Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, September 28th. In today's news, President Trump reportedly paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and the same amount in 2017, and no taxes at all in several previous years.

Democrats plan to make Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation

a referendum on Obamacare.

In five weeks out from the election, Trump plays defense in several states he carried in 2016.

But first, the big idea.

The confirmed global death toll from COVID-19 is just about to pass 1 million.

That is as many as live in San Jose, California, Volgograd Russia, or Coom, Iran.

To mark this grim milestone, our foreign correspondence across the globe have filed vignettes

about people in the countries they cover who have succumbed to the contagion.

Reading them is a sad reminder that this is a pandemic that has divided countries from within,

yet it has united the world in common anguish and loss.

In the United States, a son in Sacramento can only listen

to a description of his mother's burial in New Jersey

via his daughter, the only relative permitted to attend.

The dead are mostly poor.

In an Indian village, a man's family borrows a wooden cart that a neighbor used to sell fish and carries his body to his funeral

pyre and the dead are mainly workers in Brazil a man who works in a meat packing

plant does everything he can think of to protect himself.

Yet he brings the bug home and now his wife is dead.

Yet at each stop along the virus's eight month journey, as deaths mounted. Those whose loved ones have died

feel compelled to tell the stories of the people they have lost. Even as the illness

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