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• Amy Coney Barrett: I pledge to 'be mindful' of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy

  26-09-2020 23:54
  
  Amy Coney Barrett addresses the public for the first time as the Supreme Court nominee after being selected by President Trump to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat.
  
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• Sole Witness Who Heard Cops Announce Themselves in Breonna Taylor Raid Changed His Story

  26-09-2020 23:53
  
  This week, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made the bombshell announcement that the cops who fatally shot Breonna Taylor would not be charged with killing her, calling their use of force in the March raid “justified to protect themselves.”In that justification, he said that one witness corroborated the three officers’ insistence that they knocked and identified themselves at Taylor’s Louisville home while executing a search warrant in connection with a narcotics
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett: The most controversial decisions by Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

  26-09-2020 23:53
  
  Federal judge named as SCOTUS nominee shares Mr Tump’s hardline immigration views
  
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• How it happened: From law professor to high court in 4 years

  26-09-2020 23:49
  
  Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana.Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.Barrett's fast-track rise, set to drive the nation's highest court to the right for a generation or longer, is the fulfillment of a decadeslong effort by conservatives to remake the federal bench that kicked into high gear after President Donald Trump was elected.
  
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• Breonna Taylor protests continue as Louisville under curfew

  26-09-2020 23:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police kept up barricades and a curfew remains in effect as Louisville, Kentucky, prepares for a fourth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge the officers who shot Breonna Taylor
  
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• Breonna Taylor protesters march anew: "No justice, No peace"

  26-09-2020 23:48
  
  A diverse crowd of hundreds marched through the streets of Louisville chanting “Black Lives Matter" on Saturday night, the fourth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.People in the crowd also chanted “No Justice, No peace” as cars honked along a busy downtown artery in this Kentucky city that has seen more than 120 days of demonstrations over the death of the 26-year-old Black woman in a police raid gone wrong.
  
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• Trump: Barrett 'a woman of unparalleled achievement'

  26-09-2020 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice.
  
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• WATCH: President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to fill Supreme Court seat

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ......
  
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• Urgent: Trump nominates conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for U.S. Supreme Court

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (Xinhua)...
  
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• UK scientists to test extent of airborne COVID-19 transmission

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  LONDON: A team of UK scientists is set to discover how long COVID-19 can survive in airborne particles. In an experiment slated to commence on Monday, researchers at the University of Bristol will test whether the virus is at its most virulent in respiratory droplets, or whether it remains active over significant periods in tiny aerosol particles. COVID-19 is known to be present in droplets...
  
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• Trump picks conservative Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort. Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judiciary before a potential transition of power. Trump, meanwh
  
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• Trump embraces political battle with pick of Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative favorite, for Supreme Court

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON – Seizing an opportunity to consolidate conservative control of the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana to replace the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The nomination, overwhelmingly popular among conservatives, comes as Trump trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden in most polls and gives him a chance to change the national conversation from the coronavirus pandemic, racial justice and a tro
  
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• The 'very troubling' questions Kentucky's attorney general isn't answering on the Breonna Taylor decision

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Attorneys and citizens say Wednesday's grand jury decision in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death — and Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s limited explanation of it — raises troubling questions he has so far refused to answer. The grand jury indicted former Officer Brett Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for firing bullets that went into apartment next to Taylor's during the attempt March 13 search that went awry. But no indictment was ret
  
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• The U.S. reckoning on race, seen through other nations' eyes

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It's not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation. A handful of America's critics have taken note too, using recent months' demonstrations and graphic images of police violence to denounce the country at the United Nations' gathering of world leaders this year. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked the killing of George Floyd, the Black American man who died after a white police officer in
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin sees record number of daily new cases

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  MADISON, Wis. " Wisconsin on Saturday hit a record for coronavirus cases...
  
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• The Latest: McConnell says Senate will vote on Barrett

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote “in the weeks ahead” on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The Republican leader said Saturday that Trump “could not have made a better decision” in nominating the appellate court judge. McConnell says he looks...
  
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• The Latest: Barrett believed to have arrived in DC area

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court (all times local): 4:05 p.m. An airplane believed to be...
  
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• Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez cleared for physical activity after COVID-related heart issue

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  Boston Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez was cleared by the team for physical activity after battling a heart condition caused by COVID-19 that kept him out for all of 2020. Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke told reporters Friday the left-handed starting pitcher...
  
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• Police move to break up London virus protest as 6,042 new cases recorded

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  LONDON: Several British police officers were hurt on Saturday when they ordered thousands of protesters at a central London anti-lockdown demonstration to...
  
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• North Macedonia: Roma protest against police brutality

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hundreds of Roma protested against police brutality in North Macedonia's second-largest city Saturday. Chanting “No justice, no peace” and “Justice for the Roma,” the protesters marched peacefully in downtown Bitola to the southern city’s main...
  
