2020-10-27 00:19:21 {widget1} WASHINGTON — Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge and protégée of former Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed on Monday to the Supreme Court, capping a lightning-fast Senate approval that handed President Trump a victory

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2020-10-26 22:55:25 {widget1} WATKINSVILLE, Ga. — For years, state House District 119 was a safely Republican seat in the Georgia Legislature, having been carved out of conservative suburbs along the south side of Athens, a liberal college town, to maximize Republican votes.

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2020-10-26 20:47:12 {widget1} Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadline. Then, in early April, the pandemic dealt a big

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2020-10-26 18:46:48 {widget1} With Election Day a week away, those who have waited until nearly the last minute to vote by mail may be considering turning to an express carrier, thinking that may expedite the process. But experts say voters should use either a secure ballot

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2020-10-26 15:51:34 {widget1} The poll is an outlier in this regard, as a number of other high-quality Pennsylvania polls in recent weeks, including one from The New York Times and Siena College, have shown Mr. Biden’s favorability reaching or surpassing 50 percent. But as

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2020-10-26 14:43:10 {widget1} A Chronicle of Higher Education database tracking the budgetary triage has documented more than 100 such suspended programs, from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences, which will not take new doctoral students next fall,

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2020-10-26 11:01:28 {widget1} As the Senate prepares for a final vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination, the Biden-Harris ticket makes a play for Texas. It’s Monday, and this is your politics tip sheet. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. A group of

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2020-10-26 09:04:26 {widget1} EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. — Like nearly half of all the eligible voters in her county in 2016, Keyana Fedrick did not vote. Four years later, politics has permeated her corner of northeastern Pennsylvania. Someone sawed a hole in a large Trump sign

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2020-10-26 02:53:44 {widget1} WASHINGTON — “Covid, Covid. Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” President Trump groused at a rally in North Carolina on Saturday, expressing dismay that the deadly coronavirus pandemic had come to dominate the final days of his struggling re-election

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2020-10-26 03:21:26 {widget1} Tropical Storm Zeta formed in the Caribbean over the weekend and could be at or near hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said on Sunday. The Hurricane Center in Miami

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