President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into claims about Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter. With just two weeks to go before Election Day, Trump for the first time explicitly called on Barr to investigate the Bidens and even pointed to the nearing Nov. 3 election as reason that Barr should not delay taking action. Trump has been leveling accusations of corruption against Biden for months, but is stepping up the pressure in the final days of the campaign. “We’ve got to get the attorney general to act,” Trump said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.” “He’s got to act, and he’s got to act fast. He’s got to appoint somebody.

Washington negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill took a modest step forward on Tuesday, though time is running out and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump’s most powerful Senate ally, is pressing the White House against going forward. McConnell on Tuesday told fellow Republicans that he has warned the White House not to divide Republicans by sealing a lopsided $2 trillion relief deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the election — even as he publicly said he’d slate any such agreement for a vote. Pelosi’s office said talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday were productive, but other veteran lawmakers said there is still too much work to do and not enough time to do it to enact a relief bill by Election Day.

Following the hospitalization on Monday of Hagaon HaTzaddik HaRav Aharon Chadash in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital due to breathing difficulties caused by COVID-19, the venerated Mashgiach took a turn for the worse overnight Tuesday and was transferred to the coronavirus ward at Hadassah, where he was sedated and ventilated. HaRav Chadash’s condition is critical but stable and he is in need of great rachamei Shamayim. An atzeres tefillah was held at the Mir on Wednesday as well as in other yeshivos throughout Israel. A notice has been put on the main notice board in the Mir requesting talmidim to daven and be mechazeik in Torah for the refuah shleimah of HaRav Aharon Dovid ben Tzivya Leah l’refuah shelimah b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The New York Police Department said Tuesday that a police union’s endorsement of President Donald Trump shouldn’t sway how officers treat people who protest or vote against the president. “When we put on this uniform, we are apolitical,” Chief of Department Terence Monahan said. “We have no stance in one way or another.” The Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, broke with a longstanding tradition of not endorsing presidential candidates and threw its support behind Trump in August. Trump, a Republican, has campaigned for reelection on a law-and-order agenda, portraying himself as a counterweight to the police reform protests that erupted across the U.S. in recent months.

The nation’s capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system, a joint Google-Apple venture that delivers alerts to people’s phones, notifying them that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday urged all residents with Apple or Android smartphones to opt in to the new DC COVID Alert Notice system, or DC CAN. Bowser called it “a quick and easy way to know if you might have been exposed to COVID-19. Opting in is one more way you can protect yourself, your friends and family, and our entire community.” The new Exposure Notification Express model is a major tweak to existing Google-Apple contact tracing software that became available earlier this year.

Just yesterday the Socialist Mayor of NYC, the Honorable Bill DeBlasio, issued a “rare apology” to the Jewish community for the way the city has been responding, and said “we absolutely need a positive reset”. Keeping to his word, the Mayor has “reset” the out-of-control inspections in Boro Park and Flatbush. YWN is being inundated with reports that inspectors from the NYC Buildings Department are once again flooding the Jewish communities of Boro Park and Flatbush. Inspectors are not only visiting Yeshivas, but going into one business after the next, harassing businesses that are already on the verge of going out of business due to the COVID-19 pandemic On Tuesday evening, NYC Chaim Deutsch tweeted a video of a store owner (a deli) who was issued a summons for “having his door open”.

Walking around the commercial retail hubs of the Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday, an observer might surmise based on the enforcement action of government officials that the COVID-19 pandemic only affects Jews.
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U.S. home construction rose a solid 1.9% in September after having fallen in the previous month, as home building continues as one of the bright spots of the economy. The increase last month pushed home construction to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.42 million homes and apartments after a 6.7% drop in August, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Applications for building permits, a good barometer of future activity, rose an even stronger 5.2% to 1.55 million units. After a plunge in the spring due to pandemic-related lockdowns, housing has staged a solid rebound as demand for homes with more space has grown and mortgage-rates have stayed at ultra-low levels.

What are the treatment options for COVID-19? There are several, and which one is best depends on how sick someone is. For example, steroids such as dexamethasone can lower the risk of dying for severely ill patients. But they may do the opposite for those who are only mildly ill. In the United States, no treatments are specifically approved for COVID-19, but a few have been authorized for emergency use and several more are being considered. A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health updates guidelines as new studies come out. Here’s what’s advised for various patients: — Not hospitalized or hospitalized but not needing extra oxygen: No specific drugs recommended, and a warning against using steroids.