THE BIG STORY The election that continues to happen
Nobody knows when it will be safe to eat in a busy restaurant, or when the next NBA game will actually happen. But we all know what we'll be doing in the first week of November: having a federal election. How is that going to work, exactly?
A lot is still up in the air, but one assumption is that a lot more people, especially the elderly or those with medical conditions, are going to want to vote by mail rather than wait in line at a polling place. But if that's really the plan, we're running out of time to make it happen, Dominic Holden reports. Crucial decisions need to be made soon — within the coming weeks in some cases — if we want mail-in voting to be expanded in time for November.
"Every day they waffle on the decision, the harder it's going to be to pull it off in time," said Jeff Ellington, the president of Runbeck Election Services, which makes the equipment and software to manage mail-in elections. "The capacity is there right now, but the longer the decisions are delayed, the fewer and fewer options that will exist for states."
That might be just fine for many Republican lawmakers, given President Trump has urged them to "fight very hard" against mail-in elections, which some on the right fear will boost voter turnout in ways not favorable to their candidates. Earlier this month Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, speaking of efforts to expand mail-in voting, warned of a "liberal agenda...to take away the safeguards that ensure the integrity of the election process."
 Jason Redmond / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS How TV became a series of Zoom calls
You finish a long day at the home office, filled with endless video calls with colleagues, and kick back to watch the late night shows. And they're all video calls. One side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been a sweeping change in how TV production works, Krystie Lee Yandoli reports.
New segments for The Tonight Show, for example, are now being shot in Jimmy Fallon's house by his wife Nancy Juvonen, an accomplished TV producer, with regular cameos by Fallon's kids and Zoom interviews with celebrity guests. At first it was a chaotic, quasi-amateur affair, but it has become much slicker, according to Jamie Granet-Bederman, a producer on the show.
"We've looped in some more production people so it's definitely a lot better planned. We have real rundowns and more meetings that actually make sense," she said. "We have planning meetings, but at the end of the day, it is still Jimmy and an iPhone and his wife and him doing interviews on Zoom. Like, there's only so much the support staff can do when it's just him at the house doing it."
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Social distancing measures have made things harder for anti-government protesters around the world. But the protesters are getting creative.
Native American tribal governments say billions of dollars of coronavirus relief earmarked for them could be given to businesses instead. They're appealing to a federal court to prevent it.
A Republican state senator in Michigan has apologized for wearing a cloth face mask that appeared to have a confederate flag printed on it. "My actions were an error in judgment for which there are no excuses and I will learn from this episode," said State senator Dale Zorn.
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HOW TO PLAGUE Etiquette for a pandemicDo you need to wear a mask when you go out for a walk? What's the appropriate response to a public cougher? And do you re-invite everyone to a wedding that got rescheduled — even the ones who didn't RSVP the first time around? All these questions, and more, are answered in today's edition of How to Plague, BuzzFeed News' new advice column for these incredibly confusing times. We'll answer all your coronavirus etiquette questions and ethical dilemmas, and when we don't have a good answer, we'll ask the experts. Do you have a question you want answered? Let it rip. BuzzFeed News / Getty Images MALUMA He's the unapologetic horniness we need right now
The Colombian pop star Maluma "may not be the biggest name in the US pop landscape yet, but he certainly has a big following," writes Pier Dominguez. "From the way he crosses his legs to the way he kisses his mom, his social media feed is almost always news. The shirtless gym videos he posts on Instagram regularly get millions of views. Gay Twitter and his fanbase, the Malumaniatikas, are obsessed with his every move."
He got the ultimate seal of horny approval last month: Calvin Klein put him in a new underwear campaign. He now has 50 million followers on Instagram and 23 million on YouTube.
"No importa lo que digas," Maluma sings in his hit "Mala Mía." "En el fondo, me quieren / Y por eso me imitan" — "I don't care what they say / In the end, they love me / And that's why they imitate me."
Learn from Maluma and imitate what you love today,
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