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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday during a campaign rally at Erie International Airport Tom Ridge Field in Erie, Pennslyvania.

Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the lead-up to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign.
A worker processes mail-in ballots at the Bucks County Board of Elections office prior to the primary election in Doylestown, Pennslyvania. The Supreme Court’s action in a Pennsylvania voting case has heightened fears among Democrats about Amy Coney Barrett joining the high court in time to decide a postelection dispute and with it, the winner of the White House.

Democrats: Justices' 4-4 tie in election case ominous sign

With Amy Coney Barrett expected to join the Supreme Court as early as next week, the court's action in a Pennsylvania voting case has heightened fears among Democrats about the court being asked to decide a post-election dispute and with it, the winner of the White House.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham speaks Tuesday outside Bridgewater Hall, following last-ditch talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson aimed at securing additional financial support for his consent on new coronavirus restrictions, in Manchester, England. The British government appeared poised Tuesday to impose strict coronavirus restrictions on England’s second-largest city after talks with officials in Greater Manchester failed to reach an agreement on financial support for people whose livelihoods will be hit by the new measures.

Another chunk of England faces tight virus restrictions

The South Yorkshire region of northern England is being placed under the country's tightest restrictions to curb the coronavirus -- joining a densely populated swathe of the country where the measures have been imposed despite protests from local politicians.
Woodward Avenue is shown nearly empty in Detroit. Before the coronavirus showed up, downtown Detroit was returning to its roots as a vibrant city center, motoring away from its past as the model of urban ruin. Now, with the coronavirus forcing many office workers to their homes in the suburbs, those who remain wonder if revitalization will ever return.

From Detroit to Oakland, pandemic threatens urban renewal

From midtown Manhattan to San Francisco, just about any city built around clusters of office buildings that used to bring in thousands of workers every day is feeling some degree of angst.
President Donald Trump, left, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. Amid the tumult of the 2020 presidential campaign, one dynamic has remained constant: The Nov. 3 election offers voters a choice between substantially different policy paths.
AP-NORC/USAFacts poll: Many in US distrust campaign info
In a presidential election year that has thrown the country's divisions into stark relief, Americans can agree on this: Misinformation about government and politics is a major problem.
Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden.
Barack Obama to hold his first in-person event for Joe Biden
Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden.
Pope Francis meets Wednesday with bishops in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican.
Pope reverts to mask-less old ways amid growing criticism
A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less old ways Wednesday despite surging coronavirus infections across Europe and growing criticism of his behavior and the example he is setting.
Coronavirus patients lie in an infectious diseases clinic in Stepanakert, in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since a war there ended in 1994, faces an outbreak of the coronavirus amid the largest outbreak of hostilities in more than a quarter-century. (AP Photo)
As fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh, coronavirus spreads
People infected with the coronavirus pack into cold basements along with the healthy to hide from artillery fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, while doctors who have tested positive do surgery on those wounded in the shelling
Cop may face charges in killing of autistic Palestinian
Israeli prosecutors have recommended charging a police officer with reckless killing in the fatal shooting of an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this year
Hurricane Epsilon, the 10th of a busy season, nears Bermuda
Hurricane Epsilon, the 10th of this very busy Atlantic season, is moving toward Bermuda and could hit the island on Thursday
CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO KINOHI INSTEAD OF KANOHI - This 2017 photo provided by Ke'ala Aki shows Willie Talamoa, rear center with shaved head, next to Kinohi Aki, rear left, as they pray with players from their 15-and-under flag football team in Honolulu. A Honolulu community is mourning the loss of Talamoa, a mentor, football coach and father figure who died after contracting COVID-19. (Ke'ala Aki via AP)
Lives Lost: Hawaii football coach who prepped kids for life
Honolulu football coach Willie Talamoa bought his players cleats, drove them to practice and often stayed late to talk with those having trouble in school
Police and journalists outside a court in Glostrup, Denmark, where convicted murderer Peter Madsen will appear after his Tuesday's escape attempt, Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, 2020. A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison on Tuesday. (Photo: Liselotte Sabroe / Scanpix 2020)
Danish sub killer denies he had help in prison break attempt
A Danish man convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine has been remanded to custody Wednesday after he confessed to threatening several people as he attempted to break out of a suburban Copenhagen prison
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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