
Inside Biden's response to the end of Roe v. Wade
CNN
When President Joe Biden received word from his chief of staff in the Oval Office on Friday that the Supreme Court had decided to strip away the nationwide right to abortion, he quickly began to execute a plan his advisers had been crafting for months.
Top officials huddled in the West Wing to plot out the day and the President's response. A draft speech, written by two of his senior advisers, was pulled up so Biden could make some last-minute tweaks. And aides began a day that had long been feared inside the White House.
"We have a long road ahead, lots of work to do," White House counsel Dana Remus told a large group of abortion rights advocates and other stakeholders during a call convened in the hours after the ruling came down, according to a person who listened.

It was after midnight in Malaysia when Secretary of State Marco Rubio dialed into a call between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The topic was Ukraine and Rubio, on his first trip to Asia as Trump’s top diplomat, had just met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.