Biden Holds Lead Despite Trump Gains in Swing Counties  —  Biden trusted more to handle pandemic  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 5-point to 7-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

Trump just revealed his plot to steal the election.  Here's a way to stop him.  —  President Trump has revealed his endgame in all its corrupt glory.  If Trump is on track to losing once all the votes are counted, he will seek to invalidate as many ballots as possible …

As Election Day Arrives, Trump Shifts Between Combativeness and Grievance  —  The president is sounding notes of bravado and exasperation at the end of a divisive campaign.  But he may have severed himself from the political realities of a country in crisis.

Needle Update: What to Expect on Election Night  —  We'll have live estimates for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.  —  For many Times readers, the memory of election night in 2016 is inseparable from the image of a semicircular chart that has since become known — affectionately or not — as “the needle.”

How Do Donalds Vote?  Take Our Name Quiz to Find Out  —  We found some unexpected trends when we sorted our polling data by first name.  —  Over the past two months, The New York Times and Siena College have conducted polls in almost every battleground state, creating a large database of likely voters and their preferences.

Federal authorities expected to erect ‘non-scalable’ fence around White House  —  Washington (CNN)Federal authorities are expected to put back into place a “non-scalable” fence around the entire perimeter of the White House on Monday as law enforcement and other agencies prepare …

Trump Has No Free-and-Fair Path to Re-election  —  At no point since Donald Trump filed his re-election paperwork on inauguration day in 2017 has he or his campaign acted with the purpose of winning the most votes, or even of convincing people that he'd be the popular favorite in 2020.

Supreme Court sides with activist DeRay McKesson in lawsuit over officer injured at protest  — The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, who is fending off a lawsuit from a police officer injured at a protest that McKesson attended.

Judge Expresses Skepticism on Bid to Invalidate Texas Votes  —  A federal judge expressed skepticism about a bid by Republican activists to invalidate 127,000 votes in the most populous county in Texas.  —  “You have a tough uphill row to hoe,” U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said Monday at a court hearing in Houston.

How Trump Could Attempt a Coup  —  A wretched presidential campaign has played out at last, but Election Day is not how this story ends.  Unable to overtake his opponent in the polls, Donald Trump decided months ago to run against the election itself.  That race does not conclude when the ballots are counted.

The 2020 general election has arrived  —  President Donald Trump talks with reporters outside the White House.  He faces Joe Biden in the presidential election on November 3.  Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images  —  All you need to know for this crucial Election Day.  —  It's finally here.

November Surprise: Trump to Fire Fauci After Election  —  Trump ensures the campaign's final news cycle is about his virus trutherism.  —  At the end of a one-day, five-stop coronavirus superspreader tour extending from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the president of the United States …

How Trump and Barr's October Surprise Went Bust  —  On September 10, Nora Dannehy resigned as the deputy to John Durham, the federal prosecutor investigating the government's probe into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.  Dannehy left her post and the Justice Department …

Twitter names 7 outlets to call election results  —  Twitter on Monday provided more details about its policies around tweets that declare election results, and named the seven outlets it will lean on to help it determine whether a race is officially called.

My predictions for the 2020 presidential and congressional races  —  Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.  —  “These are the times that try men's souls.”  The opening line of Thomas Paine's Revolutionary War pamphlet series …

Final House Ratings: Democrats Poised to Expand Majority by 10 to 15 Seats  —  After impeachment and a Supreme Court fight (that wasn't much of one) and amid a global pandemic and racial reckoning, many congressional candidates have struggled to control their own destiny.

Donald Trump wins on the economy  —  Is this the single greatest and fastest comeback from a recession in our history?  A strong case could be made that it is with the recent news that national economic output soared to the highest rate in more than seven decades.

Joe Biden is the right man for the job  —  It remains surprising that in the midst of the most volatile year in recent memory, the presidential race has remained stable.  Joe Biden has consistently led Donald Trump in national polling and in key swing states.

Photos: Police Stand By As Caravans Of Trump Supporters Block Bridges, Threaten Counter-Protesters  —  Multiple caravans of Trump-supporting motorists cruised through the streets and highways of New York on Sunday, threatening counter-protesters and blocking traffic on major bridges, just two days ahead of the November 3rd election.

The work of the Never Trumpers is just beginning  —  What a weird, wild ride it has been — and it's not over yet.  —  When Donald Trump began running for the presidency on June 15, 2015, I never imagined he would win the Republican primaries, much less the general election.

Vladimir Marugov murder: Russian ‘Sausage King’ killed in sauna with a crossbow  —  A Russian oligarch, nicknamed The Sausage King, has been murdered with a crossbow, investigators say.  —  Vladimir Marugov and his partner were in an outdoor sauna when they were attacked, reportedly by two masked assailants.

It's the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election  —  Trump made the legacy media great again.  Here's what's next for them.  —  There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls “overism”: articles in the week before the election whose premise …

Doctors Begin to Crack Covid's Mysterious Long-Term Effects  —  Severe fatigue, memory lapses, heart problems affect patients who weren't that badly hit initially; 'It's been so long'  —  Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning …

Biden will win Nevada, blue wave should help down ballot  —  Election signs outside of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Office on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020.  (Trevor Bexon/The Nevada Independent)  —  It's not impossible for President Donald Trump to win Nevada.

Gross campaign, Anti-Defamation League call on Sullivan to remove ad seen as anti-Semitic  —  An ad from Sen. Dan Sullivan's campaign came under fire over the weekend after several organizations called it anti-Semitic.  —  The ad shows Sullivan's challenger, Al Gross, holding a bunch of money, and standing behind a pile of $100 bills.

Trump's Risky Bet on Rural America  —  LEVANT, Maine—Hardly anyone knew that President Donald Trump was on his way here.  And among those who did get a whiff of the news in advance, even fewer knew his destination was Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant, a tiny rural town about 10 miles northwest of Bangor.

A decades-long blue wave  —  Young voters, projected to turn out overwhelmingly for Joe Biden, could provide a huge advantage for Democrats not just this for this election, but for decades to come.  —  Driving the news: Pollsters and political scientists have been poring over two new reports …

QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show  —  (Reuters) - Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives …