Month: November 2024

1PM ET 11/01/2024 Newscast
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AP correspondent Rita Foley has the latest installment of the continuing AP series “The Contenders,” focusing on the presidential candidates -and you.

With the election looming, the US economy added far fewer jobs in October. Police in Orlando say a 17-year-old shooter opened fire at two Halloween gatherings. A crucial manufacturer of IV fluids has resumed operations, but supply shortages across the country could last a few more weeks. Crew and passengers on a United Airlines flight had to stop what documents describe as an unprovoked attack on a sleeping passenger. Plus, Wendy’s is closing stores in underperforming areas.
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12PM ET 11/01/2024 Newscast
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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports Israeli strikes in central Gaza have killed more than two dozen people.

The focus in this final weekend is on the swing states where a few tens of thousands of votes could settle the outcome in the US election. Our reporter is in Pennsylvania where polls expect the rural parts will vote heavily for Trump while the biggest city, Philadelphia, has traditionally provided blowout Democratic support. Also in the programme, emergency workers in Spain say more than two hundred people are now known to have died in the floods; and we take a look at a transformative new therapy for people with psychosis who hear voices. Picture: Democrats voters on the campaign trail in Pittsburg in October. Credit: JUSTIN MERRIMAN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)