President Trump and Joe Biden fought over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic during the final debate before the election, highlighting the vastly different approaches to the major challenges facing the nation; overnight more than 71,000 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the US on Thursday, the highest daily tally since mid-July; and the Trump Administration is moving forward with the expedited deportation of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record just days after coming under fire for being unable to locate the parents of 545 children who were forcibly separated from their parents.