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Just days before Election Day, both President Trump and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst have pulled ahead of their Democratic challengers in the assessment of Iowa voters, a new poll shows. Trump now leads Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the Hawkeye State by 7 percentage points, 48%-41%, according to the latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll, the newspaper reported Saturday. In the previous poll in September, Trump and Biden were tied, each drawing support from 47% of voters, the report said. The latest results followed a visit to Iowa by the president in mid-October, the Register reported, noting that Trump...

President Donald Trump traveled across Pennsylvania on Saturday, holding several large-scale rallies in defiance of public health guidance during which he leveled baseless claims of election fraud - and made no secret of the importance the state holds for his reelection hopes. “If we win Pennsylvania, it’s over,” Trump told several thousand supporters gathered at an airport hangar in Reading. “It’s over. Let’s do it.” Over the course of four appearances, Trump laid out a closing argument of sorts, although hardly a new one. He played down the pandemic a day after coronavirus cases reached new highs, attacked Joe Biden...

Sydney - Artificial Intelligence tanks, fly by wire planes, drones, weapons systems, you name it; they’re here, and the question is what they can do. A lot of facts are forming a rather large mess. Nobody’s too sure where AI weapons will go. The sheer volume of rhetoric and shill-like babble about military AI is already gigantic. The constant stream of new AI in military roles is making headlines every day. Everyone has an opinion; answers to questions, maybe not. The likely effect of super-lethal AI-operated weapons is one of those questions. “Slaughter” is the more usual answer. This is...

2 workers risked their lives on frontlines to provide critical health services to vulnerable Somali children, UN says The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed Tuesday that two frontline workers were killed in a militant attack in Mogadishu. The UN said the polio workers risked their lives to provide critical health services to vulnerable Somali children and offered condolences to the families. ”I offer my sincere condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of two polio workers who were killed in Somalia earlier today. UNICEF condemns the attack in the strongest terms. Humanitarian workers are not a target,” UNICEF Executive...

Using intimidation and violence, Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab raises as much revenue as the country's authorities, a report says. The militants collect at least $15m (£11m) a month, with more than half the amount coming from the capital, Mogadishu, the Hiraal Institute said. Some businesses pay both the jihadists and the internationally recognised government. Al-Shabab has been fighting that government for more than a decade. The group controls much of southern and central Somalia but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in Mogadishu. The report describes as "brutal" the way the...

There has been a recent spurt in militant attacks on BJP leaders in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the past one year period. In the latest attack, militants in Kulgam on Thursday killed three BJP workers, including Fida Hussian, a 29-year-old general secretary of its youth wing, and two other supporters in their early 20s. The police said that the militants had arrived in the village of Yar Khusipora in an Alto and intercepted the car carrying the three BJP men. They opened indiscriminate fire, leaving them wounded. Later, all three succumbed to their injuries. The Kulgam...

Multiple videos posted to social media on Saturday morning apparently show Trump supporters in trucks and cars harassing a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign bus in Texas, causing the campaign to cancel a planned event in Central Texas. A Biden campaign spokesperson told Forbes that the Trump supporters “attempted to slow the bus down and run it off the road.” And one local Democratic Party leader, Katie Naranjo, tweeted photos and said Trump supporters “followed the Biden bus throughout central Texas” and “ran into a person’s car, yelling curse words and threats.” Texas state legislator Sheryl Cole said that...

Son of terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi among those hurt, all said to be teens; 1 in serious condition, 2 moderately wounded; IDF says troops opened fire as vehicle sped toward them Israeli troops opened fire on a Palestinian car overnight Thursday-Friday after a homemade bomb was thrown from the vehicle at a junction manned by soldiers in the central West Bank, the army said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces said soldiers responded after the “improvised explosive device” was thrown from the speeding car. “The soldiers blocked the road to stop the terrorist cell. The car accelerated in their...

A senior Abu Sayyaf militant suspected of planning a 2018 suicide bomb attack on Basilan Island in the southern Philippines was killed in a firefight with government forces last month, the military belatedly confirmed Friday. Officials disclosed the news of Furuji Indama’s death a day after a suspected militant, identified as Botak Kerok and who was believed to be his close aide, was killed during a firefight in Ungkaya Pukan, a remote town on Basilan. “Furuji Indama was killed on September 9 by the tracking forces following their initial encounter,” a few days earlier, Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, commander of...

November 1 2020 Solemnity of All Saints Thirtieth First Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 667 Reading 1 RV 7:2-4, 9-14 I, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and...

Democrats are anxious about Pennsylvania and a “potential late shift” towards President Donald Trump that could threaten their narrow lead, according to the Washington Post on Sunday. The concern was embodied in what the Post called a “last-minute, two-day blitz” for Biden in the state, as Trump held four rallies in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The paper reported: Most Democrats still believe Biden will capture Pennsylvania, and he maintains a modest polling lead there, but their confidence has eroded in recent weeks with emerging signs of a tightening contest in the state, according to elected officials, strategists and party activists. Both...

Had to download ballot request form , copy , fill out and post from Japan . Nothing . Contacted them and they " said " it was sent . The Japanese don't lose mail . Most reliable postal service in the world methinks . Anyway , couldn't vote for Trump , sadly .

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Gingrich: ‘Left Is Going To Be Terribly Shocked” “He has a better likelihood than he did at this stage in 2016 when he was clearly behind and closing rapidly,” Gingrich said. “The people I trust the most, the pollsters that have been the most accurate over the last 5 or 6 years who seem to understand the dynamics of the age of Trump.” “I saw today the first electoral college map that made sense to me and it showed Trump at 326 electoral votes plus,” Gingrich said. “I think that is probably about right. I think the left is going...

As crazy as that sounds, they already proved it is feasible.

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn Trump leads the final Selzer poll of Iowa by 7 points, 48 to 41. That's the same margin as their final poll four years ago, which wound up foreshadowing Trump's Midwestern sweep See link to poll: https://mobile.twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1322682963402915841

Downtown San Francisco storefronts are boarding up ahead of Election Day in anticipation of looting and rioting. Landlords are preparing for potential unrest only months after people flooded streets to protest the killing of George Floyd. Most marched peacefully, but some opportunistic vandals engaged in violent activity and looting in Union Square. The hope is similar lawlessness won't flare up after the election, but just in case, buildings along Market Street, from the Salesforce Tower to San Francisco Centre, are covered in massive pieces of plywood. On Friday afternoon, Macy's on Union Square was already fully covered and a crew...

Rugby fans hailed an African singer's version of the Australian national anthem at the Bledisloe Cup the 'best ever'. David Nduwimana sang Advance Australia Fair before the third match of the rugby series between the Australian Wallabies and New Zealand All Blacks at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night. His passionate rendition of the anthem had the Wallabies up in arms and roaring the lyrics before their clash with their arch rivals. 'Can this man always sing the anthem please?' one tweet reads. 'How awesome to see ALL our Wallabies singing their National Anthem!' another wrote. 'Took an African to correctly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEet5pip1X8 tearjerker, gotta watch - 2.21 minutes

PollWatch @PollWatch2020 "BIDEN FADES", "TRUMP TAKES OVER" IN IOWA ACCORDING TO NEW DES MOINES REGISTER/MEDIACOM POLL (TRUMP +7) Trump 48 Biden 41 "Trump wins back independents" Sept poll was 47-47 (814 Likely Voters) (conducted by Selzer & Co.)