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Bonafide Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen retained his world class chess title as he recorded a fourth win over Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi.
The United States makes history as the Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. The upper chamber of Congress erupts in applause as the 51-year-old is approved by a vote of 53 to 47 that ensures white men will not be the majority on the nation's high court for the first time in 233 years. IMAGES
US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson vows to defend the "grand experiment of American democracy" as she launches a historic bid to be the first Black woman on the country's highest judicial bench.
President Joe Biden confirms he will nominate the first Black woman in US history to the Supreme Court bench as he addresses the nation from the White House on the retirement of the liberal justice Stephen Breyer.
No black woman has ever served on the high court. But the decision is also coming at a critical time of national reckoning over race and gender inequality.