Tuesday, October 29, 2024 |
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 |
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Good Tuesday afternoon. We’re now in the final week in the race for the White House, Israel has carried out the deadliest strike in months in Gaza, and we’re remembering Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr. Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Harris to deliver closing argument, Trump calls NYC rally “absolute love fest” |
The election is now just one week away, and Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver her closing argument this evening in Washington, D.C., while former President Donald Trump will attend a rally tonight in Pennsylvania. With the White House as her backdrop, Harris will speak tonight at the Ellipse, the same location as Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, 2021 that preceded the Capitol riot, and will ask voters to “turn the page” on the Trump era once and for all, according to a senior campaign official. Trump, meanwhile, is defending his Madison Square Garden rally in New York on Sunday, where speakers made a number of racist and sexist remarks, calling it an “absolute love fest” today at Mar-a-Lago. But the former president is distancing himself from the comedian who prompted perhaps the biggest backlash from that rally by telling a joke that described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” “I don't know him, someone put him up there. I don't know who he is,” Trump told ABC News, saying that he didn’t hear any of the comedian’s comments. |
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Israeli airstrike kills more than 90 in Gaza, local officials say |
An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza today killed at least 93 people, including 20 children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza government media office. It’s the deadliest attack in Gaza in months, after Israel renewed its military operation in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The Israel Defense Forces said the details of the incident are being looked into, and that it is conducting targeted operations in Gaza and making efforts to avoid harming civilians. The strike came a day after Israel banned UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees and main humanitarian aid agency in Gaza, from operating in Israel. Israel has alleged that UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack. U.N. investigators cleared 10 employees, but nine others were fired because of possible involvement in the attack, the U.N. said. |
Record-breaking Halloween heat, potential tropical depression in Atlantic |
Temperatures remain 10 to 30 degrees above average today from the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes, with potentially record-breaking highs in the Midwest. By the time Halloween arrives on Thursday, the warmth will shift to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, where kids in several cities could begin trick-or-treating in record-high temperatures. Also today, red flag warnings are in effect for 14 million people from eastern Colorado to the panhandle of Texas, and up into Iowa. In Colorado, about 700 homes are under evacuation orders due to a wildfire that’s burned nearly 100 acres. And we’re tracking a potential tropical depression that could form over the southeastern Caribbean Sea in the next few days, according to the National Hurricane Center. |
Teri Garr, star of “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” dies at 79 |
| Teri Garr, the comedic actress who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Tootsie,” has died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, her publicist said. She was 79. Garr was born into show business as the daughter of Eddie Garr, a famed vaudeville comedian, and Phyllis Lind, one of Radio City Music Hall’s original Rockettes. She began her rise on the big screen as a background dancer in Elvis Presley movies, eventually landing starring roles in movies like “Young Frankenstein,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and later in her career, she had a recurring role as Phoebe’s mom on “Friends.”
Garr revealed she was suffering from MS in a 2002 interview with Larry King. Her last on-screen role was in 2011. |
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What else we're watching: |
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David DePape, the man found guilty of brutally attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul in their San Francisco home in 2022, was sentenced to life without parole today on his state conviction. |
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon was released from federal prison today, after serving four months in prison for contempt of Congress, after defying a subpoena by the January 6th committee. |
A murder investigation is underway in the Hamptons, after a 33-year-old woman was found dead inside a guest room at a luxury spa and resort, police said. |
The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking to sweep the New York Yankees in tonight’s Game 4 of the World Series. |
After almost 200 years, a lost piece of music by this renowned composer has been discovered in the vault of a New York museum. |
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