WASHINGTON – Negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill have taken a modest step forward, though time is running out and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump's most powerful Senate ally, is pressing the White House not to move ahead.McConnell told fellow Republicans that he has warned the White House not to divide Republicans by sealing a lopsided $2 trillion relief deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the election — even as he publicly said he'd slate any such agreement for a vote.Pelosi's office said talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday were productive, but other veteran lawmakers said there is still too much work to do and not enough time to do it to enact a relief bill by Election.

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Final Debate: Trump and Biden Go After Each Other Over Coronavirus Response

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic and fought over how much Trump pays in taxes during their final debate of a tumultuous campaign. With Trump trailing and needing to change the campaign's trajectory, the debate could prove pivotal though more than 46 million votes already have been cast and there are fewer undecided voters than at this point in previous election years.

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Presidential debate: ‘We can’t lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does,’ says Trump on coronavirus lockdowns

When discussing lockdowns across the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday’s final presidential debate, U.S.

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Presidential debate: Trump touts coronavirus response in opening remarks

During Thursday’s final presidential debate, President Donald Trump touted his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stating “we’re fighting it hard.” He also stated the pandemic is a worldwide issue, adding that it came from China.

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Presidential debate: Biden claims Trump wasn’t ‘joking’ about injecting bleach amid coronavirus pandemic

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Many thorny global situations hinge on US election outcome

LONDON – Four years after Donald Trump's election reframed how many nations interacted with the United States, the way that the world's foremost superpower moves forward after its presidential election stands to impact many geopolitical pressure points — whether the victor turns out to be Trump or his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. From Iran to Cuba, from China to Israel, American involvement and influence on the international stage has evolved sharply since Trump took office in 2017.

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'So much work to do': How Biden is planning for transition

WASHINGTON – If Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump next month, he'll quickly face a new challenge: standing up a new administration to lead a divided nation through a series of historic crises.After making Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic a centerpiece of his campaign, Biden will have to show that his team can better handle the public health calamity.

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Donald Trump tells rally there was 'no way' he was coming to their town before the pandemic

Donald Trump tonight told voters there was "no way" he would have visited their town before the pandemic struck.

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McConnell says any Pelosi-Mnuchin COVID-19 stimulus deal would get Senate vote

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Oct. 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Senate to vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination Oct. 26, McConnell says

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate will vote Oct. 26 to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, to the Supreme Court, according to FOX News.McConnell said earlier Tuesday that he will begin the process as soon as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up its work Thursday.

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More than 3 million votes cast in Florida ahead of Election Day

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – More than 366,000 Floridians have quickly cast ballots at early voting sites for the Nov. 3 general election, according to figures posted online Tuesday morning by the state Division of Elections.

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Deadline looms as differences narrow on coronavirus relief aid

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's deadline day for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on COVID-19 relief, with the contours of a potential deal taking shape behind the scenes even as President Donald Trump's GOP allies are recoiling at the administration's tolerance for a $2 trillion package.Pelosi negotiated with Mnuchin for nearly an hour on Monday, and her office said they are continuing to narrow their differences — though the progress may be coming too late to immediately deliver on jobless aid, a second round of $1,200 direct payments, and money for schools, testing, and vaccines. Another Pelosi-Mnuchin phone call is slated for Tuesday afternoon.“Finally, they have come to the table and we're going to try to get

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Protest arrests show regular Americans, not antifa or urban left-wing radicals

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tell a different story.Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence in his reelection push to win support from the suburbs.Attorney General William Barr has urged his prosecutors bring federal charges on protesters who cause violence and has suggested that rarely used sedition charges could apply.

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As deadline looms, coronavirus relief deal may be far off

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported some progress in advance of a Tuesday deadline for reaching a pre-election deal with President Donald Trump on a new coronavirus relief package, but the same core problems bedeviling the effort remain in place despite optimistic talk from the president and his team.Pelosi negotiated for nearly an hour Monday with Trump’s top emissary, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and her office said they are continuing to narrow their differences.“Finally, they have come to the table and we're going to try to get something done,” Pelosi said on MSNBC Monday evening.

