President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden had a more civil encounter on Thursday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., than at their last debate on Sept. 29. They interrupted each other less and stuck closer to their campaign talking points on healthcare, immigration, race, and climate change.

With former Vice President Joe Biden leading or tied with President Donald Trump in most swing states’ polling averages, oddsmakers say he’s the favorite to win on Election Day. But Trump reminded voters on Saturday that polling averages leading up to the 2016 election had Hillary Clinton ahead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all of which he won.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee boycotted the vote to approve President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick in an attempt to delay the process. But Republicans unanimously voted Judge Amy Coney Barrett through on Thursday, keeping her on track for confirmation by the full U.S. Senate before Election Day.

At the end of the four consecutive days of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing, a maskless Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reached across the aisle to give Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a bear hug.

“This has been one of the best sets of hearings that I’ve participated in, and I want to thank you for your fairness,” she told the chairman in her concluding remarks. “It leaves one with a lot of hopes, a lot of questions, and even some ideas perhaps of good bipartisanship legislation we can put together.”

UNITED STATES: Few Americans realize the United States admits a team of international election observers to monitor polling. This year’s observation team, in place since September and headed by Polish diplomat Urszula Gacek, is far smaller than planned—down to 30 observers versus the 500 recommended.

On Election Day morning, thousands of Philadelphia police officers will wake to 12-hour shifts and watch 21 police districts for any trouble brewing in the City of Brotherly Love. But they won’t get within 100 feet of a polling place. State law doesn’t allow officers on-site unless it’s an emergency.

It’s a provision to make sure voters don’t feel intimidated and a common practice among many police forces across the country. Some states allow an officer to drive an unmarked car near a polling place on patrol, but most voters won’t recognize them.

WASHINGTON—Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Friday accused Russian intelligence of generating corruption allegations against Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. “We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin,” he told CNN.