The News Roundup For October 18, 2024

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

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Polling suggests the momentum Vice President Kamala Harris enjoyed in August has slowed somewhat.

Walgreens is set to close 1,200 stores over the next 3 years and some 800 more are under evaluation.

U.S. officials have given Israel an ultimatum: either allow more aid into Gaza or face the prospect of an arms embargo and cuts to other military support.

And India and Canada have each expelled the other's top diplomats after Canadian officials accused their Indian counterparts of orchestrating the murder of a prominent Sikh activist and leader.

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0:23.4	Hey everybody it's Todd I'm your host for this edition of the news round up.
0:27.7	Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is rapidly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode.
0:36.7	You can stay up to date by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting NPR.org for all the latest.
0:43.4	Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
0:45.8	I'm Todd Zwyllic. You're listening to the One A Podcast and it's time for the news round up.
0:58.1	Well we are in the final weeks of election season. Both candidates are ramping up the heat.
1:05.4	Some new polling from NPR shows that this season is looking like, yes,
1:09.9	it's going to be a squeaker.
1:11.2	And federal authorities seem to have foiled an election day terrorist
1:14.7	plot. A lot of news this week and joining us for all of it, our fabulous panel. Steve Clemens is the founding
1:21.1	editor at the Washington Note and is here with me in the studio.
1:24.3	Hi Steve, great to see you.
1:25.4	Great to have you also with us.
1:27.0	You know the voice Zoe Clark, political director at Michigan Public and host of
1:31.4	It's Just Politics.
1:32.6	Zoe, always great to have you.
1:34.3	Todd, so good to be here.
1:36.0	So glad you're here with us from Washington.
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