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• No. 5 Florida beats Ole Miss 51-35 in Kiffin's debut

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Kyle Pitts caught four of Kyle Trask's six touchdown passes and No. 5 Florida spoiled the head coaching debut of Mississippi’s Lane Kiffin with a 51-35 victory Saturday. Trask completed 30 of 42 passes for 416 yards including touchdown passes of 1, 16, 71 and 17 yards to Pitts. The star tight end had 170 yards receiving. Trask directed four consecutive touchdown drives that spanned the second and third quarters to build a 41-14 lead for the Gators (1-0 Southeaste
  
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• Montana judge extends deadline for returning mailed ballots

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) " A Montana judge has extended the state's deadline...
  
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• McKinney tosses 4 TD passes, EKU beats Citadel 37-14

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Parker McKinney threw for a career-high four touchdowns and Eastern Kentucky beat The Citadel 37-14 on Saturday to give Walt Wells his first victory as a head coach. McKinney was 16-of-26 passing for 274 yards. It's the first time an EKU player threw for four...
  
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• London police, protesters clash at COVID-19 demonstration

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  LONDON (AP) — London police clashed with demonstrators on Saturday as they broke up a protest in Trafalgar Square against COVID-19 restrictions amid rising tensions over limits on everyday life as the government tries to stem a sharp rise in infections. Police and protesters were injured when officers moved in after three hours of speeches in front of thousands of people who packed the iconic square in London waving placards opposing mandatory vaccinations, face mask requirements and limit
  
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• Lawmakers who toured Georgia detention site raise concerns

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  
  Several members of Congress called for a detention facility in Georgia to be shut down pending...
  
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• La-Lafayette edges Georgia Southern on 53-yard field goal

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Nate Snyder hit a 53-yard field goal on the game’s final play Saturday, and No. 19 Louisiana-Lafayette escaped with a 20-18 victory over Georgia Southern. The Ragin’ Cajuns (3-0, 2-0 Sun Belt) looked on the way to their first loss when Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts hit Khaleb Hood with a 28-yard touchdown pass and Dalton Anderson with a 2-point conversion with 54 seconds left to give the Eagles...
  
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• Kansas State stuns No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Skylar Thompson passed for 334 yards and ran for three touchdowns, and Kansas State rallied from 21 points down to beat No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35 on Saturday. Freshman Deuce Vaughn caught four passes for 129 yards and ran for a touchdown for the Wildcats, who were coming off a season-opening loss to Arkansas State. It was Kansas State's first-ever road win against a top-three team in the AP poll. Oklahoma freshman...
  
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• Kansas State shocks No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35 behind Skyler Thompson's aerial attack

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  Lightning struck twice for Kansas State. One year after shocking Oklahoma at home, the Wildcats went on the road and stunned the...
  
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• I've known Amy Coney Barrett for over 20 years. Her intellect — and heart — ...

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  I first met Amy Coney at a Washington, D.C., coffee shop in the spring of 1998. A mutual friend had connected us because were about to begin clerking together on the Supreme Court (me for Justice Clarence Thomas, her for Justice Antonin Scalia). I don’t remember the details, but I do remember that I walked away thinking that I had just met a remarkable woman. We could not have known then that over the next 22 years our lives would become completely intertwined: That, three years later, she
  
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• It’s ‘now or never’ for ex-Trump aides weighing speaking out

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  A group is urging a number of...
  
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• Israel reports 9,201 new COVID-19 cases, 29 more deaths

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The total number of coronavirus cases in Israel has reached 227,100, with 9,201 new cases, the state's Ministry of...
  
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• In Breonna Taylor's name: Devastation and a search for hope

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Chea Woolfolk searched the crowd until she found the face of the woman she’d come to regard as a second mother. And then she watched the tears roll down Rose Henderson’s cheeks. Looking into Mama Rose’s eyes, Woolfolk could see that her heart was breaking. This formidable woman looked off balance, like she might topple. Mama Rose has been the matriarch of “Injustice Square,” a block downtown that protesters, many of them Black women, hav
  
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• Gabriel, No. 13 UCF beat East Carolina 51-28 in AAC opener

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Dillon Gabriel threw for 408 yards and four touchdowns to help No. 13 Central Florida beat East Carolina 51-28 on Saturday to open its American Athletic Conference schedule. Jaylon Robinson and Marlon Williams each had huge games as Gabriel's top targets for the Knights (2-0, 1-0). Robinson had nine catches for 150 yards and two touchdowns, while Williams had a career-best 13 catches for 136 yards. Throw in Greg McCrae's short first-quarter scoring run to lead a pro
  
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• First Black woman named interim police chief in Rochester following death of Daniel Prude

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Mayor Lovely Warren named Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, a former lieutenant with the Rochester Police Department as its interim chief Saturday morning. Herriott-Sullivan becomes the first woman to lead RPD. Her appointment is effective Oct. 14, and the mayor has said she will not begin a national search for a permanent chief until June 2021. "I've got a year to do the best I can to help the city and get things on track," Herriott-Sullivan said. She left open that she might a
  
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• Colson Whitehead says he felt 'very defeated' after 'Nickel Boys,' talks self-care

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys" earned him multiple prestigious accolades, but it didn't come without a price. Whitehead, 50, became the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction. During a Q&A session for the Library of Congress' National Book Festival Saturday, the author shared that writing those two books back to back took a toll on him. "I usually write a more serious book and then a...
  
