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A 20-year-old Denver man was arrested Sunday in connection with last week’s shooting death of a Venezuelan man at an Aurora liquor store on East Colfax Avenue. The Aurora Police Department Major Crime Homicide Unit announced Monday it had apprehended Davonte McCoy Bletson on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of the 38-year-old Aurora man, who police said is a native of Venezuela. Bletson is being held on $500,000 bond at the Arapahoe County Jail.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For those living inside the bubble of presidential politics, the last three months could give one a sense of vertigo. Beyond the barrage of history-making moments—Joe Biden experiencing the most embarrassing senior moment ever on live TV; Donald Trump surviving not one, but two assassination attempts; Kamala Harris absolutely dominating in her debate against Trump—things just seemed to feel different. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But as the polls continue to show an incredibly tight race, it was entirely reasonable to say that even swapping candidates wasn’t going to mean much in a nation so deeply divided on partisan lines.

(WASHINGTON) — The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note detailing his plans to kill the former president and kept in his car a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump was to appear, the Justice Department said Monday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The new allegations were included in a detention memo filed ahead of a hearing Monday at which the Justice Department argued that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh should remain locked up as the case moves forward.

“The Republican push to change how Nebraska awards its Electoral College votes and boost former President Donald Trump ran into political reality Monday as a key lawmaker, State Sen. Mike McDonnell (R), announced he won’t support the change,” the Nebraska Examiner reports. Said McDonnell: “I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue.

Punchbowl News: “Republican leaders have doubts that the panel will be able to pass a rule allowing the House to consider the funding bill under a simple majority vote.” “The Rules Committee has nine Republicans and four Democrats. Among those nine Republicans are three conservative hardliners: Reps. Ralph Norman, Chip Roy and Thomas Massie.

Funny how she's targeting Arizona and Nevada instead of one of the supposedly easier and more electoral-vote rich Southern states.