Harris courts undecided voters. And, is Trump’s mass deportation plan possible?

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Vice President Harris delivered the closing argument of her marketing campaign yesterday, precisely per week earlier than Election Day. She spoke in the identical spot the place former President Donald Trump held his Jan. 6, 2021 rally, addressing his supporters earlier than they stormed the Capitol. Greater than 40,000 individuals went via safety for Harris occasion yesterday, her marketing campaign mentioned, with extra attendees congregating outdoors the perimeter.

• 🎧 This was the biggest rally crowd of her marketing campaign to this point. However the meant viewers was the swing states as Harris nonetheless tries to succeed in undecided voters, NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First. A large a part of her speech was about her coverage proposals just like the little one tax credit score and having Medicare cowl in-home look after seniors. She additionally promised to hearken to the wants of People – even when they don’t vote for her. Now, Harris will journey to all seven swing states once more within the brief time frame left of the marketing campaign.

Trump has promised that if he’s elected president he’ll deport tens of millions of individuals. There are greater than 11 million undocumented immigrants within the U.S. And Trump has mentioned he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which permits the president to detain and deport non-citizens from an enemy nation throughout wartime.

• 🎧 NPR’s Jasmine Garsd says Trump is interested by using native police for immigration enforcement. Nevertheless, the president can’t legally compel police departments to cooperate with such efforts. Throughout his presidency, Trump tried to pressure police to collaborate with immigration enforcement, however it was deemed unconstitutional. Civil rights teams are ready to problem Trump’s proposals, together with his plan to invoke the Revolt Act and deploy troops to the Southwest border. Some states are working to implement their very own immigration enforcement measures. And below a Trump presidency, these efforts are prone to intensify, along with his Justice Division prone to assist them.

The Biden administration is working to handle the low wages of academics within the federal Head Begin preschool program by implementing a brand new rule. Many Head Begin facilities have struggled to rent sufficient employees to maintain their school rooms open resulting from these low pay charges. Nationally, the typical wage for Head Begin academics is round $41,000. In perspective, a public school-based preschool trainer earns round $53,000 on common.

• 🎧 The pay at Head Begin, a program meant to assist youngsters dwelling in poverty, is so low it forces its employees to reside in poverty, NPR’s Cody Turner says. The pay has resulted in, nationally, practically one in 5 Head Begin academics quitting final yr, in accordance with the Biden-Harris Administration. The rule the administration has created would require these academics to obtain a pay bump of as a lot as $10,000 per individual. The issue is that with out new funding from Congress, native packages must cowl the price of the pay will increase, probably resulting in some packages chopping companies.

Deep dive

Hershey Co. is introducing extra non-chocolate candies to its lineup as expensive chocolate sweet curbs the corporate’s gross sales income.

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If you’re like me, you may need skilled sticker shock when strolling right into a retailer to purchase sweet for Halloween. Chocolate appears extra like a trick than a deal with on the register. This yr’s value improve is primarily resulting from rising cocoa costs, which have soared resulting from a number of poor crop seasons which have diminished the availability of this key ingredient in chocolate bars. In keeping with the producer value index, the price of chocolate and confectionery manufacturing from cocoa has elevated by 45% from January to September. Right here’s a better look into why that is occurring and the way the business is combating again:

• 🍫 The excessive cocoa costs are the results of unstable climate circumstances on the planet’s prime cocoa-producing areas, such because the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
• 🍫 As a possible future-proofing methodology, farmers have elevated cocoa tree planting in areas with extra productive orchards.
• 🍫 Chocolate sweet producers are diversifying their choices due to disappointing gross sales, increasing to a number of sweeter, gummy and bitter treats.

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Photographer Woosler Delisfort paperwork ceremonies from vodou, ifa and santeria traditions actively practiced in the present day

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The exhibit “Our Sacred Place” on the HistoryMiami Museum has not too long ago opened, aiming to focus on religion practices and ceremonies amongst Haitian People and others linked to the Caribbean and Africa. Throughout this political season, Haitian People have develop into targets of disinformation, a lot of which is rooted in long-standing stereotypes about their non secular beliefs and non secular practices. The exhibition options the work of photographer Woosler Delisfort, who paperwork a few of Miami’s vodou traditions. It contains practically 150 pictures that seize ceremonies with origins in West Africa’s Yoruba tradition.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Sean “Diddy” Combs speaks at press convention, 24 October 2007, saying an alliance with Ciroc Vodka in New York. Sean Combs Enterprises will make branding choices for Ciroc and can share in future earnings from the vodka made by Diageo.

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1. Two extra lawsuits have been filed towards Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, accusing him, in separate incidents, of grooming and coercing 10- and 17-year-old boys.
2. Teri Garr, an actor and comic recognized for roles in Viva Las Vegas, Younger Frankenstein and Tootsie, died yesterday at age 79. After her prognosis of a number of sclerosis in 1999, she turned an envoy for the illness.
3. JPMorgan Chase has begun submitting lawsuits towards prospects who exploited an “infinite money glitch” this summer season. This technical situation allowed individuals to deposit faux checks and withdraw funds from their accounts.

This article was edited by Treye Inexperienced.