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Meanwhile, Trump is headed to Pennsylvania, while Democratic nominee Joe Biden is dispatching his running mate, Kamala D. Harris, to Michigan, while he holds fundraisers.
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 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death from pancreatic cancer last Friday has started a fiercely partisan battle over whether President Trump should be allowed to replace her with his own pick with just six weeks left until the election or if whoever is elected Nov. 3 should be able to appoint a new justice.
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 The campaign trail is starting to heat up between President Trump and Joe Biden, a week before the first presidential debate is scheduled to take place in Cleveland.
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 In a tense exchange between Amy Coney Barrett and Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2017, the California Democrat sharply questioned whether the judicial nominee could separate her Catholic views from her legal opinions.
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The brawl over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successor began before her body was buried. Within hours of her death on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate."
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Boris Johnson's government has instructed Brits to work from home, not to work from home, to eat out and stay in, all within a few weeks.
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The widow of Senator John McCain praised Joe Biden's "character and integrity" and noted that both he and her family had children who had served in the military.
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The swift rally behind President Trump's push to fill a Supreme Court seat before the election reflects his lock on the Republican Party.
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Cindy McCain, the widow of longtime Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, is set to endorse Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee told donors Tuesday.
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The measure would stave off a government shutdown, providing funding until Dec. 11.
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Republicans' show of strength now could prompt a backlash if Democrats retake the White House and flip the Senate in November.
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 The House easily passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday evening in a bipartisan effort to keep the government funded through the beginning of December.
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Liberals want to join the Supreme Court fight. Moderates want Covid relief. And Pelosi must mollify both.
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Boris Johnson says "we must reserve the right to go further" with measures if virus cases keep rising.
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 Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, submitted legislation to Congress late Tuesday that would prevent any party from "packing" the court and officially limiting the court to nine justices.
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 Judge Amy Coney Barrett should be President Trump's choice to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Judiciary Committee member Mike Lee, R-Utah, told "The Story" Tuesday.
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The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned the public Tuesday that foreign actors might spread disinformation about the results of the 2020 election and encouraged voters to be patient with delayed results.
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President Donald Trump's former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Tuesday that the President and other lawmakers are "making it easy" for Russian President Vladimir Putin by promoting conspiracy theories about US election integrity and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
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 If Senate Republicans confirm a replacement for late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election, "they have forfeited their standing to complain about future procedural efforts" by Democrats, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Tuesday.
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 The same Democrats who "lecture us about empowering women" have wasted little time attacking Judge Amy Coney Barrett, believed to be the frontrunner for President Trump's nomination to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday.
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Carlson says he doesn't believe Ginsburg actually made her dying wish "for a second." Trump suggested it had been written by Democrats. But it's eminently believable that she said this.
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Creating more than nine seats on the Supreme Court sounds radical. But it's been seriously considered and even done before.
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows emailed government agencies informing them that many of the White House liaisons are being removed from their roles in anticipation of President Donald Trump winning a second term, CNN has learned.
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There is a pattern: President Donald Trump's campaign and its allies keep dishonestly snipping, editing or describing video clips of former Vice President Joe Biden to try to make the Democratic presidential nominee seem confused or senile.
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 For some, harsh attack ads are part of a nationwide "QAnon strategy" that the Republican campaign committee appears to be deploying to exploit the fears and paranoia fueled by the bizarre conspiracy cult convinced that the Democrats are working with "deep state" sex traffickers and pedophiles to sabotage Donald Trump's presidency.
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 Doug Mills/AFP via GettyThe Trump campaign finds itself in an unexpected financial crunch heading into the election's homestretch: substantially behind Joe Biden in the cash it has on hand despite years of advanced preparation. If the president is looking to cast blame, however, the receipts suggest that it starts with himself.
During the month of August, the Trump campaign spent nearly half-a-million dollars on fireworks, almost certainly for the display that was put on over the south lawn of the White House during the Republican convention. That display was indisputably ostentatious—a seemingly never ending stream of lights that culminated in the words "Trump" and "2020" bedazzling the sky above the Washington Monument. But the price tag—$477,000—made the company behind the show, Grucci Inc., the campaign's ninth largest vendor of the entire month. The campaign paid more to the Long Island fireworks company in August than it spent on legal bills for its top firm, Jones Day, or its top pollster, Fabrizio Lee & Associates. It was well more than half of the $762,826.08 the campaign spent on its entire payroll.
Considering how much the Trump campaign brought in during August—$61,750,338—the fireworks expense may seem like a drop in the bucket. But Trump is badly trailing Biden in terms of money in the bank. The president and the Republican National Committee currently have $325 million cash on hand, compared to the $466 million Biden and the Democratic National Committee enjoy.
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The prime minister has addressed the nation to explain the decision to impose tighter restrictions.
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Given the Supreme Court vacancy, this is a suddenly urgent issue.
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 CARLOS BARRIAThe first question White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany fielded during Tuesday's press conference was not about the Supreme Court fight, but rather about the milestone of 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 that the United States has now reached.
CNN's Jim Acosta began by asking: "What do you say to Americans who are outraged over this and blame this administration for so many lives lost in this country?" After McEnany responded by saying that the number of dead Americans could have reached two million by now, Acosta specifically brought up the president's most recent attempt to downplay the severity of the coronavirus.
At his Monday evening rally in Ohio, the president told supporters that the virus "really affects" elderly people with heart problems and basically "nobody" young. "Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system," he says. "But it affects virtually nobody, it's an amazing thing." From there, he pivoted directly to, "Open your schools!"
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 Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThe battle of Gettysburg. The D-Day invasion of Normandy. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
These are some of the most harrowing moments of mass death and suffering in American history—nightmares seared indelibly into the national consciousness. And yet they pale in terms of sheer lethality when compared to the novel coronavirus, which has now claimed more than 200,000 lives in the United States in a little over seven months.
For over half of 2020, Americans have sifted through daily reports of those deaths. What began as a trickle of misery out of the Northwest transformed into a flood of hundreds and in some cases thousands of lives lost per day. Suddenly, what would otherwise be canonized as national days of mourning in tribute to those lost were just another day in a horrible year.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin clinched an agreement Tuesday to take the threat of a government shutdown at the end of the month off the table.
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the front-runner to be nominated to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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 Seventeen Republican senators appear to have had an abrupt change of heart when it comes to the idea of confirming a nominee to the Supreme Court in a presidential election year.
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 In a statement Tuesday, the Utah senator said it wasn't about "fairness."
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The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified before lawmakers on Tuesday on the economy's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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The department cited what it called Democrats' "scolding and insulting" of Attorney General William P. Barr at a contentious hearing in July.
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 Apply for absentee/mail ballot: https://vip.sos.nd.gov/absentee/Default.aspx
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 The nomination is not a done deal -- President Trump has not even chosen a nominee yet. But the confirmation math appears to be tipping in favor of the GOP.
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The president frames his ban on the app as a national-security issue. Maybe. But it also curtails Americans' free rein to use the network they invented.
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 President Trump and Joe Biden spent Monday making campaign appearances in different Midwestern states to court the working-class vote, former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove explained on "Bill Hemmer Reports" Tuesday.
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