New from our pal Matt Baume: Why do all these homosexuals keep kissing Roseanne? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, but there was only one thing on Roseanne’s lips in 1994 and that was Muriel Hemmingway, on one of the most controversial TV episodes of the decade. The sitcom Roseanne featured way more queer characters than other shows of the …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump sprinkles his rally speeches with unfounded attacks on the election process. Last week, he claimed with no real evidence that “everyday, there’s cheating with the ballots.” It’s part of his consistent questioning of the integrity of the election. Trump advisers said their best hope was if the president wins Ohio and Florida is …

The Texan reports: Houston-area Republicans have filed a new lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) seeking to void ballots cast via the county’s new drive-thru voting stations. Harris County interim Clerk Chris Hollins introduced the drive-thru voting stations as part of his S.A.F.E. Elections plan, portions of which have already been struck down by the SCOTX and the …

CBS News reports: The Lincoln Project, a prominent anti-Trump Republican group, has moved its billboards featuring Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner to Trump’s Mar-a-lago property in Palm Beach, Fla., by boat ahead of Election Day. The digital billboards are the latest development in the back-and-forth between the two White House advisers and the anti-Trump PAC. Lawyers for the couple …

Mediaite reports: A promise made several weeks ago White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is making the rounds — as President Donald Trump’s administration has now failed to hit a target date for a coronavirus vaccine. On Sept. 17, Meadows told reporters outside the White House that the plan was for 100 million doses of a vaccine would be …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: “Scary Joe” Protest at Joe Biden’s Home in Delaware: On Saturday, October 31, concerned citizens from Delaware and beyond will gather at the home of Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, to condemn the incriminating evidence found on his son, Hunter’s, laptop and to protest the media and big tech attempt to sway the …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself into a far north suburban police department following the fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer, according to newly released documents. Rittenhouse, 17, and his mother appeared in the lobby of the Antioch police station around 1:20 a.m. Aug. …

The BBC reports: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second national lockdown for England as the UK passed one million Covid-19 cases. Non-essential shops and hospitality will have to close for four weeks on Thursday, he said. But unlike the restrictions in spring, schools, colleges and universities will be allowed to stay open. It comes as documents suggested the …

The Daily Beast reports: When the Biden campaign bus drove to Austin, it was greeted by a blockade of pro-Trump demonstrators, leading to what one Texas House representative described as an escalation “well beyond safe limits.” The stop’s cancelation comes amid national anxiety about voter intimidation, a tactic the Trump campaign has implicitly endorsed. Historian Dr. Eric Cervini was driving …

Reuters reports: A viral post on social media falsely attributes a lengthy quote predicting the adoption of communism and the gradual creation of a “socialist state” in the U.S. to former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on September 29, 1959. On September 18, 1959, Khrushchev addressed the UN General Assembly. A transcript of this speech by the New York Times shows …

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday poked fun at Republicans mocking his lack of campaign rallies due to the coronavirus while highlighting his efforts to safely turn out supporters. Biden shared an image of supporters at one of his “drive-in” rallies, aimed at stemming the spread of the virus with social distancing measures. In August, Trump’s …

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: Gov. Andy Beshear reacted to a report Friday showing a Kentucky State Police training slideshow quoting Adolf Hitler three times and advocating officers to use “ruthless” violence, calling it “unacceptable.” Students in the journalism program at Louisville’s duPont Manual High School obtained the slideshow from the agency through an open records request and first reported it. …

Atlanta’s CBS News affiliate reports: Former President Barack Obama will visit Atlanta on Monday in a final effort to rally supporters for former Vice President Joe Biden and get them to the polls. The Biden-Harris campaign confirmed Obama’s visit to Channel 2′s Richard Elliot. The campaign hasn’t confirmed specific details. However, Georgia Democrats are hosting a “Flip Georgia Blue” car …

The Washington Post reports: A new study from Stanford University estimates that 18 of Trump’s recent large-scale campaign rallies ultimately resulted in 30,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and probably led to more than 700 deaths among attendees and others infected by them. The study, released Friday by Stanford economics professor B. Douglas Bernheim and three doctoral students, examined rallies …

NBC News reports: Athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have found a winning combo. The couple announced their engagement Friday night on Bird’s Instagram with a photo of Rapinoe kneeling and putting a ring on Bird’s left land. Bird, a guard for the Seattle Storm, and Rapinoe, a leader on the U.S. women’s national soccer team, met at the 2016 …

Mediaite reports: Noted polling site FiveThirtyEight has updated their odds on winning the general election and now is giving former Vice President Joe Biden a 90 percent chance of defeating President Donald Trump. These predictions are not just pulled out of a hat. FiveThirtyEight has a formulaic process that simulates the election outcome 40,000 times based on average polling data …

Reuters reports: The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday’s presidential election. In what seemed a further calculated insult, the statue of his predecessor and nemesis Barack Obama, who counted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel among …

“I think at some point, the policymakers have to realize the massive — really — failure of our public health officials. Lockdowns do not eliminate the virus. “All lockdowns do are destroy families, really kill people, miss medical care that’s very serious, destroy the children, and then, after you open up the lockdown, the virus is still there — and …

North Dakota’s Dickinson Press reports: A 33-year-old self-professed “Proud Boy” was arrested Wednesday by the Dickinson Police Department on C-Felony Terrorizing charges after sending an anonymous email to The Dickinson Press in which he conveyed a bomb threat, targeting a voting location in the city. Anthony A. Raymond of Dickinson was arrested and incarcerated at the Southwest Multi-County Correction Center …

Variety reports: Sean Connery, the Scottish-born actor who rocketed to fame as James Bond and became one of the movies’ most popular and enduring international stars, has died. He was 90. Connery, long regarded as one of the best actors to have portrayed the iconic spy, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 and marked his 90th birthday only …