| A different race? | The enduring lesson of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was this: Don't count Trump out. Still, four years later, the president's path to re-election is narrowing as Biden's opinion poll lead grows and voters sour on the president's handling of the pandemic. Trump now trails Biden by an average of 9.7 percentage points nationally, and by about 5 to 7 points in battleground states. Campaign 2020 There are 25 days until the election. Here's the latest on the race for control of the White House and Congress. Trump's hospitalization for Covid-19 has led to a sharp, if temporary, drop in negative campaign ads. And with hearings on Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination set to begin Monday, Laura Litvan reports that Democrats plan to highlight how her confirmation could affect the fate of President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act. Other developments Sign up to receive daily election updates as a direct mobile notification on Twitter. Simply click on this link and like the tweet. Going slow | The coronavirus is forcing governments to reassess economic models, the provision of health-care and even the nature of city centers. It's also exposing vulnerabilities such as painfully slow Internet connections across much of Europe. In the U.K., where cases are surging, the government is running up against the limits of public tolerance, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing dissent over plans to impose more restrictions, Alex Morales and Emily Ashton report. Filling a void | China is joining a World Health Organization-backed effort to give lower-income countries the same access to vaccines as wealthier nations. The decision to participate in a program spurned by the Trump administration could help the country's image following widespread criticism over how it handled the initial outbreak in the central city of Wuhan.  Seeking control | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been open about his desire to oust the foreign owners from Budapest Airport, one of the world's fastest-growing mid-size hubs. Now that the pandemic has curbed airport valuations, his allies including partially state-owned refiner Mol, have submitted an unsolicited offer, sources say. Tightening control | Turkey is threatening Facebook with escalating fines and moves to slow the use of the platform if the company opts to flout a new law that could be used to stifle dissent. As Firat Kozok reports, the rules are designed to tighten control over social media by forcing companies to name a representative in Turkey and store some data from users on local servers. What to WatchPop quiz, readers (no cheating!). Name the governor of South Korea's most populous province who has risen to the top of preference polls to take over as president in 2022. Send your answer to balancepower@bloomberg.net. And finally ... Against all odds, the Mumbai slum of Dharavi — thought to be the most densely packed human settlement on Earth — has largely contained the coronavirus, in stark contrast to the disaster unfolding in the rest of India. Thanks to an aggressive response by local officials and the participation of residents, it's gone from an out-of-control outbreak to a late-September average of 1.3 cases per day for every 100,000 residents. But now its people need to survive an economic catastrophe, Ari Altstedter and Dhwani Pandya report.  Health workers check the body temperature of a fisherwoman in Dharavi on Aug. 24 Photographer: Indranil IMukherjee/AFP via Getty Images | 
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