Page 2 - Third Act News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

today sworn in as the nation's 116th justice, and the first black woman ever to serve on the high court. her husband, dr. patrick jackson held two bibles on which she swore a family bible, and the court's harlan bible. a court federal appeals judge, jackson replaced justice stephen breyer, who stepped down today after three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1999, making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her today. a formal investiture for justice jackson is expected in the fall -- we can call her that now, j...

specifically. and on the future of the court, and newest member, st ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scamming its own donors? i just have to read you the lead from the "new york times," the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacy blatt was in hospice care in september 2020 listening to rush limbaugh's dire warnings about how badly donald trump's campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in kansas city. on less th...

d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today's headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the "times" reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats' now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington -- a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there's a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can a...

2020 election results and did not want trump to go to the capitol after his incendiary speech on january 6th. but hudson also told the public this baloney had the year of mark meadows that day and wanted him to convince the former president to stop the insurrectionists. now, as the january six committee gears up for more hearings this month, the panel says it's prepared to investigate efforts to intimidate witnesses. we now know that, before testify, hutchison was urged by a text message to, quote, do the right thing and remain loyal to the ex president. nbc news has learned that tha...

cnn's blake is in taipei. blake, let's start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? >> well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don't often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan's ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it's the timing that's perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi's visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles...