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Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autographcollection.com. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The presidential campaigns are focusing on key swing states this weekend. Kamala Harris will be in Philadelphia today after campaigning in Michigan yesterday with former First Lady Michelle Obama.

The joint appearance was the first time the two have appeared together on the trail as Harris focuses her campaign on reproductive rights. In Pierce-Depa Shiveron reports. In Kalamazoo, Obama said people were holding Harris and her opponent, former President Trump, to different standards. She also spoke at length directly to men about how further limits and restraints on access to women's healthcare would impact them and their sons too. So I am asking y'all from the core of my being to take our lives seriously.

Please. Her remarks echoed what Harris has been saying over the weekend as she tries to increase support from men who are favoring Trump over her. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Former President Trump was also in Pennsylvania holding a rally at Penn State University last night. MPR's Elena Moore was there. Trump took the stage more than an hour and a half later than he was slated to, and just

a day after he arrived nearly three hours late to a rally in Michigan. But while speaking to the crowd at Penn State, he made a direct appeal to younger Americans, a growing voting bloc that generally supports Democrats, but one that direct appeal to younger Americans. A growing voting block that generally supports Democrats, but one that both candidates are courting. For all the young people here at Penn State and across America who may be voting for the first time, I want you to know that I am in this fight for you. I didn't need this. Pennsylvania is expected to be one of the most consequential states in the presidential election.

Trump and Harris have visited there more than any other swing state since August. Elena Moore, NPR News, State College, Pennsylvania. Trump has set to rally supporters this evening at New York City's Madison Square Garden. On Tuesday, Kamala Harris is planning to deliver what her campaign calls her closing argument from the same spot in Washington, D.C., where Trump spoke just ahead of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has made his first comments on Israel's air attacks early Saturday, saying they should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated.

Khamenei said Iranian officials should determine how to demonstrate Iran's power, as the BBC's Sebastian Usher reports. Iran has been downplaying the extent of it, saying that there hadn't been major impact. It may give a sense that Iran is not preparing at the moment for any major, major response, but any response that would come from Iran, I think, would take quite a long time. We saw after the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran several months ago, Iran threatened very, very strong revenge against Israel then. It took a long time before that actually happened on October the 1st.

And you're listening to NPR News. An investigation is underway in Israel after a truck plowed into a bus stop near an Israeli military base. Some three dozen people were injured. Local reports say the driver was shot and killed by armed civilians at the scene. It's believed the ramping was deliberate. The incident comes a day after Israel's attacks on military targets in Iran. Polls are open in Uruguay, a South American country that's seen as an island of stability

in the region. Voters there are choosing a new president as well as senators and other lawmakers in an election that is largely free of sharp political divisions, although there are a couple of contentious constitutional referendums on the ballot. In LA, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees 4-2 last night to take a two-games-to-none lead in baseball's best of seven World Series. But there is concern about Dodger star Shohei Otani, who suffered a shoulder injury. Steve Futterman was at last night's game. The injury to Shohei Otani occurred in the seventh inning as he was attempting to steal

second base. Otani was called out but stayed on the ground in obvious pain. LA manager Dave Roberts says Ohtani appears to have suffered a partial dislocation. Some initial tests he says were performed on the shoulder. The strength was great, the range of motion good, so we're encouraged. Roberts says he's optimistic Ohtani will play in game three on Monday. Meanwhile, in game two, the Dodgers jumped out to a 4-1 lead, then had to hold off the Yankees in the ninth when New York loaded the bases with just one out. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the World Series in Los Angeles.

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