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Justice Ginsburg's death comes less than seven weeks before the election between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

A senior Trump administration official told CNBC there is still a chance for a deal that would allow Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to remain operating in the U.S.

Lawmakers will consider two bills next on goods made with forced labor from China's Xinjiang region, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

After spending more in the summer as economies reopened and stimulus checks hit their bank accounts, U.S. consumers are spending less.

Although some procedures could be justified based on problems documented in the records, the women's lack of consent or knowledge raises severe legal and ethical issues, lawyers and medical experts said.

Joe Biden embraced his blue-collar roots and his political centrism during a town hall hosted by CNN in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. 

FBI Director Christoper Wray described Russian efforts as a "steady drumbeat of misinformation" that he said could undercut American voters' confidence in the democratic process. 

"We won't allow any entity or individual to dictate how our investigation will proceed or allow anyone to evade a lawful subpoena," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in response to the Trump move.

The shifting polls come as the economy, health care and the coronavirus pandemic take center stage in the campaign messaging for both Trump and Biden.

A former aide to Vice President Mike Pence slammed the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and said she will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended the state's absentee ballot deadline and approved of the use of mail-in ballot drop boxes, a legal win for Democrats in the key battleground state. 

Newly uncovered documents suggest the government had initially intended to utilize the Postal Service in early pandemic response plans.

Dan Coats recommended the U.S. create a nonpartisan commission that would help reassure the American public that their votes would be counted.

A super PAC targeting Lindsey Graham is launching its first TV ad in 2020 as the polls begin to tighten in the GOP incumbent's South Carolina Senate race against Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison.

The deal to hike taxes on New Jersey's wealthiest residents is part of a plan to provide relief to the middle class from the coronavirus crisis.

Barr also said too much deference is given to career prosecutors in remarks likely to further strain relations between Barr and some of the Justice Department's longtime attorneys.

President Trump is now pushing Republicans to embrace more coronavirus stimulus spending as a stalemate over a fifth relief bill drags on. 

The first volume of former President Barack Obama's memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day. It's called "A Promised Land" and will cover his swift and historic rise to the White House and his first term in office.

Questions had arisen earlier in the day about another Covid-19 infection at the White House, when a journalist there reported hearing about "a couple of positives today."

Biden's campaign will spend $65 million this week and run new health care-themed ads in states Trump won in 2016.