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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 autographcollection.com. Shea Stevens Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Striking machinists at Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer from the company. NPR's Joe Rose reports that the vote brings an end to a strike after 53 days.

Joe Rose, NPR News. The agreement was approved by 59 percent of union members who voted. It includes a 38 percent raise over four years, more than the company's initial offer of 25 percent, though still short of the 40 percent the union wanted. The union district president John Holden hailed the agreement as a victory. Still, some members expressed disappointment. Many are still angry about losing their traditional pension plans in the last round of bargaining ten years ago. Boeing refused to budge, though it did agree to pay more into workers 401k plans.

Machinists could be back on the job at Boeing's factories as soon as Wednesday. Joel Rose, NPR News. Presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have held their final rallies before polls open in a few hours. Both candidates campaigned in Pennsylvania Monday, with Trump holding a rally in Pittsburgh and Reading, Harris campaign campaign in Scranton, Allentown, as well as Pittsburgh. We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics

driven by fear and division. We are done with that. We're done. We're done. Harris ended her campaign with a star-studded rally in Philadelphia, while Trump wrapped up his campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Almost most, although most polls only opened in a few hours, the first official election day votes have already been cast.

The president, three for Kamala Harris, three for Donald Trump. Each of the presidential hopefuls got three votes in Dixville-notched New Hampshire. The tiny hamlet has been casting its votes just after midnight in general elections since 1960. Vice President Harris' Saturday Night Live cameo has led to an outcry. Allies of former President Trump, who hosted the show during the 2020 campaign, say their candidate did not get fair treatment.

NPR's David Folkenflick reports that MPC and Trump arranged for him to address sports fans on the network. Aaron Ross Powell Harris appeared with Maya Rudolph, her comedic doppelganger, in a sketch that went viral on social media. Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, argued that was unfair to Trump, especially just days before election day. Regulations require broadcast networks and stations to give equal time to opposing candidates when someone running for office appears on a non-news show, assuming that candidate asks

for it. Trump's campaign tells NPR that NBC and its parent company Comcast reached out to fulfill its equal-time obligations. He cut a 60-second video on Sunday after a rally in Pennsylvania. It ran during a NASCAR broadcast and a post-NFL show. David Folkenflick, NPR News. US futures are flat in after-hours trading. This is NPR.

The State Department says Israel is not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza. Spokesman Matthew Miller says Israel needs to do more to improve aid deliveries to civilians in the Palestinian territory. The U.S. had given Israel 30 days to meet certain humanitarian requirements or risk the possibility of seeing U.S. military aid to the country limited. In Iran, a university student was arrested after stripping down to her underwear. NPR's Jackie Northam reports that videos

show that the woman walked across the campus grounds before being taken into custody. Several videos posted on social media show a young woman in her underwear sitting on steps and walking on a sidewalk next to Tehran's Islamic Azad University. People nearby looked shocked. Others quickly turned away before a group of men bundled her in a car and drove away. Under the mandatory dress code in Iran, women must wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothes while in public. State-run Fars News Agency reported the student stripped after security personnel warned her about ignoring the dress code. Amnesty International called for the woman's immediate and unconditional release.

Two years ago, there were huge student protests after a young woman died after being detained by Iran's so-called morality police for not wearing a hijab or headscarf. More than 550 people died in the riots. Jackie Northam, NPR News. Again, U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading. On Asia Pacific market, shares are higher up 2 percent in Shanghai and in Hong Kong. This is NPR News. Who's claiming power this election? What's happening in battleground states? And why do we still have the electoral college? All this month, the Throughline Podcast

is asking big questions about our democracy and going back in time to answer them. Listen now to the Throughline Podcast from NPR.