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Capital Journal
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Good morning from the WSJ Washington bureau.
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Breaking: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the U.S. will ban downloads of the video-sharing app TikTok and the U.S. use of the popular messaging and electronic payment app WeChat after Sunday night.
Trump Campaign: President Trump campaigns in Minnesota tonight, and Vice President Mike Pence participates in roundtable with the LIBRE Initiative and attends a Veterans for Trump event in Arizona.
Biden Campaign: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Union Training Center in Duluth, Minn. Sen. Kamala Harris participates in the Black Women's Agenda 43rd Annual Symposium.
Middle East: Five countries are seriously considering normalizing relations with Israel, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said. He declined to identify what countries would join the deal.
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The development of a Covid-19 vaccine—and whether Americans will take it once it is authorized—has been caught up in partisan politics. PHOTO: CHANDAN KHANNA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
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A debate over the safety and timing of the Covid-19 vaccine has become a flashpoint in the presidential campaign and in a Senate race that could determine control of the chamber next year, report Kristina Peterson and Andrew Duehren. The fight also could have broad ramifications on the national discussion shaping people’s willingness to get a vaccine once it is available.
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President Trump unveiled $13 billion in new aid to farmers facing economic harm from the coronavirus pandemic as he aimed to boost support among rural voters at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin, report Andrew Restuccia and Jesse Newman.
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As Democrats eye the use of executive-branch power in the Treasury Department, Trump administration tax rules for investment in low-income communities, politically active nonprofit groups and multinational corporations could be reversed or changed under a Biden presidency, Richard Rubin reports.
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Washington Wire: Twitter's warning labels, most prominently used for posts by President Trump, have easy workarounds; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans layoffs, and more in Gabriel T. Rubin's column.
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WSJ has launched a series of policy explainers comparing where President Trump and Joe Biden stand on key issues ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Here are the first in the series.
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Ex-Model Amy Dorris has accused Mr. Trump of sexually assaulting her in 1997. A legal adviser to the Trump campaign said in a statement that the allegations were “totally false.”
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Pennsylvania’s highest court has extended the state’s deadline for accepting mail-in ballots.
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Biden Takes Aim at Trump on Social Security
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A recent ad by Joe Biden’s campaign attacks President Trump’s payroll tax plan, saying it will deplete Social Security funds. But both parties’ allegiance to preserving Social Security means Mr. Trump is unlikely to do that.
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Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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Latest Numbers
30,205,908 cases world-wide and 946,685 deaths.
6,676,410 cases in the U.S. and 197,655 deaths.
Source: Johns Hopkins University, as of 8 a.m. ET.
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State health authorities are concerned that the administration hasn’t resolved critical issues with its Covid-19 vaccine distribution plans, complicating their efforts to deliver any shots that get cleared for use to those most in need, report Peter Loftus and Jared S. Hopkins.
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U.S. hospitals expect to be better prepared if a second wave of Covid-19 cases hits in coming months.
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A study of Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine could yield a preliminary answer about whether the shot works safely as early as October, its chief executive said.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) indicated Thursday that Democrats weren’t about to lower their estimate of how much coronavirus aid is needed. PHOTO: MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/ZUMA PRESS
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Lawmakers are aiming to unveil Friday a bipartisan spending bill averting a government shutdown next month, but Democrats and Republicans remain at an impasse over another round of coronavirus relief, report Kristina Peterson and Siobhan Hughes.
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House Democrats delayed a vote to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level after an outcry from centrist lawmakers who want the caucus to keep the focus on coronavirus relief as the election looms, report Madeleine Ngo and Natalie Andrews.
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The Justice Department's second-in-command told federal prosecutors to consider charging violent demonstrators with sedition, issuing a formal memo a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General William Barr had strongly urged them to bring such prosecutions, reports Sadie Gurman.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray highlighted concerns about white supremacists and Russia’s meddling in the presidential election to hurt Joe Biden in a wide-ranging hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, reports Rachael Levy.
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The U.S. Education Department has launched a civil-rights investigation of Princeton University after the school’s president said the institution has a long history of racism, reports Douglas Belkin.
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Backers of plans for Oracle Corp. to join with TikTok to create a new U.S. company are working on a new ownership structure. Under the latest iteration, Oracle and Walmart Inc. could together own a significant stake, which could put majority ownership in U.S. hands, report Sarah Nassauer, Michael C. Bender and Andrew Restuccia.
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Mr. Trump has expressed discomfort with any agreement that leaves TikTok owner ByteDance with majority ownership.
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The terms will need the approval of both Mr. Trump and Chinese authorities.
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Vitamin seller GNC won court approval to sell itself to China’s Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, despite national-security concerns raised by Sen. Marco Rubio, reports Peg Brickley.
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Joe Biden's campaign is concerned about his weakness among Black and Hispanic men. (Politico)
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A new coronavirus test, still in the research stage, could be cheap enough that people could test themselves every day. (Broad Institute)
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The Covid-19 lockdown has caused a $716 million writedown in the value of Queen Elizabeth's vast real estate holdings. (Forbes)
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