Washington – Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice to serve on the Supreme Court, which served as its ideological centerpiece for more than two decades, is being remembered during a funeral service at the National Cathedral on Tuesday.

O’Connor Died December 1 in Phoenix At the age of 93. The late judge was felicitated by President Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts at the invitation-only gathering, which was broadcast live. Nine justices and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attended the ceremony.

“Her principles are profound and of the highest order, and it is not necessary to agree with all her conclusions to recognize that her desire for civilization is genuine and her belief in the ability of human institutions to change life for the better. Adhered to,” the president said. “How she embodied such traits under such pressure and scrutiny helped empower generations of women in every area of ​​American life.”

Mr. was in the Senate for more than 30 years before becoming the Vice President. Biden recalled taking O’Connor’s nomination to the Supreme Court when he was the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“A man for all the seasons we saw in that trial, Americans and the world should look to him through his extraordinary service as a justice and, I might add, as a citizen,” the president called O’Connor. “A pioneer, breaking barriers in the legal and political world, and the spirit of the nation.”

Roberts, who briefly served on the court following O’Connor’s appointment in 2005, said the barriers broken by O’Connor are “almost unthinkable today.”

“That distance is a measure of time, but it is a measure of Justice O’Connor’s life and work. In nearly a quarter of a century on the court, he was a formidable, influential and iconic judge,” Roberts said. “His leadership shaped the legal profession, making it clear that judges were both women and men. The time when women weren’t on the bench seemed far away, because Judge O’Connor was so good when she was on the bench.”

The chief justice acknowledged the obstacles O’Connor faced, from struggling to land a job after law school to establishing a precedent as the first lady of the high court, battling cancer and raising a family to proving she was “excellent” as a Supreme Court justice.

“This and more, she had to do, and she did it,” he said.

Roberts was originally selected to replace O’Connor on the bench, but ultimately succeeded Chief Justice William Rehnquist following his death in 2005.

The first woman in the Supreme Court

Nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed unanimously by the Senate, O’Connor is the first female justice in the court’s 191-year history. More than four decades after her historic confirmation, four women now sit on the Supreme Court.

He spent much of his 24-year tenure at the center of the court and was an important swing voter in divisive cases, particularly those related to abortion. In 1991, O’Connor, with Kennedy and Justice David Souter, ruled in Roe v. Wade wrote the majority opinion in the case that reaffirmed the right to abortion. In 2003, he wrote the majority opinion in a case allowing the narrow use of race in university admissions decisions.

More than 15 years after O’Connor left the Supreme Court, the court’s conservative justices now hold a 6-3 majority. Overturn the roe And Complete racially sensitive admissions programs. The majority opinion striking down the constitutional right to abortion was written by Justice Samuel Alito, who replaced O’Connor on the high court.

Born in 1930, O’Connor grew up in southeastern Arizona on his family’s cattle ranch known as “Lazy B.” He graduated third in his class from Stanford Law, two spots behind his future Supreme Court colleague, Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

O’Connor met her husband, John Jay O’Connor, while attending law school. He died in 2009 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Before joining the Supreme Court, O’Connor served in the Arizona State Senate and became the first woman to serve in any state senate after becoming majority leader of that chamber. He began his career in the judiciary in 1974, when he was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and later as a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals.

O’Connor retired from the Supreme Court in 2006 at the age of 75 to care for her husband after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. But after leaving the bench, he became an advocate for civics education and founded the iCivics group in 2009.

President Barack Obama presented O’Connor with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2009. He died of complications related to advanced dementia and respiratory disease.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors He was convicted on Monday Attacked his ex-girlfriend After a two-week trial, the actor hoped to salvage his damaged reputation and regain his status as a rising Hollywood star.

A Manhattan jury found Majors, 34, guilty of assault and harassment. He was also cleared of another charge of assault and aggravated harassment. Majors, who was asked to stand and face the jury when the verdict was read, looked down slightly and showed no immediate reaction.

The allegation arose out of a dispute between “Creed III” actor and his girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, started in the backseat of a chauffeured car and spilled through the streets of Manhattan one night last March.

Jabbari, a 30-year-old British dancer, alleged that Majors assaulted her inside the vehicle, leaving her in “excruciating” pain. He said he hit him on the head with his open hand, twisted his hand behind his back and squeezed until he broke his middle finger.

Majors’ attorneys said he was the aggressor, alleging that he flew into a jealous rage after reading a text message on his phone sent by another woman. They said Jabbari had spread a “fantasy” to bring down the actor, who was trying to retrieve his phone and get out safely.

The ruling was a major blow to the majors On the verge of Hollywood stardom That set his career back until his arrest in March.

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It’s reportedly over for Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny.

A source said the couple had been dating for less than a year Told the people Sunday.

An intuition too “Entertainment tonight,” he said The two “have been doing their own thing lately and things are slowly starting to unravel between them.

“They both knew it wasn’t going to be a permanent relationship and it was mutually understood,” the source added.

“They have crazy busy schedules, and they know they’re still young and have a lot more experience on their own before settling down.”

Reps for the model and the musician did not immediately respond to Page Six requests for comment.

The news comes after the “Kardashians” star was spotted in Aspen, Colo., on Saturday without the Puerto Rican rapper — born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — by her side.

