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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Emails show how Pompeos mixed personal, official business  —  WASHINGTON — Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency's in-house museum.

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 …

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 …

‘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.”

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.

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.

Atlas push to ‘slow the testing down’ tracks with dramatic decline in one key state  —  Trump's new Covid-19 adviser responds to critics  —  Washington (CNN)Shortly after joining the White House as President Donald Trump's pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas launched a quiet effort  …

Duval County judge leading vote-counting board donated to Trump 12 times.  That's not allowed.  —  A local judge and head of Duval County's vote-counting board has donated repeatedly to President Trump's re-election campaign and other Republican efforts, and his home is covered in signs supporting Trump …

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

Facebook Charged Biden a Higher Price Than Trump for Campaign Ads  —  In swing states, Biden paid average ad rates of $34 compared with Trump's average of $17 in July and August  —  When President Donald Trump wanted to reach out to older Arizona voters in August with the message …

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.

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.

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FBI nabs accused neo-Nazis in extremism crackdown in Michigan  —  Detroit — Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Three dead as woman beheaded in France, gunman shot dead in second incident  —  NICE, France (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday …

Keir Starmer: Labour's anti-Semitism ‘day of shame’  —  LONDON — The U.K. Labour Party was “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination,” an investigation into anti-Semitism in the party by the national human rights watchdog found.  —  The Equality and Human Rights Commission …

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 …

Trump didn't build his border wall with steel. … In the middle of his first year in office, President Trump endorsed a bill so radically anti-immigrant that even most Senate Republicans couldn't stomach it.  —  Trump claimed the bill would create a “merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers and taxpayers.”

Jockeying for Jobs Within a Biden Administration Intensifies  —  Democratic nominee, long superstitious about elections, has avoided making any personnel plans before he has the election wrapped up  —  WASHINGTON—Senior advisers and allies of Joe Biden have been bombarded with emails …

Why it has to be Biden  —  Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the world  —  THE COUNTRY that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided.  The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided.

US citizens born in Jerusalem may have ‘Israel’ on their passports  —  Under the new policy, individuals will be able to choose whether to have “Jerusalem, Israel” or just “Jerusalem” on their passports.  —  US President Donald Trump's administration plans to reverse a long-standing US policy …

‘Dirty tricks’: Third-party candidate in heated South Carolina Senate race denounces Dem ads  —  Bill Bledsoe, the third-party candidate in the hotly contested Senate race between GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Jaime Harrison, has a message for South Carolinians: Don't vote for me.

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.

‘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.

‘I regret voting for him’: Ohioans hit by GM plant closure reflect on Trump … Before Covid-19 hit, Trisha Amato spent her weekdays behind a modest, ebony-colored desk, running the “transition center” that helps laid-off General Motors workers pick up the shards of their lives.

Is President Donald Trump a Flight Risk?  —  Yes, this sounds like a B-grade spy novel.  But consider the evidence.  —  President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Feb. 16, 2020 in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Chris Graythen/Getty Images  —  He said it.

The Loneliness of the Immigration Lawyer  —  Immigration attorneys say they're battling Trump's ‘war of attrition.’ If he's re-elected, some may reconsider the work altogether.  —  Susan Church, an immigration attorney in Boston, ended the first week of the Trump administration arm in arm …

U.S. economy grew by a record 7.4 percent from July to September, but the data is complicated  —  Economists expected GDP to rise in the third quarter, a sharp reversal from the historic and devastating second-quarter plunge of 9 percent.  —  The U.S. economy grew at a record 7.4 percent between July …