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A memorial to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the Harvard Law School library at Langdell Hall, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tuesday includes a photograph of the late justice. Ginsburg, who attended Harvard Law School but transferred to Columbia, died Friday at the age of 87.

Roberts: Ginsburg was 'tough, brave, a fighter, a winner'

Chief Justice John Roberts says the words that best describe the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are "tough, brave, a fighter, a winner" but also "thoughtful, careful, compassionate, honest."
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican.

GOP Senate report on Biden son alleges conflict of interest

Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday alleging that the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice president.
This September 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the company. Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if the single-dose vaccine can protect against the coronavirus.

Single-dose vaccine tested as U.S. experts say no corners cut

A huge international study of a COVID-19 vaccine that aims to work with just one dose is getting underway as top U.S. health officials sought Wednesday to assure a skeptical Congress and public that they can trust any shots the government ultimately approves.
Cindy McCain, wife of former Arizona Sen. John McCain, waves to the crowd after being acknowledged by Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey during his State of the State address on the opening day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Phoenix.

Cindy McCain rebukes fellow Republican Trump to back Biden

Cindy McCain has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president in a rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the Republican Party's 2008 nominee.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks in a pre-recorded message played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year. (Eskinder Debebe/UN via AP)
Telling COVID's story: At UN, leaders spin virus storylines
At the 75th annual United Nations General Assembly, world leaders are floating solutions to combating the coronavirus while sometimes criticizing other nations and arguing the U.N. itself needs reform
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020 file photo, lorries wait to board ferries on the morning after Brexit took place at the Port of Dover, in Dover, England. The British government says there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union at the end of the year. Brexit preparation minister Michael Gove describes that as a reasonable worst-case scenario in a letter to logistics firms. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)
UK says no-deal Brexit could see 7,000-truck border queues
The British government says there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union
This image released by the Nashville Police Department shows Harvey Briggs. The former Tennessee state trooper's insistence that he never yanked the mask off a protester near the state Capitol has been refuted by surveillance footage and an eyewitness account from a fellow law enforcement officer, state records show. A public records request by The Associated Press also revealed a lengthy disciplinary record and an initial recommendation that Trooper Briggs be fired nearly two decades ago. After Briggs' encounter with the protester, he was fired and charged with assault. (Nashville Police Department via AP)
Report: Video refutes trooper who denied unmasking protester
Records show a former Tennessee state trooper's insistence that he never yanked the mask off a protester near the state Capitol was refuted by surveillance footage and an eyewitness account from a fellow law enforcement officer
A handout photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. German doctors say Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released from hospital after poisoning treatment. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month's treatment for poisoning, with doctors now believing that a 'complete recovery' from the nerve agent is possible, the facility said Wednesday Sept. 23. (Navalny instagram via AP)
Russia's Navalny released from German hospital after 32 days
The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning says his condition improved enough for him to be released
Chicago puts Wisconsin on quarantine list for second time
Chicago officials Tuesday told visitors from Wisconsin for the second time that they must remain in quarantine for two weeks if they visit the city.
UN labor agency: Growing rich-poor gap amid COVID pandemic
The U.N. labor agency says the coronavirus pandemic has led to massive drop in income for workers around the world, warning of rising inequality between rich countries that have injected government cash into their economies and poorer countries that can't
Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim gestures as he leaves after a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Anwar said he has secured a majority in parliament to form a new government that is 'strong, stable and formidable." (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar plans new government
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he has secured a majority in Parliament to form a new government, but parties in the ruling coalition called it a cheap publicity stunt
FILE - In this July 18, 2011 file photo, a boat steers slowly through floating ice, and around icebergs, all shed from the Greenland ice sheet, outside Ilulissat, Greenland. Climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere. The World Meteorological Organizations publicly confirmed Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020, the all-time cold reading for the hemisphere: -69.6 Celsius recorded on Dec. 22, 1991 at an automatic weather station in a remote site called Klinck, not far from the highest point on the Greenland Ice Sheet. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
Cold diggers? UN finds a record low in Greenland ice in 1991
Climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere of nearly -70 degrees Celsius (-93 F) at a remote Greenland site _ tallied nearly three decades ago
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 58,438, Scott Sanders photo: Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne honors Space shuttle astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen during a parade to honor them in May of 1981. The two astronauts, America’s first space shuttle pilots, also met with some of the City’s top high school students at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Traffic flows on Townline Road as a hazy sun sets in Vernon Hills Tuesday due to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest.
Unusual sunsets provided a backdrop for The Week in Pictures, September 12-19, 2020.
Glenbrook North sophomore Sonia Thakkar played the harp for a virtual live concert to entertain and relieve the stress of front line health care workers. She also raised over $3,000 to obtain quality PPE kits for front line workers in India.
A wide variety of events and people are represented in The Week in Pictures photo gallery
Associated Press Mourners hug beside the names of the deceased Jesus Sanchez and Marianne MacFarlane at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans commemorated 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Sept. 11 ceremonies across the nation and suburbs
Flames shoot from a window as the Bear Fire burns through the Berry Creek area of Butte County, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region.
Deadly northern California wildfires rage on. 'It's like an apocalypse or something.'
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