Jenner flashed a smile alongside pals Lauren Perez and David Waltzer as she wore an oversized fur coat tied around her waist for the wintry weather.

The reality TV personality, 28, and the “Where She Goes” hitmaker, 29, were last seen together in public on Oct. 29 at a breakfast in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to photos. Obtained by TMZ.

Before that, the former couple attended a “Saturday Night Live” after-party at L’Avenue in NYC after Bad Bunny hosted the Oct. 21 episode.

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However, Jenner sparked split rumors in mid-November when she shared a cryptic message on Instagram.

“What it means to me, it finds me,” she wrote at the time alongside a photo of the sunset.

The two, who sparked dating rumors in February, have been very private about their relationship — Bad Bunny told Vanity Fair in October that he doesn’t have to explain his personal life to the public.

“They don’t know how you feel, they don’t know how you live, they don’t know anything, and I don’t want them to know,” the “Moscow Mule” rapper said.

“I’m not really interested in clarifying anything, because I’m not committed to clarifying anything for anybody.”

Head coach Andy Reid was fined $100,000 and quarterback Patrick Mahomes $50,000 for criticizing officials following Kansas City’s 20-17 loss to Buffalo last week, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Saturday.

The man spoke on condition of anonymity because the fine has not been announced.

Reid and Mahomes violated the NFL’s policy on public criticism of game officials for comments about an offsides penalty that negated a touchdown late in the fourth quarter.

Kadarius Toney was clearly lined up offside on a play in which he caught a lateral from Travis Kelce and ran in for a go-ahead score. Reed said officials usually warn about offsides and the penalty is “a little embarrassing” for the NFL.

Mahomes slammed his helmet to the side and yelled at the officers. He said the penalty call was “elementary school” stuff.

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The Israeli military mistakenly identified shirtless male hostages carrying a white flag in Gaza and shot all three in violation of its rules of engagement, an army official said on Saturday.

The Israel Defense Forces are investigating the killings of Yotham Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samar Talalka, who are believed to have escaped from a Hamas prison.

The hostages were “tens of meters” from Israeli positions, the official said. An Israeli soldier thought they were Hamas fighters trying to lure Israeli soldiers into a trap and called them “terrorists,” an army official said.

Two were killed instantly and a third died as they ran for cover while calling for help in Hebrew. An army official said the local commander issued a cease-fire order during the firing and the soldiers disobeyed it.

Only their bodies were examined because one of the hostages had a “Western appearance,” leading to the realization that the dead were hostages, Ynet media reported. Haim, 28, had pale skin and ginger hair.

The hostages were killed after Palestinian human rights groups documented several instances of Gazan civilians waving white flags being shot by Israeli forces.

Hamas said a handful of hostages were killed in Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza, which President Joe Biden last week described as “blindsided.” According to Palestinian health officials, Israel’s ground occupation and bombing of Gaza has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians.

The families of some 130 hostages still held by Hamas plan to hold a rally in Tel Aviv again Saturday to demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu engage in talks to free their relatives. The government believes that weakening Hamas militarily will lead to the release of the hostages.

Ras Ben-Ami, a recently freed hostage, said the government should immediately engage in another round of hostage-to-prisoner exchanges.

“I warned the cabinet members 10 days ago that the fight would harm the hostages,” he said. “I pleaded with them and warned them that fighting would harm the hostages. Unfortunately I was right.

The IDF’s chief of staff, Herzey Halevi, claimed responsibility for their deaths and said the decision to open fire on shirtless men carrying a white flag while Israeli soldiers were operating under difficult and unpredictable conditions in Gaza was contrary to current rules of engagement. .

“But these scenes were carried out during times of war and stress,” he said. “In an instant, the complexity of our just war in Gaza was revealed.”

Israel stepped up military operations on the eastern edge of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with both explosions and gunfire reported in the cities of Shejaya and Khan Younis. An Al Jazeera cameraman was killed and a reporter was injured in a drone attack on a school used to shelter displaced Gazans.

The French government said on Saturday that a foreign ministry employee died of injuries sustained in an Israeli bombardment in Gaza on Wednesday. He had taken refuge with a colleague of the French Consulate.

“France condemns this bombing of a residential building that caused the death of many civilians,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, calling on Israel to explain the circumstances of the bombing.

The Israeli government said on October 7 that Hamas took about 240 people hostage during a cross-border attack in Israel that killed 1,200 people. Dozens were freed during a Qatar-brokered exchange in which three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were freed for every Israeli hostage – mostly women and children.

The exchange took place under a ceasefire that allowed humanitarian aid to flow into the besieged region. Most of the coastal enclave’s 2.3 million people have been displaced to southern Gaza, where their tent cities and UN shelters have little clean water, food or medicine.

David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, met with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Europe on Friday night in an attempt to renew talks on a possible deal with Hamas to free hostages. Hamas has classified most of the remaining hostages as Israeli soldiers.

Netanyahu said on Saturday that the first round of hostages was released only because of Israel’s military pressure on Hamas, and vowed to continue fighting to free the rest. “My instructions to the negotiating team are predicated on this pressure, without which we have nothing,” he said.

Hamas said their release would require the release of more than 7,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.

Talks have been positive, but progress has been slow, a person briefed on the discussions said. This is Barnia’s first meeting with the Qatari Prime Minister since December 2.

Additional reporting by Sarah White