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That ruling Friday from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals required patients to obtain Mifepristone in person.

prompting confusion and lawsuits.

Makers of the drug filed emergency petitions asking the Supreme Court to step in.

Justice Sam Alito, acting for the high court, has now restored access to Mifepristone by mail, at least for another week while the justices consider the issue.

Medication abortions account for nearly two-thirds of such procedures in the U.S.

Doctors who prescribe the pills by mail have been sending them to people in rural areas and states where the procedure has been banned.

Nearly four years ago, the Supreme Court took away the nation's right to abortion in a decision written by Justice Alito.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

The two-count indictment in North Carolina marks the second time the Trump Justice Department has tried to pursue a criminal case against Jim Comey.

A judge in Virginia threw out the first case because the prosecutor there was not legally appointed.

Now DOJ is accusing Comey, a longtime critic of the president, of threatening the 47th president.

referring to an incident last year when Comey posted a photo of the numbers 8647 in seashells.

Comey later deleted the post and said he didn't know the slang term 86 could be considered a threat.

Several legal experts say Comey's photo seems to fall in the bounds of political speech protected by the First Amendment.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

Well, last May, Jim Comey posted a photo of the numbers 86-47 arranged in shells on the beach, 86 being a slang term for get rid of and 47 being the 47th American president, Donald Trump.

Comey deleted the photo.

He said he thought it was a political message.

Not a threat, but now a grand jury in North Carolina has made a federal case out of this.

It's charged Comey with two felonies, including allegedly threatening the life of the president.