Facing Gap in Pennsylvania, Trump Camp Tries to Make Voting Harder  —  Trailing in the polls, President Trump and his campaign are pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively suppress the mail-in vote in the critical state of Pennsylvania.  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump's campaign …

Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …

Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump.  —  BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.

Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened  —  PARIS — Three people were killed in a knife attack outside a church in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday morning, French authorities said.  —  France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor announced …

U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected  — U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter.  — That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey.  — A surge in business and residential investment along …

Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail  —  The Fox News star heavily implied that his “confidential documents” on Hunter Biden were stolen as part of a nefarious plot.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has devoted the lion's share of his airtime recently …

A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air … Six people get together in a private home, one of whom is infected.  Some 31% of coronavirus outbreaks recorded in Spain are caused by this kind of gathering, mainly between family and friends.

Trump confronts his 50 percent problem  —  Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote.  His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent.  He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages.  —  The president's inability to capture a majority …

Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan's Influence With Trump  —  New details of the Justice Department's handling of the accusations against Halkbank reveal how Turkey's leader pressured the president, prompting concern from top White House aides.  —  WASHINGTON — ​Geoffrey S. Berman was outraged.

Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.

A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.

Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity  —  Scott Atlas, the president's most favored adviser, says it's not true.  But others working on the pandemic say it's merely a game of semantics.  The policy is increasingly clear.  —  Despite publicly downplaying it …

U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression  —  The drop in tax revenue has led to a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of dollars—greater than 2019's K-12 education budget for every state combined, or more than twice the amount spent that year on state roads and other transportation infrastructure

‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat  —  President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.

The Pro-life Case Against Trump  —  Deals with the Devil don't ever turn out well.  —  This is a story about selling one's soul.  —  Specifically, it is a story about those who would trade away their political, moral, and ethical souls and support Donald Trump—against their own better judgment …

Exclusive: Biden leads Trump by 12 points in a national UT Dallas poll  —  The survey also finds that more stimulus is respondents' top priority for a new Congress.  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by more than 10 points in a national poll by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas.

Biden and Trump to tangle in Tampa on Thursday  —  In rare crossing of paths, the two presidential nominees campaign in the same city on the same day  —  Trump, Biden campaigns flood battleground Florida with surrogates  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump …

Poll: Biden holds narrow lead in Florida  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden holds a slight 4-point lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground of Florida, fueled by his standing among seniors and independents, according to the final NBC News/Marist poll of the state before Tuesday's presidential election.

It may be time to reset expectations on when we'll get a Covid-19 vaccine  —  The ambitious drive to produce Covid-19 vaccine at warp speed seems to be running up against reality.  We all probably need to reset our expectations about how quickly we're going to be able to be vaccinated.

They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump  —  (CNN)Carole Catherine did not know her husband, Tim, supported Donald Trump until the day after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election.  She called him the next morning crying.  —  “And he was like, 'Yeah, of course she lost.

‘Helping the president’: HHS official sought to rebrand coronavirus campaign  —  The Trump appointee who steered a $300 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus privately pitched a different theme last month: “Helping the President will Help the Country.”

Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …

How polling works and how it's changed since 2016  —  Right before the election four years ago, polls showed Hillary Clinton holding small but shrinking leads in key states.  Donald Trump outperformed those polls to win 304 electoral votes — though with a margin of fewer than 80,000 votes across three states.

We have to destroy the Republican Party in order to save it  —  “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”  That famous, if probably apocryphal, quote from the Vietnam War describes how I feel about the Republican Party.  We have to destroy the party in order to save it.

Girl Scouts deletes social media congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett on Supreme Court seat after angry backlash  — The Girls Scouts sparked a wave of angry comments — and praise — with Facebook and Twitter posts congratulating the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court.

Jared Kushner, Peggy Noonan and White problems with Black ambition  —  When you're Black in America, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  You're either shiftless or too ambitious.  If you're too ambitious, you better not for one moment show a sense of comfort in your own skin lest …

Texas Is a Tossup.  So Why Won't Trump or Biden Campaign There?  —  A victory by the Democrats would herald the arrival of a formidable multiracial coalition in the country's largest red state.  —  BROWNSVILLE, Texas — When Senator Ted Cruz of Texas spoke with President Trump on the phone last week …