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U.S. NEWS Monday 21 SepteMber 2020
Family, work and opera filled Ginsburg's final summer

By JESSICA GRESKO age, Ginsburg wearing a
Associated Press black-and-white embroi-
WASHINGTON (AP) — She dered collar and black ju-
was seeing family. She was dicial robes as she presided
exercising. She was listen- over an outdoor wedding
ing to opera. She was do- in the Washington area.
ing the work of the court. The picture from Aug.
She even officiated at a 30, which was posted on
wedding. bride Barb Solish's Twitter
That's how Justice Ruth account, suggested that
Bader Ginsburg spent the Ginsburg was soldiering
weeks before her death Fri- on. Solish didn't respond to
day at 87. Those who had emails from The Associated
been in touch with Gins- Press requesting comment.
burg or her staff recently Also this summer Ginsburg
said she seemed to be cop- would have been en-
ing with treatment for can- gaged in the work of the
cer and also making plans court. The justices handle
for events months away. some emergency matters
So the announcement of over the summer, and Gins-
her death came as some- burg would also have been
thing of a surprise, even to preparing for an extended
some close friends. Mary private conference the
Hartnett, one of her two justices hold at the end of
authorized biographers, vis- September and before the
ited Ginsburg in mid-August start of the term in October.
at her longtime home in In this Nov. 30, 2018 file photo, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, nominated by President Bill Betsy West and Julie Co-
Clinton, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building
the Watergate apartment in Washington, Friday. hen, who co-directed the
complex next to the John Associated Press 2018 documentary "RBG"
F. Kennedy Center for the about Ginsburg's life, said
Performing Arts in Washing- a tape made by her long- Ginsburg announced in ceiving chemotherapy in they got an email from her
ton. She said Ginsburg was time trainer, Bryant John- mid-July that she was re- May, four months before in mid-August signed in her
"plowing ahead" despite a son. In the evenings, she'd ceiving chemotherapy she revealed it publicly typical fashion: RBG.
cancer recurrence. watch "Live at the Met" op- treatments, the fifth time and at a time of year when But on Friday, longtime
"She was trying very hard eras, Hartnett said. she had dealt with cancer the justices typically take friend Nina Appel got a call
to treat this, and essential- Hartnett said she'd asked since 1999. the bench at least once a from Ginsburg's son James.
ly her body just gave out," the justice whether there "I have often said I would week to announce deci- He told her that his mother
Hartnett said. were any silver linings to her remain a member of the sions. But because of the had died just before sun-
Hartnett, who wore a mask illness and to the coronavi- Court as long as I can do coronavirus, the justices down. He didn't want her
and tested negative for the rus pandemic. the job full steam. I remain were hearing arguments to hear the news first on
coronavirus before visiting, "She immediately lit up and fully able to do that," Gins- by telephone and out of television, she said, adding
said the justice was con- said 'Yes, I've had so much burg said at the time. the public's eye. that she was grateful for the
tinuing to do court work. time with my family, and But it was hard for the pub- In late August, however, call. The court said she died
She also exercised, working they have been wonder- lic to gauge how sick Gins- one photo of her became surrounded by family at her
out on a treadmill or using ful,'" Hartnett said. burg was. She started re- public. It was a joyous im- home in Washington.q

AP source: Envelope addressed to White House contained ricin

By MICHAEL BALSAMO A preliminary investigation and that there is "no known
Associated Press indicated it tested positive threat to public safety."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed- for ricin, a poison found A Navy veteran was arrest-
eral officials intercepted naturally in castor beans, ed in 2018 and confessed
an envelope addressed to the U.S. official said. to sending envelopes to
the White House that con- The U.S. official was not au- Trump and members of his
tained the poison ricin, a thorized to discuss the on- administration that con-
U.S. law enforcement of- going investigation publicly tained the substance from
ficial told The Associated and spoke on condition of which ricin is derived.
Press on Saturday. anonymity. Authorities said the man,
The letter appeared to Federal investigators were William Clyde Allen III, sent
have originated in Cana- working to determine the envelopes with ground
da, according to a state- where the enveloped origi- castor beans to the presi-
ment from the Royal Ca- nated and who mailed it. dent, FBI Director Chris-
nadian Mounted Police, The FBI, the Secret Service topher Wray, along with
which said it was assisting and the U.S. Postal Inspec- then-Defense Secretary An American flag flies at half-staff over the White House in
the FBI tion Service were leading Jim Mattis, then-CIA Di- Washington, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020.
The letter was intercepted the investigation. rector Gina Haspel, Adm. Associated Press
at a government facil- In a statement, the FBI said John Richardson, who at
ity that screens mail ad- agents were working to the time was the Navy's top ed, and no one was hurt. ters dusted with ricin to
dressed to the White House investigate "a suspicious officer, and then-Air Force In 2014, a Mississippi man President Barack Obama
and President Donald letter received at a U.S. Secretary Heather Wilson. was sentenced to 25 years and other officials.q
Trump, the U.S. official said. government mail facility" The letters were intercept- in prison after sending let-