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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to be relying on a teleprompter in what was presented at an event hosted by the AFL-CIO on Labor Day.

At one point partway through the event, a participant asked Biden what he would do to help more people join labor unions if he were elected president.

The camera cut to Biden, who was looking to the side and told his staff, “Move it up here.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Tuesday that 1,000 people voted two times in a June primary, though the violation did not impact the election results.

The voters apparently submitted absentee ballots and voted in person.

"A double voter knows exactly what they’re doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law,” Raffensperger said at a press conference, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Those that make the choice to game the system are breaking the law. And as secretary of state, I will not tolerate it.”

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to walk back his pledge to institute a nationwide mask mandate to fight the coronavirus on Sunday, noting that such federal action goes against the U.S. Constitution.

"Well, I hope you could trust the governors," Biden said when asked about the issue Sunday.

But, he added, "There's a constitutional issue whether federal government could issue such a mandate. I don’t think constitutionally they could, so I wouldn’t issue a mandate."

Still, he said, the federal government should issue national guidelines for the state and local governments to follow, and that he would "plead with" people to wear masks to protect their neighbors from the virus.

A Lincoln, Nebraska, police officer died Monday two weeks after he was shot and critically injured while attempting to arrest an assault suspect.

Inspector Luis “Mario” Herrera was shot Aug. 26 while the Metro Area Fugitive Task Force served a warrant for 17-year-old Felipe Vazquez, who was wanted for second-degree assault in connection with a stabbing death in March, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

Lancaster Country Sheriff Terry Wagner, whose department is leading the investigation into the shooting, said evidence showed that Vazquez shot Herrera as he and Orion Ross broke out of a window and escaped.

California utility companies helping battle the state's massive wildfires have again been forced to cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers to prevent more blazes.

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, said this weekend that it had no option but to shut off power to as many as 172,000 customers as a precautionary measure.

Pacific Gas & Electric said customers in 22 counties could have their power cut to help reduce the risk of electrical lines and equipment sparking fires with the high winds."If weather forecasts indicate gusty winds and dry conditions, combined with a heightened fire risk, it may be necessary for us to turn off the electricity serving that area. This is called a Public Safety Power Shutoff," their website says.

President Donald Trump receives 14% of the Black vote if the election were held today, according to a new Newsmax, John Zogby Strategies Poll.

The online poll of 600 Black likely voters nationwide was conducted Sept. 4-7 and has a margin of sampling error of 4.1 percentage points.

Biden’s lead is across the board among this most loyal group of Democrat voters but there are some potential pitfalls for the former Vice President.

In 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama won 96% and 93% of the Black vote. Hillary Clinton’s 89% to Trump’s 9% victory among Blacks was not enough to win the presidency.

Also, low Black turnout in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania helped Trump.

If Trump’s 14% total holds into November, this could hurt the Democrat nominee again in must-win in critical Rust Belt, along with Minnesota, Georgia, and Texas, which Biden hopes to win.

While a majority of Americans still view the coronavirus pandemic as mostly a health crisis, more people are seeing it primarily as an economic crisis, according to a new poll.

An NBC SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll released Tuesday indicates more Americans are beginning to worry about how long it is taking for businesses to reopen amid the pandemic.

Poll results show:

52% of Americans say the coronavirus pandemic is predominantly a health crisis.

47% of Americans say the pandemic is more of an economic crisis.

54% of Americans say it is a bigger concern than businesses are reopening too quickly compared to 42% of people who say they are worried that businesses aren’t opening fast enough.

More Evangelicals are supportive of Christians speaking out about political issues, according to a new study.

The State of American Theology study released Tuesday found that evangelicals are three times less likely to believe that Christians should be silent on political issues than back in 2016.

The study, conducted by LifeWay Research in association with Ligonier Ministries, has taken place every two years since 2014, according to Christianity Today. The survey tracks Americans' theological views.