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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. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The final undecided state of the 2024 presidential election has been won by President-elect Donald Trump, as NPR's Ben Giles reports Trump won Arizona Saturday night, which gives him 312 electoral votes overall.

Trump secured enough electoral college votes to become president-elect early Wednesday morning. But a win in Arizona redeems Trump in a state he narrowly lost four years ago to President Biden. In fact, Trump has now won back all the states Biden flipped for Democrats in 2020. Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and now Arizona. Trump's Arizona victory also means he swept the seven key swing states. Down the ballot, Arizona's Senate race still remains too close to call, with hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count. Ben Giles, NPR News, Phoenix.

Protesters meanwhile marched through the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday to protest against Trump. For many, they were expressing concern over reproductive rights. Casey Cagle is a paralegal from Tennessee. Hopefully we can just keep on, keep fighting and hope for a brighter day. Additional protests are being planned for January. Groups that help people pay for abortion care in Florida are getting more donations after the election. A majority of voters approved on Tuesday a ballot measure that would have expanded abortion

rights. But the measure failed because unlike most states, Florida has a 60 percent threshold for voters to adopt constitutional amendments. So as Stephanie Columbini with Member Station WUSF reports, that leaves a six-week abortion ban in place. Florida's private abortion funds have been helping residents affected by the ban pay for travel out of state for care. That need will grow now, says Bree Wallace with the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund.

The fund received more than $70,000 in the days after the election. Brie Wallace, Tampa Bay Abortion Fund member People are mad. And when you're mad, you donate, you get out into your community, you organize, you fundraise. Brie Wallace, Tampa Bay Abortion Fund member Abortion funds saw similar spikes in donations after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade two years ago. But contributions fell off over time. For NPR News, I'm Stephanie Kolombeeni in Tampa. The foreign ministers of Israel and the Netherlands were in Amsterdam on Saturday to condemn a

widespread assault on Israeli soccer fans on Thursday. The fans were ambushed and beaten in what authorities are calling an anti-Semitic attack. Dutch Foreign Minister Casper Veldkamp says his government wants to know what happened. A full investigation will take place in the Netherlands on the question if the Dutch authorities, if we as Dutch authorities acted properly. So we will evaluate the situation and what happened. NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison has died. His family says he died at his home in Mooresville, North Carolina. He was 86 years old.

A cause of death was not given, but he has been in declining health for years. Allison was the founder of Racing's Alabama gang. He was a five-time NASCAR champion as well as a three-time winner of the Daytona 500. This is NPR News. More than 100,000 people marched in the Spanish city of Valencia on Saturday to express their anger at how authorities handled recent catastrophic floods there. The floods killed more than 200 people. Demonstrators chanted and carried placards accusing Valencia's regional government of being stained with blood.

Its head, Carlos Mazón, is facing mounting pressure to resign. The BBC's Guy Hedgeco is in Valencia. They say that Carlos Mazón didn't respond in time when the floodwaters were already rising. He didn't react quickly enough, decisively enough on the day itself. Some people are also angry with the central government as well and the lack of resources being rolled out. But this protest, in particular, it's Carlos Mathon who's really bearing the brunt of people's anger. Firefighters in California's Ventura County are gaining ground on the mountain fire that has so far claimed more than 30 square miles. They say the fire is now 21 percent contained and Ryan

Walburn of the National Weather Service says the good weather there should continue through Sunday. We expect another very favorable day, light winds coming off of the ocean or an onshore breeze that'll keep temperatures in the low 70s humidity values roughly 15 to 20 percent. In the top five upset number 16 Mississippi shut down number two Georgia on Saturday 28 to 10. Quinn Ewer is meanwhile through for 333 yards and five touchdowns as number five Texas rolled over Florida 49 to 17 number eight Indiana is 10 wins for the first time in program history following a 2015 win over Michigan Marshall beats Southern Miss

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