News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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LATEST: More than 40 million people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University. https://t.co/SqjVdWwqYm pic.twitter.com/F7AFhUATk1
— ABC News (@ABC) October 19, 2020
“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong. Fauci is a nice guy, he’s been here for 500 years, he called every one of them wrong,” Trump told campaign staffers. https://t.co/CQs3cKrXcV
— The Hill (@thehill) October 19, 2020
LATEST: White House chief of staff Meadows says he remains hopeful a deal can be reached in the next 48 hours, but cautioned that it's "too early to tell" whether enough Republicans in the Senate would support a large spending package. https://t.co/q8d9Yja2Bg
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2020
Canada is keeping its land border with the United States closed to nonessential travel for another month as the Trudeau government expresses concerns about coronavirus caseloads south of the frontier https://t.co/q7qzPoaL3u
— POLITICO (@politico) October 19, 2020
A U.S. federal judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have cut food stamp benefits to almost 700,000 unemployed Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic, court documents showed https://t.co/1LDiHsjjAA pic.twitter.com/D4HbmcI6DU
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 19, 2020
BREAKING: Justice Dept. announces indictment against six Russian GRU officers charged with engaging in series of hacking and malware deployment operations to attack other countries' infrastructure, elections and other actions to further Russia's interests. https://t.co/8oIybgmEiv
— ABC News (@ABC) October 19, 2020
The Supreme Court says it will take up cases concerning President Trump's border wall and a controversial policy that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico as they await hearings in the US https://t.co/wOFR5hvfHP
— CNN (@CNN) October 19, 2020
Fifteen days before voters seal his fate, Trump delivered an expletive-laden pep talk in a call to his 2020 campaign staff, slamming reports of discord among his team and proclaiming that he’s “more excited” about his reelection prospects than ever beforehttps://t.co/I306l3Dn4i
— POLITICO (@politico) October 19, 2020
