Joe Biden, the Democratic former vice president who has spent a half century in public life, has held a consistent lead over President Donald Trump in national opinion polls

Trump later told supporters at his campaign HQ: ‘Winning is easy. Losing is never easy’

Figure is lower than 26.6% peak during last spring’s lockdown

Slowdown in new cases may have halted, report warns ■ Cabinet increases fines for violators ■ Active cases drop below 10,000 ■ Clinical trials for Israeli vaccine begin

My daughter’s question haunted me: Our sense of safety has been deeply shaken over the last four years. That’s why, as an African-American Jew, backing Biden is one of the easiest choices I’ve ever made

UAE counter-terror chief: The West sees freedom of speech as sacred. For Muslims, respect for the Prophet is sacred, too. There needs to be dialogue, and action: Muslims need to integrate. Europe needs to respect Islam

The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel’s territorial maximalists, is a sad tale of indifference to human suffering

‘May He who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ... bless the good name Donald John, son of Fred Trump’