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The President's nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she is 'honoured and humbled' to have been chosen by Donald Trump for a place in the US's top court. After the first day of confirmation hearings, we speak to Ilya Shapiro, director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies' Cato Institute and author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court.
Our regular US market commentator Peter Jankovskis brings us up to date with the movements on Wall Street, and explains why markets were up sharply on Monday.
Also in the programme, Australian researchers have found that Covid-19 bacteria can remain on banknotes for up to four weeks. We hear from Debbie Eagles from science agency CSIRO.