(NY Times) - A lifelong Republican and a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Taylor took a leave of absence from his job at Google this summer to campaign for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Miles Taylor blatantly lied to CNN's Anderson Cooper when the anchor asked Taylor, “Are you anonymous?”

 

10/29/2020 Clear. Concise. Critical Stories.   TODAY IN HISTORY: 1998 Senator John Glenn, Jr. heads back into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery at the age of 77. Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. He served as part of a NASA study on health problems associated with aging, during the nine-day mission.     Hello Middle Americans! How’s everyone doing? The margins are razor thin right now, with just five days left until election day. But what is election day really, more of an idea than an actual thing, according to democrats. And 2020’s emphasis on mail-in voting is going to mean America has to do something we have proven we can’t really do. Wait patiently and hold our collective sh!t together while the “experts” try to sort things out. Read all about  - Fraser Dixon When will we know the results ?2020 Presidential Race – 5 Days left (USA Today)  - With less than a week until Election Day, Democratic nominee Joe Biden maintains a polling lead over President Donald Trump nationally and in key battleground states, but as Hillary Clinton learned four years ago, the only thing that matters is reaching 270 electoral votes. PA Won’t Start Counting Mail-in Ballots Right Away (CNN) - Pennsylvania's counties have starkly different plans for when they will begin processing their pre- Election Day ballots, with Democratic strongholds moving to get them counted as quickly as possible while other areas plan to tally in-person votes first. Miles Who ? Remember “Anonymous” – The Senior WH official blabbing to The NY Times? (NY Times)  - A lifelong Republican and a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Taylor took a leave of absence from his job at Google this summer to campaign for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Miles Taylor blatantly lied to CNN's Anderson Cooper when the anchor asked Taylor,  “Are you anonymous?” Another Major Win in the Fight Against International Sex Trafficking (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - In Ohio - More than a hundred victims rescued. More than 170 people now facing charges  Big Tech – The Nerve of These guys Jack, Zuck, and the Google guy warn congress not to mess with their monopolies As the Senate Tries to hold them accountable. (Yahoo News) - Just days before the presidential election, the chief executives of three leading technology firms — Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Google’s parent company — testified before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on their efforts to combat misinformation and prevent bias from taking root in their content-moderation efforts. Biden vs. Trump on Immigration – what happens after election day? (The Guardian) - The architect of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy, senior adviser Stephen Miller, is said to have a drawer full of executive orders ready to be signed in “shock and awe” style if Trump is re-elected. The former homeland security department chief of staff Miles Taylor said this wishlist was reserved for the second term because it included policies that were too unpopular for a president seeking re-election. Violence in Philly: The Aftermath, the city remains under a curfew The Looooong Arrest record of Walter Wallace (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - Police were called dozens of times in recent months about problems at Walter Wallace Jr.’s home, and had responded twice on Monday to reports of disturbances at the West Philadelphia house before two officers answered a third call and shot him as he approached them with a knife, according to law enforcement sources. Hurricane Zeta’s Aftermath More than a million people are without power today, and the storm is not done yet.(Weather Channel) -  Zeta is now charging across the Deep South bringing damaging wind gusts and heavy rainfall. The hurricane made landfall as a strong Category 2 near Cocodrie, Louisiana on Terrebonne Bay late Wednesday afternoon.   THIS WEEK'S POLL Should Mike Pence Self-Quarantine?. A: Yes B: No Vote Now