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Deadline looms, but COVID relief deal may be far off

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported some progress in advance of a Tuesday deadline for reaching a pre-election deal with President Donald Trump on a new coronavirus relief package, but the same core problems bedeviling the effort remain in place despite optimistic talk from the president and his team.Pelosi negotiated for nearly an hour Monday with Trump’s top emissary, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and her office said they are continuing to narrow their differences. “Finally, they have come to the table and we're going to try to get something done,” Pelosi said on MSNBC Monday evening.

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How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire.Trump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn’t yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant legal fees related to his impeachment.

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Trump calls Fauci a 'disaster,' says people are tired of hearing about COVID-19

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily press briefing on the Coronavirus pandemic situation at the White House on March 17, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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China's economy accelerates as coronavirus recovery gains strength

BEIJING (AP) - China’s shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is gaining strength as consumers return to shopping malls and auto dealerships while the United States and Europe endure painful contractions.Growth in the world’s second-largest economy accelerated to 4.9% over a year earlier in the three months ending in September, up from the previous quarter's 3.2%, official data showed Monday.

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COVID delay: New coronavirus relief slipping past election

WASHINGTON – Congress is past the point at which it can deliver more coronavirus relief before the election, with differences between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her Senate Republican rivals and President Donald Trump proving insurmountable despite the glaring needs of the country.Trump’s GOP allies are reconvening the Senate this week to vote on a virus proposal, but it's a bill that failed once before, and that Trump himself now derides as too puny. The debate promises to bring a hefty dose of posturing and political gamesmanship, but little more.Even the architect of the Senate measure, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., isn’t claiming the vote will advance the ball.

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Coronavirus: Trump says U.S. would be in massive depression if he ‘listened totally to the scientists’

U.S. President Donald Trump mocked Democratic presidential candidate and former vice-president Joe Biden during a rally in Carson City, Nev., on Sunday, for his calls to listen to science amid the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that if he had “listened totally to the scientists” the U.S.

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Michigan governor pushes back against Trump rally chants

DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Sunday that President Donald Trump is inciting “domestic terrorism” following “lock her up” chants at his rally in the state the night before.

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Facebook says it's ready to fight against misinformation amid COVID-19 pandemic, election

Is it ready? Here are some of the biggest steps and missteps it's taken in the fight against misinformation since 2016.Nov. 10, 2016: Days after the election of President Donald Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the idea that “fake news” on Facebook had influenced the election “a pretty crazy idea." He later walks back the comment.December 2016: Facebook says it will hire third-party fact-checkers to combat misinformation.April 27, 2017: Facebook publicly acknowledges that governments or other malicious non-state actors are using its social network to influence national elections, in line with U.S.

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Policy vs. personality: Undecideds torn as election nears

WASHINGTON – Amanda Jaronowski is torn. The lifelong Republican from suburban Cleveland supports President Donald Trump's policies and fears her business could be gutted if Democrat Joe Biden is elected.But she abhors Trump personally, leaving her on the fence about who will get her vote.It's a “moral dilemma," Jaronowski said as she paced her home one recent evening after pouring a glass of sauvignon blanc.

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Organizers exhort women to vote for change at US rallies

WASHINGTON – A mostly young, diverse crowd of masked women rallied Saturday in the nation's capital, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the Nov.

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Trump on defense, courting voters in two must-win states

MACON, Ga. – Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sun Belt. With Election Day looming, Democrat Joe Biden pushed to keep voters focused on health care in the Midwest.Trump campaigned 'Friday in Florida and Georgia, neighboring states he carried four years ago and must win again to extend his presidency.

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Low-key Democrat tries to hang onto Senate seat in Michigan

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Call him low-key, understated, maybe even “boring." First-term Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan is betting voters care more about his effectiveness, as he desperately fights to keep a seat his party is counting on to take the Senate majority.

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Coronavirus: Biden says pandemic is worsening, blames Trump

One day after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won a TV ratings battle with US. President Donald Trump as the two held competing town halls with voters, Biden focused his campaign in Michigan on health care, blaming Trump for the increase in COVID-19 cases.

