| Into the mix | Newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will immediately be embroiled in some of the nation's biggest legal battles, including cases that could determine whether the president who nominated her gets four more years in the White House. Barrett joins a court already deliberating voting disputes from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, two key battleground states. - The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed Barrett on an almost party-line 52-48 vote last night, solidifying a 6-3 conservative majority just eight days before the U.S. election.
Rallying cry | President Donald Trump's push for a second poll-defying victory is relying on a hallmark of his first: raucous campaign rallies that he sees as a crucial sign of voter enthusiasm. But, as Josh Wingrove reports, pollsters say the events may only be cementing his defeat. Campaign 2020 There's one week until the election. Here's the latest on the race for control of the White House and Congress. Trump held three rallies yesterday, all in Pennsylvania, with three more scheduled today and as many as five or six a day expected by the weekend. Democratic rival Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his campaign travel, with a visit today to newly competitive Georgia and a trip to Florida on Thursday, before heading to Iowa and Wisconsin on Friday. Other developments Don't miss the biggest U.S. election headlines as they happen. Download Bloomberg's app for Android or for iOS and turn on push notifications. Warning letter | More than 50 of U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's own Conservative members of Parliament have demanded a clear route out of lockdown for parts of northern Britain that helped give his party a majority in last year's election. In a letter, the lawmakers warned that Johnson's strategy of targeting local areas with virus restrictions is deepening a divide between the north and Britain's wealthier south.  A fishing trawler docked in the harbor in Port-en-Bessin, France, on Oct. 15. Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg The U.K.'s standoff with the European Union over fishing rights is also reaching a head. Macron looks prepared to put a Brexit deal at risk to protect French fishermen as the two sides try to hash out a trade deal in the next three weeks. Rudy Ruitenberg takes a closer look. Rescue mission | President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador bolstered his defense of Mexico's embattled state-run companies, calling private rivals hypocritical and floating a constitutional change to reverse the country's energy opening to investors from abroad. Accusing foreign companies of corruption, he vowed to take action to protect the state oil producer and electricity firm. Tanzania's 'bulldozer' | John Magufuli has deployed a two-pronged approach to his bid for re-election: Woo rural voters by pointing to all he's done for them and curb free speech to stymie opposition parties. The Tanzanian president is seeking a second term in a tight election tomorrow against opponents who are resurgent, despite a ban on their rallies fueling concern that the ballot won't be fair, Pauline Bax reports. What to Watch -
The drastic step that no European politician wanted to take again — economic lockdown — is back on the agenda as officials from Dublin to Prague grapple with the resurgent pandemic, and efforts to limit the virus's spread with softer measures fail. -
Hong Kong is drafting a law that would enable the city to make Covid-19 tests mandatory for people with symptoms and other specific groups, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced today. And finally ... Shivank Patel has been learning to write software code for a year, and he's already built a handful of apps, including one for donating food to street children. Patel, who's now working on a platform to help doctors track preterm babies, is 9 years old. As Saritha Rai reports, online coding classes for India's elementary-school students were taking off even before the pandemic, driven by parents who think programming is as essential as writing and arithmetic.  Coding teacher Jatinder Kaur gives an online class at her home in New Delhi on Sept. 7. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg | 
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