Barrett and five other conservative justices will wield considerable influence on climate change policy, affecting how fiercely the US, and perhaps the rest of the world, can fight rising temperatures.
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Amy Coney Barrett is about to become one of America's nine most powerful people. And once she puts on the robe, she will immediately preside over a list of contentious petitions to the Supreme Court. Here are some of them.
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This potentially opens a new era of rulings on abortion, the Affordable Care Act and even a potential dispute over the election.
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The US has today signed an anti-abortion declaration with a group of about 30 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments, after campaigning to find more recruits. Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman.
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Fact-checking some of the statements of the Biden / Trump debate on 22 October 2020.
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About two-thirds of those parents were deported out of the country before a federal judge ordered that they be found, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Trump attacks Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, as a "disaster"
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On 13th October, 272 Iranians died from COVID-19, the most in a single day since the pandemic began. Authorities say that the real figure could be double that.
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He refused to denounce QAnon multiple times when asked, and then promoted part of their central belief, saying "they are very strongly against paedophilia"
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The Republican Party illegally set up more than 50 ballot boxes that were deceptively labelled "official". According to one professor, this “creates a psychological question and undermines the integrity of the election"
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