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GOP, Dems hope Supreme Court fight bolsters Senate prospects

WASHINGTON – For Republicans, the nomination fight over Amy Coney Barrett is a chance to seal conservative control of the Supreme Court for decades. For some GOP senators, it's also a lifeline they hope will preserve their political careers and their party's control of the chamber in November's elections.

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Trump Dodges COVID-19 Testing Question, Biden Denounces White House's Handling of Virus in Town Halls

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to the pandemic that has reshaped the nation. Trump was defensive about his administration's handling of the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 215,000 American lives, and evasive when when pressed about whether he took a required COVID-19 test before his first debate with Biden.

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AP-NORC poll: Voters see the nation as fundamentally divided

NEW YORK – The overwhelming majority of voters believe the nation is deeply divided over its most important values, and many have doubts about the health of the democracy itself. And supporters of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike think the opposing candidate will make things even worse if elected, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.Overall, 85% of registered voters describe Americans as being greatly divided in their values, and only 15% say that democracy in the United States is working extremely or very well.

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Trump insists pandemic almost over, Biden says he did 'nothing'

US President Donald Trump delivered a combative defence at a town hall style event last night, while his Democratic rival Joe Biden - offering a glaring contrast in style in a rival town hall - accused him of doing "nothing" to end the pandemic.

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Biden, Trump squabble over coronavirus response in dueling town halls

Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as the two candidates held dueling televised town halls after their second planned debate was canceled.The prime-time split-screen showdown offered a stark reminder of how deeply unusual this year's campaign has been amid a coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly 8 million Americans, including the president himself. Millions have already voted early ahead of Election Day on Nov.

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President Donald Trump says he did an “amazing job” handling coronavirus

Trump said Thursday he did an “amazing job" handling the coronavirus pandemic and defended his retweets of conspiracy theories while Democrat Joe Biden at the same moment was faulting the president’s leadership on the pandemic and stewardship of the economy.The two candidates -- who appeared in dueling televised town halls Thursday night -- contrasted sharply in style and substance, with Biden giving what amounted to a public policy seminar while Trump discussed topics including the far-right conspiracy theory movement QAnon’s views on pedophilia.“We saved 2 million people," Trump said on NBC in Miami, as he praised his handling of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 217,000 in the U.S.

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Trump holds rally in N.C. as early voting begins

U.S. President Donald Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, just as the polls for early voting opened.

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McConnell rejects Trump's push for 'higher' coronavirus stimulus deal

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday rejected a coronavirus relief deal that costs more than $1.8 trillion, hours after President Trump indicated he was "absolutely" willing to raise his spending offer.READ MORE: Mark Cuban pitches $1,000 stimulus checks for Americans every 2 weeks for 2 monthsAsked during an appearance in Henderson, Ky., whether there can be a compromise between the White House-backed $1.8 trillion proposal and a $2.2 trillion offer put forward by House Democrats earlier this month, McConnell pushed back.“I don’t think so," he said. "That’s where the administration's willing to go.

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Tiffany Trump Faces Backlash For Throwing Lavish Birthday Party Amid Pandemic: ‘Bye Tiffany’

As the number of COVID-19 deaths nears 16,000 in Florida, Tiffany Trump celebrated her birthday with multiple lavish, massive birthday parties across Miami. President Donald Trump‘s daughter partied the night away on October 11 with a group of friends, popping bottles of champagne, dancing, and even sharing a birthday cake decorated with her Instagrams. #ByeTiffany started trending on Twitter on October 15 after a PAC called MeidasTouch produced a video targeting the First Daughter for celebrating as Americans’ lives were ruined by coronavirus.

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A Biden presidency could have a ‘remarkable’ impact on science policy—but also face hurdles

David MalakoffIf former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election, he will face high expectations from the U.S. scientific community.

