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Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham told Fox News late Monday that Republicans have the votes to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court pick before the Nov. 3 presidential election, according to the Associated Press. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the case on the Senate floor that voters elected a GOP majority to confirm judicial nominees. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, a first for a woman.
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Beta has settled along the Texas Gulf Coast, flooding streets in Houston and Galveston hours after making landfall amid an unusually busy hurricane season. Beta is also headed for parts of Louisiana that haven’t recovered from Hurricane Laura last month.
The federal government is facing a partial shutdown at the end of this month. Lawmakers have fewer than two weeks to come up with a new compromise before the deadline. Republicans are opposed to a new Democrat-backed government funding bill because it omits federal farm assistance. |
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In February 1965, two of America's most towering public intellectuals faced off at the University of Cambridge in England. They were there to debate an idea: "The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro." The Atlantic's David Frum and Harvard's Khalil Muhammad have a new take on the question. Listen here or read about it.
Cast members from the beloved TV series Parks And Recreation got together last week to give Wisconsin voters a virtual education about voting on behalf of the state's Democratic Party. Here’s an audio clip and a link to the story transcript.
The United Nations General Assembly begins its annual meeting on Tuesday. A record 173 heads of state or government will address the meeting between now and Saturday — most virtually. Hear the story. |
- BTS, the most popular band in the world, performs three songs with a live band for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
- NBA legend Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin are forming a NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace as the driver, making their high-profile partnership the only Black majority team owner and Black driver at the sport's top level. (ESPN)
- Microsoft will spend $7.5 billion dollars to purchase Bethesda, the leading video game maker behind the smash hits Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. It’s one of the largest ever acquisitions in the video game history, and will give Microsoft ownership of popular franchises such as Wolfenstein, Quake and DOOM.
- Comedian Ellen DeGeneres began the 18th season of her daytime talk show on Monday with an apology that addressed reports describing her as a boss who led a toxic workplace. (The New York Times)
- Along the western coast of Tasmania, marine conservationists are trying to rescue 270 pilot whales that have been stranded on sandbars there.
- DSW says it’s teaming up with grocery story chain Hy-Vee to sell shoes inside grocery stores. Shoppers will be able to try on shoes, then order them online.
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