
It's Mike Pence and Kamala Harris' debate, and moderator Susan Page is just along for the ride. After last week's disastrous presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden, Page undoubtedly knew she had her work cut out for her, having to manage two campaigns that have demonstrated they have no qualms about bulldozing a moderator in a debate in order to get their points across. Nevertheless, her strategy of cutting Pence and Harris off with increasingly insistent "thank yous" wasn't working on Wednesday night — prompting her to halt the whole debate to scold both candidates.

A 26-year-old postal worker from New Jersey faces federal charges after nearly 2,000 pieces of mail, including ballots, were found discarded in dumpsters, but prosecutors do not believe there was any political motive in the case. Nicholas Beauchene faces charges of delay, secretion or detention of mail and obstruction of mail after about 1,875 pieces of mail, including 99 general election ballots, intended for Essex County, New Jersey, locations were found in dumpsters on Friday and Monday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. U.S. Attorney Sara Merin had asked for bail to be set at $50,000 because Beauchene had resigned from his job with the postal service and admitted to dumping the mail, though there was “no indication that there was any political motive.”

A vigil on Sunday night for a black man shot and killed by a white police officer in Texas descended into chaos when an armed white gunman arrived “to protect my city”. Jonathan Price, a 31-year-old motivational speaker, who worked for his hometown of Wolfe City, died on Saturday evening after a confrontation with Officer Shaun Lucas. Friends of Price say he was intervening in a domestic disturbance at a convenience store when the officer shot him.
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court upheld Thursday the detention of an alleged Sudanese militia leader charged with more than 50 crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Darfur conflict. Ali Mohammed Ali Abdul Rahman Ali, known as Ali Kushayb, has been in the global court's detention since being flown to its headquarters in The Hague in June, more than 13 years after judges first issued an international warrant seeking his arrest. Following his transfer to the ICC, Kushayb applied to be provisionally released from the court's custody while his case continues.

President Trump on Tuesday continued to downplay the threat of the coronavirus after his release from the hospital while still under treatment for COVID-19, asserting that the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans is “far less lethal” than the seasonal flu “in most populations.” According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the worst flu season in the last 10 years was 2017-2018, when an estimated 61,000 Americans died. In 2018-2019, there were 34,000 U.S. deaths attributed to influenza.

The Trump administration filed an emergency application on Wednesday night with the Supreme Court, asking it to halt an earlier appeals court decision that extended the count of the 2020 Census to the end of the month. In late September, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that due to hurdles faced during the coronavirus pandemic, the Census Bureau could continue counting through the end of October; plaintiffs argued that the extension would reduce the risk of undercounting harder-to-access populations such as immigrants, minorities, and lower-income groups, The Washington Post reports. The Trump administration nevertheless set a "target date" of Oct. 5 to end the count, which Koh called a "violation" of her order.
Support for President Trump among key demographic groups is moving in Joe Biden's direction after the latest presidential debate and Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis.

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An airline passenger is accused of sexually assaulting a sleeping 18-year-old on a plane, authorities say. Ian Wagner, 38, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is charged with sexual assault and indecent exposure during a Frontier Airlines flight from Indiana to Colorado in 2017, according to an FBI news release Wednesday. The FBI says she was “incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct and physically incapable of declining participation in, and communicating an unwillingness to engage in, the sexual contact.”

The White House denies claims that Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on Tuesday with “extra precautions”, after the president's economic advisor Larry Kudlow “misspoke” during an interview. Mr Kudlow told CNBC that “traffic was limited” when the president worked in the Oval Office, but said he couldn't “be specific” when asked if Mr Trump wore a mask. Moments earlier, the administration's chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters that Mr Trump wanted to go to the Oval Office yesterday and may do so today, according to White House press pool.

Angry protests erupted in Brooklyn as hundreds of members of the local orthodox Jewish community took to the streets to demonstrate against strict coronavirus restrictions imposed by New York's state governor, Andrew Cuomo. At least one person was injured in chaotic scenes in the Borough Park neighbourhood in which Hasidic men, mainly without masks, started fires as the protests intensified around midnight. Chanting "Jewish lives matter", the crowd chased away two sheriffs deputies.

Residents of a Milwaukee suburb where protests turned violent after a Black police officer was cleared in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager outside a shopping mall were out early Thursday cleaning up debris from overnight damage to businesses. Windows were broken at several businesses in Wauwatosa, including a pharmacy, coffee shop, wall coverings store, cleaners and fitness center. Protests came after Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced Wednesday that Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah would not be charged for fatally shooting 17-year-old Alvin Cole outside Mayfair Mall on Feb. 2.

