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Donald Trump has hit out at an FBI investigation after his supporters were accused of trying to run a Joe Biden battle bus off the road.
Tensions rose in the final hours before Americans head to the polls, with the president tweeting: "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong."
Mr Biden's team said they were forced to call 911 when the caravan of cars bearing Trump flags surrounded their campaign bus - and those in front tried to slow it down to a stop in the middle of a Texas motorway.
On Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted a video of the incident, adding: "I LOVE TEXAS!"
According to the Biden campaign, staff aboard the bus called 911 to report the incident, with local law enforcement responding to the calls and helping the bus reach its destination.
Neither Mr Biden nor his running mate, Kamala Harris, were on board the bus.
But speaking about the incident on the campaign trail in Philadelphia, Mr Biden said: "We've never had anything like this. At least we've never had a president who thinks it's a good thing."
Mr Trump defended his supporters against the FBI investigation, saying the organisation "should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat-run cities and hurting our people".
The row intensified as the incumbent Republican leader and his Democrat challenger make their last-ditch appeals to voters in swing states.
With polls due to open on Tuesday morning but a record number of Americans voting early or by mail, Mr Trump is holding five events across North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Mr Biden is focusing his efforts on one event in Ohio and three in Pennsylvania, even employing the star power of Lady Gaga.
Attention is also turning to the possible outcomes after Tuesday, with predictable scenarios thrown into the air due to the coronavirus pandemic and record high numbers of early voters and mail-in ballots.
Mr Trump's strategy seems to be that, if he sees good margins in states early on, then he will declare himself the winner - and if high numbers of mail-in ballots supporting Mr Biden threaten that lead, then he will declare them illegitimate.
But in anticipation of further campaigning and legal action, Mr Biden's team have dispatched Barack Obama to call for last-minute donations to "make sure they can keep up the fight after election day, if necessary".
Mr Biden is also using the former president to drive turnout with events in two other crucial toss-up states - Georgia and Florida.
Seeking to put COVID-19 and the US death toll of over 230,000 central to his campaign message, Mr Biden said to get control of the pandemic voters had to oust Mr Trump as "he is the virus".
He also revealed at a rally in Georgia that aides told him he did not have to visit the state, because "we have it made" there.
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Analysis: What Trump and Biden's final campaign stops say about their aims
By Greg Milam, US correspondent
Donald Trump has dusted off his 2016 manual in the hope it contains the secret to another election upset.
Four years ago, a breathless sweep through swing states in the final few days of the campaign reversed what the polls had been saying.
Trump believes the same is possible this year, with polls again showing him heading for defeat.
But they also show the president has so far failed to reach beyond the noisy, enthusiastic loyalists at his rallies and attract voters in the middle. That could be decisive.
Joe Biden needs to rebuild the "blue wall" Democrats used to count on in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to ensure poll predictions become reality.
His focus on places like Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh is an attempt to drive up turn-out among black voters which, his campaign believe, could tip him into winning territory.
Florida and Arizona are also Biden targets - America's "sun belt" and "rust belt" are where this election will be won and lost.
Donald Trump has hit out at an FBI investigation after his supporters were accused of trying to run a Joe Biden battle bus off the road, as both politicians enter the final election campaign stretch.
Tensions hotted up in the final day before Americans head to the polls when the US president dismissed a probe into "patriots" who "did nothing wrong".
Mr Biden's team said they were forced to call 911 when the caravan of cars bearing Trump flags surrounded their bus and those in front tried to slow it down to a stop in the middle way of a Texas motorway.
The row intensified as the incumbent Republican leader and his Democrat challenger make their last-ditch appeals to voters in swing states.
With polls due to open on Tuesday morning but a record number of Americans voting early or by mail, Mr Trump is holding five events across North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Mr Biden is focusing his efforts on one event in Ohio and three in Pennsylvania, even employing the star power of Lady Gaga.
Attention is also turning to the possible outcomes after Tuesday, with predictable scenarios thrown into the air due to the coronavirus pandemic and record high numbers of early voters and mail-in ballots.
