernsteinUpdated 1 hour ago

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One of the main players behind fake Trump electors was once a liberal Democrat

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A police raid in Kansas threatens bedrock press freedoms

The action against the Marion County Record appears to be an episode of government overreach while local newspapers are struggling to hold leaders to account.

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