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In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The National Hurricane center says that Hurricane Melissa remains an astonishing Category 5 hurricane with top sustained winds at the at 175 miles per hour, it's creeping slowly toward Jamaica, where it's expected to make landfall. Jamaican officials are pleading with people to seek shelter. The country's prime minister says there's no infrastructure in the region that can withstand the strength of this hurricane's onslaught. Israel says that last evening Hamas handed over the rest of the remains of a body believed to be those of a deceased hostage. But NPR's Rob Schmidt's reports from Tel Aviv, Israel says the remains don't match any of the hostages it knows to be held in Gaza.
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Israel's National Forensic Institute said the remains handed over by Hamas did not match any of the 13 remaining deceased hostages left in Gaza. Hamas says the rubble from the war is a major obstacle in locating many of the bodies, but an Israeli spokesperson says the militant group knows where several of the bodies are. The recovery and handover of the bodies of deceased hostages in Gaza is becoming one of the biggest barriers to the implementation of the US Brokered peace plan. Israel has allowed an Egyptian search and rescue team to enter Gaza and work with the Red Cross to locate the bodies. President Trump has warned that if Hamas does not hand over the remaining bodies of hostages soon, the parties that oversaw the peace process will take action. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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This is day 28 of the Federal government shutdown. Most federal employees remain furloughed except for essential workers such as the US Military and air traffic controllers. A federal judge will hold a hearing today in California a over a lawsuit filed by federal employee unions. They're seeking to stop President Trump from firing federal workers during the shutdown. The federal judge has temporarily paused these layoffs. There's less than a week to go until Election Day in states that are holding general elections this fall. Election officials are urging mail in voters to check their state's deadlines for returning ballots so that their votes get counted. NPR's Hanty Lo Wang has more.
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Some states like Colorado, Georgia, Maine and Pennsylvania require the ballots of domestic mail in voters to be received by next Tuesday, November 4th. The U.S. postal Service recommends mailing return ballots at least one week before your state's deadline because of changes due to USPS's reorganization. Mailing your ballot closer to the deadline may risk your vote arriving late and not getting counted. Election officials say absentee voters can consider other ways of turning in their ballots, including stopping by an early voting site or any available ball dropboxes. As for voters in states that count, mail in ballots that are postmarked by but arrive after Election Day. USPS says to make sure it gets a postmark on the same day you mail it. You can ask for one at a post office. Han Zi Luang, NPR News.
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On Wall street, in premarket trading, Dow futures are up 176 points. This is NPR. Big tech company Amazon says it will lay off some 14,000 roles in its corporate workforce in an online message to employees. And Amazon officials say artificial intelligence is letting companies innovate more quickly. But Amazon did not specify how AI may have changed any of its workers roles. Amazon is a financial supporter of npr. For decades, the federal government collected data on the American high school experience, but that long running effort came to a halt earlier this year. APM reporter Carla Wal Yanone has more.
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The government has been running high school longitudinal studies since the early 1970s. Students Answer Survey questions during school and then repeatedly in later years. Policymakers used that data to help students be successful. Elise Christopher ran these studies for years at the Department of Education.
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Every single person in this country who's been educated in the past 50 years has benefited from something that one of these longitudinal surveys has done.
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In February, the Trump administration scrapped the high school studies contracts. A Department of Education spokesperson said the agency is reviewing the study's return on investment for taxpayers. For NPR News, I'm Carmelo Alionone.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. They beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6, 5 in LA last night in a marathon 18 inning game. It lasted for six and a half hours. Dodger two way star Shohei Ohtani helped lift the team with two home runs. He'll take the mound tonight for the Dodgers to start game four. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.
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