Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning.

Suns setting late these days, we are about one week now from the summer solstice.

Here are today's top stories. It's Thursday, June 13th.

We start with today's major court news. The U.S. Supreme Court decided today

not to limit access to the abortion drug, Mifipristone. And the drug's about to come out of storage.

Washington state officials say they're going to start releasing the state's stockpile.

Jeannie Lindsay reports.

When federal courts started questioning access to Miffa Prestone,

Washington State stocked up on three years' worth of the medication.

Officials said those doses would remain on hand in case the courts ruled to limit it.

Now, Washington officials say they're making a plan for health care providers to access the state stockpile. I would say that will be a gradual distribution. I don't anticipate

us sending it all out at once. That's Molly Voris, policy advisor to the governor. Vores says more

cases challenging access to Miffaah Pristone could return to federal

court. But if that happens, she says lawmakers and the state's next governor will likely decide whether

or not to renew the state's stockpile. I'm Jeannie Lindsay in Olympia. Starbucks won at the U.S. Supreme

Court today to the disappointment of unionized workers.

It comes down to how workers' jobs are protected when they form a union. The ruling makes it harder

for the federal government to issue court orders to protect jobs. This case began in 2022 when

Starbucks fired seven workers in Tennessee. National labor regulators won

for the company to rehire them while their case was sorted out. But Starbucks appealed to the

Supreme Court, which sided with the company. More than 400 Starbucks stores have unionized

and are collectively negotiating a first contract with the company now.

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