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Do you feel like there's more on your to-do list than you can accomplish? Or maybe the world's problems feel extra heavy these days. We can't eliminate stress, but we can manage it. It's almost like I have a new operating system now. Like I tend to live more in this light. Stress Less, a quest to reclaim your calm. A new series from NPR's Life Kit podcast. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

On a campaign swing through the Southwest, former President Trump first stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a state Republicans have not won in the presidential race since 2004. NPR's Ben Giles reports Trump's campaign stands to gain from a shift in voting patterns, though. At a time when his campaign has sought to defend itself from criticism over a pattern of crude and even racist remarks about Puerto Rico, about Mexico, and just about anyone crossing the southern border, the former president said campaigning in New Mexico was good for his credentials with Hispanic voters.

And with your support, New Mexico, look, don't make me waste a whole damn half a day here, okay? Look, I came here, you know, we can be nice to each other or we can talk turkey. Let's talk turkey, okay? First of all, Hispanics love Trump. They do. Trump acknowledged it would take record turnout

from Latino voters for him to win in New Mexico this year. He also claimed he's won the state every year he's ran for president, despite back-to-back losses there in 2016 and 2020. Ben Giles, NPR News. Campaigning in Phoenix, Arizona earlier today, Vice President Harris said if her Republican rival Donald Trump wins the presidential race next week, he would walk into the Oval Office on day one with an enemies list, while Harris says she would walk in with a to-do list. And she told the crowd her number one priority. And on top of my list in that spirit

is bringing down your cost of living. It's an issue that we need to address and it will be my focus every single day as president. Harris earlier in the day took exception to remarks made by former President Trump. He would protect women whether they quote like it or not. Harris attends a get out the vote rally later tonight in Las Vegas, the head of a leading free speech organization is stepping down as NPR's

Netta Ulbe explains the group Pan America announced the resignation today. Suzanne Nossel took over at Pan America in 2013. Under her leadership, revenue expanded by a factor of five. Membership grew to more than 4,000. But many of those members criticized Pen America for not standing up more strongly for Palestinian writers who've been imprisoned, displaced, or killed over the past 12 months. Protests led to canceled events and accusations of silencing. Other controversies also erupted, about awards for translation and for writers who are in U.S. prisons. Suzanne Nocille had focused on issues such as book bans in U.S. schools.

She is moving on to run the pro-democracy group Freedom House. Nada Oulibi, NPR News. The union representing striking Boeing Machinists says more than 30,000 of its members will vote on a new contract offer next week. The latest offer from the company to members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers includes wage increases of 38% over four years. From a 35% offer rejected last week, Boeing has refused to bend on restoring a traditional pension plan.

You are listening to NPR. In Brazil, two men have been sentenced to decades in prison for the assassination of a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, a crime that shocked the country in 2018 and exposed rampant corruption and collusion among police and politicians in Rio. Julia Canaro has details. It was a historic trial for Brazil's most notorious political murder. Mariela Franco was a rising political star, a gay black city council woman raised in Rio's favelas, championing human rights issues when she was shot dead at age 38,

along with her driver Anderson Gomes. The tragedy transformed her into a national icon. More than six years later, a jury in Rio has sentenced two former police officers to de facto life sentences. Rony Lessa for shooting and killing Marielle and Elcio de Queiroz for driving the car used in the shooting. The men accused of ordering her death will face a separate trial. Two are politicians with alleged mafia ties. A third is Rio's former civil police chief. For NPR News, I'm Julia Carneiro in Rio de Janeiro.

A representative from a moving company along with lawyers were expected to be given access to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment. That's after he failed to meet a deadline to turn belongings over to two former Georgia election workers. The pair won a $148 million defamation lawsuit against Giuliani, who falsely accused the two women of cheating during the vote count in the 2020 election. Giuliani had his bankruptcy case dismissed in July, opening his assets up to seizure to pay for his legal settlements.

Federal Judge last week ordered him to surrender his assets. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.