Sorry, pirates: The Navy has successfully tested a laser that can set the engine of a small boat on fire from miles away. [AP]
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THE FEED
coronavirus
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media
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voter turnout
Texas Has Already Exceeded Its 2016 Turnout. Here’s What That Means.
the economy
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Today in news that will not shock you
A top White House adviser on Friday called President Donald Trump’s longshot pledge to have a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 3 “kind of an arbitrary deadline,” as Election Day prepares to come and go with no shot having even applied for approval yet.
“We’ve got nearly half a dozen vaccines that are in Phase Three clinical trials, which is record time to get it there for a novel virus like we’re dealing with,” White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah told reporters. “We’re still highly confident we’ll have one by the end of the year and be prepared to deploy it to a hundred million Americans.”
“His goal has never — Election Day is kind of an arbitrary deadline,” she added.
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vision 2020
Trump Changes Plans, Will Hunker Down in White House on Election Night
the national interest
Trump Tells the Supreme Court It’s on His Election Team
the national interest
Donald Trump Jr. Falsely Claims Coronavirus Deaths ‘Down to Almost Nothing’
Unprecedented turnout in Texas
Breaking: Texas just surpassed its 2016 total votes cast w/ one day of early voting & Election Day left to go.
The state is reporting 9,009,850 votes already cast, vs. the all-time record of 8,969,226 in 2016. This is massive.
—@Redistrict
The state is reporting 9,009,850 votes already cast, vs. the all-time record of 8,969,226 in 2016. This is massive.
Downplaying the COVID-19 threat was Trump’s strategy for handling the pandemic, and it’s also his campaign’s closing message
More Testing equals more Cases. We have best testing. Deaths WAY DOWN. Hospitals have great additional capacity! Doing much better than Europe. Therapeutics working!
—@realDonaldTrump
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coronavirus
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covid-19
Second Coronavirus Wave Propels European Countries Into Lockdown 2.0
vision 2020
Trump’s Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires)
the national circus
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supreme court
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Trump absolutely needs to win Florida, so these numbers are not what his campaign wants to see
Monmouth poll:
Florida: Registered voters
Joe Biden 50%
Donald Trump 45%
Biden is up 6 in a high likely turnout 51-45. Biden is up 4 in a low likely turnout 50-46.
—@kylegriffin1
Florida: Registered voters
Joe Biden 50%
Donald Trump 45%
Biden is up 6 in a high likely turnout 51-45. Biden is up 4 in a low likely turnout 50-46.
A late-arriving hurricane slams the South
Zeta sped across the Southeast on Thursday, leaving a trail of damage and more than 2 million homes and businesses in the dark in Atlanta and beyond after pounding New Orleans with winds and water that splintered homes and were blamed for at least three deaths.
A Category 2 hurricane when it hit the southeastern Louisiana coast Wednesday, Zeta was still a tropical storm Thursday morning with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph about 100 miles northeast of Asheville, North Carolina. The storm inundated some areas with flash flooding, sheared the awning off a gas station, blew a building’s wall open and caused an apartment’s roof to collapse, injuring one person inside, CBS News correspondent Danya Bacchus reports. Hundreds of schools canceled classes or planned to open late across the region.
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Dr. Fauci Predicts No ‘Semblances of Normality’ Until 2022
The numbers don’t seem to be slowing down
Morning update: Texas just surpassed 95% of its 2016 total votes cast w/ two days of early voting & Election Day left to go. We’re just headed for a massive, unprecedented turnout there (and a lot of other places).
—@Redistrict
the national interest
Trump Corruptly Meddled With Probe Into Crimes by Turkish Bank
A dramatic move from Labour leader Keir Starmer
BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour.
“In light of his comments made today and his failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. He has also had the whip removed from the Parliamentary Labour Party” - spox
—@PippaCrerar
“In light of his comments made today and his failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. He has also had the whip removed from the Parliamentary Labour Party” - spox
vision 2020
Kelly Loeffler Claims She’s ‘Not Familiar’ With Access Hollywood Tape
The new GDP numbers are positive, but there’s a long way to go
Summary of what’s happened with U.S. GDP:
2020 first quarter: -1.3%
2020 second quarter: -9%
2020 third quarter: +7.4%
remaining gap from pre-pandemic economy: -3.5%
—@HorsleyScott
2020 first quarter: -1.3%
2020 second quarter: -9%
2020 third quarter: +7.4%
remaining gap from pre-pandemic economy: -3.5%
Everything is fine
US coronavirus cases per day:
Right now: 74,134
5 days ago: 63,228
10 days ago: 56,007
15 days ago: 51,038
20 days ago: 47,531
25 days ago: 43,306
30 days ago: 41,594
—@ryanstruyk
Right now: 74,134
5 days ago: 63,228
10 days ago: 56,007
15 days ago: 51,038
20 days ago: 47,531
25 days ago: 43,306
30 days ago: 41,594
scenes from your election day
Scenes From Your Election Day
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