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Main story: Coney Barrett spins the Supreme Court to the right
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Most senators have voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee. US lawmakers voted almost entirely along party lines with only one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, joining Democrats in voting against Barrett’s confirmation.
Barrett, 48, wins a conservative 6-3 majority on the nation’s highest court. In the long term, his appointment could have a major impact on a number of policies governing abortion rights, immigration and LGBTQ rights. Immediately, he is expected to rule on various cases in which the votes will be counted and how they will be counted in the election. Shortly after Election Day, she could be a swing vote in an ongoing legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is trying to dismantle.
Coney Barrett has declined to say whether he accepts that humans are causing climate change, calling it a “controversial topic of public debate” despite scientific evidence. His interpretation of the constitution is that of an “originalist” – in his own words, it means “I interpret the constitution as a law, that I interpret its text as text and I understand that it has the meaning that it had at that time the people ratified it. So that meaning doesn’t change over time. And it’s not up to me to update it or infuse it with my own policy opinions. “
Starmer in accident with cyclist – Keir Starmer, the Labor leader, spoke to police after a collision between the car he was driving and a bicyclist who was taken to hospital with an arm injury. Starmer is believed to have been driving through northwest London around noon Sunday when the accident occurred in Kentish Town. He gave his details to the cyclist and a British transport police officer and waited for an ambulance to arrive, a Starmer spokesman said. Metropolitan police said Starmer later attended a north London police station, but was not arrested or interviewed on warning. “Officers from the Highway and Transportation Police Command are ongoing an investigation into the collision,” the Met said.
‘Stigmatized and overlooked’ – Structural racism has had a disproportionate impact from the coronavirus pandemic on BAME communities, a review by Dame Doreen Lawrence concluded. The report commissioned by the Labor Party contradicts the government adviser on ethnicity, Dr. Raghib Ali, who has rejected such claims. Lawrence’s review found that BAME people are overrepresented in public jobs where they cannot work from home, are more likely to live in overcrowded housing, and are at higher risk from the alleged failure of the government to facilitate safe workplaces of Covid. Lawrence writes in the report, titled An Avoidable Crisis, that ethnic minorities have been “overexposed, under-protected, stigmatized and overlooked … This has been a generation of generations.” Meanwhile, the courts are treating their babies during remote video and phone hearings from the hospital, according to a report on justice during the pandemic. Parents also have to join in online procedures from home, often without the proper technology or support, when making life-changing decisions for their children. Head straight to our live global blog for the latest coronavirus developments – more on the wrath of the confinement in the north and free school meals in the documents section below.
Grenfell Principal’s Lament – A Grenfell Tower landlord director apologized for the “devastating” fire that killed 72 people after he described overseeing hundreds of thousands of pounds in cost savings related to its combustible siding. Peter Maddison of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organization (TMO) was on the brink of tears at the end of his public inquiry testimony. Investigation attorney Richard Millett QC had asked Maddison about the cost cuts achieved in the Rydon contractor’s tender when he swapped the zinc cladding for combustible aluminum composite panels that ended up spreading the fire. Maddison said he had assumed “that all the materials proposed by the designers comply with the building codes and the law … Knowing what I know now, there is no way we would have coated that building with something that was flammable.” The investigation continues.
Climate expectations at sea – A consortium of oil companies is preparing to pump Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions under the North Sea to help meet the government’s climate ambitions. The alliance will divert carbon dioxide from factory smokestacks under plans to sequester more than half of the UK’s industrial emissions from seabed salt caverns by 2026. They will release 17 million tonnes into the sea. of carbon dioxide each year from two carbon capture projects. headquartered in the Teesside and Humber industry groups; while another company of the same companies will capture another 10 million tons of carbon dioxide per year from the cluster. At Humber, a separate alliance involving National Grid expects to capture at least 17 million tons of CO.two from refineries, factories and the Drax coal-fired power plant.
