Joe Biden, the Democratic former vice president who has spent a half century in public life, has held a consistent lead over President Donald Trump in national opinion polls

Slowdown in new cases may have halted, report warns ■ Cabinet increases fines for violators ■ Active cases drop below 10,000 ■ Clinical trials for Israeli vaccine begin

UAE counter-terror chief: The West sees freedom of speech as sacred. For Muslims, respect for the Prophet is sacred, too. There needs to be dialogue, and action: Muslims need to integrate. Europe needs to respect Islam

The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel’s territorial maximalists, is a sad tale of indifference to human suffering

Trump later told supporters at his campaign HQ: ‘Winning is easy. Losing is never easy’

The regulation of land registry would make it more difficult to appeal Israel's declarations of state land in the West Bank, to the benefit of the Civil Administration and settlers

Figure is lower than 26.6% peak during last spring’s lockdown