The president and Joe Biden will participate in the first presidential debate on Tuesday in Cleveland. Source
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
“In this critical election, I believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the best to lead our country,” Johnson wrote in social media posts. Source
Sir David Attenborough on climate change: “A crime has been committed”
Eighteen years after declining to take a hard stance in his first profile on 60 Minutes, Sir David Attenborough warns about the dangers of climate change. Source
CBS Weekend News, September 27, 2020
President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett as Democrats threaten to slow down the process; CBS News transportation safety analyst Mark Rosenker dies at 73 years old. Source
Why a private section of the border wall is allegedly failing
60 Minutes reports on the construction firm that earned billions of dollars in government contracts after working with a conservative fundraising campaign accused of fraud to build sections of the border wall on private land that engineers say will likely fail. Source
How many of Florida’s felons will be able to vote?
Florida’s Amendment 4 restored voting rights to as many as 1.4 million felons who had completed their sentences, but then things got complicated. Hundreds of thousands of ex-convicts are still disenfranchised just over a month before the presidential election. Source
Trump calls NYT report on his taxes “fake news”
President Trump on Sunday called a New York Times report that alleged he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and paid no federal income tax in 10 of the years reviewed “fake news.” Source
Where Sir David Attenborough draws his optimism
Sir David Attenborough tells 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper he looks to the young for hope on a declining planet. Source
New Battleground Tracker polls show tight races in North Carolina and Georgia
New CBS News Battleground Tracker polls reveal close races in North Carolina and in Georgia. Both President Trump and Joe Biden are pushing to turn out Black voters in Georgia. Mark Strassmann reports. Source
President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett as Democrats threaten to slow down the process
Republicans are pushing for a swift confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. The fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacated seat has also become a fight over the Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court is set to review shortly after the election. Nikole Killion reports. Source