The presidential campaign comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day. Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. Donald Trump plans four rallies in three states, beginning in Raleigh, North Carolina, stopping twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh, then ending in Michigan.
The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday gave Israel a “fail” grade on meeting the conditions for an improvement in aid deliveries to Gaza laid out in a letter last month to senior Israeli officials by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. He said there were still roughly nine days until the deadline expires, but that limited progress thus far has been insufficient.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump made their final pitches to voters in the same part of Pennsylvania at roughly the same time. They spent the last full day of the presidential campaign in a state that could make or break their chances. Both candidates focused Monday on the state’s southeast corner. Trump took the stage in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles from Allentown, where Harris held her own event about half an hour later. A Trump victory in Pennsylvania would flip its 19 Electoral College votes and puncture the Democrats’ “blue wall.”
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The South Korean military says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern sea as the country continues its weapons demonstrations ahead of U.S. presidential elections. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t immediately say Tuesday what type of ballistic missile it was or how far it flew. The launch comes days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a flight test of the country’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile designed to reach the U.S. mainland. North Korean state media claimed last week that the Hwasong-19 it tested on Oct. 31 was “the world’s strongest ICBM,” but experts say the solid-fuel missile was too big to be useful in a war situation.
The New York Philharmonic is firing principal oboist, Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey after their union decided not contest the decision, which followed renewed allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power. The orchestra says it issued a notice of non-reengagement to the two effective Sept. 21, 2025. Wang and Muckey were fired in September 2018 following allegations of misconduct dating to 2010. Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians filed a grievance and the two were ordered reinstated in April 2020 by arbitrator Richard I. Bloch.
