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US Presidential elections 2020: Biden won't rule out studying court packing

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won't rule out studying the addition of members to the US Supreme Court as part of a commission he plans to name to look at court reforms if he's elected. During an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes" recorded Monday but not yet aired, Biden was asked by anchor Norah O'Donnell if the commission would study whether to pack the court. Biden says the commission's charge would go well beyond packing. Biden said last week he was not a fan of the idea of adding justices to the court to balance it ideologically. He said he would answer the question of whether he planned to support it before the final presidential debate, scheduled for Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee. Questions of whether Biden would support court-packing have emerged since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Sept. 18 and the Republican-controlled Senate's move forward with Judiciary Committee hearings on President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, before the Nov. 3

US elections: 5 questions as Trump and Biden prepare for final debate

Trump and Biden meet on the debate stage for the second and final time Thursday night in Tennessee. The 90-minute prime-time meeting comes just 12 days before Election Day

US elections: Officials link Iran to emails meant to intimidate voters

US officials accused Iran of being behind a flurry of emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple battleground states that appeared to be aimed at intimidating them into voting for Trump

US deserves to have Prez who understands dignity of people: Kamala Harris

The US deserves to have a president who understands the dignity of people and guides the country in a way that Americans can regain their standing and get closer to those ideals they hold, Harris said

I will deliver optimism, opportunity; Biden will bring in pessimism: Trump

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday told Americans that he will deliver optimism, opportunity and hope while his Democratic rival Joe Biden will bring in "pessimism, poverty and decline"

US elections: Obama, in pitch for Biden, urges Black men not to sit out

Barack Obama made his first in-person campaign pitch for Joe Biden, urging voters in Philadelphia especially Black men not to sit out the election and risk reelecting President Donald Trump

Joe Biden tied with Donald Trump in battleground state of Texas: Poll

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is tied with President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Texas, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed on Wednesday.

Must watch what we do to '60 Minutes', says US President Donald Trump

The interview is scheduled to be broadcast Sunday, but Trump threatened to release it in advance in a tweet

Donald Trump tends to his electoral map, Joe Biden eyes Obama boost

Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory

US election: Many Americans distrust campaign info amid stark divide

In a presidential election year that has thrown the country's divisions into stark relief, Americans can agree on this

US elections: Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign

US elections: Barack Obama to hold first in-person event for Joe Biden

Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden

US elections: Donald Trump says he could be 'king' of all fundraisers

Joe Biden is a "servant" of lobbyists and "Washington vultures" who got rich by bleeding America dry, US President Donald Trump has said

Trump says will win by 'bigger' margin, seeks 'thundering' defeat for Biden

Donald Trump has exuded confidence that he will win the November 3 election by a bigger margin than that of 2016 and urged his supporters to deliver a "thundering" defeat to Joe Biden

Trump campaign burned through almost half its cash in Sept, about $139.3 mn

Trump's campaign committee raised $83.1 million in September while spending $139.3 million, the filings showed

Trump abruptly ends TV interview, says considering posting video early

Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with a US-based news channel and said he is considering releasing a video of it ahead of the broadcast time for the "sake of accuracy in reporting".

US presidential election outcome won't affect ties with India: Official

A high-ranking US official said that he is optimistic that any possible outcome of election won't affect deepening ties with India because the relationship is much bigger than any one political party

Kamala Harris turns 56, Biden says wants to celebrate next birthday at WH

Kamala Harris turned 56 on Tuesday, with the party's presidential nominee Joe Biden greeting her on the big day, saying they would celebrate her next birthday at the White House

US polls: Trump pressures Barr to investigate Bidens as election nears

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation of Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department muddy his political opponent and abandon its historic resistance to getting involved in elections. With just two weeks to go before Election Day, Trump for the first time explicitly called on Barr to investigate the Bidens and even pointed to the nearing November 3 election as reason that Barr should not delay taking action. "We've got to get the attorney general to act," Trump said in an interview on "Fox & Friends." "He's got to act, and he's got to act fast. He's got to appoint somebody. This is major corruption, and this has to be known about before the election." Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University, suggested that Trump's pressure campaign on Barr has moved into uncharted territory for presidential politics. "The question is, Does Barr erode the .

US elections: Melania Trump nixes campaign trip due to cough from Covid

Melania Trump's return to the campaign trail will have to wait.