Race to the finish | Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads Trump in polls released yesterday, remaining ahead nationally and in battleground states. Still, the competition in many places remains extremely close. Attention is turning to whether Trump might declare victory before the results are clear, with Biden warning him against doing so and condemning an incident in Texas where Trump supporters harassed one of his campaign vehicles on an interstate highway. Behind the curtain | From the pandemic's earliest days, Trump was of two minds on Covid-19. In public he was dismissive and belittling of the virus, and those who feared it. In private, for all his bravado, he acted like a man who dreaded catching it. Jennifer Jacobs offers an inside look at the president's divergent attitudes and how they paved the way for the White House outbreak that shaped the closing days of the campaign. Campaign 2020 Some members of Trump's cabinet will gather at his Washington hotel tomorrow night to watch election results, Jacobs reports. Click here for an hour-by-hour guide on what to look for as voters choose a president, decide who controls the Senate, pick their House representatives and weigh in on local races and referendums on specific policy issues. Other developments Don't miss the biggest election headlines as they happen. Download Bloomberg's app for Android or for iOS and turn on push notifications. Making progress | British and European Union officials are moving closer to resolving an eight-month deadlock over one of the biggest obstacles to a post-Brexit trade deal. As Ian Wishart reports, a compromise is emerging on the access EU boats will have to U.K. fishing waters, raising the chances of an overall agreement by the mid-November deadline. Courting the right | When a jihadist killed three people in a church on France's Cote d'Azur, far-right leader Marine Le Pen called for foreigners suspected of extremism to be deported and for a ban on groups that support radical ideology. But, as Ania Nussbaum explains, Le Pen barely made a splash: President Emmanuel Macron had beaten her to it, prompting fears that Macron could legitimize the hardest right-wing policy stances. Battle lines redrawn | As troops in the Himalayas hunker down for the brutal winter, the outcome of the worst clashes in decades is becoming clear: China has pushed further into territory once patrolled exclusively by India. The fighting has seen India lose control of about 300 square kilometers of land across a freezing high-altitude desert, raising tensions to their highest since the countries fought a brief war in the area six decades ago. What to Watch This WeekThanks to all who responded to our pop quiz Friday and congratulations to Mond Mckenzie, who was the first to correctly name Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the leader who initially called for a boycott of French goods over Macron's stance on Muslims. And finally ... It has the world's worst public transport system and now Pakistan's financial hub of Karachi is attempting to modernize. Home to the country's main ports and regional company headquarters, the city relies on decades-old, overcrowded buses that use the roof as a second deck for passengers. Railway tracks have become illegal slums. As Faseeh Mangi reports, the government has pledged $6.8 billion for a development package — but that's more than Pakistan as a whole received from the International Monetary Fund to avoid bankruptcy. Passengers travel on the rooftop of a bus past an elevated corridor of the Green Line Bus Rapid Transit System in Karachi. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg |
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