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Trump Announces Barrett as Supreme Court Nominee, Describing Her as Heir to Scalia

By Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos

In choosing Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the president opted for the candidate most likely to thrill his conservative base and outrage his liberal opponents.

Barrett's Record: A Conservative Who Would Push the Supreme Court to the Right

Barrett's Record: A Conservative Who Would Push the Supreme Court to the Right

By Adam Liptak

As an appeals court judge, Judge Barrett has issued opinions that have reflected those of her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, but with few of his occasional liberal rulings.

How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed

How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed

By Astead W. Herndon

When a majority of City Council members promised to "end policing as we know it" after George Floyd's killing, they became a case study in how idealistic calls for structural change can falter.

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Inside eBay's Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal

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Inside eBay's Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal

By David Streitfeld

"People are basically good" was eBay's founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate soul.

Amy Coney Barrett Is No Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Amy Coney Barrett Is No Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Lara Bazelon

When it comes to the Supreme Court, we've been to this identity politics movie before.

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Mid Ulster councillor’s bid to defund GAA over social distancing and pro-IRA songs fails

Your weekly news roundup from the Belfast News Letter
 
 
     
   
     
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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.

 
     
  Mid Ulster councillor's bid to defund GAA over social distancing and pro-IRA songs fails  
     
  A proposal to temporarily withdraw council support for the GAA in Mid Ulster was voted down at a meeting of the local council.  
     
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Police officer shot dead in custody suite was 'big in stature and big in heart'
 
Tributes have been paid to Matiu Ratana, the Metropolitan Police officer fatally shot at a south London custody suite.
 
     
 
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Sam McBride: Sinn Féin thought Covid would hasten Irish unity, but increasingly it is exposing the party
 
It was clear that in the early weeks of the pandemic, Sinn Féin saw this crisis not just as a human disaster, but as a political opportunity.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Ruth Dudley Edwards is fearless in the face of anonymous trolls
 
Ruth Dudley Edwards joins us as a weekly columnist on Tuesday.
 
     
 
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Police officer injured during dissident protest at Maghaberry Prison
 
Four men were arrested following disturbances at a republican demonstration outside Maghaberry Prison on Saturday.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: A zero risk approach to fighting Covid is not noble, it just means a rise in risks from other diseases and other forms of ruin
 
The fact that Northern Ireland has had the highest number of new Covid-19 infections ever recorded in a day is cause for serious concern.
 
     
 
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Ulsterman's 'unimaginable ordeal' after he lost £25,000 to cruel scammers
 
Ballymena man Jonathan Leakey has impressive professional credentials. A secondary school teacher for many years and a university lecturer, with a PhD in computer-assisted language learning, he is not the sort of person, if, indeed, there is a 'sort of person' who one think would be taken in by a scam.
 
     
 
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NI man Ronnie Andrews first to receive Royal British Legion honour for dedication to veterans
 
The dedication of Ronnie Andrews to the outreach work of the Royal British Legion has seen him become the first Northern Ireland man to be awarded the organisation's Downing Shield.
 
     
 
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Documentary claimed loyalists planned school attack, for which there's no evidence, yet propagandists ignore actual IRA school attacks
 
Not for the first time when it comes to legacy issues, the News Letter is to be commended.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
 
 
   
 
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