Our new polls have President Trump leading joe biden in one of those crucial three states on the question of the economy. If President Trump today was in wilmington, North Carolina, to celebrate that citys military heritage on the anniversary of the end of the second world war. Biden was in another wilmington, wilmington, delaware, where he took questions for the first time in a while and one about his comments concerning the pandemic. With fox team coverage, correspondent peter doocy with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware, but we begin with correspondent kevin corke at the white house tonight. Good evening, kevin. Evening, bret. With mailin voting set to begin early as next week, you could argue the president s visit there was little more than political theater, but white house officials insist a chance to think the greatest generation for their heroism in world war ii, regardless of location, it was simply too good to pass up. As president ial backdrops go, it was about as g
Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Thank you so much for joining us. U. S. President donald trump is expected to nominate federal Appeals Court judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace ruth baiter ginsburg at the Supreme Court. Thats according to multiple sources. The president said he will make a formal announcement of his choice on saturday. For more on barrett, heres cnns pam brown. Reporter cnn has learned that President Trump intends to pick Amy Coney Barrett for his replacement for the Supreme Court. The republican allies are told by the white house this is who the president wants. That announcement is expected to be made later this evening, around 5 00 p. M. Eastern time. Amy Coney Barrett was seen as a frontrunner from the getgo. She was interviewed by the president for the last Supreme Court vacancy that ultimately went to justice kavanaugh. She has conservative credenti credentials. She has seven children and one with down syndrome, and two adoptive children from haiti. She
Thousands of protesters in bangkok defy a ban on gatherings and clash with police armed with batons and water cannon. A man has been killed in a knife attack in a suburb northwest of the french capital, paris. Police then shot and killed the suspected attacker near the scene. Reports suggest the victim said to be a teacher was beheaded. Lets speak to our correspondent in paris hugh schofield. Just bring us up to date with the details we know just just bring us up to date with the details we knowjust far of this. Everything tends to be hard to verify, the port that he was beheaded, thats what the report said. The police have not officially set it but its been reported widely on the media. The certainly been reported that the victim was a history teacher from a college, a middle school. And in a suburb about ten miles, or 15 km northwest of the centre of paris. Around 5pm this afternoon he was presumably on his way out of school and attacked on the street by another man, and with a knife
In arizona where hes expected any moment. And the family who died when a boat carrying migrants sink in the English Channel have been named. Their is month old son is still missing. Welcome to our viewers around of the globe. Countries are scrambling to contain a second wave of coronavirus. In the past couple of hours, germany has announced a new lockdown. This was the chancellor earlier. Translation today has been a difficult day for us today has been a difficult day for us to make these political decisions. I want to stress that because we know what we are asking of the public. But we have find a way to ensure we avoid a national emergency. Heres jenny hill in berlin on what that now means. Angela merkel has left us in no doubt as to the gravity of the situation here in germany where the numbers remain low, but theyre rising very quickly indeed. As of monday, pubs, restaurants, leisure facilities, arts facilities, theatres, museums will all close for theatres, museums will all close
Boys kidnapped from a boarding school in the country last friday. A Chinese Space capsule has successfully returned with the first samples of moon rock in more than forty years. A court in paris has found 1a people guilty of being linked to the three islamist extremists who carried out attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and a jewish supermarket, nearly six years ago. 17 people were killed. The longest sentences, of 30 years, were given to a close friend of one of the attackers and his former girlfriend who is believed to be in syria. Our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been following the case. This trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. Those in the Public Gallery today better known than those in the dock. Arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine Charlie Hebdo, the two key targets in the attacks. The harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks.