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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Sunday that he would meet with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump ’s Supreme Court nominee, and would ask her whether she was willing to recuse herself from cases relating to the 20

The presidential race is heating up between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, as they continue to battle just two weeks before Election Day. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) will mute both candidates during the two-minute response times allotted to their opponents for commenting on topics for Thursday's final debate in Nashville, Tenn.Election DayPresidential ElectionMobile UsersNashvillePresidential RacePresidential DebatesPresident TrumpHeatingCPDTenn.Joe BidenDonald TrumpRead Full Story

Donald Trump has lashed out at Republican senators distancing themselves from him as the party’s tensions were laid bare in public with election day now just two weeks away. The US president appeared to dub Republican critics “stupid” at a rally on Sunday after a slew of the party’s congressmen publicly expressed displeasure with aspects of Mr Trump's leadership.Republican SenatorsElection DayUnited StatesPresidentRepublicansRepublican AttacksStupid PeopleFort Worth Star-TelegramRepublican CriticsMr TrumpMr CornynPolitical StrategistsTight Re-election BattlesDictatorsRallyDonald TrumpBen SasseBob CorkerJohn CornynJeff FlakeJoe BidenAnthony FauciRead Full Story

Armstrong Flooring (NYSE:AFI) appoints Amy Peacock Trojanowski as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 19, 2020. Most recently, Ms. Trojanowski served as vice president, Business Finance and Global Services, at the Chemours Company, Wilmington, DE, where she led all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, planning and analysis for the company.Corporate FinanceVPNYSEChief Financial OfficerArmstrong FlooringNew York Stock ExchangeAmy TrojanowskiWilmingtonSenior Vice PresidentCompany PresidentInterim PresidentBusiness ServicesAFIChemours CompanyGreg WainaRead Full Story

Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Monday that Armenian forces violated a ceasefire agreed on Sunday and shelled villages in Terter and Lachin regions. Nagorno-Karabakh defence ministry said it was 'misinformation' and said that Azeri forces had launched a missile attack on Armenian military positions on the north-eastern side on the line of contact.Read Full Story  The State DepartmentArmeniansDepartment Of DefenseCeasefireMinsk GroupUS State DepartmentMr BayramovJeyhun BayramovRobert O'BrienNikol PachinianAzerbaijani ForcesArmenian SeparatistsArmenian ForcesAzeri ForcesBakuVladimir PutinMike PompeoDonald TrumpIlham AliyevElin SuleymanovZohrab MnatsakanyanJoe BidenStephen Biegun

Rapper 50 Cent on Tuesday confirmed that he’s backing President Trump for re-election, saying he could become “20 Cent” under Democrat Joe Biden’s plan for higher taxes. “Yeah, i don’t want to be 20cent. 62% is a very, very,bad idea. i don’t like it !” the Queens-raised rapper, born Curtis...IncumbentTrump CampaignDemocraticRappingCNBCElectionHispanicsTwitterKNICKSFox NewsCurtis James Jackson IIIPresident TrumpRe-electionPollingElderly Voters50 CentDonald TrumpJoe BidenKatrina PiersonRead Full Story

By now, it’s no secret that Square Enix’s live service title based on the Avengers did not perform well. The game was said to be the major reason behind a $62 million loss for the company in the last financial year. While on one level it’s shocking to think an IP seemed to be a slam dunk ended up here, the reality is that the market is flooded with these types of games nowadays. The question now is how will Square pull the nose up on this one? Well, it seems the answer is pretty obvious.Read Full Story The Avengers (TV Series)Fiscal YearMarvelUpcoming GamesMarketSquare Enix 'sPlan For Marvel 'sCompanyThe GameLive Service GameFinancial YearPresident Yosuke MatsudaKate Bishop

President Trump and Vice President Joe Biden appeal to seniors for their votes. Pfizer says it won't have data showing its COVID-19 vaccine is safe until late November, weeks after Election Day. France imposes new restrictions in hopes of curbing the pandemic and avoiding another national shutdown.COVID-19 VaccineElection DayPfizerCurfewAppealPandemicFranceCoronavirus Disease 2019President TrumpNovemberHopesJoe BidenDonald TrumpRead Full Story

