A record 93 million voters cast their ballots by Sunday — an enormous turnout that seemed inconceivable at the start of 2020.
George Floyd’s 46 years in America show that his life was shaped by the very forces people are protesting after his death — entrenched poverty, systemic racism, a broken criminal justice system and police violence.
Law enforcement officers fired a spray they described as a “pepper-based vapor” that left demonstrators — including children — coughing.
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The nation's leading infectious-disease expert said, “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt,” and predicted a long and potentially deadly winter as infections and hospitalizations spike across the country.
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Any answer that seems to emerge Tuesday night could be misleading. Handled wrong by the media, it could throw the nation into chaos.
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National polling average
Biden is leading (+9) the national polling average.
Biden
52%
Trump
43%
Average of national polls since Oct. 12 that meet Washington Post standards for transparency and quality. Includes polls by CNN, Economist-YouGov, Fox News, NBC-WSJ, SurveyMonkey-Tableau and Quinnipiac University.
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Baltimore lost its grip on the AFC North race as Pittsburgh remained the NFL’s last unbeaten team, at 7-0, even though it was not the best team on the field for much of Sunday.
After transferring to Broad Run High School and walking on at Old Dominion, Travis Fulgham has continued to defy the odds as a wide receiver with the Philadelphia Eagles.
