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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herbst. Election day is Tuesday and both presidential candidates spent today in swing states, racing for every undecided vote. Former President Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, where he rallied supporters. But all I can say is, on Tuesday, just go out and vote, and we're going to close this thing out, and it's going to close this thing out and it's going to be party time. It's going to be party time.

Vice President Harris spent the day in Michigan courting the black and youth votes. She kept her day with a speech in East Lansing. Michigan, I am here to ask for your vote. I am here to ask for your vote. Tomorrow, Trump campaigns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina. Harris is planning a live stream show connecting events across seven key swing states, as MPR's Asma Khalid reports. The Harris campaign has been touting its ambitious ground game, knocking on over 13 million doors and insisting that their internal data shows that voters making up their minds in these

final days are trending toward Harris. But still in a sign of how tight this race looks in the polls, they are trying to mobilize voters with a massive interconnected show on Monday. The live stream will tie together performances and speeches in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Harris herself will close out her campaign with a series of rallies across the state of Pennsylvania, ending in Philadelphia. Asma Khalid, NPR News.

And a group that could have an outsized impact on this year's election is senior voters. Those over age 50 have high turnout rates and traditionally they lean Republican, but this year polling by the AARP shows them to be evenly divided. And Piers Dongagne has more. Women overwhelmingly backed Vice President Harris, men, former President Donald Trump. Both groups cite the economy as the top concern. Mark Cicchetti, who is 65 years old, was at a Trump rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. Everything you say for is gonna just get eaten up by inflation. I feel it right Mark Cicchetti, who is 65 years old, was at a Trump rally in Erie, Pennsylvania. Everything you save for is gonna just get eaten up

by inflation. I feel it right now, because I'm not making an income. And my savings is just dwindling. Senior women also see protecting reproductive freedom as vital. Gail Siegel of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, backs Harris. I mean, I marched for all the women's rights,

ERA, with my children, and it looks like here I am in this year, 2024, doing that again. Another thing older voters tell pollsters, they feel invisible to the campaigns. Don Gagne, NPR News. Gaza's health ministry is blaming Israel for an attack that reportedly wounded several Palestinians, including children, near a clinic that was giving out polio vaccinations. But the Israeli military says an initial review

indicates it wasn't conducting operations in that area at the time. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Tomorrow, most Americans start the work week in standard time, with the clock set back an hour, now that daylight saving time ended today. But NPR's Amy Held reports, momentum is building to end time change. Twice a year, the clocks change.

The complaints don't. The majority of Americans want to end what's been federal policy for decades, put in place in part for energy efficiency, but it's Americans who are lacking energy. The CDC says one in three already don't get enough sleep. Now, researchers in the UK, where they also changed the clocks, find that while going back an hour in the fall allows mostly men to catch up a bit on sleep,

it doesn't make up for the hour lost in the spring, leading to health risks. Here, states can stay in standard time. Arizona and Hawaii do. Twenty states have moved to stay in daylight saving time. But that would require an act of Congress. Two years ago, the Senate did pass such legislation that never made it out of the House. Now there are efforts to bring it back to light.

Amy Held, NPR News. At the weekend box office, Venom, The Last Dance, once again took the top spot with an estimated $26 million in ticket sales. The Sony and Marvel collaboration starring Tom Hardy has made more than $300 million globally. In second place, The Wild Robot with $7 million in its sixth week, and third place went to the horror film Smile 2 with $6 million. I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.