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5 Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. OBAMA: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY COULD FALTER IF TRUMP REELECTED

Former President Barack Obama warns that American democracy could falter if President Donald Trump is reelected.

2. BIDEN'S LONG PATH TO A POTENTIALLY CRUCIAL PRESIDENCY

When Joe Biden steps to the podium as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, he will offer himself to a wounded, meandering nation as balm - and as a bridge.

3. TRUMP EAGER TO TROLL BIDEN OUTSIDE SCRANTON BIRTHPLACE

President Donald Trump, in what can only be described as piece of campaign trolling, will stage an event just outside the former vice president's birthplace in Scranton, Pennsylvania,

4. VICTIMS WANT GOLDEN STATE KILLER TO LIVE IN FEAR IN PRISON

Since death row isn't an option for serial killer and rapist Joseph DeAngelo, his victims want him sent to the toughest possible prison in California to live in daily terror of other inmates.

5. RUSSIA'S NAVALNY IN COMA AFTER ALLEGED POISONING

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman says.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stands on stage after Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., spoke during the third day of the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The Associated Press
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The Associated Press
Joseph James DeAngelo, right, speaks with public defender Joseph Cress at the end of the second day of victim impact statements at the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Sacramento, Calif. Victims of California serial killer and rapist, DeAngelo want him in a maximum security prison far, far away if he can't spend the rest of his life on death row. But they may not hold much sway over where or how the 74-year-old former police officer is imprisoned once he is sentenced on Friday, Aug. 21. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool) The Associated Press
FILE - In this Saturday, July 20, 2019 file photo Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to a crowd during a political protest in Moscow, Russia. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was placed on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman said Thursday Aug. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File) The Associated Press
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