A billboard in Houston that was recently put up in support of President Trump was defaced this week, displaying a new message against his reelection. Houston lawyer Rogelio Garcia captured a photo of the large billboard that was graffitied and altered to say, 'Take Trump to Prison,' local NBC affiliate KXAN reported.IncumbentBillboard (magazine)NBCKXANTurn Texas BlueRogelio Garcia LawyerPresident TrumpTURN TEXAS BLUEHouston TXThis WeekPicPrisonMessageOctoberDonald TrumpRead Full Story

Valery Giscard d’Estaing. (PA Archive)Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, has died at the age of 94 after contracting Covid-19.Mr Giscard d’Estaing’s office said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region, in central France. He had recently been admitted to hospital in the town of Tours with heart problems.“In accordance with his wishes, his funeral will take place in strict privacy,” his office said.Tony Blair & Valerie Giscard d’Estaing (PA Archive)Born in 1926, Mr Giscard d’Estaing served in the Free French army that helped liberate France during World War II. Charles de Gaulle named him finance minister at age 36.As president, he helped forge a single Europe with his close friend, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Together they laid the foundations for the euro single currency.Mr Giscard d’Estaing wrote the article in the EU charter that allowed Brexit to happen – the brief measure that permits a member state to leave the bloc.On the eve of Britain’s departure this year, Mr Giscard d’Estaing told The Associated Press it was a “step backward” geopolitically, but took the long view.“We functioned without Britain during the first years of the European Union … So we will rediscover a situation that we have already known,” he said.Royalty – Queen Elizabeth II – French Embassy, London (PA Archive)Born in Germany in the wake of World War I, Mr Giscard d’Estaing helped liberate Paris from the Nazis in the next world war, and later laid the groundwork for the shared euro currency and helped integrate Britain into what became the EU in the 1970s.Seeing the Britons leave, “I feel great regret,” he said.He remained unfailingly optimistic in the European project, forecasting that the EU and the euro would bounce back and gradually grow stronger and bigger despite the challenges of losing a major member.When he took office in 1974, Mr Giscard d’Estaing began as the model of a modern French president, a conservative with liberal views on social issues.Abortion and divorce by mutual consent were legalised under his term, and he reduced the age of majority from 21 to 18.He played his accordion in working class neighbourhoods. One Christmas morning, he invited four passing garbage men to breakfast at the presidential palace.He lost his re-election bid in 1981 to Socialist Francois Mitterrand.Valery Giscard d’Estaing. (PA Archive)Born in 1926 in Coblenz, where his father was a financial director of the post-World War I French occupation administration in Germany, Mr Giscard d’Estaing grew up with a pan-European view.After joining the French Resistance during World War II, he next saw Germany as a tank commander in the French military in 1944.In 1952, he married Anne-Aymone de Brantes, the daughter of a count and heiress to a steel fortune. They had four children: Valerie-Anne, Louis, Henri and Jacinte.Young Giscard d’Estaing studied at the prestigious Polytechnical Institute and then the elite National School of Administration, before mastering economics at Oxford.President Charles de Gaulle named him finance minister at the age of 36.Theatre – Charity Concert for Dr Barnardo’s and the Children’s Foundation – Palace of Versailles (PA Archive)After his defeat to Mr Mitterrand, he temporarily retired from politics.He then found a second calling in the European Union. He worked on writing a European Constitution which was formally presented in 2004, but rejected by French and Dutch voters. However, it paved the way for the adoption of the Treaty on European Union in 2007.At age 83, he published a romance novel called “The Princess and the President,” which he said was based on Princess Diana, with whom he said he discussed writing a love story.Asked about the nature of their relationship, he said only: “Let us not exaggerate. I knew her a bit in a climate of a confidential relationship. She needed to communicate.”Earlier this year, a German journalist accused Mr Giscard d’Estaing of repeatedly grabbing her during an interview, and filed a sexual assault complaint with Paris prosecutors. His French lawyer said the 94-year-old “retains no memory” of the incident.Former French President Francois Hollande paid tribute to “a stateman who had chosen to open up to the world and was thinking that Europe was a condition for France to be greater.”Mr Hollande’s predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, expressed his “deep sadness”, saying Mr Giscard d’Estaing “made France be proud”.Francois HollandeGiscard D'estaingPrime MoverUnion MinisterEUBrexitThe Associated PressThe European UnionNazisBritonsPan-EuropeanPolytechnical InstituteOxfordValery Giscard D'EstaingCentral FranceCharles De GaulleHelmut SchmidtNicolas Sarkozy