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1 Townhall ratings: Nearlya millionmore television viewers on Thursday watched former vice president Joe Biden’s town hall live than those who watched President Donald Trump’ s, according to early data compiled by measurement company Nielsen. Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers, comparedto just over 13 million for Trump’ s NBC town hall on television.

2 Security guard charged: A security guard for a Denver television news station who was arrested in the fatal shooting ofa man after a rally last weekend will be chargedwith second- degree murder, the local prosecutor announced Thursday.

3 Disasterrelief for California: President Donald Trump’ s administration has reversed course and approved a previously rejected California application for disaster relief funds to clean up damage from six recent wild fifi res. Gov. Gavin News om said in a statement Friday that he had just got of the phone with Trump who just approved the major disaster declaration.

TV executive dies: Bob Shanks, a 4 television producer and executive who helped de fine the talk show and news magazine formats, working with Jack Pa ar and Merv Griffin and bringing “Good Morning America,”“20/ 20” and other programs to the air, diedin Pitts fifield, Massachusetts. Hewas 88. The cause was a stroke.

Michigan investigation: 5 Prosecutors provided enough evidence tomove toward trial for five Michigan men accused of plotting to kidnap the state’s governor, a federal judge ruled Friday in Grand Rapids. A two day preliminary hearing this week featured testimony by one of the FBI agents who ran the investigation.