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.

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 …

Trump drags down GOP senators, giving Democrats more paths to the majority  —  From the deepest conservative states to more Democratic leaning terrain, Senate Republicans face a brutal political environment that has left the GOP needing to pull off a near-perfect run in a dozen highly competitive races to retain the majority.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Trump Dismisses Virus Coverage and Biden Dismisses Virus Leadership: This Week in the 2020 Race  —  President Trump has complained this week of what he calls a media obsession with the coronavirus pandemic.  The message from Democrats has been united — all coronavirus, all the time.

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 …

Their First Try Backfired, but Giuliani and Allies Keep Aiming at Biden  —  The former New York mayor's dirt-digging effort on Hunter Biden in 2019 ended with President Trump's impeachment.  Now he is back with new associates.  So far it is not going exactly as planned.

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.

Rivals in landmark marriage equality suit: We are both voting for Biden  —  Opinion by Jim Obergefell and Richard Hodges  —  Biographer: Biden offers ‘decency’ in turbulent times  —  Jim Obergefell is the named plaintiff in the marriage equality decision Obergefell v. Hodges.

OP-ED: President Donald J. Trump — My Message to Black America  —  In 2016, I had a straightforward question for Black Americans: “What do you have to lose?  —  Black Americans don't have to ask what they have to lose in 2020.  Instead, the question should now be, “how much more do we have to gain?”

So, while we're waiting . . . will Mike Pence ever be president?  —  Olivia Troye remembers a time when she wished Mike Pence were president.  —  Troye, a Department of Homeland Security official, had been working with the vice president on the coronavirus task force.

Third-Party Candidates Had An Impact In 2016.  In 2020, They've Struggled To Gain Traction.  —  Alternative candidates have labored in obscurity this election cycle.  “This is probably the worst period for third parties in modern American history,” Ralph Nader says.  —  Reporting From

Show your work: AP plans to explain vote calling to public  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage, is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those conclusions.

Obama hammers Trump's claim that doctors have inflated coronavirus numbers  —  Former President Obama laid into President Trump on Saturday over his claim that doctors have tried to profit off of the coronavirus pandemic by intentionally inflating the number of COVID-19 cases.

White House sidestepped FDA to distribute hydroxychloroquine to pharmacies, documents show.  Trump touted the pills to treat covid-19.  —  Documents detail efforts by White House officials to distribute hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus patients in ‘hard hit’ cities

I'm Still Reeling From 2016.  Am I Now Allowed to Hope Again?  —  I remember exactly where I was when The New York Times needle on my phone went from a cool blue “everything is fine; we're gonna make history, baby” to a fiery red “the carnival barker reality television host is going to take away all of your rights.”

Trump's Pathology Is Now Clear  —  The human brain makes decisions in two basic modes.  One is analytic, which involves carefully weighing costs and benefits and choosing the best option.  The other mode is intuitive: doing what feels right.  Both have their merits.

One of the country's biggest Never Trumpers owes part of his journey to Larry Craig's ‘wide stance’  —  Tuesday, Nov. 3, may be remembered as the day when Never Trumpers got their revenge.  —  Led by conservatives horrified by the prospect of Donald Trump becoming the face of the Republican Party …

Texas GOP senator didn't “graduate” from Oxford University law program, as claimed in prior campaign  —  Cornyn attacked an opponent a few years later for “padding his resume,” referencing a lie about a college degree  —  Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tx., who currently finds himself …

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 …

My stepfather died alone of COVID-19 as Donald Trump throws unmasked rallies  —  I'm isolated home because of a pre-existing condition, and my mother needed to protect her own health.  So she was forced to make an impossible choice.  —  On the night of Sunday, Oct. 25, my stepfather died of COVID-19.

Can Trump Woo Enough Black Men to Hurt Biden in Battleground States?  —  On the ground and in TV ads, the candidates are in an intense and surprising battle for Black male voters, who are crucial for Democrats trying to win back Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Covid-19 Is Worse in the Dakotas Now Than It Was in the Spring's Hot Spots  —  Businesses are open and masks are a personal choice; virus will spread with or without government restrictions, officials say  —  The percentage of tests for Covid-19 coming back positive in South Dakota has soared to 46%.