In Cleveland, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met on the stage at Case Western Reserve University.
As Martha MacCallum, host of the Fox News show “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” said before the debate began, “Tonight is the night of one of the most anticipated presidential debates in history.”

Hosted by Fox News Channel and moderated by Chris Wallace, who at times struggled to reign in the candidate’s attacks against each other, the debate was divided into six segments, with the candidates beginning by providing a two-minute statement to a question before going to open discussion.

To start the night, Chris Wallace first asked about a highly anticipated subject, the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Both candidates agreed that elections have consequences but disagreed on what that currently means.

Hillary Clinton allegedly tried to hurt Donald Trump’s political chances by “stirring up” accusations of a Trump-Russia plot during the 2016 election, according to a new letter from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe (DNI). U.S. intelligence officials subsequently asked the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to look into the allegations in 2016 though it’s not clear it ever did.

The letter was addressed to Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and included three explosive allegations regarding Hillary Clinton and her campaign’s alleged plot to create a Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative.

Director Ratcliffe notes that in July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies learned that Russian intelligence sources believed that “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” The director noted that the Intelligence Community (IC) does not know whether that allegation is true.

Is divorce increasing or declining in the age of COVID? Some stories say it’s skyrocketing. Others say the lockdowns have divorce on a dramatic decline. In fact, one major U.S. paper posted two stories within weeks of each other telling precisely opposite tales. One story claimed “US Divorce Rates Skyrocket Amid COVID-19 Pandemic” while the other reported, “ Divorce Filings Drop as COVID-19 Lockdown Mends Marriages.” So which is it?

As is typical with popular news stories on family trends, even in the best of times, they tend to report on only one particular dimension or bit of news, and that becomes the whole story. Consider the stories just listed that report skyrocketing divorce rates. The source was one company that sells online legal forms whose website reported “we’ve seen a 34% increase in sales of our divorce agreement” over last year. An interesting data point, but hardly reliable research upon which to base such a conclusion.