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President Donald Trump finishes speaking Thursday during a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.

Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race, when campaigns typically focus their resources on more traditional swing states like Florida or Pennsylvania.
Students sit at a distance as a precaution against COVID-19, as they undergo an aptitude test to access the University of Medicine, in Rome Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Virus clusters at French universities give Europe a lesson

Can mandatory masks offer enough protection in lecture halls so packed that late arrivals have to sit on the floor
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participates Thursday in a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper in Moosic, Pennslyvania.

Fact check: An occasional whopper at Joe Biden's CNN town hall

A Joe Biden town hall does not hit the Pinocchio meter as much as a Donald Trump town hall. Biden tends to stick close to the facts but occasionally gets carried away with some over-exuberance. Here are five claims that caught our attention during his CNN town hall in Moosic, Pa., moderated by Anderson Cooper.
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2020 file photo, customers have their nails done near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa. The country's success in bringing its first wave of COVID-19 under control has allowed it to almost fully reopen the economy, while monitoring for signs of a second surge, says the government's chief medical advisor. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

AP Interview: South Africa to know true virus toll in weeks

South Africa's chief medical adviser says the country should know its true toll from the coronavirus pandemic within a few weeks, as it prepares to almost fully reopen its economy
Yury Ambrazevich, Head of Belarus' delegation and Permanent Representative to the UN Office, listen to the speeches, during the opening of 45th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, September 14, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
After showdown, UN rights body OKs more scrutiny of Belarus
The U.N.'s top human rights body passed a resolution backed by the European Union seeking quick and enhanced scrutiny of alleged violations in Belarus by authorities under President Alexander Lukashenko, after brushing off efforts to squelch speakers and water down the text
Firefighter dies battling wildfire sparked by gender reveal
The death occurred Thursday in the San Bernardino National Forest as crews battled the El Dorado Fire, the U.S. Forest Service said in a news release.
FILE - In this April 29, 2016, file photo, "Forrest Gump" author Winston Groom speaks to students at Jinks Middle School in Panama City, Fla. Groom, the author of the novel "Forrest Gump" that was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop culture hit, has died, an Alabama official close to the writer said Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. He was 77. (Andrew Wardlow/News Herald via AP)
'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom dead at 77
Winston Groom, the writer whose novel 'Forrest Gump' was made into an Oscar winning 1994 movie that became an enduring cultural phenomenon, has died
People queue up outside a coronavirus testing centre offering walk-in appointments in north London, Friday Sept. 18, 2020. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Friday that the country has to 'come together' over the coming weeks to get on top of the spike, that he noted is leading to a doubling in the number of people being hospitalized with the virus every seven to eight days. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)
'This is a big moment:' UK virus restrictions escalating
Fresh restrictions on social gatherings in England, potentially involving limits on pub opening hours, appear to be on the cards soon as the British government seeks to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections
Audience members watch from their cars as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, seen on a monitor, speaks during a CNN town hall in Moosic, Pa., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Biden makes push for voters on National Black Voter Day
Joe Biden's campaign is unveiling a series of nationwide digital events targeting Black voters in swing states - a strategic move to further energize the key demographic as the race heads into its final weeks
A car is covered in branches in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Alabama reports 2nd death from Hurricane Sally
A second death from Hurricane Sally was reported Friday in Alabama, where the storm sloshed ashore Wednesday, brining wind and flooding rain
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.
Ginsburg dies at age 87; McConnell plans replacement vote before election
The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.
Patty Galbraith with her father-in-law James Galbraith Sr., evacuate their dogs as the family gets ready to leave their home near Longview Road as the Bobcat fire approaches in Juniper Hills, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. (Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register via AP)
Firefighter dies battling blaze, another fire burns homes
The death of a firefighter on the lines of a wildfire east of Los Angeles is under investigation as another blaze to the north burned homes in a small community on the edge of the Mojave Desert
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Glenbrook North sophomore Sonia Thakkar played the harp for a virtual live concert to entertain and relieve the stress of front line health care workers. She also raised over $3,000 to obtain quality PPE kits for front line workers in India.
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Associated Press Mourners hug beside the names of the deceased Jesus Sanchez and Marianne MacFarlane at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans commemorated 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Sept. 11 ceremonies across the nation and suburbs
Flames shoot from a window as the Bear Fire burns through the Berry Creek area of Butte County, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region.
Deadly northern California wildfires rage on. 'It's like an apocalypse or something.'
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 38,880, Dave Tonge photo: Couples dancing the night away at the Blue Room ballroom in Elgin in January of 1976.
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Jeff Bocek, Senior Animal Care Specialist Brookfield Zoo, left, and Dan Thompson, DuPage County Forest Preserve District Ecologist release some of the endangered Blanding’s turtles that were reared at Brookfield Zoo and released into the wild as part of Forest Preserve District of DuPage County’s “Head-Start” Wednesday September 2, 2020 in a secluded wetland in DuPage County.
Fast bees and slow turtles are part of The Week in Pictures
Journalist Michael Sean Comerford, of Barrington didn’t just interview people who worked at traveling carnivals, he spent a year working across North American as a carny. After trekking 21,570 miles, most of it hitchhiking, Comerford told the story in his book, “American Oz.”
A visit with dinosaurs, a new sports season and the beginning of in-person classes were part of the Week in Pictures
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