Post-ABC poll: Biden maintains lead nationally over Trump  —  With little more than three weeks remaining until Election Day, President Trump is in a race against the clock as he continues to trail former vice president Joe Biden by double digits, his standing driven down by distrust on the issue …

One dead after gunfire at downtown Denver rallies; private security guard on contract by 9News in custody  —  A Denver Post staff member witnessed the fatal confrontation.  This story was updated after authorities called into question the accuracy of that journalist's report concerning the affiliation of the shooter.

Trump Makes First Public Appearance Since Leaving Walter Reed  —  The president continued to play down the threat of the virus, but the event that the White House had previewed as a huge “peaceful protest for law and order” was uncharacteristically brief.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House physician …

Jaime Harrison smashes Senate fundraising record in race with Lindsay Graham  —  South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison's campaign announced Sunday it raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020, shattering the quarterly fundraising record for a Senate race set by Beto O'Rourke in 2018.

Manic Panic on the Potomac  —  Will Mitch ditch the Donald?  —  WASHINGTON — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.  —  Literally.  —  Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy …

Strapped for cash, Trump yanks TV ads in key states as Biden spending surges  —  President Trump stopped all of his television and radio advertising in three states and substantially reduced it in four others in recent weeks after his lackluster fundraising left him unable to match a surge …

QAnon Is Thriving in Germany.  The Extreme Right Is Delighted.  —  As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany's far-right fringe.  Counterterrorism officials worry.

13 men charged in alleged kidnapping plot, many with troubled pasts  —  A wide-ranging Free Press investigation into the defendants found many who vented their anger at government in Michigan both online and in person.  —  Detroit Free Press staff, Detroit Free Press

Pennsylvania needs Joe Biden … It's a remarkable — and frightening — time in America.  This country has withstood wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and civil unrest, but the division and chaos, incompetence, and intolerance that we have witnessed from Donald Trump in the last few months …

Records: Williamson nurse charged after shooting woman in abdomen  —  A Williamson woman who made headlinesafter she traveled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has been charged after court records said she shot another woman.  Amy Jolene Thorn, 39, of Williamson is charged …

A Dark Past  —  Malcolm Muggeridge, Marked by Mobility and a Search for Morality  —  Why Judge Barrett Doesn't Know Whether She Would Overturn Precedent  —  John Locke and the Fight over Judge Barrett's Catholicism  —  What's Gone Wrong with the Supreme Court — and How to Fix It

The rise of Gen Z could foretell the fall of Trumpism  —  The evidence all points in one direction: Americans born after 1996, known as Generation Z, could doom not only Trumpism but conservatism as the country currently knows it.  —  Members of Generation Z who are of voting age …

‘What are we so afraid of?’ … When President Trump got sick, I had this moment of deja vu back to when I first woke up in the hospital.  I know what it's like to be humiliated by this virus.  I used to call it the “scamdemic.”  I thought it was an overblown media hoax.  I made fun of people for wearing masks.

Does Israel need a ministry to fight BDS?  —  After incoming Strategic Affairs Minister calls to eliminate his own office, experts and activists weigh in on its necessity.  —  Soon-to-be Strategic Affairs Minister Michael Biton made a surprising admission in an interview with Army Radio last week.

Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals  —  President Trump took a step even Richard M. Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his re-election campaign.

Amateur hour at the Trump White House  —  Nearly everyone remembers the old cliché: If you can't trust someone to get the little things right, how can you ever count on them to do the big things?  —  President Donald Trump had better hope that bromide, invoked everywhere …

Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test  —  A memorable campaign ad from 2008 urged voters to ask themselves which candidate would perform better in an unexpected emergency: “It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep, but there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing ... Your vote will decide who answers that call.”

Democrats want voters in the dark with this version of ‘Truman Show’  —  Joe Biden was asked again this week whether he would pack the Supreme Court if elected president.  Rather than answer, Biden flashed a signature smile of the character from the “Truman Show” and offered his version …

Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle … That Lindsey Graham would become Donald Trump's poodle was not a tale (or tail) foretold.  But it has landed him in the dogfight of his life for re-election to his Senate seat in South Carolina …

Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg endorses Biden  —  Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.  —  “I never engage in party politics.  But the upcoming US elections is above and beyond all that,” Thunberg tweeted.