The court’s action carried outsize importance because of Pennsylvania’s pivotal role in the presidential election.
President Trump’s campaign has repeatedly opposed the idea of granting the moderator the power to shut off a candidate’s microphone — an idea that has been floated in the aftermath of the first debate, during which Trump repeatedly interrupted and jeered at Joe Biden.
The president argued that the American people were no longer interested in taking precautions to prevent the coronavirus’s spread, even as the number of confirmed cases has been rising in most states.
In Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and many other Florida communities, voters lined up before the polls opened Monday.
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The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges in connection with some of the world’s most damaging cyber attacks, including disruption of Ukraine’s power grid and releasing a mock ransomware virus — NotPetya — that infected computers globally causing billions of dollars in damage.
Lisa Montgomery will be the first woman put to death by the federal government since 1953, when Bonnie Heady was executed for kidnapping and killing the 6-year-old son of a wealthy car dealer.
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In a state where voters routinely vote across party lines, personal connections have long mattered. The 2020 gubernatorial contest is different, led by ad spending and partisan identity, centered on President Trump.
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Biden is leading (+11) the national polling average.
Biden
54%
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43%
Average of national polls since Oct. 4 that meet Washington Post standards for transparency and quality. Includes polls by CNN, Economist-YouGov, Fox, PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist, Pew, Post-ABC, NBC-WSJ and SurveyMonkey-Tableau.
Two U.S. officials reportedly met with intelligence chief in rare high-level talks and discussed Austin Tice, abducted in Syria in 2012.
Saeb Erekat, the longtime public face of senior Palestinian leadership, tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month. He is on a ventilator in an Israeli hospital.
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A Quebec community, named for its most infamous export, tries to rebrand.
In return, Sudan is expected to normalize relations with Israel and pay millions of dollars to the families of victims of terrorist attacks.
China delivers diatribe against U.S. climate policies
Rules published Friday either strongly discourage or ban practices that many agencies have adopted, stressing management’s “sole and exclusive” authority to choose a penalty.
Officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard were arraigned on an indictment handed up last week, then released on bond.
A state is considered high-risk if its average number of new coronavirus cases is 10 or more per 100,000 people.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D) said the government “simply cannot afford” the lost revenue during the pandemic.
There could be some late-night fog in spots. Temperatures head deeper into the 70s tomorrow.
The president of Daniels Manufacturing Corp. told employees in a letter placed in their pay stub envelopers that the company “could be forced to begin permanent layoffs” if Joe Biden wins.
Hundreds of billions of dollars from the Cares Act remains uncommitted and may go unspent despite a scramble by White House to produce more aid.
Child labor among agricultural households in cocoa-growing areas of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two primary suppliers, increased significantly between 2008 and 2019, according to the survey.
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NFL Week 6
The visiting Kansas City Chiefs moved to 5-1 with a 26-17 win over the Buffalo Bills in a rescheduled “Thursday Night Football” game.
