Tonight on the p.b.S. News Weekend, we check in on the Pennsylvania races that could help decide control of the White House and Congress.

Then what's behind the recent rise in executions in America

after years of decline?

And election officials reflect on the threats

and the stress they've faced since the 2020 election.

We have faith that we're doing a really good job and we're, you know, we do things in a bipartisan team

and we work so well together and then you have someone saying, you know,

don't have faith in that. Good evening I'm John Yang.

Hope's are dimming tonight that the killing of the leader of Hamas would build momentum for a ceasefire as Israel presses

its air campaign in Lebanon and Gaza.

In Lebanon an IDF strike on the Christian majority city of Junia, which is north of Beirut, left two people dead.

It was the first Israeli assault in that area.

And in Gaza, a series of strikes on refugee camps at hospitals over 24 hours has killed more than 50 people.

Health officials say 11 of the dead, including three children, were from a single family.

Survivors say there's nowhere for them to go.

Our home is gone, my family's home, it completely collapsed,

and now we're living in this.

We have no other place to stay.

In Northern Israel, a drone targeted one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's homes.

The Israeli military says it was launched from Lebanon and Iran says Hezbollah, which is an

Iranian proxy, is responsible for the attack.

Netanyahu and his wife were not home at the time

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