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President Donald Trump refused Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens. You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster,” Trump said at a news conference at …

Colleagues, friends and admirers began paying their final respects Wednesday to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.    Ginsburg’s casket was brought to the Supreme Court building early Wednesday for a private ceremony in the Great Hall, attended by her family and her fellow justices.  The casket was then moved to the …

When Christine Baglow moved from New Orleans to South Bend, Indiana, two years ago, she found herself at a dinner party with a woman with a formidable resume: former supreme court clerk, professor at Notre Dame Law School, a judge on the US district court of appeals for the seventh circuit. The woman was Amy …

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said on Sunday that she will not support President Donald Trump’s nomination of a replacement to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. The announcement makes Murkowski the second Republican in the Senate, after Susan Collins of Maine, to …

On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush …

Karen Patty typically spends the first hour of her workday reviewing police calls from the day before to see if she needs to follow up on any of them. After that she typically gets a call to provide on-scene care for people in a mental health crisis. She’s one of two crisis therapists contracted through …

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 …

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks onstage at the Fourth Annual Berggruen Prize Gala. Eugene Gologursky Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she no longer has cancer, following a flurry of recent health scares. “I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” she said in an interview late Tuesday with CNN. Last year, Ginsburg underwent treatment for what likely …

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Friday night, according to media reports. The 86-year-old jurist is being treated for flu-like symptoms, including a fever and chills, said a statement from the Supreme Court’s press office on Saturday. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in …

After an international book tour that took her around the world promoting her bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” it’s hardly a surprise that former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama tops the list of the world’s most admired woman in 2019. International market research firm YouGov published its annual study of the most admired public figures in the world earlier this …