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Coming up on the indicator from Planet Money is Love Week, our week-long series exploring the business and economics of romance. Ever wonder how cable channels crank out so many rom-coms around Christmas time? Or wish you could get relationship advice from an economist. I'm listening. That's Love Week from the indicator. Listen on your podcast app or smart speaker. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning in Houston, Texas today.

She's warning voters about what's at stake when it comes to protecting reproductive freedoms. Real harm has occurred in our country. A real suffering has occurred. People have died. And it is important to highlight this issue because this is among the most critical issues that the American people will address when they vote for who will be the next president

of the United States. Former President Donald Trump is also stomping in Texas today. Addressing supporters in Austin, Trump placed the blame on his Democratic opponent for the influx of migrants crossing the southern border illegally. We're like a dumping ground.

What Kamala Harris has done on our border is cruel, it's vile, and it's absolutely heartless. Her policy of importing migrant gangs is a crime against our country. It's actually a crime against humanity. Harris will hold a campaign rally alongside music icons Beyonce and Willie Nelson tonight in Houston. Trump will travel to the swing state of Michigan for an event. President Biden formally apologized today for the suffering that indigenous children endured in boarding schools for more than 150 years. Many of the children experienced physical, mental,

and sexual abuse during that time. 950 died. Speaking in Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, Biden said a formal apology is long overdue. After 150 years, the United States government eventually stopped the program. But the federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened until today.

I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did. I formally apologize. Biden's message is the first public apology from a sitting U.S. president in response to a federal policy that devastated tribal communities and culture. Israeli strikes on a hospital in North Gaza yesterday have left the facility almost nonfunctional. NPR's Hadil Al-Shalchi reports this comes as Israel intensifies its incursion in northern Gaza. In a TV interview with Al Jazeera from inside the Kamal Adwan hospital

during the attack in north Gaza, director Dr. Hussam Abou Safiyeh said that the hospital was suddenly besieged by Israeli tanks on Thursday and everyone was ordered to evacuate. With the sound of shooting behind him, Abou Safiyeh said that the two upper floors of the hospital were attacked and troops shot at the windows. Abou Safiyeh said around 160 injured Palestinians needed medical attention and at least 14 children lay in the intensive care unit. Kamal Adwan is one of the three hospitals in the north left largely inaccessible because of the fighting. Hadeel Alshalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News.

News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. The owner and operator of a container ship that crashed into the Key Bridge in Baltimore have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit. Grace Ocean Private LTD and Synergy Marine Private Limited will pay more than $100 million in damages. The bridge collapse killed six men and forced the Port of Baltimore to shut down for weeks. DNA testing has confirmed the identity of a skull nearly half a century after it was found in the walls of an Illinois home.

NPR's Rachel Triesman reports it belonged to an Indiana teen who died in 1866. The skull was discovered in 1978 during renovations to the house in Batavia, a suburb of Chicago. Cane County Coroner Rob Russell announced the results of DNA testing this week, years after the cold case was reopened. We now know the skull found in the wall in Batavia as Esther Granger. Granger died in 1866 at the age of 17 after giving birth to her first child. Authorities say she was buried in Indiana

and was likely the victim of grave robbing. The city paid for her remains to be reinterred in Batavia at a ceremony where her great-great-grandson gave the eulogy. Rachel Triesman, NPR News. An outbreak of E. coli at McDonald's restaurants has been traced to its source. Fresh onions supplied by a produce company in California. Taylor Farms has issued a recall. Federal regulators say one person died and as of today, 75 people have been sickened

in 13 states. This is NPR News.