Sen. Chuck Grassley. Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images
Criticism over Donald Trump's behavior and the handling of the Russia investigation dominated Sen. Chuck Grassley's town hall event on Friday morning, the Des Moines Register reports.
Why it matters: The meeting took place in "a rural western Iowa county where Republicans outnumber Democrats nearly two-to-one," the Register reports, and where Trump swept more than half of the vote during the 2016 election.
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Joe Biden speaks Friday about "The Biden Plan to Beat COVID-19," at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
This is one of the bigger signs of trouble for President Trump that we've seen in a poll: Of the final debate's seven topics, Joe Biden won or tied on all seven when viewers in a massive Axios-SurveyMonkey sample were asked who they trusted more to handle the issue.
Why it matters: In a time of unprecedented colliding crises for the nation, the polling considered Biden to be vastly more competent.
A braver man than me holds a speciment of the Asian giant hornet. Photo: Karen Ducey/Getty Images
Entomologists in Washington state on Thursday discovered the first Asian giant hornet nest in the U.S.
Why it matters: You may know this insect species by its nom de guerre: "the murder hornet." While the threat they pose to humans has been overstated, the invading hornets could decimate local honeybee populations if they establish themselves.