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U.S. Blames Iran For Threatening Election Emails, Says Russia May Interfere Too Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, seen above during his earlier tenure in the House, delivered a briefing on election threats on Wednesday evening.  Gabriella Demczuk/AP  hide caption toggle caption Gabriella Demczuk/AP Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, seen above during his earlier tenure in the House, delivered a briefing on election threats on Wednesday evening. Gabriella Demczuk/AP Updated at 8:33 p.m. ET Iranian influence specialists are behind threatening emails sent to voters in Alaska and Florida, U.S. officials said on Wednesday evening and suggested that more such interference could be in store from Russia. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the U.S. intelligence community believes Iranian and Russian operatives obtained voter-record information that enabled them to target some people with intimidating emails based on party registration a...

Trump and Biden focus on coronavirus in opening stages of dual town halls   (CNN) On a night of dueling town halls for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the President once again gave confusing answers about whether he was tested for coronavirus on the day of the first debate and did not express any regret for the Rose Garden event that is now widely viewed as a "superspreader" event. Within the opening moments of a presidential town hall with NBC News, Trump  repeated the false statement that masks don't work 85%  of the time: "People with masks are catching it all the time," Trump said. Of whether he had a coronavirus test on the day of the first debate with his opponent Joe Biden, he told NBC's Savannah Guthrie: "Possibly I did, possibly I didn't." And a time when many Americans are looking to him for empathy after more than 217,000 people have died, he boasted about the excess mortality rate in the United States. Me...

'A Little Bit Concerned': Trump Looks to Boost Iowa Support President Donald Trump is trying to shore up support from constituencies that not so long ago he thought he had in the bag: big business and voters in the red state of Iowa. 'A Little Bit Concerned': Trump Looks to Boost Iowa Support More By ZEKE MILLER, BILL  BARROW AND AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to shore up support from constituencies that not so long ago he thought he had in the bag: big business and voters in the red state of  Iowa . In a morning address to business leaders, he expressed puzzlement that they would even consider supporting his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, arguing that his own leadership was a better bet for a strong economy. Later, the president held his third campaign rally in three nights, this time in Iowa, a state he won handily in 2016 but where Biden is making a late push. Trump claimed to be leading in the mo...