US to send more troops to Middle East after Israeli strikes in Lebanon
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
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Monday was the deadliest day in Lebanon since 1990 after Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets.
USA TODAY White House Correspondent Joey Garrison takes a look at the different approaches to masculinity by the Trump and Harris campaigns.
Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump in Michigan polling, but Trump leads in several other battleground states in a separate poll.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, September 24th, 2024. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, what's next after a deadly day in Lebanon? Plus how the Trump and Harris |
| 0:26.8 | campaigns are approaching masculinity. And we have the latest from hearings |
| 0:30.7 | over the tight-in submersible disaster. |
| 0:34.3 | The Pentagon announced yesterday that it's bolstering its forces in the Middle East, |
| 0:38.0 | as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah spike. |
| 0:41.1 | The move with an undisclosed number of troops comes after Israeli strikes in Lebanon |
| 0:45.1 | yesterday, killed nearly 500 people, according to Lebanese authorities. The new troop deployment |
| 0:50.8 | was characterized as an insurance policy by a U.S. official who was not |
| 0:54.8 | authorized to speak publicly. |
| 0:56.8 | The official said the move does not indicate U.S. troops were needed for imminent combat. |
| 1:02.0 | The Lebanese Health Ministry said yesterday |
| 1:04.0 | was the deadliest day for Lebanon |
| 1:05.9 | since the end of the country's civil war in 1990. |
| 1:09.5 | Earlier today, Israel struck Hezbollah targets |
| 1:12.0 | in southern Lebanon, and the Iran-backed Hezbollah attacked military |
| 1:15.5 | facilities in northern Israel. |
| 1:17.1 | You can stay up on all the latest from the conflict with a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:26.6 | With this year's election defined by a major gender gap, |
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