Mr Trump's strategy seems to be that if he sees good margins in states early on then he will declare himself the winner, and that if high numbers of mail-in ballots supporting Mr Biden threaten that lead, then he will declare them illegitimate.
But in anticipation of further campaigning and legal action, Mr Biden's team have dispatched Barack Obama to call for last-minute donations to "make sure they can keep up the fight after election day, if necessary".
He is also using the former president to drive turnout with events in two other crucial toss-up states - Georgia and Florida.
Seeking to put COVID-19 and the US death toll of over 230,000 central to his campaign message, Mr Biden said to get control of the pandemic voters had to oust Mr Trump as "he is the virus".
And continuing a row that has dominated the weekend, the former vice president addressed the video of Trump supporters encircling his bus.
"We've never had anything like this - at least we've never had a president who thinks it's a good thing," he said during a campaign event.
But Mr Trump defended his supporters against the FBI investigation, saying the organisation "should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat-run cities and hurting our people".
He also revealed at a rally in Georgia that aides told him he did not have to visit the state, because "we have it made" there.
Analysis: What Trump and Biden's final campaign stops say about their aims
By Greg Milam, US correspondent
Donald Trump has dusted off his 2016 manual in the hope it contains the secret to another election upset.
Four years ago, a breathless sweep through swing states in the final few days of the campaign reversed what the polls had been saying.
Trump believes the same is possible this year, with polls again showing him heading for defeat.
But they also show the president has so far failed to reach beyond the noisy, enthusiastic loyalists at his rallies and attract voters in the middle. That could be decisive.
Joe Biden needs to rebuild the "blue wall" Democrats used to count on in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to ensure poll predictions become reality.
His focus on places like Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh is an attempt to drive up turn-out among Black voters which, his campaign believe, could tip him into winning territory.
Florida and Arizona are also Biden targets - America's "sun belt" and "rust belt" are where this election will be won and lost.
French police have released a suspect who was arrested following the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in Lyon, and said the gunman is still on the loose.
According to the Lyon prosecutor's office, the man who was arrested shortly after the shooting on Saturday was released as police found no evidence of his involvement.
The priest, 45-year-old father-of-two Nikolas Kakavelakis, was fired at twice while he was closing the church at about 4pm. He remains in a critical condition.
According to the Greek Orthodox Holy Diocese of France, the victim was scheduled to return to Greece after working at the Lyon church where he was shot.
"We pray for a speedy recovery and unequivocally condemn all forms of violence," the diocese said in a statement.
There is still no known motive for the shooting. It is not being investigated by anti-terrorism prosecutors, and is being treated as an attempted murder investigation by the Lyon prosecutor's office.
Police cordons around the church were removed on Sunday, and the search area was widened to the broader Lyon area, according to the national police service.
It follows a high security alert across the whole of France following the killing of three people at a church in Nice on Thursday, amid global tensions over cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed published in a French newspaper.
The shooting also came amid tensions within Lyon's Greek Orthodox community.
The victim is understood to have had a long-running legal dispute with a former monk who was convicted of defamation, according to French media reports.
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in France, Emmanuel Adamakis, told French radio station Europe 1 that Kakavelakis had been relieved of his duties to conduct services in Lyon and "had been asked to return to Greece".
The attack appeared to have taken place in a small courtyard in the back of the church, where the priest had been living in an official church apartment, Mr Adamakis said.
Antoine Callot, the pastor at another Greek Orthodox church in Lyon, said that the city's Greek Orthodox community had not received any threats, but added that he had asked police for security protection at his church after Saturday's shooting.
Donald Trump will prematurely declare himself the victor of the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday night if it appears he is 'ahead' of Joe Biden, even if a ton of Electoral College votes are still unknown.
The president has privately discussed in detail potential November 3 scenarios, three people familiar with his private comments told Axios in a report released Sunday – including walking up to the podium on Tuesday and declaring he has won before official results are revealed.
It's likely some states will still not know which candidates are earning their Electoral College votes on Tuesday as record-setting numbers of voters have cast their ballot by mail in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar reminded NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday morning that 'elections have never been called on election night.'
