It did not take Sara Gideon long to leverage Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion in her race against Senator Susan Collins.

In Jacksonville, fund-raisers are describing the process as the most difficult they have ever confronted: Florida has been setting daily records for new virus cases, freezing money as donors wait and worry about the safety risks of the pandemic.

Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month, Justin Bieber leaned in to the camera and adjusted the front of his black knit beanie. For some of his 130 million followers, it was a signal.

In coming to Tulsa, the president ignored pleas from local officials, shrugged off warnings from health advisers, and dismissed the grim historical symbolism of restarting his rowdy “Make America Great Again!” campaign rallies in a city where a white mob massacred hundreds of Black residents 99 years ago.

Iowa was not on anyone’s bingo card of 2020 battlegrounds.