Spend time with these great weekend reads.
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Skip the pumpkin pie and make pumpkin blondies instead.
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If people in the U.S. wear masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus, they could save the lives of nearly 130,000 people by next spring, a new analysis finds. https://t.co/7FQqrunKlu

Meet some of the voters who might well decide the 2020 election in this illustrated conversation with Republicans, Democrats and undecided voters in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/cwKzLXK4l8

China is commemorating the 70th anniversary of its participation in the Korean War with a barrage of nationalistic propaganda. “They smashed the myth that the American military was invincible,” China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said. https://t.co/rTbloYTJf1

"This is a turning point": Women in Iran are increasingly going public about sexual assault.

One of the most prominent men to be accused: The art star Aydin Aghdashloo. In interviews with the New York Times, 13 women accused him of sexual misconduct.
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“While the coronavirus mucked up eight months of planning for a major life change, it left something decidedly unplanned in its wake,” Gregory Walters writes in Modern Love.
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The fight over a ballot measure exempting gig employers from new labor laws has become the most expensive in California's history. Companies have been accused of heavy-handed tactics; a lawsuit filed on Thursday claims Uber is coercing its drivers. https://t.co/doPssMp6uq

RT @PatriciaMazzei: The New York Times teamed up with local news organizations across the country earlier in the year to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work.
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“Humans like to put things into neat categories, but nature doesn’t present itself that way. Every plant on this list is its own little mystery.” https://t.co/dX4UGcFL4B

A Navy plane crashed in a residential area in Southern Alabama on Friday afternoon, killing its crew, the Navy said.
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RT @danjonesnyt: NEW --> Episode 2: "The firefighter and I met on one of the rare days I decided to wear lipstick. If I had to guess at a reason for him chasing me down the street that day, it was the lipstick." https://t.co/JdO4aRvEj9

Officials in Washington State announced on Friday that they had located the first murder hornet nest in the U.S.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft collected rock and dirt samples from the asteroid Bennu, but it appears to be losing some of what it grabbed. https://t.co/yellwk1dtG

RT @ByJamesWagner: For ages, older Black players in MLB have been carrying on an unofficial tradition of taking care of the younger Black players, often through meals, gifts and advice. A story on how they found a way to keep this practice going even during a pandemic: https://t.co/wfyAkYePmk

A state appeals court in Texas blocked Gov. Greg Abbott from limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county, upholding a lower-court ruling and setting up a likely showdown at the Texas Supreme Court. https://t.co/k4RvWE7fFQ

Billy McFarland, the disgraced entrepreneur behind the Fyre Festival, and a current federal inmate, has been placed in solitary confinement, his lawyer said on Friday, after McFarland participated in a new podcast about his crimes. https://t.co/syDoT72Flw

RT @UpshotNYT: There was one poll that stood out today. Analysis from @Nate_Cohn 
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A man who supplied the weapons that were used by a couple to kill 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in 2015 was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in federal prison.
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RT @daveyalba: If you, like me, were wondering how much airtime is being given to the Hunter Biden emails across cable TV, this study has got you covered. It also shows that Fox News is covering this leak much more than it did the Wikileaks disclosures in 2016. https://t.co/SsitJU4F9Q