Trump said he’s asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his focus to confirming his US Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Biden now leads by 9.1 percentage points in an average of polls – 3 percentage points larger than Hillary Clinton had at the same point in 2016.

Eddie Van Halen has died of cancer, his son has confirmed. He was 65.

Mark McCloskey and his wife Patricia McCloskey have said they were frightened for their lives as demonstrators marched by their mansion.

Instead of relying on user reports, Facebook staff now will seek out and delete the groups and pages, the company said in a blog post.

Giovanni Angelo Becciu allegedly paid the money from Vatican funds to Cecilia Marogna, who claims to be an intelligence operative with links to the Italian secret services.

It could be that his case is less severe than Boris Johnson’s, but the science says he is still sick and shedding the virus, hence putting himself and others at risk.

President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s whereabouts are unknown; the opposition says it is in charge but its newly appointed prime minister had to flee an angry mob.

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“There’s no more fitting place than here today in Gettysburg to talk about the cost of division, about how much it has cost America,” said the Democratic presidential candidate.