1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, has died. She was 87. The cause was complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said. Linda Greenhouse, who covered Justice Ginsburg’s…
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