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A sign promoting participation in the 2020 census is displayed as Selena Rides Horse enters information into a phone for a member of the Crow Indian Tribe in Lodge Grass, Mont. in August. (Matthew Brown/AP Photo)
NPR
Courts & Law

Court orders census counting to continue through Oct. 31; appeal expected

After the Trump administration made last-minute changes to shorten the 2020 census schedule, a federal judge in California has ordered it to extend counting for another month.

5 years ago

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured in 2018, is seen as a front-runner to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. (Rachel Malehorn, rachelmalehorn.smugmug.com via AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Who is Amy Coney Barrett, front-runner for Supreme Court nomination?

From guns and sexual assault on campus to health care and abortion rights, Barrett has shown herself to be a conservative jurist and legal thinker.

5 years ago

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay their respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she lies in repose at the U.S. Supreme Court.
NPR
Politics & Policy

‘Honor her wish’: Trump met with boos as he pays respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Trump has dismissed the late justice's request, baselessly saying he thought it could have been made up by Democrats.

5 years ago

People protest the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case
NPR
Community

Breonna Taylor update: Denver police detain man after driver plows through protest area

As the protest was breaking up, a motorist drove through a small crowd of protesters who had yelled at the driver to turn around.

5 years ago

Jesus Gonzalez
NPR
Community

‘Desperation and fear’ for millions with Congress deadlocked over pandemic assistance

Federal unemployment money has been cut off for nearly two months. Congress hasn’t worked out a deal to send more aid, and a fight over the Supreme Court may make that harder.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden
Courts & Law

Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court

Biden, who ran a relatively centrist primary campaign, hasn't embraced those calls, worried they may intensify the nation's partisan split.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump
Politics & Policy

Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses

President Donald Trump is declining to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.

5 years ago

Demonstrators march for housing justice in the Old Town neighborhood in Chicago, IL on June 30, 2020, demanding a lift on the Illinois rent control ban and a cancellation of rent and mortgage payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
NPR
Money

‘No one can live off $240 a week’: Many Americans struggle to pay rent, bills

One in six households reported missing or delaying paying bills just so they could buy food in a new NPR poll.

5 years ago

Breonna Taylor
Courts & Law

1 officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case; not for her death

Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation on March 13.

5 years ago

Huda Mohamed
NPR
Health

A tech powerhouse, US lags in using smartphones for contact tracing

Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track COVID infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, used by a tiny percent of the population.

5 years ago

Former law clerks for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stand on the steps of the Supreme Court as they await the arrival of the casket of Ginsburg on Wednesday. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Ginsburg, role model and ‘rock star,’ lies in repose at Supreme Court

In a ceremony inside the court’s Great Hall, Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt eulogized Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a “path-marking role model for women and girls of all ages.”

5 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testifies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
Health

Single-dose vaccine tested as US experts say no corners cut

It will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S.

5 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Politics & Policy

House easily passes stopgap funding bill, averting shutdown

The stopgap measure will keep federal agencies fully up and running into December, giving lame-duck lawmakers time to digest the election.

5 years ago

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, tries to avoid reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

Senate GOP plans vote on Trump’s court pick before election

Democrats say it's too close to the election, and the winner of the presidency should name the new justice. But under GOP planning, the Senate could vote Oct. 29.

5 years ago

200,000 American Flags Installed On National Mall To Memorialize 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths
NPR
Health

‘Enormous and tragic’: US has lost more than 200,000 people to COVID-19

Over 200,000 people have now died from COVID-19 in the U.S., reaching what was once the upper limit of some estimates for the American death toll.

5 years ago

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