
President Trump and Joe Biden target battleground states, schools weigh plans for rapid COVID-19 tests, and 6 ways small businesses can boost holiday sales in 2020 amid the pandemic.

President Trump and Joe Biden target battleground states, schools weigh plans for rapid COVID-19 tests, and 6 ways small businesses can boost holiday sales in 2020 amid the pandemic.

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why it has to be Joe, green innovation (14:35) and the fight against Mexico’s Coca-Cola habit (20:10). Zanny Minton Beddoes hosts.

The weekend’s top news under scrutiny by Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, Rob Cox and Benno Zogg, with commentary from our editors in London and Tokyo. Plus: Christoph Amend of ‘ZEITmagazin’.

DW Radio News 24/7 reports: Death toll from earthquake in Turkey rises, a third man is arrested in terror attack in Nice, France, and other top world news.
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the closing campaign strategies of President Trump and Joe Biden, the potential influence of the Supreme Court with the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett and predictions for election results.

Just this year alone, the pandemic and social justice movements have dramatically changed the trajectory of the election. So today, we’re taking a moment to acknowledge what’s different – whether it comes to what our country looks like, who is voting and how the last eight months have shaped this historic election.
Guests: Axios’ Margaret Talev, Chris Jackson, senior vice president of Ipsos Public Polling, and Mark Hugo Lopez, director of global migration and demography research at Pew Research Center.
The Trump and Biden campaigns are both spending hundreds of millions of dollars nationally on broadcast TV advertisements. FiveThirtyEight elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich looks at which states are seeing the biggest ad buys.
Website: http://fivethirtyeight.com/

Supreme Court declines to disturb ballot deadlines in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in southeastern Louisiana, and Colorado firefighters battling wildfire leave apology note after cutting fence to save home.
A look at how the voting system for the US presidential election works, as the candidate with the most votes is far from guaranteed victory.
Read more here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo…

NPR News Now reports: More than 71 million Americans have voted early, President Trump and Joe Biden on campaign trail, and other top news.