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Support for this podcast and the following message come from the NPR Wine Club, which has generated over $1.75 million to support NPR programming. Whether buying a few bottles or joining the club, you can learn more at nprwineclub.org slash podcast. Must be 21 or older to purchase. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Four years ago, President Biden won Arizona by just over 10,000 votes. Progressive organizers have spent the final days of the 2024 campaign pushing Democratic support out to the polls. NPR's Semina Bustillo has more.

How do you change a broken system? What? How do you change a broken system? Democrats in Phoenix are hosting concerts, rodeos, party buses, and carne asada dinners all in hopes that they can mobilize support for Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and other Democrats down the ballot. Organizers like Sena Mohammed of Our Voice Our Vote is sending up dozens of canvassers to knock on thousands of doors. We're all holding our breaths to see what the results will be, but we're leaving it all on the field.

In 70 years, Democratic presidential candidates have only won the state three times. Organizers with the United Farm Workers Union have come in from California and are also hitting the sidewalks. Mobilization efforts are expected to continue through election day on Tuesday. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Phoenix. Both campaigns are working hard to win Pennsylvania, and NPR's Danielle Kershleipman reports that

former President Trump visited the city of Reading on Monday, seeking to attract the city's Latino population. Trump has been trying to win Latino voters all year, a group that has historically leaned Democratic. But a pattern of offensive remarks about Latinos, including a recent joke about Puerto Rico, has threatened his standing with those voters. Redding is more than two-thirds Latino, and many of those voters have Puerto Rican heritage. Trump took the stage about 85 minutes late, and the arena was roughly half full throughout

the rally. Trump gave what has become a standard rally speech, meandering to many topics, but promising in particular to conduct mass deportations and lower gas prices. Danielle Kertzleven, NPR News, Reading, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a redistricting case involving Louisiana's congressional map next year, at issue as whether the state relied too heavily on race in drawing one of two mostly black districts. A Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with trying to destroy an energy facility. As NPR's Ryan Lucas reports, authorities believe the suspect was motivated by white supremacist ideology.

The Justice Department says 24-year-old Skyler Philippi of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested by federal agents. He's been charged by criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility. Court papers say Philippi plotted to attack an electrical substation in the Nashville area using a drone fitted with explosives. He drove with associates to the operation site to attack the substation, but unbeknownst to Philippi, his associates were undercover FBI employees and he was arrested. Philippe faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. US futures are virtually unchanged in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR. A man who successfully challenged a federal ban on bump stocks is getting his gun enhancement devices back. Michael Cargill spent over five years challenging the Trump era ban and finally prevailed in the Supreme Court last June. But NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that it took until this week for a federal court to carry

out the high court's mandate. President Trump ordered the ban on bump stocks in 2017 after a single gunman at a Las Vegas concert used multiple guns modified by bump stock devices to kill 60 people and injure 400, all in the space of 11 minutes. President Trump then ordered the ATF to re-examine whether bump stocks violated the 1934 banning machine guns, and the federal agency concluded that the devices illegally converted semi-automatic weapons into illegal machine guns. But the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority disagreed, saying the ATF had exceeded its authority. Now, a federal judge has ordered the agency that seized the devices to return them to

Mr. Cargill. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. NINA TOTENBERG, NPR NEWS, WASHINGTON. South Korea and Japan say that North Korea has fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles. Japan's defense minister says at least seven missiles traveled 250 miles and landed in water separating the two countries. The report comes days after the North test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Meanwhile, a State Department spokesman says as many as 10,000 North Korean soldiers now in Russia's Kursk region could be just days away from fighting in Ukraine. This is NPR News. Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autografecollection.com.