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In choosing Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the president opted for the candidate most likely to thrill his conservative base and outrage his liberal opponents.
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 Now that Trump has named Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, the Senate can start its nomination process.
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When members of the Senate vote to confirm 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court next month, we'll be following precedent and doing our sworn duty under the Constitution.
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 State and local officials have planned ahead, expecting this weekend's round of protests to continue to intensify.
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Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
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Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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My Block, My Hood, My City organized a rally at Daley Plaza to remember police shooting victims, including Breonna Taylor, and raise awareness for organizations helping to empower Black women-owned businesses and Black children, on Sept. 26, 2020, in Chicago.
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 Now that Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barret to the Supreme Court, the issue becomes whether the GOP-led Senate can confirm her before Election Day.
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 Amy Coney Barrett pays tribute to the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia after being formally nominated to serve on the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump.
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The US Supreme Court is on the verge of a historic transformation that could wind back the law in America for decades, in some cases to the 1930s, pre-New Deal approach.
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A Texas teacher was fired for continuing to wear a Black Lives Matter face mask after school officials asked her to stop.
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Barrett is up to fill the Supreme Court seat of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was a trailblazer for women's rights and the face of the liberal bloc of the court.
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"Trump needs to get out of his own way to win me over. ... And with Biden, I need to see some life," one undecided voter tells The Post.
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A 17-year-old boy was fatally wounded Saturday morning on the West Side, Chicago police said.
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 President Trump's nomination to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg is quick and controversial - but Republicans could make it happen. Here's how.
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Justice knows no color. Yet Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is being criticized by fellow Blacks who contend he should have charged police in the killing of Breonna Taylor.
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 Members of the far-right Proud Boys -- some carrying firearms and wearing body armor -- massed at a rally on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as counter rallies unfolded nearby and officials in the tense city braced for violence.
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Gayle King of CBS News found herself in the social media crosshairs after questioning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's use of the word "henchmen" to describe the president's associates in an interview. The television journalist's name was trending on Twitter early Saturday as folks slammed King, who called out Pelosi's language as "egregious" and questioned whether...
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Residents of eight cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in a southeast Texas water supply.
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 The exchange came after Gayle King asked whether Nancy Pelosi still felt that Joe Biden shouldn't debate Donald Trump.
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U.S. Midwest sees surge in COVID-19 cases as four states report record increases Reuters
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Joseph Biden and Democrats are wary of criticism of Judge Amy Coney Barrett that could be perceived as personal attacks. They will focus on the real-world impact she might have as a Supreme Court justice on health care and access to abortion.
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Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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The US Supreme Court is on the verge of a historic transformation that could wind back the law in America for decades, in some cases to the 1930s, pre-New Deal approach.
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 Our View: A Supreme Court confirmation fight just 38 days from a presidential election, after denying Merrick Garland hearings in 2016, harms America.
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Her nomination to the seat held for 27 years by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes Barrett's nomination the most contentious in decades.
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Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., couldn't nail down a plan for what lawmakers should do if President Trump refuses to concede the White House if he loses in November, but said there will be a "number of plans" if that scenario were to take place.
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President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to write his name in history, to leave a presidential legacy that can't be erased no matter what happens on November 3. And now he has it.
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Major League Baseball suspended Chicago White Sox reliever Jimmy Cordero for three games Saturday and fined him an undisclosed amount for hitting the Cubs' Willson Contreras with a pitch.
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You cannot fight bigotry with bigotry. Indulging it won't get us a more tolerant America.
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 "They say the biggest thing you can do (as president) is the appointment of judges, but especially the appointment of Supreme Court justices," Trump said Friday.
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President Trump is expected to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court, following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last Friday. Watch live here.
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Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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The National Weather Service office in Anchorage issued a rare Hurricane Force Wind Warning for the Northern Gulf of Alaska on Saturday.
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Concerns remain over China's rush to push out a vaccine.
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The White Sox Reliever Who Plunked Willson Contreras Just Got Suspended, Ditto Manager Rick Renteria bleachernation.comYu Darvish deals, Cubs smash 5 homers in 10-0 win | Cubs-White Sox Game Highlights 9/25/20 MLBOPINION: Renteria's Rodon Experiment Shouldn't Be Taken Lightly On Tap Sports NetCubs catcher Willson Contreras launches epic bat flip WGN-TVCubs' Willson Contreras gets plunked after bat flip, White Sox pitcher suspend
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 Why wasn't Brett Hankison charged with endangering Breonna Taylor? Did the grand jury even vote on homicide charges? A look at unanswered questions.
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South Korean officials said a joint probe was needed because there were discrepancies in accounts of the death from the two sides.
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Russia and China blocked the official release of a report by U.N. experts on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers -- including Russia -- of violating a U.N. arms embargo on the conflict-wracked country, U.N. diplomats said Friday.
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George Mason University says they are in touch with the Virginia Health Department to contact trace potential cases of coronavirus after that state's governor tested positive for COVID-19 days after a visit to the school.
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There will be no pre-debate handshake, and no post-debate spin room for surrogates to put the best face on their candidate's performance.
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 Yes, she is brilliant. And, yes, she is a principled, careful judge. But she also is one of the most generous people whom I have ever met.
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The first general election debate on September 29 represents a significant opportunity for President Donald Trump to change the dynamic of a race where he trails in national polling, as well as in recent polls from some of the battleground states he would need to win to be reelected. While debates traditionally have not had a significant impact on public opinion, the nature of this year's campaign -- where voters have had less direct contact with the candidates as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic -- makes Tuesday evening's matchup potentially more consequential than in the past.
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President Trump blasted Virginia Governor Ralph Northam at a rally on Friday, attempting to portray him as representative of the type of governance Virginians would be supporting if they voted for former Vice President Joe Biden in November.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg made history Friday when she became the first woman and Jewish person to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
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 Three railroad workers have been suspended for turning a storage room under New York's Grand Central Terminal into an unauthorized "man cave" with a television, a refrigerator, a microwave and a futon couch, officials said Thursday.
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The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman in American history to do so, in commemoration of her extraordinary life. (Sept. 25)
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Breonna Taylor's family members on Friday called on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to release the transcripts from the grand jury that did not bring charges against the police officers in the young black woman's killing. "I never had faith in Daniel Cameron to begin with … I knew he had already been chosen to...
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