WASHINGTON – The Senate is shut down by COVID-19 infections, but Republicans are refusing to delay confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court.

They are even willing to make special arrangements so sick senators can vote, and Democrats appear powerless to stop them.The push to put conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the high court before Nov.

3 is like nothing seen in U.S. history so close to a presidential election. Trump's nomination of Barrett in a Rose Garden ceremony apparently became ground zero for the infections now gripping the president, his White House and its Senate allies.

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Sen. Mike Lee, recent COVID-19 patient, delivers SCOTUS hearing statement without mask

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mike Lee, who tested positive for COVID-19 Oct.

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Donald Trump caught faking video to appear like Covid-19 chief backed him

The Trump campaign selectively edited comments made by a top Covid-19 scientist to appear as if he was applauding the President's handling of the crisis.

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Amy Coney Barrett: Confirmation hearings begin for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings Monday for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the vacancy left after the passing of the liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The four days of statements and testimony are being held amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and just three weeks before Election Day. Republicans appeared to have the votes to confirm the 48-year-old conservative judge to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, barring any major development.Monday's session will include opening statements from 22 senators on the committee, each being given 10 minutes to speak.

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Amy Coney Barrett: Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings Monday for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the vacancy left after the passing of the liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The hearings are being held amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and just three weeks before Election Day.Monday's session will include opening statements from 22 senators on the committee, each being given 10 minutes to speak. Barrett will be introduced and sworn in by the chairman prior to delivering her opening statement.Some senators are taking part remotely and the hearing room itself has been arranged with public health concerns in mind.

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COMMENTARY: Treating VIP patients like Donald Trump can be a challenge for healthcare workers

As an internist, I’ve personally been threatened by a mob boss who didn’t want to be discharged from the hospital, overwhelmed by hordes of Roma families suspicious of medical care for a dying king and asked to withhold information from the public that would be detrimental to a prominent person. Those are intimidating challenges to professionalism and ethics.VIP syndrome is the tendency of clinicians to treat influential or famous patients differently because they feel pressured to accede to the VIP’s wishes.Psychiatrists have identified three types of “special” patients who can create difficulty by dazzling or intimidating the care team: celebrities, VIPs and potentates.Celebrities focus unwanted media attention on medical care.

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Where does Amy Coney Barrett stand on key issues

WASHINGTON - Amy Coney Barrett is set to begin Senate hearings Monday after being nominated for the seat vacated by the death of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg was the face of the liberal bloc on the Supreme Court, meaning that an appointment by President Donald Trump and confirmation by the Republican-controlled Senate could potentially significantly shift the ideological balance of the court for years.

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Fauci says comments in Trump campaign ad 'taken out of context'

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on June 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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The Latest: Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing opens

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett (all times local):9 a.m.Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing has begun. The hearing room was largely empty Monday and some senators tuned in virtually, citing the coronavirus.

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Amy Coney Barrett: Supreme Court confirmation hearings to begin Monday

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings Monday for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the vacancy left after the passing of the liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The hearings, which will begin at 9 a.m. ET, are being held amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and just three weeks before Election Day.Monday's session will include opening statements from 22 senators on the committee, each being given 10 minutes to speak.

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2020 Watch: Is it too late for Trump to turn things around?

NEW YORK – Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:Days to general election: 22Days to next scheduled presidential debate: 10___THE NARRATIVEPresident Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail this week after an 11-day absence in what is likely his last opportunity to reset his beleaguered presidential reelection bid.

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President Trump says he might hold weekend rallies in Florida, Pennsylvania

US President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the White House wearing a facemask upon his return from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for Covid-19, in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP) (Pho LAKE MARY, Fla. - Just a week after his hospitalization for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump appears to be ready to return to the campaign trail.During an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Trump announced that he is in “great shape” and will likely take a COVID-19 test on Friday.

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Graham's last stand? Senator leads Barrett court hearings

WASHINGTON – Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is wielding the gavel in the performance of his political life.Once a biting critic of President Donald Trump, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman on Monday opens confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett in a bid to seal a 6-to-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg endorses Joe Biden

climate activist Greta Thunberg endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in a tweet on Saturday.“I never engage in party politics.

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Trump's task: Resetting campaign that GOP fears is slipping

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of self-inflicted setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost to Democrat Joe Biden.The one-two punch of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and his widely panned debate performance also has Republicans worried they could lose control of the Senate.

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Supreme Court nominee Barrett faces Senate despite virus

WASHINGTON – Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate charges ahead on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and cement a conservative court majority before Election Day. Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that she she is “forever grateful” for Ginsburg’s trailblazing path as a woman.

