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Hey, it's Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour. If you love NPR podcasts, you'll want the new NPR Plus podcast bundle. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat selection of NPR Plus podcasts with sponsor-free listening and bonus episodes. Plus, you'll be supporting public radio. Check it out at plus.npr.org. 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. Trump campaigned 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. they thought this is gonna 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. The former president also made his case today to an audience in Salem, Virginia. Vice President Harris today appealed to voters in Georgia and North Carolina.

President Biden made news again with some unscripted comments when talking to Carpenters workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, Biden was calling on union workers to get out the vote. At a campaign stop in his hometown, Biden emphasized the work he did to protect pensions on union workers to get out the vote. At a campaign stop in his hometown, Biden emphasized the work he did to protect pensions for union workers. He also blasted former President Donald Trump for his proposal to give tax breaks to the wealthy.

These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass. This is not the first time Biden has made off-the-cuff remarks that are off-message with Vice President Harris' campaign. Harris has been trying to appeal to moderate Republican and independent voters in swing states. Biden recently made comments in a video call that sounded like he was calling Trump supporters garbage. He said that's not what he meant.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ukraine's president says his country's allies are watching passively as North Korean troops are preparing to fight for Russia. NPR's Joanna Kikissis reports that the White House The president says his country's allies are watching passively as North Korean troops are preparing to fight for Russia. NPR's Joanna Kokissis reports that the White House has confirmed thousands of troops from North Korea have been deployed to Russia's border with Ukraine. Writing on the social media app Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested

that his troops want to launch preemptive strikes on military camps in Russia where the North Koreans are training. The Ukrainians cannot strike, however, because the U.S. restricts the use of advanced long-range weapons provided by the West. Russia has warned it will respond if Ukraine's NATO allies approve these strikes. As a result, Zelensky says, his allies are watching from the sidelines. Ukraine is struggling to defend its territory in the east as Russian forces advance. Joanna Kekises, NPR News, Kyiv. 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 had led the conservatives. Badenoch was born in London to Nigerian parents and spent much of her childhood in the West

African nation. This is NPR News. More than 200 people have died and it's not clear how many people are missing after devastating rain left a path of destruction in Spain's eastern province of Valencia, day after satellite images released by NASA show parts of the province submerged in floodwaters and a river channel and coastal wetlands clogged with sediment. Daylight saving time ends overnight at 2 a.m. local time. The change can be particularly hard for people with Alzheimer's or dementia. From member station WVXU in Cincinnati, Tana Weingartner has more. For someone with a degenerative brain disease, the fall time change can cause confusion and behavior changes or exacerbate sundowning symptoms like anxiety, agitation or hallucinations. Dana Richie with the Greater Cincinnati Alzheimer's

Association recommends letting people ease into the new time schedule. If their body has a natural wake-up time, don't necessarily change that just because the clock changes, especially if there's not a good reason for that. Like an early doctor's appointment, for example. The Alzheimer's Association also recommends keeping the home well-lit in the evening and reducing stimulants like TV. For NPR News, I'm Tana Winegartner. The World Series was a huge TV hit in Japan this year with players Shohei Otani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, there was an average 12.9 million viewers in Japan.

Combined with U.S. numbers, the five-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees had a combined 28.7 million average in the two countries. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News.