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America’s employers added 661,000 jobs in September, the third straight month of slower hiring and evidence from the final jobs report before the presidential election that the economic recovery has weakened.https://to.pbs.org/33lt2Cc 

WATCH LIVE: HHS Secretary Azar testifies about COVID-19 and possible political interferencehttps://to.pbs.org/3jCfs3b 

WATCH LIVE: HHS Secretary Azar testifies about COVID-19 and possible political interferencehttps://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMJgXXzBklxL …

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence tested negative for COVID-19 Friday morning, hours after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with the coronavirus.https://to.pbs.org/30rJ5fE 

U.S. restaurants are moving warily into fall, hoping their slow recovery persists despite the new challenge of chilly weather and a pandemic that’s expected to claim even more lives.https://to.pbs.org/30mrW7k 

President Trump was last seen by reporters returning to the White House on Thursday evening and did not appear visibly ill. The president is 74 years old, putting him at a higher risk of serious complications from the coronavirus.https://to.pbs.org/2Gjpsjd 

President Trump’s positive diagnosis for COVID-19 is sure to have a destabilizing effect in Washington and around the world, raising questions about how far the virus is spread through the highest levels of the U.S. government.https://to.pbs.org/2Gjpsjd 

Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August and is expected to grow further amid concern that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions afloat forever.https://to.pbs.org/33ouHah 

“Every previous president has respected informal norms of conduct,” says @LarryDiamond.https://to.pbs.org/36wrnLQ 

For nearly 15 years, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has written a poem a day. When she got home Friday, with Ginsburg’s death heavy on her mind, she hadn’t penned one yet. She began to read the news, looking for inspiration in the justice’s own words.https://to.pbs.org/306IVum 

“The incentives in American politics have changed,” says @sbg1.https://to.pbs.org/2SgWClX 

The Trump administration this year completed a long-debated rewrite of the Clean Water Act that drastically reduces the number of waterways regulated by the federal government.https://to.pbs.org/3l4jAJf 

BREAKING: Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week.https://to.pbs.org/2HK9ajD 

The move to vastly expand U.S. testing comes as confirmed new COVID-19 cases remain elevated at more than 40,000 per day and experts warn of a likely surge in infections during the colder months ahead.https://to.pbs.org/3mTNHoJ 

The ambassadors’ appeal, made in an open letter, comes as an increasingly visible LGBTQ community in Poland has faced a backlash from the right-wing government, many local communities and the Catholic church.https://to.pbs.org/33cAEa1 

Although the editors have documented many coronavirus-related linguistic shifts, some of their observations are surprising. They claim, for example, that the pandemic has produced only one truly new word: the acronym COVID-19.https://to.pbs.org/36mgMmE 

Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week.https://to.pbs.org/2HK9ajD