Joe Biden has said he would hire leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci at a rally in Ohio.

It comes after Donald Trump appeared to threaten to fire Fauci in a rally in Florida on Sunday night.

In response to chants of "fire Fauci", Trump said: “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. I appreciate the advice. I appreciate it.”

BBC has been speaking to voters around the US to get their perspectives on the election. Today, we hear from women around the country.

Bessy Clarke is an immigrant from Honduras who now works part-time as a waitress in New Orleans, while attending online coding bootcamp. Joe Biden was not her first choice, but she says voting Donald Trump out of her office is very important to her.

Why does this election matter to you?I am a Hispanic woman and the current immigration situation has me very concerned. Closing the detention camps at the border is extremely important to me and I'd like to see comprehensive reform to our immigration system; reuniting children with their families, expedited process for asylum seekers, and pathway to residency for DREAMERS. I am also very worried about the direction the Supreme Court is heading in and what that means for women's rights and LGBTQ rights in the future.

Does being a woman impact your vote?

Definitely. As a woman, I could never vote for someone like Donald Trump, who has consistently been so degrading to women. I am very conscious about who I vote for and making sure they’re trying to expand on women’s rights and equal pay, and reiterating that women are powerful and deserve to be in powerful positions. I think Trump has really undermined that.

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Trump has just tweeted that he signed an executive order to establish a "1776 commission" that will "stop the radical indoctrination of our students, and restore PATRIOTIC EDUCATION to our schools!"

Trump and some Republicans specifically target a New York Times series called the 1619 Project, which focuses on the year that African slaves first began arriving to the land that later became the US.

The year that Trump mentions, 1776, is when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and has been the main focus of history schoolbooks for generations.

The message of "patriotism" fits with the president's larger campaign theme seeking to suggest that his rivals diminish America's "greatness".

Watch our video below to learn more about how race is taught in US history and why it's become a political issue this year:

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With less than 24 hours until election day, here's a breakdown of what the candidates have lined up in the last frenzied hours of campaigning.

• Donald Trump spoke in North Carolina and Pennsylvania earlier on Monday, and on to Wisconsin and Michigan
• The president will end the day of campaigning in Grand Rapids in Michigan, where he held the final rally of his 2016 campaign
• Joe Biden is campaigning in Pennsylvania and Ohio
• Lady Gaga and John Legend are set to join Biden and Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, the city where the former vice-president launched his 2020 campaign
• Harris is holding solo rallies in the state, including in Philadelphia
• Vice-President Mike Pence will hold solo rallies in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin before joining the president

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs has said that anticipated unrest due to the US election is a reason besides Covid-19 for why citizens should not travel to the US.

"Take precautions to keep safe during the election season," the country's latest alert states, adding that levels of gun violence in the US are much higher than in Australia and that large-scale protests have been common since May.

"The US has a heightened risk of terrorist attacks,” it continues. “Terrorists may use vehicles, knives, homemade bombs, and poisons or toxins. Be alert, particularly in public places and at events.”

Shops in city centres across the US have boarded up with plywood over concerns of civil unrest.

Larry Madowo
BBC News, South Carolina

There are Trump yard signs aplenty as you drive across upstate South Carolina. Voters I’ve spoken to in the heavily conservative city of Greenville remain excited about president Trump and his chances for a second term.

“He believes in what I believe in,” a high-school government affairs teacher told me at a Trump parade on Sunday. She and her husband, also a teacher, did not even consider voting for Joe Biden.

Many of the South Carolinians say President Trump has kept the promises he made in 2016 and he is not a career politician like Joe Biden.

Trump won South Carolina with 14.2 points and is expected to carry it again. He hasn’t even campaigned here since February. But his key ally Senator Lindsey Graham is facing a strong challenge here from African American Democrat Jaime Harrison and he might lose the seat.

Both have raised more than $100m (£75m), a record for a Senate race.

Hear what South Carolinians told us:

Jessica Murphy, BBC News, Toronto

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Canada and the US are North American neighbours, but the coronavirus pandemic has hit the United States much harder.

