Top of the Fold

• Handmaid’s Fail: Senate confirms originalist Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 and adjourns until after the election (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Supreme Court rightly rejects late ballots in battleground Wisconsin (The Washington Free Beacon)

Leftmedia

• CNN and MSNBC skip historic Senate vote confirming ACB (Fox News)

• Media excuse Joe Biden’s mix-up: He was talking about George Lopez (The Daily Wire)

• Defund NPR: Man plots to kill Biden, NPR omits from story that he was a Bernie Bro with books on Islam (PJ Media)

Elsewhere in Politics

• COVID aid on hold until after the election (Bloomberg)

• Democrats who endeavor to pack the Supreme Court say Republicans will regret Barrett confirmation (Fox News)

• In new spin, Biden floats rotating SCOTUS justices if he’s elected (New York Post)

• Trump asks justices to block North Carolina mail-in ballot extension (National Review)

• Awkward: Biden unmentioned in Barack Obama’s telling of healthcare bill’s passage (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Biden draws bulk of fundraising support from wealthiest zip codes (National Review)

• Another rapper endorses Trump, rips Biden’s tax plan (Not the Bee)

• Hunter Biden sought to avoid registering as a foreign agent in Chinese business venture (The Daily Caller)

• Déjà vu: Polls in battleground states nearly identical to 2016 (The Daily Wire)

For the Record

• Biden cannot claim to fight for our nation’s soul while supporting unborn genocide (The Federalist)

• When Kamala Harris could have pushed to investigate police shootings, she didn’t (The Federalist)

Around the Nation

• Zeta becomes a hurricane as it takes aim at already hard-hit Louisiana (Washington Examiner)

• Utility says its equipment may have sparked California blaze that’s forcing large evacuations (AP)

• Fatal police shooting of a knife-wielding black man prompts heated protests in West Philly (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Man who bought firearms used in San Bernardino terrorist attack gets 20 years (The Daily Signal)

The Latest on COVID-19

• Cases are skyrocketing, but deaths are flat — so far (Time)

• Hospitalized patients already taking aspirin daily were 47% less likely to die of coronavirus (Daily Mail)

National Security

• In western Arizona, over a hundred miles of new border wall is getting results (Washington Examiner)

• Germany favors U.S. partnership to thwart Russia and China’s “global supremacy” quest (Washington Examiner)

• Six cases of Chinese infiltration of universities and research — and what Trump is doing about it (The Daily Signal)

• U.S. threatens to destroy Iranian missiles shipped to Venezuela (Fox News)

• Colleges hid more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding (The Washington Free Beacon)

Stranger Than Fiction

• Elton John gets his own Barbie doll (KTLA 5)

• KFC’s fried chicken-scented fire log is back (Best Products)

• Social media erupts over woman who focuses on getting her dad to vote for Biden while he’s literally dying (The Daily Wire)

• Billionaire Bill Gross allegedly blared “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on loop to annoy neighbor during dispute over sculpture (The Daily Caller)

Other Notables

• Fox announcers caught on live mic bashing military flyover said they were mimicking crew (Disrn)

• NASA discovers more water on the moon than previously thought (Disrn)

• Japan pledges to be carbon neutral by 2050 (NPR)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Biden’s energy agenda would destroy the American energy renaissance (National Review)

• Policy: It’s time to transform the U.S.-Japan alliance (American Enterprise Institute)

• Humor: Newly sworn-in ACB immediately orders all nation’s women to wear Handmaid’s outfit (The Babylon Bee)

• Related humor: Democrats ask ACB to recuse herself from any cases involving the Constitution (The Babylon Bee)

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