The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if filled, will cement a conservative majority for decades to come. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s most senior and celebrated liberal, set the stage for a furious…
People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories – those motivated by principle, and those motivated by power.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday night at the age of 87, exemplified the first.When he nominated her in 1993, Bill Clinton called her “the Thurgood Marshall of gender-equality law”, comparing…
Felicity Jones, the actress who channeled the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the legal drama and love story "On the Basis of Sex," reacted to her death in a statement released Saturday.In the film, Jones played the struggling Ginsburg, who as a working attorney and new mother, was forced to break down barriers in her…
Image copyright EPA Image caption President Donald Trump had threatened to ban the app in the US unless a satisfactory deal was struck US President Donald Trump has expressed his approval of a deal that would allow Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok to continue operating in the US.Mr Trump told reporters he had given his "blessing"…
Two 19-year-olds were killed and 14 others injured during a shooting early Saturday at a party in Rochester, N.Y.Police Capt. Frank Umbrino said Saturday that three or four people fired 40 rounds around 12:30 a.m.“We have two innocent victims here that were attending a party with a few friends and unfortunately, they lost their lives…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…