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Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

By The New York TimesUpdated October 18, 2020, 12:06 A.M. E.T.

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	Total reported	On Oct. 17	14-day change
Cases	8.1 million	52,774	+28%
Deaths	219,173	679	+1%

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At least 679 new coronavirus deaths and 52,774 new cases were reported in the United States on Oct. 17. Over the past week, there have been an average of 56,210 cases per day, an increase of 28 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Sunday morning, more than 8,143,300 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 219,100 have died, according to a New York Times database

Know Your Audience > Follow-The-Money In Political Ad Spending

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Flush With Cash, Biden Eclipses Trump in War for the Airwaves

ByNick Corasaniti, Weiyi Cai and Denise LuOct. 17, 2020

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President Trump is being vastly outspent by Joseph R. Biden Jr. in television advertising in the general election battleground states and elsewhere, with the former vice president focusing overwhelmingly on the coronavirus as millions of Americans across the country begin casting early votes

 

Debate: American Police Reform

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Debate #1 - Defund the Police: https://youtu.be/rbBPR2pOWWE?t=293 Debate #2 - Police Unions Do More Harm Than Good: https://youtu.be/rbBPR2pOWWE?t=1686 Debate #3 - The Police Have Become Too Militarized: https://youtu.be/rbBPR2pOWWE?t=3347 Historic protests calling for police reform have erupted across the nation. But just what could these reforms mean? And how should we see the criminal justice system today? Staged in our “Unresolved” format, this debate brings together five experts to tackle pressing questions on the history and future of policing in the U.S. including: Should we defund the police? Do police unions do more harm than good? And who should regulate the nation's law enforcement? Paul Butler - Former Federal Prosecutor & Professor, Georgetown Law Jason Johnson - President, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund Rafael Mangual - Deputy Director of Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute Sue Rahr - Former Sheriff, King County Vikrant Reddy - Senior Research Fellow, Charles Koch Institute =================================== Cast Your Vote: http://www.iq2vote.org Subscribe: http://bit.ly/IQ2onYouTube Official site: https://www.iq2us.org IQ2US Twitter: http://bit.ly/IQ2Twitter IQ2US Facebook: http://bit.ly/IQ2onFacebook

Notre Dame Faculty Sign Open Letter Urging Judge Barrett To Halt Her Nom...

The right thing to do - PAUSE - it's an audacious request to put country over everything else
John Duffy, a Notre Dame English Professor of 22 years, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss an open letter he drafted that was signed by nearly 100 of his colleagues urging Judge Amy Coney Barrett to halt her nomination process. He explains that "We are not asking her to withdraw. We are simply asking her to pause and to let the election play out and then to be guided by its results." Aired on 10/15/2020.

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We Are Entering Another Period of Revolution, Says Summers

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Oct.16 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor and adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, says that concerns about deflationary pressures reflect a new paradigm. He joins David Westin on "Bloomberg Wall Street Week."

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Election 2020: what the data tell us | The Economist

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•Oct 16, 2020

The presidential election has been transformed by data. From key swing states and early voting to voter suppression and possible election-night chaos, 

Elliott Morris, our data journalist and election guru, discusses his polling predictions and answers your questions about the 2020 race for the White House. > Register for our free webinar Trump v Biden: what it means for the economy: https://subscriberevents.economist.com/ 00:00 - An unprecedented election 00:35 - Why should we trust election predictions? 02:03 - How will the pandemic affect election predictions? 03:04 - Voter turnout in swing states 03:55 - Why we don’t use early voting data in our forecast 05:14 - Mail-in ballot rejection rates 07:38 - How long can we expect to wait for the results? 08:42 - Could the results flip after all mail-in ballots are counted? 09:39 - Will Americans accept the election result? Further reading: > Find the Economist’s coverage of the US elections here: https://www.economist.com/us-election... Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter to keep up to date with our latest US election coverage: https://econ.st/3l79OHi Find The Economist’s most recent coverage of covid-19 here: https://econ.st/2CQRUr2 Sign up to The Economist’s weekly “Checks and Balance” newsletter to keep up to date with our coverage of American politics: https://econ.st/3l5C4dl Read about concerns surrounding voter suppression in America: https://econ.st/3do8tII Why Amy Coney Barrett’s supreme court nomination is so contentious: https://econ.st/3lLyhRT Read about how religious partisanship is influencing American politics: https://econ.st/2SUKnvS Read about the foreign and domestic risks that plague America’s 2020 elections: https://econ.st/3nPbKFJ

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