Day: October 31, 2024

1PM ET 10/31/2024 Newscast
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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports Spain is searching for bodies after unprecedented flooding claims at least 158 lives.

12PM ET 10/31/2024 Newscast
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We’ll give you the latest on a handful of investigations and lawsuits into voter registration and mail-in ballot deliveries in the key state of Pennsylvania. Inflation in the US is getting closer to the Fed’s target. California could soon have the nation’s highest minimum wage. Russia fines Google an astronomical amount.. Plus, a witch seems to have placed a curse on a property hundreds of years ago.
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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports some attacks from both Hezbollah and Israel’s forces claim vicitms.

WITF Radio reporter Jordan Wilkie reports with Election Day looming, the number of false and misleading claims are ratcheting up. (This story is part of an explanatory series focused on Pennsylvania elections produced collaboratively by WITF in Harrisburg and The Associated Press.)

Spain is reeling from what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in its recent history. Rescue workers are struggling to find those feared missing and officials say it’s not clear how many people are still unaccounted for. Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to help. We hear from local people affected by the floods, from the Spanish Red Cross and from our reporter on the ground. Also on the programme: North Korea test fires a ballistic missile which seems to have flown higher and for longer than ever before; and how a comment about women’s self defence sparked a huge social media response. (Photo: Upturned cars, mud and debris line the streets of the flood-affected municipality of Catarroja, Valencia, Spain. Credit: Manuel Bruque/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Plus: Stellantis said efforts to bring down the number of cars held at U.S. dealers is running ahead of schedule. An investigation involving a top executive at drugmaker AstraZeneca is the latest to unsettle foreign companies in China. J.R. Whalen reports. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices