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On the TED Radio Hour, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson says giving negative feedback to employees is the kind thing for bosses to do, even if it doesn't seem nice. Nice is the easy way out. Makes me comfortable in the moment, but it doesn't take care of you and it doesn't take care of the future. Ideas about making teams work. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Even as many economists are saying a Trump presidency would lead to an increase in inflation, the former president is telling voters if they return to the White House, inflation will, quote, vanish completely.

Trump proposing, among other things, large tariffs on imports coming into the U.S., a theme he repeated today in an interview with Bloomberg News. We've got hundreds of billions of dollars just from China alone, and I hadn't even started yet. But tariffs are two things, if you look at it. Number one, it's for protection of the companies that we have here and the new companies that will move in in because we're going to have thousands of companies coming into this country. We're going to grow it like it's never grown before and we're going to protect them when they come in because we're not going to have somebody undercut them. However, many economists say Trump's proposed tariffs would lead to higher prices for consumers, while his proposed tax cuts would cause the deficit to explode.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris again issued a warning that under a Trump presidency, harsh policing tactics could become, in her words, institutionalized. Appearing on a radio program popular with black males in Detroit, Harris also repeated a pledge that despite her history as a prosecutor, she will continue to work on decriminalizing marijuana use. My pledge is as president, I will work on decriminalizing it because I know exactly how those laws have been used to disproportionately impact certain populations and specifically black men.

While recreational marijuana use is now legal in some states, that's not the case at the federal level. Both Harris and Trump are looking to energize key constituencies, with polls still showing a very tight race. The Pentagon says it has upgraded hundreds of veterans discharged for their sexual orientation under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. More from NPR's Quill Lawrence. Brave LGBTQ plus Americans have long volunteered to serve the country that they love. That's what Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement after a year-long review of troops kicked out of the military under Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That policy was meant as a compromise in 1993, but advocates say it backfired and did

not improve life for gay and lesbian troops. In 2011, Congress ended the ban on serving openly. The Pentagon says the review of records resulted in more than 800 veterans gaining honorable discharges and access to benefits. Advocates say more than 100,000 have been discharged for their sexual orientation over the decades before and after Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. Federal disaster assistance workers in North Carolina are again being told they can visit people door to door. That's after such visits were temporarily suspended. Reports over the weekend some aid workers might be targeted by militia members because of false information, including information sped by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his allies about response to the storm and lies about emergency funds.

You're listening to NPR News in Washington. U.S. officials say they believe they've won assurance from Israel that will not launch strikes against Iranian oil or nuclear sites in retaliation for a missile barrage earlier this month. The official speaking on condition of anonymity, however, also said the agreement is not ironclad and could change depending on circumstances. Israel said in the past, while it listens to the opinion of the U.S., it makes final decisions based on its own national interest. Sean Diddy Combs has been jailed since September following his federal indictment on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. New civil lawsuits for sexual abuse from six people

were filed against the rapper yesterday. There's Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento has more. The number of lawsuits filed against Sean Diddy Combs for sexual abuse and harassment since last fall now totals 18. The six most recent lawsuits have been filed anonymously by four men and two women. They're all being represented by Texas attorney Tony Busby, who held a press conference earlier this month saying he intends to file more than 100 lawsuits against Combs in the coming weeks. The wall of silence has now been broken and victims are coming forward. After that announcement, Combs' lawyers said they could not address, quote, every meritless allegation. One of the new lawsuits alleges that Combs groped a 16-year-old boy at one of his famous white parties in the Hamptons in 1998. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR News. I made some uncertainties over the outcome of

the November election. The nation's small business owners seem to be hedging their bets. That's based on the latest survey from the National Federation of Independent Business. Because of that uncertainty, some small business owners say they're reining in their spending until after the election. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.