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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in July. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
TikTok Ban Averted: Trump Gives Oracle-Walmart Deal His 'Blessing'
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Renee-Lauren Ellis, a Washington, D.C.-area attorney, says, "It's dire that something as fundamental as what I do with my body is up for debate still, in 2020." Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
Ginsburg's Death A 'Pivot Point' For Abortion Rights, Advocates Say
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Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in August. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., says it would be "political hypocrisy" for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to hold a vote before Election Day on any nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Tom Williams/AP hide caption
Patrick Leahy Says A Vote Now To Replace Ginsburg Would Be 'Political Hypocrisy'
Sen. Lindsey Graham has walked back repeated statements that a Supreme Court should not be filled in a presidential election year. Jim Bourg/AP hide caption
A crowd gathers at the U.S. Supreme Court to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption
Mourners Spontaneously Gather Outside Supreme Court To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A memorial for Breonna Taylor is seen during the Good Trouble Tuesday march for Breonna Taylor on Tuesday, Aug. 25 in Louisville, Ky. Amy Harris/Amy Harris/Invision/AP hide caption
President Barack Obama greets Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prior to his 2012 State of the Union address. Saul Loeb/AP hide caption
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Census Director Steven Dillingham departs a Sept. 17 news conference in Phoenix. The Trump administration is facing two federal lawsuits over its last-minute decision to cut the 2020 census schedule short. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — here in her chambers during a 2019 interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg — died on Friday at the age of 87. Shuran Huang/NPR hide caption
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
Workers restore power lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, in 2017. The Trump administration says it will award nearly $13 billion in infrastructure grants to help the island recover from the storm that hit three years ago. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Satellite images of storms forming in the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Wilfred is the last named storm of the 2020 season using the English alphabet. Courtesy of NOAA hide caption
President Trump speaks Friday at a news conference at the White House. He has made fast-tracking a vaccine against the coronavirus a core tenet of his reelection pitch. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Park Police and other federal officers hold a perimeter near the White House on June 1 as demonstrators gather to protest the killing of George Floyd. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A helicopter prepares to drop water at a wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif., on Sept. 5. A firefighter was killed in the El Dorado blaze on Thursday. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption
Tamika Palmer spoke at the March on Washington last month at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. At left is Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, and at right is the Rev. Al Sharpton. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
During a remote StoryCorps conversation, Erin Haggerty, left, told her father, George Barlow, how his words saw her through the tough times she faced as one of the only Black kids in her Iowa City community. Courtesy of Erin Haggerty hide caption
How The Pandemic Is Widening The Racial Wealth Gap
Demonstrators march through the streets of Rochester, N.Y., earlier this month protesting the death of Daniel Prude, apparently stopped breathing as police were restraining him in March. Adrian Kraus/AP hide caption
Andrea Lerner (left), and her husband, Ira Lerner, sift through the mail-in applications at the Voter Registration office in the Lehigh County Government Center in Allentown, Pa. Hannah Yoon for NPR hide caption