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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman in American history to do so, in commemoration of her extraordinary ...

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By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With crowds of admirers swelling outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The two Republican members of North Carolina’s state elections board have resigned after signing off on a settlement to help voters fix absentee ballot problems that has been criticized by state GOP leaders. Ken Raymond and ...

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By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have swiftly fallen in line behind President Donald Trump’s push to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat as one of the ...

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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The public works director of a North Carolina city has been indicted in federal court on charges his department illegally transported hazardous waste from the city’s shooting range. Federal prosecutors in Charlotte say David Lutz, 64, ...

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By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Months after the police killing of Breonna Taylor thrust her name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, the city of Louisville agreed to pay the Black woman’s family ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democrat Cal Cunningham battled over the government’s COVID-19 response and a future vaccine in a debate Monday, kicking up a notch a campaign ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina district attorney and a police department are looking into cases of false evidence being used in more than a dozen drug arrests, according to a report. Both Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elections board won’t try to stop enforcement of a court ruling that would allow more convicted felons to vote this fall, state Attorney General Josh Stein announced Thursday. Legislators still could appeal last week’s ...

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