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Israeli forces intensified their assault on Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, besieging towns and killing or wounding hundreds of people.
What's the fate of an area home to hundreds of thousands of people living among ruins?
I'm Steve Inskeep with a Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
Law enforcement agencies are preparing for possible election violence and challenges to the results.
Amid widespread conspiracy theories about voter fraud.
So called evidence is mobilized to sort of create misleading rumors and misleading narratives of voter fraud.
Okay, what's driving those claims?
An abortion is a major campaign issue this election, but how much power does a president really have?
We'll ask what any president can do on the issue with or more likely, without action by Congress.
Congress.
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