There have been over 9.2 million cases in the US, and over 230,000 deaths.

Canada, in comparison, has had 236,841 cases of Covid-19, and over 10,000 people have died - a lower rate on infection, even when you take into account the big population difference (37 million to 331 million).

Why the difference? There are a few factors.

Infectious disease expert Dr Ronald St John, who has worked in both countries and with the WHO, says the public health response should have been led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US.

“That’s where the public health leadership should have presided - not the White House”.

He also says there was a lack of federal leadership in the US, noting: “Many states were left on their own to figure [the response] out.”

The University of Toronto’s Dr Vivek Goel, a public health expert, says that in general, Canadians have been more willing than Americans to follow public health directions, which have been less politically divisive in Canada than south of the border.

But that doesn’t mean Canada has had a perfect response - both doctors give the country a “B” grade for how it has handled the pandemic.

Issues include severe outbreaks in long-term care homes and a lag in testing capacity. There has also been criticism for a slow initial response that allowed cases to be brought in by travellers back in March.

Recently, amid rising cases, there has been frustration over sometimes contradictory and confusing guidelines in provinces like Ontario.

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Appearing at his first campaign event of the day before later going to Pennsylvania, Biden has just spoken to a socially distanced rally at an airport hangar in Cleveland, Ohio.

“The first step to beating the virus is beating Donald Trump,” he said to gatherers, many of whom sat inside their cars for his speech in order to adhere to virus-mitigation efforts.

Trump, meanwhile, has been storming through airport hangars in swing states around the country, where throngs of his supporters pack together often without facemasks.

After Trump suggested he would fire top immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci, Biden said he had "a better idea".

“Elect me and I’m gonna hire Dr Fauci and we’re gonna fire Donald Trump," he said.

"Donald Trump waved the white flag of surrender to this virus."

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Tensions have been rising in Texas, after Trump supporters were caught on camera this weekend harassing a Biden campaign bus, nearly running it off the road on a busy highway.

The Biden campaign say they cancelled several events in the Republican stronghold state this weekend due to concerns about violence.

Democrats are making an unusual effort to win the state, which last backed a Democratic candidate 40 years ago.

In Fort Worth, where Kamala Harris was visiting on Friday, police on scene at polling locations had to separate Trump supporters from Democrats due to fierce arguments.

Now, in a new statement, the Fort Worth police have denied they had allowed Trump supporters to engage in "voter intimidation" on their watch.

After a Trump caravan approached one event, and Biden supporters gathered around it, "officers entered the crowd to allow the surrounded vehicle to exit the area without further altercations", police say.

"At no time were Fort Worth officers escorting vehicles into any areas to allow any type of voter intimidation."

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

We've been asking our readers to send in their questions about the US election. Now it's our turn to respond.

Mark O'Neal, 72, from Cornwall, UK, asks: Who is paying for Trump's use of Air Force One for his campaign rallies? Is it legal?

Federal Election Commission rules dictate that the president's re-election committee must reimburse the government whenever Air Force One, or any public facility, is used for a campaign event. When and how those reimbursements take place, however, is considerably more opaque.

The campaign does not have to reimburse for individuals engaging in official government duties - such as Secret Service officers and some government aides - and the overall rate is based on the market cost of a chartered private aircraft of similar size.

Presidents of both parties have sometimes fudged the guidelines, taking "official" trips and adding a fund-raiser or campaign-style event onto it. That allows the campaign to share some of the cost of the trip with the taxpayers.

Trump and his administration have at times operated in the grey area of federal ethics law.

This president's frequently unscripted rhetoric, even at what's billed as official events, often veers toward the political. That, combined with a lack of transparency from the campaign, makes it difficult to estimate exactly how much the Trump re-election committee should pay.

Click here to learn more about this project or send in a question of your own.

Michelle Fleury
BBC World News correspondent, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, a little over 78% of the 3m mail-in ballots requested have been returned.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar told reporters that more than 2.4m postal ballots have been filled out and submitted.