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Republicans move ahead with campaign rallies, SCOTUS confirmation hearings

Confirmation hearings begin for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday amid fears the Capitol Hill event could become another COVID-19 super spreader.

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Fauci says he didn’t agree to be in Trump campaign ad

Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign and that his comments were taken out of context. Keeping Canada, U.S.

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Ridiculously Misleading Trump Campaign Ad On Coronavirus Response Misquotes Fauci — And The Doctor Is Pissed!

Poor Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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Twitter flags 'misleading' Donald Trump tweet after he says he's 'immune' from Covid-19

Twitter has flagged a Donald Trump tweet as 'misleading' after he claimed he is 'immune' from coronavirus.

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Trump says he has fully recovered from Covid-19

US President Donald Trump has said he has fully recovered from Covid-19 and is not an infection risk for others, freeing him to return to holding big campaign rallies during the final weeks of the race for the White House.

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Trump to return to campaign trail, claims he’s ‘immune’ to coronavirus

Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. Trump no longer considered ‘transmission risk’ in spreading coronavirus, doctor says Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after his COVID-19 diagnosis, declared he was now “immune” from the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove and comes amid a series of outstanding questions about the president’s health.“I’m immune,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

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Coronavirus: U.S. may face ‘difficult fall and winter’ with COVID-19, says former FDA commissioner

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb appeared on CBS’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday where he said that the U.S.

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Trump insists he's free of virus, ready for campaign trail

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it.Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after his COVID-19 diagnosis, declared he was now “immune" from the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove and comes amid a series of outstanding questions about the president's health. “I’m immune," Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

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Donald Trump claims he's immune from Coronavirus and now has a 'protective glow'

Donald Trump sensationally claimed he is immune from the Coronavirus and denies he is a transmission risk ahead of his return to campaigning.

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Biden harnesses history to describe urgency of 2020 campaign

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden goes bigger.The Democratic nominee portrays 2020 as an entanglement of social, economic, political, environmental and public health crises as threatening to America’s stability as the Civil War and the Great Depression.

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'I'm immune': Donald Trump insists he's free of coronavirus

WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it.Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after his COVID-19 diagnosis, declared he was now “immune" from the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove and comes amid a series of outstanding questions about the president's health.“I’m immune," Trump said in an interview on Fox News. “The president is in very good shape to fight the battles."In a memo released Saturday night by the White House, Navy Cmdr.

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Barrett to senators: Courts 'should not try' to make policy

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barret t will tell senators that courts “should not try” to make policy, leaving those decisions to the political branches of government, according to opening remarks for her confirmation hearing obtained Sunday by The Associated Press.The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, set to begin begin Monday as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the country, are taking place three weeks before Election Day and after millions of Americans already have voted.

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The next big shift in economics takes shape under coronavirus shadow

‘Running the Show’President Donald Trump is promising more tax cuts if he wins. Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who leads opinion polls, has outlined a $3.5 trillion spending program -- and signaled he won’t be bound by the idea that economies necessarily do better when governments are less involved.

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Biden hits Trump on economic fallout amid COVID-19 pandemic in critical Pennsylvania county

FILE - Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak after touring a plumbers union training center in Erie, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2020.

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Jamaicans in Florida energized by Harris on 2020 ticket

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House.But in this ultimate battleground state where nearly 10 million voters participate in elections often decided by a mere percentage point, other communities could suddenly become critical.That's where the booming Black Caribbean community centered in Broward County comes in. Voters in this Democratic stronghold are eager to defeat Trump, but say they are even more energized to turn out in support of California Sen.

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The Latest: UK told it's at 'tipping point' in virus fight

Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say whether Trump had tested negative.

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Trump wanted 'to rip open shirt to reveal Superman t-shirt to prove he's over Covid-19'

President Donald Trump wanted to surprise fans when leaving hospital by ripping open his shirt to reveal a Superman t-shirt in a bizarre show of strength after his coronavirus diagnosis.

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If I catch covid-19, can I get the medications Donald Trump received?

Which medications did the president receive?The president got a monoclonal antibody treatment made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., the antiviral remdesivir, made by Gilead Sciences Inc., and the steroid dexamethasone. “He’s getting the state of the art, the trio of best drugs," said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.If I get Covid-19, will I be prescribed those medications?Dexamethasone and remdesivir are now routinely used in treating hospitalized Covid-19 patients.

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How to track your ballot in New Jersey

A mail-in ballot envelope for elections in New Jersey. (FOX 5 NY file photo) This year's general election in New Jersey featuring the presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden is being conducted largely by mail.

