ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. the chances of congress passing a pre-election stimulus are all but gone. treasury secretary steven mnuchin says democrats do not want to give president trump something to brag about in his campaign. democrats say the white house never took the need for another stimulus seriously enough to push for a compromise. senate democrats are all but powerless to keep amy coney barrett off of the supreme court , so they used their final day of questioning at the confirmation hearing to grill her about statements made by president trump. there it declined to answer -- barrett declined to answer whether the president has the right to delay the election and an absolute right to pardon himself. new restrictions being imposed in london in an attempt to stop the rise of coronavirus cases. the new rules start this weekend. london will soon had an average of 100 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people. in the u.k., british prime