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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speier.Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are holding dueling rallies within miles of one another this evening.
Both of the candidates will be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as part of a final push for voters in the critical swing state.Earlier today, Harris held a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, where she spoke to union leaders.
Democratic presidential candidates hang a rival.Former President Trump is no fan of labor.
He joked with a billionaire buddy of his about the mass firing of striking workers. And while he was president, he lowered labor standards and made it easier for companies to break labor laws and then get federal contracts.
References to a conversation Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Trump held on ex-formerly Twitter about Musk firing workers at his companies who might want to unionize. U.S.
officials say Russia is behind a video falsely claiming a Haitian immigrant voted more than once in the swing state of Georgia.
NPR's Shannon Bond reports it's the latest hoax believed to come from a Russian operation putting out staged videos in the final days of voting.
The video shows a man claiming he arrived in the U.S.from Haiti six months ago.He says he and others are voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in multiple Georgia counties.
But state and federal officials say it's a fake, likely created by Russian propagandists trying to undermine confidence in the election.
Officials say Russia is also behind other recent fake videos, including one purporting to show ballots being destroyed in Pennsylvania.The videos have circulated widely on social media, particularly Elon Musk's ex.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has called on platforms to take the Georgia video down.Shannon Bond, NPR News.
U.S.employers created just 12,000 jobs in October.That's well below what economists had been expecting.NPR's Windsor Johnston reports it comes as the last major economic report before Election Day.
Diane Swonk is the chief economist at KPMG.She says the data for October was heavily skewed.
We had a perfect storm that distorted the October employment report.What we saw is everything from Hurricanes Helene and Milton
two strikes in the aerospace industry suppressed job gains in the month of october we felt only twelve thousand job gains which is the weakest number we've had on a monthly basis since December 2020.
The unemployment rate remains steady at 4.1 percent.Overall, analysts say the nation's economy is strong, with 180,000 jobs created last year alone.Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
Stocks wound out the session in positive territory today.U.S.financial markets largely shrugging off those weaker-than-expected October jobs numbers. The Dow was up 288 points to 42,052.The Nasdaq rose 144 points.The S&P gained 23 points.This is NPR.
The Justice Department has accused the ride-handling service Lyft of misleading drivers about how much they can earn.And as Dara Kerr reports, the two parties have now settled the matter.
Lyft has agreed to pay more than $2 million in civil penalties.The payment is part of a settlement with the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.
The government had accused Lyft of making false and misleading statements about drivers' potential earnings.
The government says Lyft promoted an hourly pay for drivers in its advertisements, but the company did not disclose that that amount was based only on the top 20% of its drivers.
Lyft says it agreed to pay the penalty because it, quote, recognizes the importance of transparency.The government says its suit against Lyft is a commitment to ensure gig workers are treated fairly.Dara Kerr, NPR News.
The New York man whose rescued squirrel named Peanut became a social media star is pleading for authorities to return his pet.
Mark Longo says in addition to his precious pet Peanut, officers with the State Department of Environmental Conservation also took a raccoon named Fred from his upstate New York home.
Longo says he rescued Peanut after the squirrel's mother was hit by a car.Their playful annex turning the tiny squirrel into an internet sensation with hundreds of thousands of followers. on Instagram.
DEC officials say they seized the animals after receiving complaints.They say it is illegal to keep wildlife as pets, citing the possible threat of rabies.
Crude oil futures prices edged up slightly on concerns of possible retaliatory action by Iran against Israel.Oil rose 23 cents a barrel to 69.49 a barrel.I'm Jack Speier, NPR News in Washington.
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