Of the returned ballots, 1,596,195 are from registered Democrats while 555,805 are from registered Republicans.

Addressing reports that President Trump could claim victory before the election is called, Boockvar said:"We are hitting this on every front to make sure every Pennsylvanians can exercise their right to vote".

"There is literally no basis in law for anybody to certify the results until November 23., external"

Her comments come as Trump calls for ballot counting to be completed on election day. The norm in the US is for counting to continue for several days until all votes are tabulated.

When asked if she knew of any way the parties could stop the counting of votes, she said: "We’ve many excellent lawyers who are trying to anticipate every single legal claim that can be filed, but I am not aware of any process that can halt the counting process."

The outcome of the race in Pennsylvania could have national significance, and the two candidates are making several stops here on the last day before election day.

Both campaigns see the states, with its 20 Electoral College votes, as potentially decisive. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 with 44,292 votes (less than a 1% margin).

Buttons, signs, beanies and baseball caps are your typical campaign fare, but there's a new item in the mix this time around.

The big issue of 2020 is undoubtedly the coronavirus pandemic and it's fitting that voters on both sides have been repping their candidates with customised masks, which have become a political symbol even when not emblazoned with electioneering slogans.

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A Canadian woman accused of sending envelopes containing ricin poison to Trump and officials in Texas is too dangerous to be released pending trial, according to US prosecutors.

Quebec woman Pascale Ferrier was arrested on 20 September at the US-Canada border attempting to cross south with a loaded handgun.

“The nature and seriousness of the danger that she would pose if released cannot be overstated,” according to the memo obtained by Canada's Global News, external.

The file contained photos of the gun she was allegedly carrying, and an insulting note to Trump calling on him to drop out of the 2020 presidential race.

“The defendant has a deeply concerning history and characteristics that raise grave risk that she would endanger the community if released,” the prosecutors added.

Rapper Eminem has allowed the Biden campaign to license his song "Lose Yourself' for a 45 second advert out today.

The Michigan native's voice singing "you only get one shot" appears over scenes of Biden's recent visit to Detroit and video of other campaign appearances he has made around the country.

Eminem, a vocal and occasionally profane critic of Trump, has been extremely guarded about allowing his music to be used for commercial or political purposes.

According to the Detroit Free Press, New Zealand's center-right National Party was forced to pay out nearly $500,000 for copyright infringement over a 2014 campaign song that bore a striking similarity to 'Lose Yourself'.

Michigan is a key battleground in this election for which Trump and Biden are both competing fiercely, and Eminem is one of the state's favourite sons.

However, it's unclear how much celebrity endorsements actually help.

BBC has been speaking to voters around the US to get their perspectives on the election. Today, we hear from women on our voter panel.

Born and raised in Houston as a conservative Christian, Taylor Golden is a small business owner who was not very interested in politics until the arrival of Donald Trump. She is a proud 'Texan for Trump' and argues he is the most pro-life president in history.

Why does this election matter to you?

The truth is finally coming out about career politicians who use their office to become rich. They have slowly and systematically destroyed our country with racism, division, and the devaluation of life. Instead of being a career politician that became rich, [Donald Trump] is a rich man who became a politician. He had nothing to gain, he loved our country so much he gave up substantial wealth in order to protect the American people. He cannot be bought.

Does being a woman impact your vote?

No. I know of some women refuse to vote for Trump because of his past. I am so thankful that I am not judged on my past, I am far from perfect. He [Trump] may have said or behaved [as a] sexist in the past, and he may not be someone you’d invite to dinner, but he’s the best president this country has ever seen. Vote for the policy not the person. No one is perfect. We can’t be hypocrites when it comes to the future of our nation. It’s time to be logical, unbiased, and honest with ourselves.

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Some say the US is now a house divided, with American homes split by political differences, which can put strains on relationships.

But one Chinese-American family in Maryland is making it work.

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The 2020 election has provoked strong feelings across America, but for one person the result of the vote could have very expensive consequences.

