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Good morning. Hurricane Sally has made landfall. Europe is scuffling with the coronavirus. And Trump hears an earful from voters.
President Trump doesn’t spend a lot time with voters who don’t already assist him. As The Times’s Maggie Haberman puts it: “Trump, by solely doing rallies and nearly by no means doing city corridor boards, has been insulated from the type of voter interplay that normally assist incumbents as they’re operating. However he craves adulation and plenty of of his aides allow it.”
Final evening, although, the president traveled to Philadelphia for a city corridor, broadcast by ABC, with voters who recognized themselves as undecided. And he heard an earful.
The primary query got here from a 2016 Trump voter who stated he was making an attempt to take the coronavirus critically and needed to keep away from individuals who refused to put on masks: “Why did you throw susceptible folks like me below the bus?” the person, Paul Tubiana, requested.
One other voter, Julie Bard, requested why Trump didn’t assist a nationwide masks mandate. A 3rd requested why he downplayed the virus. Others requested about racial injustice, Trump’s makes an attempt to remove medical insurance from folks and his unpresidential habits.
“I believe that is by far the hardest grilling Trump has confronted as president,” CNN’s Daniel Dale, who has lined Trump extensively as a reality checker, wrote.
Trump responded with a flurry of falsehoods to defend himself. (Here is a Times fact check.) He blamed Joe Biden for the dearth of a nationwide masks mandate. Trump additionally stated, “Lots of people suppose the masks aren’t good.” At totally different factors, he downplayed the virus and stated that he had “up-played” it.
He claimed he was beloved by South Koreans. (His latest approval score there was 17 percent.) He stated all People owned shares. (About half do.) And he stated the late John McCain, a struggle hero who was recognized within the Senate as an advocate for veterans, didn’t do sufficient for veterans.
“It is a president who nonetheless hasn’t adjusted to the truth that 2020 shouldn’t be the 12 months he needed it to be,” Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report wrote.
The Times’s Trip Gabriel tweeted: “When @JoeBiden debates Trump, he’ll be confronted with what’s on show tonight: fast hearth falsehoods, free-ranging private assaults, excessive claims of his achievements.”
On Fox Information, Laura Ingraham described the occasion as an “ambush” by ABC.
In different marketing campaign information:
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Yesterday was arguably Biden’s finest day of state polls because the Republican Nationwide Conference, in line with Nate Cohn, a Occasions polling skilled. And a new ABC News/Washington Post poll this morning confirmed Biden forward by six share factors in Wisconsin and 16 factors in Minnesota. In 2016, each states have been extraordinarily shut, and Trump gained Wisconsin.
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Within the final state major of 2020, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a Democrat, easily defeated a progressive challenger, Jessica Scarane.
TWO MORE BIG STORIES
1. Disasters with a standard trigger
Greater than five million acres have burned on the West Coast. Tens of 1000’s of individuals have fled their properties. And a minimum of 27 are useless. Extra favorable climate in Oregon has allowed firefighters to make some progress, however the largest fires are still mostly uncontained.
Scientists say local weather change — particularly hotter temperatures that dry out vegetation — is a significant component within the area’s worsening fires. Local weather can be enjoying a job 1000’s of miles away on the Gulf Coast, the place Hurricane Sally strengthened in a single day and made landfall in Alabama this morning. Scientists consider that hotter temperatures make such storms each slower and capable of holding more moisture, which may make them extra harmful.
2. Studying to reside with the virus
Going through a doable second wave of coronavirus infections, European international locations are trying to walk a tightrope: avoiding the tough lockdowns of the spring, whereas additionally adhering to social-distancing guidelines and contact-tracing protocols.
“It’s not doable to cease the virus,” stated Emmanuel André, a number one virologist in Belgium. “It’s about sustaining equilibrium. And we solely have a couple of instruments obtainable to try this.”
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The town of Louisville, Ky., agreed to pay the family of Breonna Taylor $12 million and institute police reforms, six months after officers fatally shot the 26-year-old Black girl in her house.
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Officers in Rochester, N.Y., spent months trying to suppress video footage of the police encounter that led to Daniel Prude’s loss of life.
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A “horrific fruits” of engineering flaws, mismanagement and an absence of federal oversight led to 2 deadly crashes involving Boeing’s 737 Max jet that killed 346 folks, House Democrats said in a report.
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In a diplomatic victory for the Trump administration, the U.A.E., Bahrain and Israel formally signed a deal normalizing relations among the many three international locations.
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The Justice Division has opened a criminal investigation into whether or not John Bolton, Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser, disclosed categorised data in a tell-all memoir about his time within the administration.
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Invoice Gates Sr. — the daddy of the Microsoft co-founder and a key determine in shaping the household’s philanthropy — died at 94.
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Lives Lived: When Dr. Marion Moses wasn’t tending to the well being of poor migrant laborers as a trusted aide to Cesar Chavez, she was out campaigning for his or her rights. On a visit to New York to drum up assist for a nationwide shopper grape boycott, she recruited Gloria Steinem, Lauren Bacall and the people trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Dr. Moses died at 84.
IDEA OF THE DAY: The tip of seasons
The pandemic could make time really feel blurry. The college 12 months is beginning, however tens of millions of youngsters aren’t returning to school rooms. Final week, for the primary time, the entire 4 largest U.S. professional sports activities leagues — baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey — performed video games on the identical day. And who even is aware of what Halloween will appear like.
Then there may be local weather change, which is liable for a world “season creep.” Frosts come earlier, first snows fall later. Hurricanes stretch out on each side of the calendar. And, frighteningly sufficient, hearth season is simply getting began within the American West. As Paul Elie writes in The New Yorker, “The coronavirus pandemic, along with recurring pure phenomena introduced on by local weather change, is sharply altering our sense of the seasons.”
Find out how to cope? (Beside, maybe, looking for ways to combat climate change.) Quartz and Slate each prompt collaborating in phenology, or the shut research of nature’s rhythms. Hold a journal through which you observe how the seasons are altering round you. “In so doing, you may anchor your self in place and be a witness to the best way nature is definitely responding to vary, as a substitute of dwelling on the disasters that may come,” Rebecca Onion wrote for Slate.
PLAY, WATCH, EAT, CUBE
An ode to tacos
Vegetarian and vegan taco fillings aren’t new: You’ll be able to hint their lineage again by means of Indigenous cuisines. This previous spring, many taqueros in Los Angeles turned to making meatless tacos when the pandemic prompted ingredient shortages and drastic worth fluctuations.
There are about 43 quintillion methods to rearrange a Rubik’s Dice, however just one that’s right. Since a Hungarian structure professor named Erno Rubik invented the dice in 1974, greater than 350 million cubes have been offered globally.
Rubik, 76, typically speaks about his invention as if it have been his little one. “I’m very near the dice. The dice was rising up subsequent to me and proper now, it’s middle-aged, so I do know so much about it,” he stated in a new interview.
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