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Pennsylvania becomes a battleground over election security

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JUNE 02: Voters cast ballots in primary elections on June 2, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Rambling Donald Trump insists Covid-19 is 'China virus' as 'to me corona means Italy'

Donald Trump said "to me corona means Italy" before calling it the "China virus" as he detailed his own fight with the killer bug.

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Fighting in swing states, Trump also forced to play defense

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is being forced to play Electoral College defense with a trip to Iowa, a state he won handily in 2016 but where Democrat Joe Biden is making a late push.Trump's heavy travel this week, including his rally Wednesday in Des Moines, reflects his uphill climb three weeks before the election.

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Trump's handling of Covid-19 pandemic 'erratic' just like his presidency: Biden

coronavirus pandemic has been "erratic" just like his presidency, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden has said, terming the US president's leadership as "chaotic and divisive" that has cost Americans far too much.The former vice president said Trump was playing games with people's lives and “the only senior Donald Trump seems to care about" is himself."His handling of this pandemic has been erratic just like his presidency.

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'Veep' Creator Armando Iannucci Compares Trump COVID-19 Diagnosis to 'Death of Stalin,' 'Chernobyl'

Veep creator Armando Iannucci compared his own film,The Death of Stalin, and acclaimed HBO dramasWatchmen and Chernobyl to President Donald Trump's handling of his COVID-19 diagnosisin a recent piece for the New York magazine vertical Intelligencer. In his biting recap of the White House's actions and messaging around the medical treatment of "the Supreme Leader," the writer-directorcriticized the president's doctors, supporters and Trump himself for pushing a "vision of him defeating the virus" in the vein of dictators and authoritarians.

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Cuomo book on NY pandemic outbreak short on state missteps

ALBANY, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo condemned the federal government's coronavirus response and lauded his own leadership efforts in a new book released Tuesday that offers a few new details — but not many — about New York’s battle against the pandemic.The Democrat's book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” delivers a retelling of his efforts to contain the virus as it ravaged his state in spring.In it, Cuomo describes trying to placate President Donald Trump in order to get needed hospital beds, ventilators and other supplies for New York.

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Mitch McConnell slates October revote on GOP COVID-19 relief plan

FILE - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a debate with Democratic challenger Amy McGrath on October 12, 2020 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Michael Clubb-Pool/Getty Images)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a procedural vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill next week, saying aid to hard-hit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals.The Kentucky Republican says the first item of Senate business when the chamber returns next Monday will be a procedural vote on a scaled-back aid bill.

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Trump, Biden trips illustrate Electoral College calculations

WASHINGTON – With Election Day just three weeks away, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated Tuesday on battleground states both see as critical to clinching an Electoral College victory, tailoring their travel to best motivate voters who could cast cast potentially decisive ballots.Biden was in Florida courting seniors, betting that a voting bloc that buoyed Trump four years ago has become disenchanted with the White House's handling of the coronavrius pandemic.

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McConnell slates October revote on GOP COVID relief plan

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a vote regarding a GOP COVID-19 relief bill for later this month, saying aid to hard-hit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals.The Kentucky Republican says the first item of Senate business when the chamber returns Oct. 19 will be a procedural vote on a scaled-back aid bill.

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President Trump to hold rally in Ocala

OCALA, Fla. – For the second time this week, President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Central Florida, this time in Ocala.The rally ahead of the Nov. 3 election will be held Friday at Ocala International Airport, just four days after the president visited Sanford.Doors open at 1 p.m.

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Mitch McConnell Laughed While Being Called Out for Lack of Action on Coronavirus in Debate with Amy McGrath

Mitch McConnell is a Republican senator from Alabama, plus the Senate Majority Leader, and his seat in the senate is currently up for election. He is running against Amy McGrath and she just slammed him during their debate.

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Trump vs. Biden: Where they stand on health, economy, more

WASHINGTON – Amid the tumult of the 2020 presidential campaign, one dynamic has remained constant: The Nov. 3 election offers voters a choice between substantially different policy paths.President Donald Trump, like many fellow Republicans, holds out tax reductions and regulatory cuts as economic imperatives and frames himself as a conservative champion in the culture wars.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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