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Drug that Trump claimed to cure him of covid may offer protection: Study

NEW YORK : The experimental antibody cocktail which US President Donald Trump received when he tested positive for COVID-19 offers benefits against the novel coronavirus infection, according to a new study in animal models which provides more evidence of the clinical potential of the therapeutic.While earlier studies had shown that the cocktail of two antibodies targeting the coronavirus spike protein could be used to neutralise the pathogen, scientists from the American biotechnology company Regeneron noted that further research in multiple animal models is needed to test the effectiveness of the formulation.In the current study, published in the journal Science, the researchers tested REGN-COV2 in rhesus macaques, which manifest mild

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White House says Donald Trump is 'no longer a transmission risk' after coronavirus diagnosis

Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus, his doctor has said.

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Trump 'no longer considered a transmission risk' - WH doctor

US President Donald Trump is no longer contagious, nine days after being stopped in his tracks by Covid-19, his physician said in a statement released yesterday evening.

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Doctor says President Trump no longer at risk of transmitting coronavirus

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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An energized Trump appears in public for first time since covid-19 diagnosis

Donald Trump appeared back to his old self as he addressed supporters at the White House in his first public appearance since being diagnosed with COVID-19.Standing alone and not wearing a mask, the Republican president spoke from the White House balcony at an event called "a peaceful protest for law & order," urging a crowd of largely Black and Latino supporters to help get out the vote in the Nov.

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Trump hosts large crowd at White House following COVID-19 hospitalization

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a crowd of supporters at the White House, just five days after leaving the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19.

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Biden hits Trump on economy in critical Pennsylvania county

ERIE, Pa. – With the backdrop of a union facility in a key battleground county of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden on Saturday blistered President Donald Trump as only pretending to care about the working-class voters who helped flip the Rust Belt to the Republican column four years ago.“Anyone who actually does an honest day’s work sees him and his promises for what they are,” Biden told a masked, socially distanced crowd at a training facility for plumbers and other tradespeople.The Democratic challenger has hammered Trump on the economy in recent weeks, from sweeping indictments of how the president has downplayed the novel coronavirus and its economic fallout to a withering personal contrast between Biden’s middle-class upbringing with that of

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Democrats, several Republicans voice opposition to Trump’s coronavirus stimulus package

Trump administration drew criticism from congressional Democrats and Republicans on Saturday, diminishing hopes for a coronavirus relief deal before the Nov. 3 election.In a weekly letter to Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said the Trump administration’s proposal lacked a “strategic plan to crush the virus” and gave President Donald Trump too much discretion to decide how funds were allocated.“At this point, we still have disagreement on many priorities, and Democrats are awaiting language from the Administration on several provisions as the negotiations on the overall funding amount continue,” Pelosi’s letter said.

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'I'm feeling great': Trump speaks to crowd at 1st in-person event since COVID-19 diagnosis

FILE - US President Donald Trump spoke publicly for the first time since testing positive for COVID-19, as he prepares a rapid return to the campaign trail just three weeks before the election. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump on Saturday made his first public appearance since returning to the White House after being treated for the coronavirus.

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Trump to speak at 1st in-person White House event since COVID-19 diagnosis

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, President Donald Trump will host his first in-person event at the White House since testing positive for the coronavirus.FOX News confirmed the news on Friday.The event, scheduled Saturday on the South Lawn, is expected to have at least several hundred supporters in attendance, according to the Associated Press. Trump will address the group from the White House balcony, according to an official.A person with knowledge of the planning said all attendees must bring masks or will be provided with them, and also will be given temperature checks and asked to fill out a brief questionnaire.

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Trudeau, Trump discuss coronavirus, detained Canadians during phone call: readout

Justin Trudeau spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday to wish him well after he and his wife were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, according to a brief summary of their conversation released by the prime minister’s office.Trump spent three days at Walter Reed Medical Centre in Maryland last week to seek treatment for COVID-19, after announcing he and his wife Melania Trump had tested positive for the virus.

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Judge throws out Trump campaign's lawsuit against Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday threw out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign, dismissing its challenges to the battleground state's poll-watching law and its efforts to limit how mail-in ballots can be collected and which of them can be counted.Elements of the ruling by U.S. District Judge J.

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Lake Mary Police blame TikTok challenge for increase in Trump signs stolen

Orlando, FL(FOX 35 Orlando) - Lake Mary Police investigators say they believe they know why so many Trump campaign signs are being stolen. They blame TikTok."You have 6.8 million people viewing a TikTok challenge telling them to commit a crime, that’s a problem."Officer Zach Hudson blames Tik Tok for the increase in Trump signs being stolen all over Lake Mary and the country. Investigators discovered what was happening after questioning a suspect in a nearby town.RELATED: Trump campaign signs stolen from different Lake Mary neighborhoods"That suspect says, she’s been doing this, because of a TikTok challenge to steal Donald Trump signs.

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