The president has described Ankara's support for Azerbaijan as part of Turkey's quest for its "deserved place in the world order." He sees an opportunity to alter the status quo over Nagorno-Karabakh - in which France, the United States and Russia have for decades led international mediation efforts and ethnic Armenians have retained control of the enclave even though it is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. "Turkey's logic in almost all corners of the map is disruption.

Donald Trump lost significant ground after his first debate performance against challenger Joe Biden, largely with seniors and suburbanites. President Trump remains an unusually unpopular incumbent candidate. The last one, Barack Obama in 2012, never had a consensus polling day under 45 per cent in that cycle, according to RealClearPolitics.

A Florida child was so desperate to escape his parents that he did something dangerously extreme, police say. According to a police report from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Kelly and Daniel Davis were arrested Monday on child abuse charges after one of their six kids set a mattress on fire to escape the “deplorable” conditions of his bedroom at the Spring Hill home. The arrest affidavit says the 8-year-old boy was kept locked up in his dark, boarded-up bedroom with no power for months.

President Donald Trump's reelection prospects are looking grim. Trump is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by a significant margin in a number of recent national polls, including one poll that showed Biden with a whopping 16-point lead. The president is also behind Biden in a number of crucial battleground states like Florida that are vital to an electoral college victory.

Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer who pinned down George Floyd's neck with his knee, has been released on bond, according to WCCO-TV. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter. Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George's Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes, killing him, was released from custody upon posting bail Wednesday morning.

Dr. Anthony Fauci's daughters won't spend Thanksgiving with him in Washington, despite him and his wife saying they'd love to host them. The women, who live in three different parts of the country, decided against the visit to protect their father from the novel coronavirus, Fauci said in a webinar hosted by American University. While there's no one answer to whether you should visit family for the holidays, experts recommend weighing the practical risks with the mental-health benefits.

In an interview with Variety, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" writer Cameron Crowe said he loved Shia LaBeouf's performance in the recent charity table read of the movie. LaBeouf took on the role of Jeff Spicoli in the virtual table read, and smoked a joint throughout as he really got into character as a high-school stoner. The table read also featured a reunion between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, plus Morgan Freeman reading screen directions, which Crowe said was "thrilling and slightly scary."

I will see you in our next life." years ago my life changed forever when I met you. You gave me the one true light in my life, our son, Wolfgang, she wrote next to a photo of the family when Wolfgang was a baby.

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni is hoping Lionel Messi's decision to stay at Barcelona will benefit the national team when World Cup qualifying starts this week. Messi pushed for a move away from the Spanish club this offseason only to change his mind after the club refused to let him leave for free, opting to stay instead of launching a potentially ugly legal battle against the club. Scaloni told a news conference on Wednesday that he played no part in the decision but was happy to see the issue resolved so that Messi could focus fully on his performances on the pitch.

What wasn't so predictable about the face-to-face at Wednesday's US vice-presidential debate was that Mike Pence would show up with bloodshot eye – never a good look during a pandemic – or that a fly would nestle in his snowy white hair. The California senator's fusillade of raised eyebrows, pursed lips and withering stares at her opponent will live in Democrats' memory long after the words are forgotten (and probably be viewed by Republicans as sneering elitism). It was also notable that both candidates did a better job than their bosses in last week's debate apocalypse.

Donald Trump Jr. speaks during the first day of the Republican convention at the Mellon auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump Jr. claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has "substance issues" as he fired back at her for her latest criticism of his father, President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Fox News, Trump Jr. was asked to weigh in on Pelosi's criticism of the president's decision to abruptly and unilaterally end negotiations for the next stimulus bill.

A draft report from the Justice Department's inspector general said former Attorney General Jeff Session and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were "a driving force" behind President Donald Trump's child-separation policy at the US-Mexico border, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Sessions and Rosenstein called for the separation of children no matter how young they were, the draft report found, according to The Times. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

A Twitter user by the name of Heather has gone viral on the platform for saying they'd would wade through coronavirus infested water to vote Donald Trump in November, much to his delight. "I would wade though a sea of Covid infested water to vote for President Trump on 3 November,” Heather wrote. The president's tweet has since amassed over 50,000 likes and 10,000 retweets, while the original post from Heather gained 22,000 likes.

“Staggered term limits would ensure that electoral winners shaped the Supreme Court, not the Grim Reaper.”
“Term limits undermine the primary function of the judiciary: preventing political majorities from trampling on others’ rights.”
“It would be one important way we could deescalate the stakes of American politics, and protect the system from total breakdown.”
“It would depoliticize the court and judicial selection, and thus promote the rule of law.”
“There are also transition problems...at some point the complications become more trouble than they’re worth.”