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Truth, independence, fairness, transparency, respect, excellence. This is NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. With less than three days to go until Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are barnstorming key southern states in a razor-thin race for the White House. Trump is in Greensboro, North Carolina this evening, having already appealed to an audience in Gastonia earlier in the day. I think they'll end up having many, many more people than they thought.

This is going to be great, but we have to get out and vote. And we will, because I am thrilled to be great but we have to get out and vote and we will because I am thrilled to be back in this beautiful state. What a great state. You know I have a little granddaughter named Carolina. You know that right? The former president also made his case in Salem, Virginia. The Trump campaign hot focus is clear though and he will stop in North Carolina every day till election day Vice President Harris today took her case to voters in Georgia and North Carolina in Charlotte Harris said she'd work to end the war in Gaza

Bring down prices for every American and work to protect women's access to abortion She also criticized former President Trump's rhetoric and his promises if elected. This is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power. In the swing state of Pennsylvania, election officials in Erie County are rushing to get replacement ballots to as many as 18,000 voters who've not yet received mail-in ballots they requested. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, a state judge ordered local officials to take steps to make sure that all of the affected voters have a chance to exercise their right to vote in

this election. In the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania, a state judge concluded that mainly because of problems with ballot vendor election IQ, up to 17,000 Erie County voters are still waiting for mail-in ballots and around 1,200 voters who are temporarily out of state are missing their absentee ballots too. After the Pennsylvania Democratic Party sued, the judge ordered Erie County election officials to extend their office hours to allow affected voters to cast absentee ballots in person this weekend and use overnight deliveries

to get replacement ballots to those outside of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania law allows absentee voters who haven't cast their ballots yet to vote in person at the polls on election day, either after turning in their unused absentee ballots or by casting provisional ballots. Anzila Wong, NPR News. An Israeli military official says Israeli naval forces have captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon. The operation took place in the northern Lebanese town of Batrun, the official said.

Meanwhile, an attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran's supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel's attack last week. This is NPR News in Washington. The United Kingdom's Collins Dictionary has declared BRAT its 2024 Word of the Year from London. NPR's Lauren Freyer reports. It's the title of a number one album by the British singer-songwriter Charlie XCX. I'm going to do my song now. And became a social media buzzword, even picked up by Kamala Harris's presidential campaign

after the singer tweeted, Kamala is brat, and the vice president's staff briefly rebranded her social media with it. Collins Dictionary defines brat as someone with a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude. It says, Brat summer was one of the most talked about phrases of 2024. The dictionary's experts combed 20 billion words

to create this annual list. This year, it also includes era, defined as a period of one's life or career that is of a distinctive character billion words to create this annual list. This year it also includes ERA, defined as a period of one's life or career that is of a distinctive character and inspired by Taylor Swift's ERA's tour. Lauren Freyer and PR News London. In the Netherlands thieves robbed an art gallery of two works from a famous series of screen prints by Andy Warhol. They were from a 1985 pop art Warhol series of four called Reigning Queens. The robbers attempted to steal all four but bungled the theft, leaving behind

two, which they had badly damaged in the attempt. The Reigning Queens included Warhol images of the then-queens of the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Swaziland, and Southern Africa, which is now called Eswatini, the owner of the MPV gallery in the Southern Netherlands, Denmark and Swaziland in southern Africa, which is now called Eswatini, the owner of the MPV gallery in the southern Netherlands said the robbery was captured on security cameras. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.