Betfair Exchange has announced its biggest-ever political bet, with one user placing £1m ($1.3m) on a victory for Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

The company, the world's online betting exchange, currently sees a 8/15 (or 65%) likelihood of Biden winning in tomorrow's election, meaning that the punter would be able to claim £1.5m ($1.9m) if successful.

Biden's chances have improved significantly since April, when the odds of him winning stood at 5/4. Back in February - before he secured the Democratic nomination - that figure was just 99/1.

While he may still be far behind his rival, Trump's prospects are looking much better than they did four years ago - in the 2016 election, the Republican candidate's odds never rose above 9/1 (10%).

The 2020 election has now become the biggest betting event of all time, and is projected to double the previous record of almost £200m set during the vote in 2016, according to Betfair.

Besides being the largest ever political wager, the Biden bet is also the third-largest Betfair gamble of any kind - the record was set in 2010 when someone staked £1.1m on a victory for tennis star Rafael Nadal in his match against Thomaz Bellucci.

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Trump is speaking in Fayetteville, North Carolina, holding a rescheduled rally that was postponed from Thursday due to Hurricane Zeta.

"Next year will be the greatest economic year in the history of our country," he says, touting numbers that he says "nobody even thought possible".

This is just his first of five rallies scheduled for today.

The next is in Scranton, Pennsylvania - the city where Biden was born and raised before moving to Delaware as a 10-year-old child. Trump claims Biden "abandoned" the city.

After that, he's in Traverse City, Michigan, followed by Kenosha, Wisconsin - a city roiled by racial justice protests after the police shooting of a black man.

He then returns to Michigan for a late-night rally in Grand Rapids.

Zhaoyin Feng
BBC Chinese, Washington DC

President Trump’s hardline policy on China has contributed to a deteriorating US-China relationship, but it has also earned him support in Asia.

Two of Trump’s strongest bases there are Taiwan and Hong Kong, both of which feel viscerally China's shadow.

A YouGov poll , externalin October found that Taiwanese people are Trump's biggest fans in Asia, and Hong Kong is the runner-up. Notably, Taiwan is the only place surveyed in Asia and Europe that prefers Trump over Biden as the US president.

Trump’s supporters in Taiwan and Hong Kong believe that his tough stance towards China can help to protect democracy in these two societies, which are threatened by the increasingly authoritarian regime in Beijing.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media mogul and democracy activist, recently tweeted his support, predicting that the Trump would win “landslide”.

“He’s done what he promised instead of those only talk-no-walk politicians," Lai wrote.

Lai has been under scrutiny, as his tabloid newspaper Apple Daily was said to have funded a report to discredit the Democratic candidate Joe Biden, though Lai denied involvement in the report.

Meanwhile, some Hong Kong activists believe that residents there should refrain from choosing a side in the US election.

Samuel Chu, the managing director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council in Washington DC, told me that he hopes to maintain the bipartisan support for Hong Kong in the US.

“It would be short-sighted and naive to allow the Hong Kong movement be hijacked or used for short term political gains by one party or one candidate.”

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Trump supporters have blocked roads in several locations this past weekend, raising tensions going into what experts are calling a historically divisive presidential election.

A pro-Trump convoy of cars was accused of harassing a Biden campaign vehicle in Texas on Saturday, leading to an FBI investigation.

The president's supporters also held inflammatory events in New York, Virginia and Georgia.

In New York City, dozens of cars clogged roads including the Mario M Cuomo Bridge, named for the New York governor's father - a Democratic politician with whom Trump has frequently clashed.

A rally in Georgia was cancelled over concerns that it would attract armed militiamen from a Trump event. In Richmond, Virginia, another caravan of Trump supporters dubbed a "Trump train" scuffled with counter-protesters. Shots were reportedly fired.

Critics have found Trump alarmingly non-committal to a peaceful transfer of power in the event that he loses. Shops and businesses across the US have boarded up windows in anticipation of unrest.

Read more about what it's like to experience a "Trump train" here: 'I'm tired of people putting down our president'