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Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) defended their septuagenarian running mates in a debate focused on President Trump’s record and Joe Biden’s plans.
The TakeAnalysis
The staging — with the candidates separated by plexiglass dividers — literally shouted “coronavirus,” the issue that most directly threatens Trump’s reelection.
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Harris stretched the truth at times, too. Here are 15 claims that caught our attention.
The 11th-hour repositioning might not be enough to stave off defeat for a party that is growing alarmed about its political fate and confused by the president’s tweets and decision-making.
Those who knew George Floyd say his death was a reminder of racism they’ve faced all their lives. (Alice Li, Drea Cornejo/The Post)
George Floyd’s America
Throughout his lifetime, George Floyd’s identity as a Black man exposed him to a gantlet of injustices that derailed and ultimately destroyed him, according to an extensive review of his life. The emerging picture underscores how racism calcified within many of America’s institutions.
With the recovery slowing, the president and his congressional adversaries picked a bad time for gridlock. Failure now to agree on new aid risks a longer, slower road back to prosperity, economists said.
The president has told Americans not to be ‘afraid’ of coronavirus while continuing to flout masks.
The White House refused to say when the president last tested negative for the coronavirus, leaving open the possibility that he may have exposed dozens of people before revealing his positive test.
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President Barack Obama embraces poet Louise Glück before awarding her the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony at the White House in 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
The writer, 77, born in New York, has previously won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Bollingen Prize. She was the poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.
Jaime Harrison has highlighted the GOP incumbent’s reversal, from mocking Donald Trump in 2016 to becoming the president’s golfing partner and ally.
Critics say the new guidance could undermine public confidence in the election result by allowing prosecutors to publicize cases of suspected fraud that they previously would have been barred from discussing.
Reviewers added dates to Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe’s notes, then inadvertently failed to remove them, prosecutors told a judge weighing its request to dismiss the former national security adviser’s prosecution.
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What triggers an automatic recount in a U.S. election?
As election officials prepare for very close races in several states, elections expert Mark Halvorson explains how the recount process works.
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The social-media company said it hopes to limit confusion, misinformation and abuse of its services in the days after the presidential election.
Sen. Chris Coons talked by phone with President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as Democrats argue that she could vote to gut the Affordable Care Act.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin, left, who founded Russia's Internet Research Agency, serves food to Russia's Vladimir Putin, center, during dinner at Prigozhin's restaurant outside Moscow in 2011. (AP)
An alleged Russian disinformation campaign that has been purged from three mainstream social media platforms has moved to Parler and Gab, sites that attract conservatives.
Blacklisting the entire Iranian financial industry could diminish channels the country uses to import humanitarian goods, such as food and medicine.
The president’s comments came as Afghan government and Taliban continued negotiations in Doha, Qatar.
Han Zirong, secretary general of Beijing 2022, waves the Olympic flag during a ceremony in 2018 to mark the start of the flag’s tour for the 2022 Winter Olympics. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
The 2022 Winter Games are becoming far more contentious than China’s 2008 Olympic host debut.
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Not everyone in the British government would welcome a Trump win, but a Biden presidency may not be a perfect match either. The special relationship between the two countries is in a complicated stage of development.
The move could deepen rifts with Moscow over findings that a nerve agent was used against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Berlin after spending weeks in a coma.
Landfall is forecast on Friday afternoon or evening along Louisiana’s central or western coast, parts of which are still recovering from a devastating strike from Category 4 Laura in late August.
Gen. Gary Thomas has tested positive for the coronavirus. (Marine Corps/Reuters)
Gen. Gary Thomas, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, was among the military leaders isolating after exposure in a meeting on Friday.
President Trump’s lawyers have claimed that the Manhattan district attorney was on a “fishing expedition” and out to harass him.
The operation had a publicity component crafted to match President Trump’s campaign attacks on Democratic mayors.
The entrance to the Tree House child advocacy center in Rockville. (Ricky Carioti/The Post)
“It’s like walking away in the middle of surgery,” said Stephanie Wolf, a psychologist who was fired in August. “I don’t understand how an organization that is supposed to be caring for kids would do this.” An attorney for the Montgomery County-based Tree House center said some children are getting counseling elsewhere.
If the Goucher College poll’s findings prove true, it would represent a dramatic and historic spike in remote voting in the state, where just 5.7 percent of voters requested mail-in ballots in 2016. 
The trainings are part of a major mobilization by the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police against new police accountability measures, possibly including the abolition of the powerful Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights.
Virtual film festivals, trivia nights, concerts and poetry slams offer an escape for everyone staying at home.
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A collaboration with the Telephonic Literary Union, “Human Resources” is funny, biting — and yes, even poetic.
A row of iPhone 11 smartphones on display at a store in London. (Bloomberg News)
In a little-noticed lawsuit, Apple shed new light on its recycling practices, raising questions about why devices that were sent in for destruction were reused by consumers against Apple's wishes.
The Tennessee-based company is filing for bankruptcy protection, the latest restaurant chain to suffer from coronavirus-related closures and changing consumer habits.
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Dwayne Haskins and Alex Smith both know Washington's QB carousel. (John McDonnell/The Post)
Washington's quarterback churn makes winning a daunting challenge.
Accusations of doping and mistreating athletes have cast a dark cloud over Nike’s distance-running efforts, stirring uncertainty throughout the track world about Nike’s future support.
The news comes just as Tennessee was preparing to resume its season after shutting down because of a coronavirus outbreak.
The rest of the team traveled to New York for the scheduled match Wednesday night against New York City FC at Yankee Stadium.
Analysis
The problem for baseball isn’t so much the length of games but the pace of play.
“I want to be a mailman so I can let people know when it’s their birthday.” (Brandon Stanton)
“Humans of New York” author Brandon Stanton shares 16 photos from his globe-spanning new book.
Here are the biggest releases you’ll have to keep waiting for.
From super-spreader events to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to President Trump’s tweets, here is how artists sized up the situation.
While some travelers are willing to hit the road with precautions in place, others plan to stay put until there is a coronavirus vaccine. (iStock)
Perspective
For most of us, the answer depends on age, health and risk tolerance.
After staying at Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort for about three months, Westbrook’s $8,000 tip would break out to about $89 per night.
In non-pandemic times, visitors from all over the world flock to Europe in the summer. This year looked different.