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  Speaker 1: VIN News this hour. I'm Terry McCready. Coming up, former
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  Speaker 1: President Obama energizing voters in the Peach State. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: continues stumping in ruby red states. L.A. 's mayoral contest
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  Speaker 1: is becoming a horse race just days before the election.
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  Speaker 1: But first, here's VIN News now.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Brandon Johnson joined city leaders to break ground on
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  Speaker 2: DeSable Park in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: This park will create a new green space where families, individuals,
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  Speaker 3: and visitors can continue to come and to enjoy our city.
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  Speaker 2: Named for Jean-Baptiste Pointe DeSable, the park will feature a sculpture,
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  Speaker 2: public art, a pavilion, and lakefront gathering spaces. A black
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  Speaker 2: Florida mother is speaking out after police were called during
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  Speaker 2: her three-year-old son's soccer game. Martasia Griffin says her son,
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  Speaker 2: Nevada Pierre, was unfairly removed from an I-9 sports league
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  Speaker 2: because he was outperforming older players. As the organization reviews
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  Speaker 2: the incident, former U.S. men's national team star Eddie Johnson
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  Speaker 2: has stepped in to support the young soccer standout. And
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  Speaker 2: a new report says organizations tied to a political network
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  Speaker 2: linked to Elon Musk helped fund ballot access efforts for
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  Speaker 2: independent presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West during the 2024 election.
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  Speaker 2: The report says there's no evidence West knew about or
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  Speaker 2: coordinated with the funding arrangements. Get BIN news now on
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  Speaker 2: demand 24-7 on the iHeartRadio app. Back to Terry McCready.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Barack Obama campaigning in Atlanta, supporting Democrats, Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Ossoff and Black candidate for governor, former Atlanta Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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  Speaker 4: An election where people are so ready for something new,
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  Speaker 4: so hungry for something better, so sick and tired of
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  Speaker 4: being sick and tired that everywhere you go, it feels
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  Speaker 4: like change is in the air. And Georgia, that's what
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  Speaker 4: I'm feeling right now. That's what you get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to do in six days. After two years of chaos
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  Speaker 4: and cruelty.
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  Speaker 1: The rally focusing on issues like health care, lowering costs
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  Speaker 1: and early voting. Meanwhile, President Trump returning to Ohio, stumping
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  Speaker 1: for Republican candidates.
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  Speaker 3: But if you could get out to vote, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have a tremendous we're going to have a tremendous victory.
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  Speaker 3: Early voting is underway. It ends this Sunday, November 1st.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you to pretend that I'm in the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Jill Coffey campaigning for Senator John Husted, who
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  Speaker 1: faces a close race against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown,
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  Speaker 1: and Governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who's trying to keep challenger
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton at bay. A new poll showing L.A. 's
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman are in a
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  Speaker 1: dead heat in the race for Los Angeles mayor. The
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  Speaker 1: UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll shows both candidates
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  Speaker 1: now have the support of 40% of likely voters. 19%
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  Speaker 1: of likely voters are still undecided, less than a week
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  Speaker 1: before the election. In September, Rahman held an 11-point lead
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  Speaker 1: over Bass in the polls. The poll indicates many people
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  Speaker 1: who voted for Spencer Pratt in the June primary are
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  Speaker 1: now siding with Bass. Nearly 2,200 likely voters were surveyed
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  Speaker 1: between October 19th and the 25th. The poll has a
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  Speaker 1: margin of error of about three percentage points. Please join
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  Speaker 1: the Black Information Network on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Eastern for Black America Votes, the 2026 midterms. Two conservative
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  Speaker 1: activists are facing charges in connection with a polling place
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  Speaker 1: stunt during Minnesota's primary election. James O'Keefe and Cam Higbee
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  Speaker 1: were charged yesterday in Hennepin County with identity theft and
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  Speaker 1: unlawful voting. Prosecutors say the pair, dressed in burqas, spoke
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  Speaker 1: in fake accents. and gave election judges the names of
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  Speaker 1: registered Minnesota voters without those voters' knowledge. This was part
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  Speaker 1: of an alleged attempt to challenge the state's voter voucher law,
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  Speaker 1: which allows registered voters to vouch for someone else in
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  Speaker 1: order to help people vote who have recently moved to
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  Speaker 1: the state. Africa's latest outbreak of Ebola has surpassed 10,000,
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  Speaker 1: with a majority of confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic
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  Speaker 1: of Congo, and nearly 5,000 people have died. Cases have
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  Speaker 1: been detected in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda with the World
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  Speaker 1: Health Organization reporting warning that Africa is faced with a
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  Speaker 1: difficult task in stemming an outbreak spanning the west, east
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  Speaker 1: and center of the continent, while about 2,700 have recovered
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  Speaker 1: from the virus in the DRC. The epidemic's fatality rate
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  Speaker 1: is apparently close to 50 percent, according to the Congolese
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  Speaker 1: National Institute of Public Health. Among many challenges is a
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  Speaker 1: lack of an approved vaccine for the rare strain of Ebola.
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  Speaker 1: The virus was first detected in the northeastern Congolese province
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  Speaker 1: of Ituri, ground zero. For the DRC's 17th outbreak of
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  Speaker 1: the disease, I'm Terry McCready for the Black Information Network.