🔴 Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the first of her confirmation hearings: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
🔴 Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin used his question period at the beginning of Ms Jackson’s testimony on Tuesday to dismantle arguments raised on Twitter and at Monday’s hearing against the judge’s confirmation: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
🔴 Catch up: Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday stressed her patriotism and Christianity amid strong criticism from Republicans: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
🔴 Catch up: In her opening remarks before the Judiciary Committee yesterday, the Supreme Court nominee had this message for her daughters: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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🔴 Sen Lindsey Graham took time during Tuesday’s hearing to pry into Jackson’s personal religious beliefs and interrogate the judge on whether she was sufficiently spiritual in her beliefs: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
🔴Ketanji Brown Jackson was questioned on Tuesday by senators whether she believed two major cases that have determined the extent of abortion rights in America were “settled” law: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
🔴 About 22 million people were at risk from coming into the path of severe storms across Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, forecasters said, as the storm system moved northwest ⬇️ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
For years, there’s been a cottage industry in Japan and South Korea of renting strangers to impersonate friends, family members or other acquaintances, as a way to save face at social functions where plus-ones are expected
But over the past four years, Shoji Morimoto has built a cult following by offering himself as a warm body who can simply be there
Trump claims ‘no one is more into climate than me’ before dismissing crisis as ‘a thing called weather’ 🧵 independent.co.uk/climate-change…
The former president was speaking to Fox Business on Monday when he was asked if he thought the climate is changing because of human activity. independent.co.uk/climate-change…
“The globe was going to freeze, and then they go ‘global warming’, then they couldn’t use that because the temperatures were actually quite cool, and many different things so that now they just talk about climate change. The climate has always been changing,” Trump said.