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- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
- #BREAKING: The Supreme Court has delivered a historic victory for LGBTQ workers, ruling that the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment does apply to LGBTQ employees.
- House Democrats say their first bill after taking power would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act. n.pr/2z4utoW
- #BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration and extended a lifeline to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing the program that has permitted about 650,000 "Dreamers" to stay and work in the U.S. legally to continue.
- JUST IN: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal has sent a letter to the IRS requesting copies of President Trump’s tax returns from 2013 through 2018.
- #BREAKING: Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. She'll be the first African American nominated for vice president by a major party. trib.al/SLKbNIn
- JUST IN: Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who is facing one of the toughest re-election campaigns in a red state in November, announced he will vote to convict President Trump on both articles of impeachment.
- Replying to @nprpoliticsJust days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that i I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." trib.al/2q7vg0g
- JUST IN: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released an interim report based on multiple whistleblowers who say the Trump administration is rushing to transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law.
- For the first time in its history, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is urging Americans to vote President Trump out of office, saying the Trump administration has "taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy" with its pandemic response. trib.al/TxiX4Lz
- #BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas has ruled that about 127,000 ballots cast in Harris County via curbside voting are valid and cannot be thrown out, despite a last-minute lawsuit on behalf of a group of Republican candidates and activists.
- #BREAKING: Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate runoff, according to an AP race call. He'll be the first Black senator from Georgia and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a southern state. trib.al/4Zm0fUT
- Elections company Dominion Voting Systems is suing former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who has spent much of the past two months claiming Dominion rigged the 2020 election and was somehow tied to Hugo Chavez, none of which is true. trib.al/7z0yqsC
