Trump town hall: President rages against Savannah Guthrie and protesters arrested as Biden holds rival event

Trump facing backlash over comments on US Marshalls killing Antifa activist

But not for the right reasons.

Among the many zingers from Trump’s North Carolina rally was his bragging about US Marshalls killing the Antifa activist wanted for killing one of the president’s supports.

He received a deluge of criticism after a clip went viral on Twitter suggesting the US Marshalls didn’t want to arrest Michael Reinoehl before they shot and killed him during an attempted arrest.

But this truncated the full quote, which provides much-needed context as to who the president was referencing. In its entirety, Trump says:

From that full context, he is referencing the local authorities, as also pointed out by New York Times reporter Evan Chill, who this week published an investigation on Mr Reinoehl’s shooting, raising questions as to whether US Marshalls fully identified themselves before the shooting.

The president did, however, still celebrate the death of Mr Reinoehl before he was able to face trial.

Here is our full story.

BREAKING: US coronavirus infection count hits 8 million as third 'surge' underway, reports say

Coronavirus infections in the US have reached more than 8 million, with spikes in nearly every state prompting fears of a third “surge” nearly eight months after an outbreak that has killed more than 217,000 people.

“After a month of warning signs, this week’s data makes it clear: The third surge of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States is underway,” according to The COVID Tracking Project.

The Independent’s Alex Woodward is following the story as it unfolds.

Twitter seems to be down. Trump most affected.

Did Jack Dorsey just violate Twitter’s terms of service and get the whole site blocked?

Twitter seems to be suffering major outages across the US and UK, according to this map from Down Detector.  

Donald Trump will now have to resort to… anything else. Anything else at all other than Twitter to get his message out.

The Independent’s Graeme Massie is following the story as it unfolds.

Twitter is back and so is White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany  

After a temporary outage, Twitter is back and along with its return is Kayleigh McEnany – who had an outage of her own after tweeting out The New York Post’s Hunter Biden story.

And she’s fired up.

Biden town hall to go ahead after travel team member diagnosed with Covid-19

The Independent’s Oliver O'Connell check in on the latest after one of Biden’s campaign crew tested positive for Covid-19. 

Donald Trump claims women love being called ‘housewives’ as he begged for their support

Donald Trump claimed that suburban women love being called “housewives” as he begged them to help him get reelected

“Why is that the fake news keeps saying that women aren’t going to like Trump?” complained Mr Trump at his Make America Great Again rally in Greenville, North Carolina. “You know what women want more than anything else? They want safety, security, and they want to be able to have their houses, and leave me alone right?"

Graeme Massie has more.

C-SPAN suspends Scully after he admits to lie about hack

C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable exchange with former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci.

The news came on the day of what was supposed to be a career highlight for the 30-year C-SPAN veteran. Scully was to moderate the second debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, which was canceled after Trump would not agree to a virtual format because of his COVID-19 diagnosis.

A week ago, after Trump had criticized him as a “never Trumper,” Scully tweeted “@Scaramucci should I respond to Trump.” Scaramucci, a former Trump communications director and now a critic of the president, advised Scully to ignore him.

Scully said that when he saw his tweet had created a controversy, “I falsely claimed that my Twitter account had been hacked.”

He had been frustrated by Trump’s comments and several weeks of criticism on social media and conservative news outlets about his role as moderator, including attacks directed at his family, he said.

“These were both errors in judgement for which I am totally responsible for,” Scully said. “I apologize.”

He said he let down his colleagues at C-SPAN, fellow news professionals and the debate commission. “I ask for their forgiveness as I try to move forward in a moment of reflection and disappointment in myself,” he said.

C-SPAN said Scully confessed to lying about the hack on Wednesday. - AP

BREAKING: White House was told Russia targeted Giuliani to feed misinformation to Trump, report says

The White House was warned by US intelligence agencies last year that Rudolph Giuliani was targetted by Russia to feed misinformation to Donald Trump.

Reporting by The Washington Post, based on information from four former officials familiar with the matter, says that the president’s personal lawyer interacted with individuals tied to Russian intelligence during his December 2019 visit to Ukraine.

The warnings from the intelligence services to the White House led national security adviser Robert O’Brien to caution Trump that information brought back from Ukraine by Mr Giuliani should be considered contaminated by Russia, according to one of the officials.

The Independent’s Oliver O'Connell is following the story as it unfolds.

Rudy Giuliani’s daughter backs Joe Biden to end Donald Trump ‘nightmare’

Rudy Giuliani’s daughter has endorsed Joe Biden for president and urged America to end Donald Trump’s “reign of terror".

Caroline Giuliani, whose father is the president’s personal lawyer, wrote in Vanity Fair that the “only way to end this nightmare” was to elect Mr Biden to the White House.

“There is hope on the horizon, but we’ll only grasp it if we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” she wrote.

Graeme Massie has more.

Trump says he his lungs were infected and ‘a little bit different’ during Covid

“They [doctors] said the lungs are a little bit different a little bit, perhaps infected,” Trump said to begin the town hall.