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Right to simple healthcare decisions. This latest debate comes less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned roe V wade and abortion rights advocates came out here to the Supreme Court steps to share their concerns, many temara as president of the group narail pro choice America. It's a big case for those of us who work in abortion rights and abortion access because it's a backdoor way at banning abortion. While those pushing for the abortion pill restrictions say they want to prioritize women's health and restore critical safeguards regarding medication abortions. At the Supreme Court Nick eying Ellie, WTO P news. It's one O 5 four years after Amazon announced Northern Virginia would be the home of its new headquarters. The company is asking the Commonwealth to deliver on the financial incentives it promised. Here's WTO's making clarity. Amazon says it's hired 8000 workers in and around Arlington and is asking the state to hold up its end of the agreement and pay the tech giant a $152 million by the end of 2026. While no money has been paid out yet, Virginia promised up to 750 million bucks in economic incentives to the company in 2018. It also promised the company $22,000 for each full-time hire, making more than a 150,000 in salary. Holly Sullivan with Amazon told WTO P in a statement, quote, so far we've exceeded the projections laid out in the agreement. We signed with Virginia in 2018 by creating and maintaining over 8000 jobs at headquarters two. Sullivan says the company is on track to open a second headquarters to its employees and the public by June. A D.C. man is dead after being hit by a car on the inner loop of the capitol beltway in prince George's county, happened around 2 o'clock Friday afternoon near route one in college park, Maryland state police say 55 year old ola mire Stefan was changing a tire on the rear passenger side of his car when a Toyota Prius apparently ran off the road and hit Stefan and his car. He was pronounced dead at the scene troopers say he had his four way hazard flashers on and they don't know yet why the Prius ran off the road. When the school year started in fairfax county, there were some new rules, students had to follow one of them banned cell phone use during classes, and while a county report says most students are complying one local principle says there's more to the story. Here's WTO P Scott gelman. When we would call about the phones and say, we have your kids phone. They would say, good, keep it. Can you come along as principal at west Potomac high school? She says the school banned cell phone use in class several years ago before it became a county wide requirement last fall. In the first semester, only 459 students had a documented cell phone violation according to the report from the lord says many more were likely caught using their cell phones. First warning, I'm just telling you, second warning, you're going to have to talk to an administrator. Third warning, there might be a call home. Before you get to the place where it's I'm putting this in and I'm taking your phone kind of thing. Scott gelman, WTO P news A learning disabilities teacher and fairfax county. It's under arrest accused of having an illegal sexual relationship with a student. 33 year old Aaliyah caraman of Reston faces four counts of indecent liberties by a custodian of a student, administrators at James Madison high school where karaman worked, alerted police to the relationship last month after a student came forward, attacked his determined she had unlawful contact with the student over the past several months, care of mine is being held without bond. Coming up after traffic