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Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, also will be the first Jewish-American to lie in state and just the second Supreme Court justice.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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