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Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over her replacement.
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NYPD should stop making traffic stops, attorney general says
New York's attorney general on Friday recommended the New York Police Department get out of the business of routine traffic enforcement, a radical change she said would prevent encounters like one last year in the Bronx that escalated quickly and ended with an officer fatally shooting a motorist.
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Virus cases rise in US heartland, home to anti-mask feelings
It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus outbreak is heating up fast in smaller cities in the heartland, often in conservative corners of America where anti-mask sentiment runs high.
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GOP expecting Trump to tap Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court
Republicans are expecting President Donald Trump to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic stamp on the high court before the election.
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The Latest: Dr. Fauci cautions against pandemic fatigue
The nation's top infectious disease expert is cautioning people not to let pandemic fatigue weaken efforts to keep the coronavirus from spreading. Dr. Anthony Fauci says that "people are exhausted from being shut down" and some give up on doing things that contain the virus. The head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases made the comment Friday in a podcast with a medical journal editor. Fauci urges people to remember that "there is an end to this" and "we just have to hang in there a bit" as researchers work on a vaccine. Fauci says that "what we don't want to have to do is to shut down again" if cases really spike.