Wet moon rising? Scientists have gathered some of the most compelling evidence yet that there is water on the moon of potential use for future human missions. Evidence of water molecules altering the wavelength of sunlight bouncing off the moon’s surface was found by NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), a modified Boeing 747 carrying a reflector telescope of 2.7 meters. The water was discovered at high latitudes toward the south pole of the moon. Scientists are working to determine if it could one day be mined to make drinking water, oxygen for breathing, and split into hydrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel. Previously, the moon’s water was thought to be locked like ice inside craters where the shadow cast by its steep sides keeps the temperature at -230 ° C.
Podcast Today in Focus: Taking black voters for granted?
The Guardian American reporter Kenya Evelyn grew up in Milwaukee, in the undecided state of Wisconsin. He recently returned to see how this year’s pandemic, recession, and Black Lives Matter protests are changing city politics, and after the Democratic convention in Wisconsin was canceled, if the party can expect black voters there support.
Taking black voters for granted?
Read at lunchtime: ‘I’m a fool for love’
As Joni Mitchell drops a box of her early recordings, in a rare interview she talks about life before fame, the proper way to sing her songs, and her long struggle to walk and talk again after an aneurysm.
Sport
Eddie Jones has reminded his players of the need to adhere to strict Covid protocols after the fall England opener was canceled due to two separate infractions by Barbarians players last week. Former Team Sky doctor and British cyclist Richard Freeman will face questions Tuesday about whether he gave a cyclist a “testosterone recharge”, as well as medical data related to a Tour de France winner, a court reported. . Tottenham’s prolific away form eluded them in a 1-1 encounter against Burnley, who is in the bottom three, though the ever-reliable Son Heung-min came to their rescue with an opportunistic winner. Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has demanded that the Premier League review its controversial pay-per-view policy. Tao Geoghegan Hart’s unexpected victory at the Giro d’Italia could well put the 25-year-old at the forefront of the Ineos Grenadiers leadership rotation after 2019 Tour de France winner Egan Bernal revealed he is battling against a debilitating condition of the spine. .
Deal
The electronic payments arm of Jack Ma’s online trading empire is set to list on the stock market for a world record $ 35 billion. Investors will be able to buy from Ant Group, which the Chinese businessman built to serve customers of its Alibaba shopping portal, in Hong Kong and Shanghai starting today and public trading will begin next week. Despite the massive initial public offering, stocks in Asia have suffered from a rough day, although the FTSE 100 is expected to open flat this morning. The pound will allow you to buy $ 1,304 and € 1,104 slightly improved.
The papers
Only the QuickIn reality, he has eyes for anything other than anger in the north and free school meals, the two main problems plaguing the government right now. Instead, that role is sidetracked with “Milestone in Search of Covid Vaccine” after tests of the Oxford jab looked promising. the guardian leads with “Conservative parliamentarians from the north demand a ‘clear roadmap’ to get out of the virus lockdown,” while Mail says “Boris hit by the revolt of the Red Wall MPs.” In the Times: “The blockade runs the risk of paralyzing the north, warn the deputies to Johnson”.
the Telegraph sprinkles with “Immunity only lasts a few months, according to a study”: the article discusses the risk of overstating the definition of that finding, if you consider it our Guardian. The Telegraph front also has the tough-minded MPs from the north and Victoria Derbyshire gets a photo for stating that she will break the six rule at Christmas (the journalist has since apologized and said she will continue to abide by the rules).
At school meals the Mirror He hammers Boris Johnson, appropriating a photo of him helping serve hot food and asking, “Can’t you feed the nation’s starving children, too?” (possibly superfluous eat from them, not ours). While the Subway he embarrasses the prime minister by showing how communities and businesses manage to provide meals, whatever the government’s stance: “Britain takes the reins – massive turnout to help starving children during mid-term holidays.” Finally, the FOOT Leads Jack Ma’s Fortune: “Chinese Fintech Group Ant Will Raise Over $ 34 Billion in Record Quote.”
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