Start your day here: What the Texas abortion ruling means, the world's first malaria vaccine and more

Published October 7, 2021 at 8:05 AM EDT
A nurse takes a vaccine from a bottle to administrate it to a child at Ewim Polyclinic in Ghana on April 30, 2019.
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A nurse takes a vaccine from a bottle to administrate it to a child at Ewim Polyclinic on April 30, 2019. The pilot program in Ghana helped provide data to the World Health Organization so that it could approve the vaccine more broadly.

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Here are some of the top stories we're following today:

Texas abortion ruling: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state's restrictive abortion law, calling it an "offensive deprivation of such an important right." Here's what it that means for people there.

Malaria vaccine: The World Health Organization has approved the world's first malaria vaccine for widespread use, but it's far from perfect.

Auschwitz vandalism: Part of the Auschwitz memorial site has been vandalized with antisemitic graffiti; police are investigating the attack on an important marker of the Holocaust.

🎧 Also on Up First, our daily podcast, a new study finds COVID-19 has robbed some 140,000 kids of at least one parent or caregiver.

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