Iowa Poll: Donald Trump takes over lead in Iowa as Joe Biden fades  —  | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows just days before Election Day.

Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry  —  Dozens of pickup trucks, many with Trump flags, surrounded a Biden campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin.  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign canceled a Friday event in Austin, Texas, after harassment from a pro-Trump contingent.

‘A whole lot of hurt’: Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response  —  President Trump's repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading …

CNN Polls: Biden leads in Michigan and Wisconsin as campaign ends, with tighter races in Arizona and North Carolina  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden holds an advantage in the upper Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan, according to CNN Polls conducted by SSRS …

Trump Can Still Win, But The Polls Would Have To Be Off By Way More Than In 2016  —  To borrow from Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, “I've seen enough.”  —  No, I don't know who's going to win the election.  According to our forecast, President Trump still has a chance at a second term …

Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say  — Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event.  — The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted …

U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas  —  (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday on whether Houston officials unlawfully allowed drive-through voting and should toss more than 100,000 votes in the Democratic-leaning area.

Trump Camp Uses Online Gimmick to Fuel Donations Into December  —  The Trump campaign is now automatically checking a box to create recurring weekly donations from supporters until mid-December.  —  President Trump's campaign is raising money for a prolonged political and legal fight long …

American hostage Philip Walton rescued in dramatic military operation: Officials  —  Walton was abducted recently in Niger, where he had been living.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during …

Lincoln Project targets 3 deep red states with million-dollar ad buy as election map ‘turning against’ Trump  —  WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump's enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states.  The Lincoln Project …

Democrats grow more anxious about Pennsylvania  —  Joe Biden on Saturday prepared to mount a last-minute, two-day blitz of Pennsylvania, amid concern among some local Democrats about a potential late shift that would threaten his narrow advantage there and mirror President Trump's 2016 comeback.

Cops Pepper-Spray Voters as They March to Polls in NC  —  “I saw a little girl, probably five, being carried off sobbing and coughing.  She was dressed as a fairy or a princess,” one attendee said.  —  GRAHAM, North Carolina—On the final day of early voting in North Carolina …

Boris Johnson announces month-long COVID-19 lockdown in England  —  A new national lockdown will be imposed in England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Saturday, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country topped 1 million.  —  Details: Starting Thursday, people in England must stay at home …

The President's Taxes: A Reader's Guide  —  Over the past four years, The New York Times has independently obtained and published information on several decades of Donald J. Trump's taxes.  —  Over the last several weeks, The New York Times has published the findings of its investigation …

Intercept Staffers Roll Their Eyes Over Glenn Greenwald's Censorship Claim  —  Glenn Greenwald had the freedom to publish almost anything he wanted at The Intercept.  Then he cried censorship.  —  Glenn Greenwald officially left The Intercept on Thursday, complaining of censorship and heavy-handed editing.

Barack Obama is making the argument for Joe Biden — by roasting Trump  —  Barack Obama is uncorked and letting it fly.  —  For three-and-a-half years, he mostly honored the tradition that former presidents do not criticize their successors, even as his norm-breaking successor attacked him relentlessly.

Whitmer kidnap suspect wants out of jail.  He's diabetic, and fears COVID-19  —  After three weeks in jail, one of the suspects charged with plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking the judge to reconsider her decision to keep him locked up: He's worried about getting the COVID-19 virus.

The Facebook Group That Could Flip Pennsylvania  —  Boasting more than 120,000 members, it's one of the largest pro-Biden online communities, and a source of camaraderie and support.  —  “We are 124k in this group and I'm hoping that at least more than half of us (62k+) have voted!

USPS investigates undelivered Miami ballots  —  TALLAHASSEE — State and federal authorities are investigating a pileup of mail at a Miami post office that included a handful of completed ballots after Florida House Minority Leader Kionne McGhee posted a video Friday.

Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration and co-opts the government to bolster his reelection  —  In the final days of the 2020 election season, President Trump has featured his White House press secretary as a star at his campaign rallies, where she has triumphantly joined him onstage.

The map is wide, Democrats tense and Republicans hopeful in the last days of campaign 2020  —  An unparalleled four-year battle over Donald Trump's shock election and disruptive presidency raced to a suspenseful conclusion this weekend, as the candidates blitzed an expanded 14-state battlefield …

Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about social media as he told Antioch cops, ‘I shot two white kids’  —  Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself in to a far north suburban police department following the fatal shooting …