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• CBS' Gayle King calls out Pelosi's 'egregious' language when she refers to Trump allies as 'henchmen'

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was called out Friday by CBS News' Gayle King after referring to President Donald Trump and his allies as "henchmen," language that King said some found "egregious." The exchange came after King asked whether Pelosi still felt that Democratic presidential...
  
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• Bio highlights of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's high court pick

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  Here’s a bio box on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Amy Coney Barrett age 48 - A judge on the 7th...
  
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• Author John Grisham wants Matthew McConaughey to star in a 'A Time for Mercy' film adaptation

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  John Grisham's next legal thriller, "A Time for Mercy" comes out next month, but the author is already looking ahead at a possible film adaptation. He revealed he'd love it if Matthew McConaughey were to star as lawyer Jake Brigance (again) in a film adaptation to the "sort of" sequel to the 1996 adaptation of Grisham's "A Time to Kill." Grisham, who writes between one and two books...
  
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• Armani, Ferragamo premier short films for Milan Fashion Week

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  MILAN (AP) — To show or not to show: Each Milan fashion house had to make a difficult decision how to reach the fashion public this season under the safety...
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's high court pick, is Scalia's heir

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  The Barrett nomination could become a reckoning over abortion, an issue that has divided many Americans bitterly for almost half a century. ......
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett: Talented judge, popular professor brings solid conservative credentials

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  The last time Amy Coney Barrett was nominated for a federal court judgeship, her deep religious convictions came under attack from Democrats who voted almost in lockstep against her. Now that President Donald Trump has nominated her again – this time for a seat on the Supreme Court that she may hold for decades to come – Democrats once again are sure to vote against her. But not because of her religion. Barrett, 48, proved to be a Teflon nominee in 2017 for a seat on the U.S. Court o
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett, likely high court pick, is Scalia's heir

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Although Amy Coney Barrett is the expected replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, for whom she once clerked, she is a committed Roman Catholic as well as a firm devotee of his favored interpretation of the Constitution known as originalism. Those qualifications delight many on the right but dismay liberals and others who fear her votes could res
  
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• Amy Barrett: If Democrats attack her over 'People of Praise' membership, they'll regret it

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  All faiths are at least a little bit weird to those outside of them. Imagine telling someone unfamiliar with Catholicism, "Every chance I get, I eat some bread that I believe is the body of God’s only son, who was executed in Jerusalem under Tiberius." Totally normal, right? So to all of my friends who think that the religious practice of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, who is a member of a charismatic ecumenical community called the People of Praise, ought t
  
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• About 200 people gather in Portland for right-wing rally

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) " About 200 people, dozens of them wearing...
  
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• 8 Texas cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in water supply

  26-09-2020 23:38 via article.wn.com
  Residents of eight cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in a southeast Texas water supply. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a water advisory to residents served by the Brazosport...
  
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• Colombia passes grim milestone of 800,000 coronavirus cases, more than 25,000 deaths

  26-09-2020 23:37
  
  Coronavirus cases in Colombia, which is nearly a month into a national reopening after a long quarantine, surpassed 800,000 on Saturday, a day after deaths from COVID-19 climbed above 25,000.The Andean country has 806,038 confirmed cases of the virus according to the health ministry, with 25,296 reported deaths.Colombia began more than five months of lockdown in March.
  
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• Sir David Attenborough Meets With Royals To Share A Very Special Gift

  26-09-2020 23:35
  
  The renowned naturalist presented Prince George with a fossilised giant shark's tooth ahead of the release of his latest film.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth to honour UK health workers during the pandemic

  26-09-2020 23:32
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth will recognise the work of hundreds of doctors, nurses, fundraisers and volunteers during the COVID pandemic when the her annual birthday honours list is published next month.Britain has recorded the worst death toll in Europe and one of the worst economic contractions of any leading nation since the pandemic took hold in March.Queen Elizabeth has made very few public appearances during that time but she has delivered a number of rallying messages to the nation and appe
  
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• Nadal falls out of love with French Open but still courting attention

  26-09-2020 23:30
  
  Nadal falls out of love with French Open but still courting attentionSpaniard’s unhappiness with heavy balls and slow courts means Djokovic is fancied to take advantage at Roland Garros
  
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• Outfielder Hunter Pence announces retirement after 14 years

  26-09-2020 23:29
  
  Four-time All-Star outfielder Hunter Pence announced his retirement Saturday following 14 major league seasons.Most recently he was a fan favorite for the San Francisco Giants, helping the club to a pair of World Series championships after being acquired from the Phillies at the 2012 trade deadline.A career .279 hitter, Pence had 244 home runs and 942 RBIs playing for Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Texas.
  
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