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Presidential candidates make pitch to auto workers, Arab Americans in Michigan [Video]

Early voting kicks off in Detroit on Saturday, with more cities soon to follow, as presidential candidates make their final push in Michigan.Both campaigns crisscrossed the swing state on Friday and made appeals to key constituencies, including auto workers and Arab Americans. At a rally in Detroit, former President Donald Trump said global trade deals drove manufacturing jobs overseas. He pledged to bring them back by imposing steep tariffs on imported cars.”Vote Trump and you will see a mass exodus of manufacturing jobs from Mexico to Michigan, from Shanghai to Sterling Heights,” Trump said.Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance at the United Auto Workers Local 652 hall in Lansing and rallied in Grand Rapids. She warned Trump would undermine collective bargaining and other worker protections. “No matter what the noise is out there, he is no friend of labor. Just look at the record instead of his rhetoric,” Harris said.At another event in Oakland County, Harris made a direct appeal to Arab Americans amid signs Democratic support from this group is slipping compared to past presidential elections. Many members of the community have raised concerns about the Biden-Harris administrations support for Israels offensive in Gaza following Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. I know this year has been very difficult given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, Harris said. Harris added Israels killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar can and must be a turning point.Everyone must seize this opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home and end the suffering once and for all,” Harris said. “I continue to believe diplomacy is the answer to bringing lasting stability across the Israel Lebanon border.” Trump said Sinwar was not a good person. He told reporters his death will make peace in the region easier, though he also criticized President Joe Biden for trying to hold back Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by advocating for a ceasefire deal. Trump, looking to seize on frustration over the war, paid a visit Friday to one of the nation’s only Muslim-majority cities, where he won the endorsement of Hamtramcks Democratic Mayor Amer Ghalib. “I mean frankly it’s an honor. I have a lot of endorsements from Arab Americans,” Trump said. “I don’t think they’re going to be voting for because she doesn’t know what she is doing. Three city council members in the same town have endorsed Harris.Michigan is one of three states, alongside Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, that make up the so-called blue wall. Trump swept those states in 2016 but Biden took them back in 2020. If Harris can hold on to the same Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wall that Biden held she is very likely to become president but the road gets very steep for her if she loses some of these states, said political analyst Marc Sandalow.

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Drone targets Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s house as strikes in Gaza kill 50 [Video]

The Israeli government said a drone targeted the prime ministers house Saturday, though there were no casualties, as Irans supreme leader vowed Hamas would continue its fight following the killing of the mastermind of last years deadly Oct. 7 attack.Sirens wailed in Israel warning of incoming fire from Lebanon. The military said dozens of projectiles were launched. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said the drone targeted his house in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea, though neither he nor his wife were home.The barrage comes as Israel considers its expected response to an Iranian attack earlier this month and presses its offensives against Hamas militants in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.In Gaza, Israeli forces fired at hospitals in the battered northern part of the Palestinian enclave, and strikes in the strip killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter there.In September, Yemens Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile toward Ben Gurion Airport when Netanyahus plane was landing. The missile was intercepted.Barrages from Lebanon target northern IsraelIn addition to the drone launched at Netanyahus private residence, Israels military said some 180 projectiles were fired throughout the day from Lebanon on Saturday morning. A 50-year-old man was killed after being hit by shrapnel while sitting in his car in northern Israel, and four people were injured, Israels medical services said.In the northern city of Kiryat Ata, sirens blared as people ran for cover and intercepted missiles exploded in the sky. One rocket landed in the area, and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and a damaged building. Itzik Billet, commander for the Haifa area, said nine people were lightly injured.The Israeli fire service also said it was battling several blazes resulting from missiles in the Shlomi area, less than a mile from the Lebanese border.Israel’s war with Lebanons Hezbollah a Hamas ally backed by Iran has intensified in recent weeks. Hezbollah said Friday that it planned to launch a new phase of fighting by sending more guided missiles and exploding drones into Israel. The militant groups longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in late September, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier in October.Israel also said Saturday it killed Hezbollahs deputy commander in the southern town of Bint Jbeil. The army said Nasser Rashid supervised attacks against Israel.In Lebanon, the health ministry said an Israeli airstrike Saturday hit a vehicle on a main highway north of Beirut, killing two people. It was unclear who was in the car when it was struck.Israeli strikes pound Gaza as Hamas rejects hostage releaseA standoff is also ensuing between Israel and Hamas, which its fighting in Gaza, with both signaling resistance to ending the war after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar this week.On Friday, Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sinwars death was a painful loss but noted that Hamas carried on despite the killings of other Palestinian militant leaders before him.Hamas is alive and will stay alive, Khamenei said in his first comments on the killing.Since Israel claimed Sinwars death Thursday, confirmed by a top Hamas official Friday, Hamas has reiterated its stance that the hostages taken from Israel a year ago will not be released until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops. The staunch position pushed back against a statement by Netanyahu that his countrys military will keep fighting until the hostages are released, and will remain in Gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.Sinwar was the chief architect of the 2023 Hamas raid on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250. Israels retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish combatants from civilians but say more than half the dead are women and children.More strikes pounded Gaza on Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that Israeli strikes hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, and that forces opened fire at the hospitals building and its courtyard, causing panic among patients and medical staff.At Al-Awda hospital in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, strikes hit the buildings top floors, injuring several staff members, the hospital said in a statement. Three houses in Jabaliya were struck overnight Friday, killing at least 30 people, more than half of them women and children, said Fares Abu Hamza, head of the health ministrys ambulance and emergency service. At least 80 people were injured.In central Gaza, at least 10 people were killed, including two children, when a house was hit in the town of Zawayda, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken. Another strike killed 11 people, all from the same family, in the Maghazi refugee camp, the same hospital said. Associated Press journalists counted the bodies from both strikes at the hospital.The strikes knocked out internet networks in northern Gaza, said Paltel, the Palestinian communications company, on Facebook Saturday.The war has destroyed vast swaths of Gaza, displaced about 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, and left them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.Opportunity in Sinwar’s deathSinwars killing appeared to be a chance front-line encounter with Israeli troops on Wednesday, and it could shift the dynamics of the war in Gaza even as Israel presses its offensive against Hezbollah with ground troops in southern Lebanon and airstrikes in other areas of the country.Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas politically in Gaza, and killing Sinwar was a top military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech Thursday announcing the killing that our war is not yet ended.Still, the governments of Israels allies and exhausted residents of Gaza expressed hope that Sinwars death would pave the way for an end to the fighting.In Israel, families of hostages still held in Gaza demanded the Israeli government use Sinwars killing as a way to restart negotiations to bring home their loved ones. There are about 100 hostages remaining in Gaza, at least 30 of whom Israel says are dead.

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2 people found dead in home on Turbak Drive in Punta Gorda [Video]

A man and a woman were found dead inside a home on Turbak Drive in Punta Gorda.Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell provided an update on the investigation in a video posted on CCSO’s Facebook.According to Prummell, one of the deceased was Rhonda Pope, a woman who was reported missing after her family in Wisconsin raised concerns.Pope’s family said they hadn’t heard from her since Hurricane Milton and CCSO began a missing person investigation on Wednesday, Oct. 16.According to Prummell, Pope, who lived at the home, and her boyfriend Scott Taylor were found dead on Thursday evening.Only residents have been allowed to go in or out of the neighborhood since the death investigation started.Prummell said Taylor’s cause of death appears to be self-inflicted, while Pope’s is undetermined due to the state of decomposition.The sheriff said this is an ongoing investigation.DOWNLOAD the free NBC2 News app for the latest alerts on this story