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This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year, making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward. More at iu.edu slash forward. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Just 10 days remain in a tight presidential race as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris held rallies Saturday in the battleground state of Michigan. NPR's Amy Held reports. Trump took the stage in Novi, Michigan Saturday as early voting opened statewide.

It began last week and state officials said by Friday some 20 percent of registered voters had already cast their ballots. Speaking outside the Motor City, Trump lamented losses in the automotive and manufacturing industries and took another dig at Detroit. I think Detroit and some of our areas makes us a developing nation. Harris is keeping the focus on abortion rights. She addressed the media before her rallying Kalamazoo. I'm about to go and meet with some of the physicians who are on the front line for this issue for addressing the harm that has resulted from these Trump abortion bans. Both candidates turn next to rallies in the biggest swing state prize of Pennsylvania. Amy Held and PR News.

The Washington Post this weekend announced that this presidential election, it will break a more than 30-year tradition of endorsing a candidate. That move caused the resignation of editor-at-large Robert Kagan. Well, it was a pretty easy decision. This is obviously an effort by Jeff Bezos to curry favor with Donald Trump in the anticipation of his possible victory. Trump has threatened to go after Bezos' business. Bezos runs one of the largest companies in America.

They have tremendously intricate relations with federal government, they depend on the federal government, and Trump has made it clear that he will attack media organizations that are critical of him. Kagan was speaking with CNN. Hundreds of people in Southeast Sudan have been killed in the past several days by the paramilitary group that's at war with Sudan's army. That's according to local activists there. As many as 150,000 people have been killed since the war began a year and a

half ago. The war has also caused the world's worst displacement crisis. Amperes Emmanuel Akinwatu has more. More than 400 people have been killed over the last week by fighters from the Rapid Support Forces or RSF, according to emergency response volunteers. The massacres took place in villages in Al Jazeera state, an agricultural region in Sudan. The attacks are widely believed to be reprisals after the RSF's commander in the region defected to the Sudanese army earlier this month. The army said it had taken control of the region following several months where it was controlled by the RSF.

But since then, the paramilitary group has launched violence against communities in Al-Jazeera, sparking outrage at the atrocities and anger at the military for failing to prevent them. Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR News. Palestinian medical officials say that at least 22 people have died in a new round of Israeli strikes on northern Gaza. Eleven women and two children are among those that have been killed. Israel's military so far has not commented on the strike. You're listening to NPR News. One of three journalists who was killed by an Israeli airstrike this weekend in southern

Lebanon was buried in Hezbollah's cemetery in Beirut on Saturday. NPR's Arezoo Rizvani reports. Family, friends and colleagues stood before the shrouded body of cameraman Ghassan Najjar Saturday morning. They recited prayers, kissed the body and buried him in a cemetery that is mainly for Hezbollah's world fighters. Though Najjar worked for a pro-Iran, pro-Palestinian news channel aligned with Hezbollah, he was not known to be a member of the Iran-backed political and militant group. Still, the family requested his body be wrapped in Hezbollah's green and yellow flag as a symbol of resistance.

Najar was killed Friday along with two other journalists. Others from international news organizations were wounded in the attack even though their cars were clearly marked press and the town they were in was widely considered to be safe. Lebanon's information minister called the attack a war crime. Israel says it's reviewing the airstrike. Urzi Resvani and PR News Beirut. Officials in China say the country will take countermeasures to defend its territorial integrity. The announcement follows Friday's announcement from the US of a potential $2 billion arms package it's sending to Taipei City.

Among the items to be sent as an advanced air defense missile system, it would be the first such delivery to Taiwan. China claims Taiwan is its own territory. A bus in Mexico hit a trailer overnight and crashed. At least 24 people were killed in the accident and four others were injured. The bus was heading to Ciudad Juarez when the accident occurred. Those injured in the crash were taken to the town of Zacatecas. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. This message comes from Easy Cater, helping organizations manage all their food needs with online ordering from

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