Billy Penn Staff

VIDEO: Martin Luther King Jr. at Girard College in Philadelphia, 1965

The civil rights leader spoke to a crowd protesting segregation at Girard Collge.

Law enforcement in the nation's capitol was not quick to deploy extreme crowd control tactics.

No indoor dining, no gyms, no theaters — and ideally, no gathering with people outside your household at all.

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Elmo drum line, CNN broadcasts, dance parties and dueling rallies.

You can request a replacement or return your voted ballot through Nov. 3.

That’s three times as many as the June primary.

The rules are slightly different from last spring.

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Also: Trump's claim of "corruption" during the city's launch of early mail voting was incorrect.