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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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