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Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters come to you on the NPR Politics Podcast to explain the big news coming out of Washington, the campaign trail and beyond. We don't just want to tell you what happened, we tell you why it matters. Join the NPR Politics Podcast every single afternoon to understand the world through political eyes. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are closing in on their final pitch to voters in battleground states ahead of election day.

It's been a grueling schedule for both candidates and one of them, the former president, is dismissing observations that the pace may be catching up with him. We begin with NPR's Sarah McCammon reporting from Gastonia, North Carolina, one of several Trump stops in that state. Recent news reports have highlighted Trump's apparent fatigue and increasingly unfocused campaign speeches punctuated with insults and attacks on his political opponents. During the rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump told supporters, quote, I feel I'm sharp. Trump started a weekend of campaigning in the critical swing state, telling North Carolina

supporters we win this state, we win the whole ballgame. This is the first of several stops Trump will make in North Carolina before Tuesday. Sarah McKimmon and PR News, Gastonia, North Carolina. Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke in North Carolina today. Prior to that, she campaigned in Atlanta, Georgia, for a member station WABE. Sam Gringlis reports. With a backdrop of Atlanta skyscrapers and autumn leaves, Harris applauded the more than four million who've already voted in Georgia and urged them to talk to others about the consequences of electing who is increasingly unsta

with revenge, consumed wi the man is out for uncheck than 90 days, is he gonna the Oval Office with just election, Trump and both vice presidential nominees also have scheduled stops in Georgia, a state decided in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes. For NPR News, I'm Sam Greenglass in Atlanta. Aid groups are warning that nearly a month of Israel's heavy bombardment of North Gaza

has brought the region to the precipice of a humanitarian disaster. NPR's Scott Newman has more from Tel Aviv. Scott Newman A joint statement from senior United Nations officials as well as Oxfam and the International Council for Voluntary Agencies describes the situation in northern Gaza as apocalyptic. The officials say hundreds of Palestinians in the area under siege have been killed and thousands more displaced. Earlier this week, just north of Jabalia, dozens of Palestinians, including women and

children, were killed by an Israeli strike. That's according to Gaza health officials. Israeli officials say they're looking into the incident and that their intensified campaign in the north is aimed at rooting out Hamas fighters who have regrouped there. One of the last remaining hospitals in the area was also hit. Israel says Hamas fighters were using it as a hideout. Scott Newman, NPR News, Tel Aviv. From Washington, you're listening to NPR News. In the UK, Kemi Badenok has become the first black woman to head a major political party. The new leader of Britain's opposition conservatives succeeds Rishi Sunak, who left office after the conservatives lost more than 200 seats in July's parliamentary elections. Badenok

was born in London to Nigerian parents and spent much of her childhood in the West African nation. TGI Fridays announced that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. NPR's Emma Bowman reports the casual dining chain has been struggling financially since the pandemic. The bankruptcy filing follows the closures of dozens of TGI Fridays locations in the US this year. TGI Fridays said in a statement that the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic was, quote,

the primary driver of our financial challenges. Sit down restaurants like TGI Fridays, Red Lobster, and other fast casual mainstays took a hit during the pandemic. Their business model, meanwhile, has been losing out to fresher and faster and cheaper options like Shake Shack. TGI Fridays said the bankruptcy process will allow it to explore a long-term survival plan for the business. The bankruptcy affects 39 restaurants operated by the parent company, not its other locations which are run by

franchisees. Emma Bowman, NPR News. Daylight saving time ends across the nation at 2 a.m. local time. Clocks go back one hour to standard time. In the spirit of the adage, spring forward, fall back, clocks move ahead an hour on March 9th of next year. Arizona and Hawaii never change their clocks. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News.