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“I have these huge rallies. People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots,” Trump told his staff. “Fauci is a nice guy. He’s been here for 500 years.” Trump also said if he had listened to Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), “we’d have 500,000 deaths.” Fauci has continued to stress the importance of a united government effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus....

Trump and Biden have battled over the safety of Social Security funds during their presidential campaigns. Biden has claimed that Trump would bleed Social Security coffers dry within three years. Trump has said that Biden attempted to cut both Medicare and Social Security during his decades in the Senate. “Joe Biden spent his entire time in the Senate—long, long days, hours, nights—working to cut your Social Security,” Trump said during Friday’s rally....

Christopher Miller, former acting secretary of defense, defended his response to the Capitol riot before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. He pushed back on beliefs that there were delays in the deployment of federal resources and told legislators he filled the request he received for National Guard members. That request came from Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who Miller said requested unarmed personnel to reinforce local law enforcement....

After briefly thanking those who’ve supported him, Trump transitioned focus to his perceived adversaries he deemed responsible for his impeachment by the House, including his former head of the nation’s top law enforcement agency. “Had I not fired James Comey—who was a disaster, by the way—it’s possible I wouldn’t even be standing here right now,” Trump told members of his administration and Republican lawmakers gathered at the White House....

In a Gravis Marketing poll released Wednesday, Biden was favored by 49 percent of North Carolina voters, 3 points ahead of Trump’s 46 percent. The poll was conducted among 614 likely voters on October 26 and October 27. Biden’s lead falls within the poll’s 4 percent margin of error. Former President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1956 win over Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson was the last time a Republican won a presidential election without winning North Carolina....

It was far from a perfect performance for the rookie, but he didn’t seem overly upset after the game — at least, not on account of his play. But one thing that did bother him during the contest: He couldn’t get Rams All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald to talk to him. Donald, who got a strip-sack on Tagovailoa’s first dropback, refused to respond to the rookie quarterback after he tried to chat him up....

Real Madrid’s match at Celta postponed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the decisive goal for the home side 10 minutes before the break, with Dortmund ultimately not needing to add to that. They should have, though, with Marco Reus particularly culpable for wasting several good opportunities and Tuchel took note. “We performed brilliantly for 90 minutes,” Tuchel told reporters. “We won 1-0 but it should have been 4-0. “We put in a superb display, showed great energy, defended at a really high level and our switch-play was outstanding....

Cavani missed Wednesday’s 4-1 win over Monaco due to injury, with the 32-year-old having been restricted to nine Ligue 1 appearances this season, scoring twice. His absence was not felt as Kylian Mbappe netted twice, with Neymar also on target from the spot and substitute Pablo Sarabia getting in on the act at Stade Louis II. With PSG’s first-choice front four of Neymar, Mbappe, Mauro Icardi and Angel Di Maria in such fine form, Cavani – the club’s record goalscorer – is reportedly keen on a move away from Parc des Princes this month....

Carlson criticized a transgender teacher and showed footage of her wearing large, prosthetic breasts. He also played clips of teachers talking about how they had discussed LGBTQ issues with their students and compared it to meeting a stranger in the park. “If you were walking through the park with your kids and a stranger came up and started talking to them, say to your fifth grader, your five-year-old, even your 14-year-old about sex, what would you do?...

England coach Stuart Lancaster will have to decide whether to keep faith with new star Billy Twelvetrees after Manu Tuilagi was declared fit for Sunday’s Six Nations clash against Ireland. With Tuilagi sidelined because of an ankle injury, Twelvetrees was handed his Test debut in Saturday’s Six Nations opener against Scotland and he seized the opportunity with an impressive performance in a 38-18 win. But Tuilagi has been declared fit to return to full training this week, meaning the centre is on course to feature at Lansdowne Road in Dublin this weekend although there is not such positive news about No8 Ben Morgan and his ankle injury....

“This was very clearly an act of war by this president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war from Congress, clearly violating the Constitution,” Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat who is running for president, said on Fox & Friends. “It further escalates this tit for tat that’s going on and on and on, will elicit a very serious response from Iran, and [pushes] us deeper and deeper into this quagmire....

“We need you to be the president who has the vision and courage to move us into a 21st century of peace and prosperity; ratchet down the new Cold War with Russia and China, replacing the policy of confrontation with cooperation, so we can work together addressing issues affecting all of humanity, such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, terrorism, and human trafficking,” Gabbard said in a video posted to her Facebook page on Wednesday....

“My friend is sick, has had contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. He’s at Urgent Care Hawaii to get tested & was rejected, saying he doesn’t meet the criteria. In the hour he’s been there, three other sick people were turned away,” Gabbard tweeted on Friday afternoon. In her post, she tagged the social media accounts for the Hawaii government, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....

Trump is slated to take the stage Saturday in Conroe, Texas, at around 7 p.m. local time, with the “Save America Rally” expected to draw thousands of supporters to the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. A number of those in attendance promoted conspiracy theories, while others sold unique pro-Trump items and waved large banners and flags in support of the former president. A woman selling a book archiving all of Trump’s old tweets lamented the fact that the former president has been permanently banned from the social media platform....

Making the rounds ahead of the hotly contested midterm elections, Trump spoke at a rally in Minden, Nevada, to help support GOP Senate candidate, Adam Laxalt, and gubernatorial candidate, Joe Lombardo. He discussed numerous things during his speech, notably insisting that investigations should be launched into numerous other former presidents, and Hillary Clinton, for allegedly mishandling documents themselves. During his speech, Trump made claims about how the late former President George H....

Speaking to CNN Newsroom for a Monday interview, Wertish admitted that he and many other farmers have supported Trump’s desire to hold China to account for its trade practices. However, he argued that the approach of using tariffs has had a “devastating” impact on farmers and communities in rural America. “It already has driven some farmers off the farm, which not only hurts the farming community but it hurts rural – small rural communities,” he explained....

“Of course it’s a pandemic. There’s a definition of a pandemic and that is a virus that is raging across the world, and this clearly is doing that,” Giroir told CNN’s John Berman on Wednesday morning. “We have hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, we’ll have millions of people around the world. This is not phony, this is not fake. It is serious.” Giroir’s comments come as the U.S. reported nearly 200,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday during the nation’s unprecedented surge in infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University....

Sanders gained a reputation for bending the truth or outright lying during her tenure as Trump’s White House press secretary, a role she recently swapped for Fox News contributor. But she slammed the news media for allegedly “making stuff up” in its reporting on Trump. Among the reports she cited was CNN on the alleged extraction of a CIA asset from Russia over concerns about Trump’s relationship with Putin, and Politico on the unorthodox refueling stopovers by the U....

The Houston event took place at the Toyota Center, which purportedly has capacity for up to 19,000 attendees. Photos and video shared by Houston Chronicle reporter Jeremy Wallace showed the upper sections of the stadium with many open seats, as well as quite a few empty chairs on the main floor about five minutes before the event was set to begin. “Lots of room to spread out,” Wallace wrote in a Saturday tweet, sharing images of the crowd size....