North Gaza Crisis, Election Conspiracies, Presidential Abortion Powers

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

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North Gaza's fate at stake in Israeli offensive, law enforcement agencies gear up for election violence and result challenges, and a look at presidential powers to change abortion access. Plus, the Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series 4-1 against the New York Yankees.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Steve Innskeep.
0:02.0	And I'm A Martinez.
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0:40.3	Israeli forces intensified their assault on Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip,
0:45.8	besieging towns and killing or wounding hundreds of people.
0:49.2	What's the fate of an area home to hundreds of thousands of people living among ruins.
0:52.8	I'm Steve Innskye with A Martinez and this is up first from NPR News.
0:56.8	Law enforcement agencies are preparing for possible election violence and challenges to the results
1:05.8	amid widespread conspiracy theories about voter fraud.
1:09.1	So-called evidence is mobilised to sort of create misleading rumors and misleading narratives of voter fraud.
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