Supreme Court justices testify on increasing security funding in rare appearance

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appeared before Congress on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appeared before Congress on Tuesday.
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President Trump is welcoming Iraq's new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office.
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Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appeared before Congress on Tuesday.

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The majority of Ebola virus cases in eastern Congo are from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said on Tuesday and warned that the outbreak “continues to outpace the response efforts.”Congo has been battling an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola since ...
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Weeks after the end of a historic term, Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are making a rare appearance before Congress, and facing wide-ranging questions as the high court seeks millions of dollars to beef up security amid a rise in threats to the judiciary.Down the street,...

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President Trump said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was drained Monday to make repairs and that it "will be refilled and put back into service soon," again saying that vandals gashed the pool's lining.
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A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off successfully Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station.NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 for an eight...

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