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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is calling an expanded ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, a historic deal. The agreement builds on a truce that Trump helped broker three months ago that ended a deadly border dispute. 18 Cambodian prisoners of war will be released and under this agreement, observers from ASEAN countries, including Malaysia, will be deployed to make sure that. the peace prevails and endures. I have no doubt that it will. Trump presided over the signing ceremony at the start of the Regional Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur. However, longstanding differences over the border remain. President Trump says he will place an additional 10% tariff on Canadian products.

His announcement follows an anti-tariff ad campaign run by the province of Ontario on major U.S. television networks, as Dan Carpanchuk reports. The anti-tariff ad campaign featured clips of an address by former president Ronald Reagan saying tariffs do not work. And infuriated Trump terminated all trade talks with Canada calling the ads of fraud. The government of Ontario, which paid $75 million Canadian for the ads, planned to pull them on Monday, still leaving them to be seen by millions of Americans watching the World Series. Now, Trump says, they should have been taken off the air immediately, and he announced to further 10% tariff on Canadian goods as punishment.

A Canadian government official says Prime Minister Mark Carney was not given any warning about the added tariff. Carney is in Malaysia for the ASEAN summit and is not spoken to Trump. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenchuk in Toronto. In the World Series, Los Angeles Dodgers have tied the series at one game apiece with last night's 5 to 1 wind over the Toronto Blue Jays. Steve Futterman is in Toronto. Game 2 was essentially a pitcher's duel for the first 6th innings. After 6, the game was tied 1 to 1. But in the seventh, the Dodgers broke through.

High drive deep to left field. It's Smith with a big swing. Dodger catcher Will Smith hit a solo home run to make it 2 to 1. The call on Fox Sports. Two batters later, another home run made it 3 to 1. L.A. scored two more times in the 8th, and that was more than enough run support for Dodger starter Yoshiyamamoto,

who pitched the first World Series complete game since 2015. LA manager Dave Roberts on Yamamoto's performance. Yeah, he was just locked in tonight. After an off day, the series resumes in Los Angeles on Monday for game three. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the World Series in Toronto. Jamaica is being hit by heavy rain and damaging winds from Hurricane Melissa. Forecasters say Melissa is intensifying and could remain a major hurricane when it's expected to pass over or near the island by Tuesday.

National Hurricane Center warning that Melissa could cause catastrophic flooding and landslides in Jamaica and also Haiti. This is NPR News. Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say one person is in custody following a shooting last night that killed one person and injured six others. The shooting happened during homecoming festivities on the campus of Lincoln University. Candidates in the Virginia governor's race are making their closing arguments to voters ahead of Election Day on November 4th. Margaret Barthell, a member station WAMU, reports from a conservative political action. conference event for the Republican ticket.

Winston-Earl Sears is the current lieutenant governor and the GOP nominee for governor. Love is not having my daughter having to be forced to undress in a locker room with a man that's not love. That line got her a standing ovation, criticizing Democrats for policies allowing transgender kids to use bathrooms and locker rooms aligned with their gender identity and not their birth sex has been a key closing message for Earl Sears. The Democrat in the race, Abigail Spanberger, says local communities should decide on how to handle these issues, not the state. She is focused instead on affordability in the closing days of the race. For NPR News, I'm Margaret Barthel in

Stirling, Virginia. The Virginia race for governor is one of the most closely watched elections in the country. Another is in New York City, where in-person early voting got underway this weekend in the race for mayor. The frontrunner, as Democrats are on Mamdani, he's going up against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Lewa. Early voting also underway in New Jersey's governor's race. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.