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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden answers a question as President Donald Trump listens Thursday during the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

AP FACT CHECK: Falsehoods and fumbles in Trump-Biden debate

A look at how some of the statements on the stage in Nashville, Tennessee, compared with the facts.
People watch from their vehicle Thursday during a Presidential Debate Watch Party at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The debate party was organized by Manny’s, a San Francisco community meeting and learning place.

Analysis: Debate is brief interlude of normalcy in 2020 race

The second and final presidential debate, it turns out, was actually a debate -- a brief interlude of normalcy in an otherwise highly abnormal year, and a reprieve for voters turned off by the candidates' noxious first faceoff.
President Donald Trump gestures while speaking Thursday during the second and final presidential debate Thursday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Debate Takeaways: Round 2 highlights policy over petulance

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met for the second and last time on a debate stage after a previously scheduled town hall debate was scrapped after the Republican incumbent became one of the millions of Americans to contract the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump talks with reporters on Air Force One Thursday after participating in the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

AP Explains: Trump seizes on dubious Biden-Ukraine story

Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden two weeks before the election, President Donald Trump's campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden's relationship with Ukraine. But the story in the New York Post raised more questions than answers, including about the authenticity of an email at the center of the story.
People shop for clothing at the used-clothes market in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. Iraq is in the throes of an unprecedented liquidity crisis, as the cash-strapped state wrestles to pay public sector salaries and import essential goods while oil prices remain dangerously low. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Bloated public salaries at heart of Iraq's economic woes
Iraq's government is struggling to pay the salaries of its public sector employees, its coffers drained because of this year's plunge in oil prices
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the commemorating conference on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese army entering North Korea to resist the U.S. army, at the Great Hall fo the People in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China's Xi takes jabs at US in Korean War commemoration
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has condemned what he called unilateralism, protectionism and extreme egoism in a jab at the United States made during a rally to mark the 70th anniversary of China's entry into the 1950-53 Korean War
Sailboats sit anchored off Choeng Mon beach on the resort island of Koh Samui, Thailand, on Oct. 15, 2020. Thai Health officials said Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 a French woman who traveled to the resort island on the same day and later tested positive for the coronavirus there probably acquired the infection after arriving in Thailand. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
French woman in Thailand may have acquired virus locally
Health officials in Thailand say a French woman on the resort island of Samui has tested positive for the coronavirus and probably acquired it after arriving in Thailand in what could be one of few cases of local transmission
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listens during an interview, Wednesday Oct. 21, 2020, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
UN chief says G20 leaders must coordinate to fight COVID-19
The U.N. chief says it's 'very frustrating' that leaders of the 20 major industrialized nations didn't come together in March and establish a coordinated response to suppress the coronavirus in all countries as he proposed
This photo provided by Air Force Reserve shows a sky view of Hurricane Epsilon taken by Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter team over the Atlantic Ocean taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Epsilon's maximum sustained winds have dropped slightly as it prepares to sideswipe Bermuda on a path over the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center says it should come close enough Thursday, Oct. 22, evening to merit a tropical storm warning for the island. (Air Force Reserve via AP)
Weakened Hurricane Epsilon moves north over Atlantic Ocean
A weakened Hurricane Epsilon is moving northward over the Atlantic Ocean, a day after after skirting well east of Bermuda
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, meets Wednesday with Sen. Martha McSally, an Arizona Republican, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett as Democrats boycott
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, keeping President Donald Trump's pick on track for confirmation before Election Day.
Information signs are displayed at the closed Illinois Department of Employment Security WorkNet center in Arlington Heights. U.S. employers advertised for slightly fewer jobs in August while their hiring ticked up modestly. The Labor Department said Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, that the number of U.S. job postings on the last day of August dipped to 6.49 million, down from 6.70 million July.
U.S. jobless claims drop to 787,000, but layoffs remain high
The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 787,000, a sign that job losses may have eased slightly but are still running at historically high levels.
Then-Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican, and now Director of National Intelligence testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Officials say Russia and Iran have obtained some voter registration data, aiming to interfere in the November election.
U.S. officials link Iran to emails meant to intimidate voters
U.S. officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of threatening but fake emails sent to Democratic voters in Florida and other battleground states in a late-stage effort to sway public opinion and interfere in the presidential election.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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