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Activists are launching their campaigns now to try to influence the choice of the next Supreme Court justice. Supporters of President Trump are expected to spend millions of dollars.

Facing An Uphill Battle, Activists Race To Oppose Trump's Supreme Court Pick

Demand Justice launched this year to oppose President Trump's judicial nominees. Now the group is reaching out to left-leaning activists before hearings begin to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy, is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya.

'I Do This For The Families': The Daunting Task Of Identifying Missing Migrants

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.

President Trump has been signaling that he won't ask potential Supreme Court nominees about their positions on specific cases, but he doesn't need to — all on his short list are conservative judges.

Which Trump Should Be Believed On Overturning Roe v. Wade?

The apparently mixed signals of the moment do not really suggest any further evolution in the president's abortion thinking. They suggest a strategy for confirming whomever the president picks.

Abortion rights supporters and opponents protest outside the Supreme Court last year. The issue of abortion will spark millions of dollars in spending on advocacy for and against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

A Lifetime Investment: Big Money Pours Into Supreme Court Battle

Conservatives immediately put up ads supporting the nominee-to-be, while a liberal group aims to make the Supreme Court decision to uphold Obamacare part of the debate.

Abortion rights supporters and opponents protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on January 27, 2017. The issue of abortion will spark millions of dollars in spending on advocacy for and against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

A Lifetime Investment: Big Money Pours Into Supreme Court Battle

Conservatives immediately put up ads supporting the nominee-to-be, while a liberal group aims to make the Supreme Court decision to uphold Obamacare part of the debate.

(Left to right) Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin; GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski

5 Senators Who Will Likely Decide The Next Supreme Court Justice

A narrowly divided Senate is putting two Republican women who support abortion rights and three red-state Democrats in the spotlight as the critical votes in the Supreme Court confirmation process.

Rising Cost Of PrEP To Prevent HIV Infection Pushes It Out Of Reach For Many

Many people at high risk for HIV can't afford PrEP, though it's more than 90 percent effective. The HIV medicine's list price, close to $2,000 for a 30-day supply, has risen 45 percent in six years.

The Supreme Court term that just concluded was a small taste of what is to come. In all, 13 of the cases decided by a liberal-conservative split, Justice Anthony Kennedy provided the fifth and deciding conservative vote.

Justice Kennedy May Soon Find Himself Disappointed And His Legacy Undermined

The Supreme Court justice may believe that rights once recognized will not be taken away, but President Trump is about to get his second nominee to the court and it's sure to be a conservative.

Don Woodbridge (left) and son Alan Woodbridge hold jars of pickles at their company in Harrow, Ontario. Orders are up in anticipation of retaliatory Canadian tariffs on U.S. gherkins.

Canadians Rally Around Retaliatory Tariffs Aimed At The U.S.

Among the items targeted in retaliatory tariffs: ketchup, powerboats, dishwashing liquid, steel and aluminum. And gherkins. Canadian businesses have flooded a Canadian pickle business with new orders.

5 Senators Who Will Likely Decide The Next Supreme Court Justice

A narrowly divided Senate is putting two Republican women who support abortion rights and three red-state Democrats in the spotlight as the critical votes in the Supreme Court confirmation process.

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