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Right now’s high tales
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris are speeding to marketing campaign for votes, particularly in swing states, after their first and probably solely presidential debate. This week, Harris has been rallying voters in North Carolina and can soon head to Pennsylvania, whereas Trump has gone to Arizona and now heads to Nevada. There are not any additional debates presently scheduled. Harris is pushing for one more one, however Trump says he gained’t debate her once more.
Georgia US Home Consultant Nikema Williams leaves the bus carrying her and different Harris surrogates on a reproductive rights tour of Georgia, at a cease in Macon.
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- 🎧 At her post-debate rallies, Harris has been attacking Trump’s insurance policies and dealing to chop into his margins in purple areas in swing states, NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben tells Up First. At one rally, she jabbed at Trump for saying he had “ideas of a plan” to interchange the Inexpensive Care Act. As for Trump, he announced a new policy yesterday: no tax on time beyond regulation. This is without doubt one of the methods he’s seeking to increase help among the many working class, which makes up a whole lot of his base. It’s unclear how that will work. His marketing campaign has not launched particulars.
- ➡️ Taylor Swift has entered her election period. Her post-debate presidential endorsement has driven tens of thousands of people to register to vote.
One in every of Boeing’s largest unions, which represents greater than 30,000 machinists, overwhelmingly voted yesterday to strike. Union members rejected a tentative contract provide as a result of it fell short of the pay raise and pension changes they have been looking for. Union members have been asking for a 40% elevate when the deal would have raised it by 25%. It’s the newest blow for the aerospace big, which was already reeling from security and high quality issues.
- 🎧 NPR’s Joel Rose says union members say the pay improve provided isn’t sufficient cash to dwell on. Earlier than the vote, firm leaders urged the union to take the deal. However 94% of union members voted to reject the contract and 96% voted in favor of putting. The corporate has been struggling to rebuild belief with airways, regulators and the flying public after a door plug blew out of a jet in January. Boeing is able to get again to the bargaining desk.
President Biden is predicted to host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the present day on the White Home. Russia’s warfare on Ukraine might be on the high of their agenda. There’s vast hypothesis Biden could use the event to announce he is dropping his ban on Ukraine utilizing long-range weapons supplied by Washington to strike targets deep inside Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy desires his forces to have the ability to destroy Russian missiles and drones earlier than they ever get off the bottom and head towards Ukraine. He has been lobbying onerous to realize permission to make use of the weapons which might be already within the nation.
- 🎧 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared to have modified minds on the subject this week when he stated there was proof that Iran is offering Russia with ballistic missiles, NPR’s Teri Schultz says. Western nations worry they might be seen as escalating the battle by letting Ukraine use the weapons. The overwhelming majority of NATO allies have made clear Ukraine can use its weapons nevertheless it chooses and say Kyiv has the suitable below worldwide regulation to defend its territory. NATO has been heavily pressuring the U.S. to say the identical factor.
Local weather options week
Local weather change is affecting our meals, and our meals is affecting the local weather. NPR is dedicating per week to tales and conversations about the search for solutions.
ChoViva chocolate, which is a cocoa-free chocolate various, is being examined and processed by an worker on the testing lab of Planet A Meals.
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Your favourite sweet bars, desserts and dipped fruit might be in peril on account of local weather change. Why? Chocolate provides are dwindling. Final yr, equatorial nations that account for two-thirds of the worldwide cocoa provide noticed report rainfall. The intense climate patterns triggered infections in cocoa bushes that rotted the cocoa fruit. This shortfall set the stage for corporations like Marquart’s Planet A Meals, whose scientists have been working on a chocolate substitute for the previous three years. However, making meals that appears like chocolate, seems like chocolate, and tastes like chocolate – however isn’t chocolate – takes time.
Weekend picks
Clockwise from left: Depraved, Right here, Emilia Pérez, A Actual Ache, Piece by Piece and Blitz.
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Try what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿Films: Want an escape from actuality? We’ve received you lined with 25 movies coming out this fall. The checklist has award contenders, goofy comedies, a smattering of romance, loads of anti-heroes and extra.
📺 TV: With fall comes new TV present premieres. Here’s what to watch out for, from scary and soapy to hopefully humorous, with journeys to each Marvel and DC worlds.
📚 Books: Edwidge Danticat’s We’re Alone delves into harsh topics like racism and injustice with out dropping its humorousness, proving as soon as once more that she is one among modern literature’s strongest, most swish voices.
🎵 Music: MJ Lenderman’s newly launched fifth solo album, Manning Fireworks, holds tales of people that can’t preserve connections. One of many songs, “You Don’t Know the Form I’m In,” stands out as a very tender love track sung after the rationale for its existence has petered out. NPR critic Ann Powers breaks down more of the songs here.
❓Quiz: There was a debate this week… however fortunately this week’s quiz questions are usually not all about that. I’m patting myself on the again for my rating. Think you can ace it too?
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Daybreak Richard arrives on the Latin American Music Awards on the Dolby Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles.
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- Daybreak Richard, a former member of the American lady group Danity Kane, filed a lawsuit towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging he sexually assaulted her, deprived her of food and sleep and refused to pay her adequately.
- Janet Kahn-Scolaro’s sister, Susan Kahn, was recognized with terminal pancreatic most cancers in 2013 and admitted to the hospital the subsequent yr. Kahn wished to attend her daughter’s highschool commencement, however her situation shortly received worse. Hospital workers, the household’s unsung hero, was in a position to thoughtfully recreate the ceremony proper there for her.
- Keurig agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties with out admitting guilt or denying the SEC’s findings that the Okay-Cup pod producer made misleading statements about the recyclability of its Okay-Cup single-use espresso pods.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
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