She specifically pointed to the fact that some states allow servicemembers stationed overseas have a week after Election Day to cast their ballots.
Although Americans have become accustomed to knowing the winner of the presidential election in Election Night, that's always based on news organizations' projections based on partial counts.
President Donald Trump is preparing to declare an Election Night victory on Tuesday – even though several states will have just started counting their millions of mail-in ballots that day
Trump will only make the claim, his allies say, if it appears he is 'ahead' of Biden and has either won or holds a commanding lead in Texas, Iowa, Georgia and swing states of Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona
Actual counts for presidential elections are rarely, if ever, done on the same day the election is held.
Several states have extended the period in which they will count mail-in ballots to accommodate for the influx.
Pennsylvania, for example, is accepting mail-in ballots up to the end of the week on Friday and North Carolina will still count ballots a whopping eight days after Election Day. North Carolina election officials insist 97 per cent of ballots will already be tallied and reported by Election Night.
Trump's team is preparing to claim that mail-in ballots counted after Nov. 3 are evidence of election and voter fraud and will accuse Democrats of attempting to steal the election.
The president's campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said, 'This is nothing but people trying to create doubt about a Trump victory. When he wins, he's going to say so.'
The Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania and North Carolina can count their mail-in votes in the days following the election – meaning it's highly unlikely the true winner will be known Tuesday evening.
Mail-in and absentee ballots are expected to favor Democrats, as these remote and early-voting measures traditionally do.
Millions more Americans than usual are mailing in their ballots in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic – and some states, mainly Pennsylvania, are allowing their states several extra days to count up the ballots before reporting a winner in the state
Several projections predict that on Election Night, it will appear President Trump is ahead in Pennsylvania, and then the state's final outcome could change substantially in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden after mail-in ballots are counted.
With 20 Electoral College votes, Pennsylvania is one of the most influential and critical swing states for a 2020 victory. Florida, which holds 29 votes, is the most important for Trump to win to secure another four years.
The Keystone State's election law prevents officials from counting mail-in ballots before Election Day comes around, and the Pennsylvania Secretary of State said Sunday morning that she is expecting as much as 10 times the amount of mail ballots as previous years.
'Yes, it will take longer,' Kathy Boockvar when asked about the time-line.
'I expect that the overwhelming majority of ballots in Pennsylvania, that's mail-in and absentee ballots, as well as in-person ballots, will be counted within a matter of days,' Boockvar said.
Trump's allies claim that for the president to actually go forward with declaring victory before the race is officially called, he would need to either win or have commanding leads in Texas, Iowa, Georgia and swing states of Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller predicted Sunday that Trump 'will be re-elected handily and no amount of post-election Democratic thievery will be able to change the results.'
He then accused that if Trump were to lose, it would be due to 'hijinks or lawsuits or whatever kind of nonsense' from Democrats.
Two people were killed and five wounded after being stabbed by a man dressed in medieval clothes and wielding a sword, Quebec police said on Sunday, noting the attack appeared to be driven by personal motives and not linked to any terror group.
Police arrested a 24-year-old man from Montreal early on Sunday morning, Quebec Police Chief Robert Pigeon said at a news conference.
"Dressed in medieval costume and armed with a Japanese sword, everything leads us to believe he chose his victims at random," Pigeon said, adding that preliminary information indicated the man was not affiliated with any terror group.
Pigeon said the suspect had come prepared to inflict as much damage as possible but did not elaborate. Quebec newspaper Le Soleil said the suspect had gasoline containers in his car. Pigeon declined to comment on the report.
The incident began late Saturday night, on Halloween, inside the city's famed walled centre. Police told nearby residents to stay indoors and made an arrest after a three-hour manhunt.
"It is once again, and we believe, an isolated act," Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume told reporters. "We need to have a societal debate on the subject (of mental health) because it is becoming more and more difficult to manage."
In 2017, a Canadian man gunned down six members of a Quebec City mosque and was later sentenced to life in prison.
Quebec's police chief said on Sunday that the suspect had spoken of conducting an attack "in a medical context" five years ago but was not known to police and did not have a criminal record.
