Harris' Running Mate, Leaving Lebanon, Swimming and Sprinting

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate as the final stage of the presidential campaign gets underway. Embassies in Lebanon urge citizens to leave as the threat of war intensifies. An American sprinter wins gold and world records fall for the U.S. women's swim team.

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0:00.0	Kamala Harris has a big decision to make and instead of months of
0:07.0	careful vetting she's only had a couple weeks.
0:09.8	Who are the top contenders to be her running mate and what do they bring to her campaign?
0:14.3	I'm Leila Falden, that's A Martinez and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.6	U.S. officials have arrived in Israel to try to prevent full-scale war in the region.
0:26.4	Many embassies in Lebanon have called on their citizens to leave the country.
0:30.8	They change the date, change the time, so I'll miss the next flight.
0:34.8	There's no places.
0:36.0	How are people getting out?
0:37.6	And in France, world records fall.
0:39.8	American sprinter Noah Liles is now an Olympic champion and the US women's swim team wins gold.
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