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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 Korova Coleman. This is the last full day of campaigning before tomorrow's U.S. elections.

The major presidential candidates are campaigning in swing states today. Vice President Kamala Harris will be visiting several sites in Pennsylvania to rally her supporters. Former President Donald Trump is making stops in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and he has just begun in North Carolina this morning. NPR's Franco Ordonia says Trump wants to keep that state in his column. Trump won there twice. He shouldn't be needing to even go to North Carolina at all. But now it's very competitive. Harris is spending time there,

and Trump has spent more time in North Carolina than Pennsylvania in the last few days, which is really kind of crazy if you think about it. But North Carolina is a must-win state for Trump and clearly he feels some vulnerability and beers breaker Oh don't yes reporting with tomorrow's election. China is among the countries that will be watching the results closely However, the outcome of the vote seems unlikely to fundamentally change the course of a tense bilateral relationship And beers John Rewich explains. The Chinese government has tried to steer clear of openly commenting on the election or the two candidates.

Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are known quantities though. Trump for the trade war he launched against China and Harris as a key part of the Biden administration which has kept the Trump-era tariff regime in place and expanded efforts to deny China access to key technologies. Many here in China are convinced that acrimony and friction between the U.S. and China will continue regardless of which candidate wins the election. Harris seems poised to keep running with Biden's competitive approach to relations with China,

and Trump has threatened to dramatically increase tariffs on Chinese goods. John Ruch, NPR News, Guangzhou, China. The Israeli military has deployed another brigade to northern Gaza. The Israeli siege of the region began a month ago. The Israeli military says its operation is aimed at shattered Hamas units that are trying to regroup. And Piers Eye Batraoui has more. A Palestinian rescue crew pulled this toddler, her hair still in

pigtails, alive out of the rubble of a home hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City last night. Civil defense say countless people like her are not being saved in North Gaza because their crews have come under attack and are unable to operate. The heads of 15 UN agencies and aid groups including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Food Program, say hundreds of people, most of them women and children, have been killed by Israeli bombardment of North Gaza in the past month. They say hospitals there have come under attack.

They say tents sheltering displaced people have been shelled, burning people alive. They called on Israel to stop the assault and for Hamas to release hostages. Ayah Batraoui, NPR News. Forecasters are tracking a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea, they say, will gain strength. Hurricane warnings are now up for the Cayman Islands. On Wall Street, the Dow is down about 90 points. This is NPR. Officials are boosting security across the country as part of this year's national elections,

and Beers Amy Held has more. 92% of local election officials tell the Brennan Center for Justice they're boosting security Tuesday. Election-related unrest is already here. In Washington state, where a ballot box was burned last month, National Guard troops are on standby. In Detroit, Michigan, poll workers falsely accused of cheating by Trump supporters last time will have police protection this time as they tally results. The Justice Department says it is adding

monitors even as Republican leaders in Texas and Florida say they'll ban federal inspectors from polling places in favor of state ones. Amy Held, NPR News. Striking machinists at Boeing will vote today on their latest contract offer from the troubled aircraft maker. Boeing's offering wage increases of 38%, but it won't bring back the company's old pension plan as the union had called for.

Union leaders are supporting the proposed offer. Music icon Quincy Jones has died in California at the age of 91, according to his publicist. No cause of death was given. Jones helped oversee some of music's biggest hits that included the late Michael Jackson's record-setting album, Thriller. Jones says Thriller was created quickly. One thing that I think that worked for us is we didn't have time for paralysis from analysis.

We made Thriller in eight weeks. Jones spoke to the CBC. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.