The two companies have been under fierce scrutiny over how they police rapidly spreading false information and election-related abuses of their platforms. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s vote, they both vowed to take action on posts by candidates trying to declare early victory.
Two out of 10 voters said COVID-19, which has infected more than 9.4 million people in the United States this year and killed more than 230,000, was the most important issue to them.
He said that in Germany and other countries, when a person who dies from cancer or any other terminally ill disease, he is said to have died from that same disease. However, when it comes to doctors in the US, they lie and say the patient died of the coronavirus.
Huge numbers of people have voted by mail or at early in-person polling sites amid concerns the coronavirus could spread at busy Election Day voting places.
Meet Mr. Shekar Narasimhan, Indian-American investment banker, and Mr. Dilawar Syed, a tech entrepreneur in California, who co-founded the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Fund (AAPIVF), a group that aims to mobilise and elevate voices from these communities in local and national politics.
Trump voted at a library in West Palm Beach, near his Mar-a-Lago estate, after switching his permanent residence and voter registration last year from New York to Florida.
With 10 days to go in the campaign, about 54.2 million Americans have already cast early ballots, a pace that could lead to the highest voter turnout in more than a century.
Mnuchin, who spoke with the California Democrat on Wednesday, acknowledged the two were still "far apart" on some issues and said politics were "part of the reality."
In response to proposals sent over the weekend, the two spent time seeking clarification on language, which was productive.
The justices are due to hear the case in their next term, which starts in October, meaning the dispute is unlikely to be resolved before the Nov. 3 election.
The justices took up the administration's appeal of a March ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that material must be given to lawmakers.