Women living in US states with abortion restrictions have shifted from travelling out of state to get the procedure to taking abortion pills prescribed via telehealth, according to a report published Tuesday by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.

In 13 states with abortion bans, about 91,000 women received abortion pill prescriptions via telehealth in 2025, the report said. That number marks an increase of more than 25% compared with 72,000 prescriptions in 2024, according to the institute´s estimates.

Conversely, the report found the number of women who travelled from states with abortion bans to those with less restrictive laws fell from 74,000 in 2024 to about 62,000 in 2025.

Nationally, the number of people who travelled to receive abortions fell to 142,000 last year, down from the 170,000 recorded in 2024 and 154,000 in 2023.

“Taken together, these estimates suggest a substantial shift in the way people in states with total bans access abortion care, with fewer people travelling out of state and more accessing care via telehealth,” wrote the report´s authors, Isaac Maddow-Zimet and Kimya Forouzan.

The report noted that the trend has been facilitated by the so-called “shield laws”, which protect providers from prosecution by states where abortion is illegal. Eight US states — California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — have such laws.

Nationally, the number of abortions recorded in 2025 stood at more than 1.12 million, largely unchanged since 2024 and the highest rate since 2009.

After the US Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion in 2022, 13 states have instituted near-total bans on the procedure, and six more have significantly restricted access.

Keith Urban has reportedly taken on a cruise ship performance to help cover costs following his high-profile divorce from Nicole Kidman, the kind of booking, sources say, he would never have considered during their 19-year marriage.

The country star performed at the Top Shelf Country Cruise, sailing from Florida to the Bahamas between 27 February and 6 March. 

An insider told New Idea that the gig was very much a practical decision.

“Cruise ships are not exactly the dream gig, but they pay the bills — and it gives Keith something to focus on,” the source said. 

“It’s the kind of gig that Keith would have turned his nose up at during his marriage to Nicole Kidman. He’s trying to stay busy now that his divorce is finalised.”

Urban, 58, has a reported net worth of $75 million, but those close to him have suggested that divorce lawyer fees may have put a dent in his cash flow. 

With Kidman’s reported net worth sitting at $250 million, the financial stakes of the split were considerable. 

“When there’s that much money involved in a split, the lawyers don’t come cheap, regardless of the outcome,” the source explained, adding that smaller bookings help keep things ticking over in the meantime.

Longer term, though, the picture is said to be more positive. 

Urban is reportedly working on “exciting plans” for the second half of 2026, with the source saying he “has every intention of ending 2026 the exact opposite of how it started, on a total high.”

Page Six confirmed in September that Urban and Kidman had separated after nearly two decades together. 

Kidman filed for divorce the day after the news broke, citing irreconcilable differences. 

The divorce was finalised in January, with both parties waiving rights to child and spousal support. 

Kidman was approved as the primary residential parent for their two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.

Kidman has spoken briefly about the situation, telling Variety earlier this month: “We are a family, and that’s what we’ll continue to be.”

Scientists from a private space company are planning a controversial yet daring move to land on a dangerous asteroid as it leaps past Earth in three years’ time.

The space rock, dubbed Apophis, was first discovered in 2004 and is expected to make a close pass by Earth in 2029.

Previous calculations suggested a 2.7 percent chance of the asteroid colliding with Earth and potentially destroying an area nearly the size of a city.

However, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists ruled out the potential risk of any impact for the foreseeable future.

The United States (U.S.)-based company ExLabs announced ambitious plans to send two landers to attempt a touchdown on the space rock as it passes nearly 32,000km from Earth.

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Miguel Pascual said: “The main goal is to gain images from the surface of the asteroid,” adding, “There’s some really exciting science that can happen.”

ExLabs said that its mothership spacecraft, scheduled for launch in 2028, will carry 10 spacecraft, including two landers.

The space company plans to deploy a lander the size of a shoe box, which will continue taking pictures as it descends at a speed of 10 centimeters per second. The lander is expected to attempt a touchdown within an hour of deployment.

For context, a lander is a type of spacecraft designed to descend from orbit, pass through an atmosphere (if present), and make a soft, controlled landing on the surface of a celestial body.

To ensure Earth’s safety and no change in the asteroid’s orbit, ExLabs plans to execute the mission a week after Apophis’s flyby of Earth.