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[instrumental music] Next week, Israelis will vote in national elections.

It's the first vote since Hamas attacked Israel three years ago on October 7th, and since Israel retaliated with war in Gaza.

Police in Bend shared details about that school shooting.

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[somber music] Candlelight vigils honor the dead from an elementary school shooting and the bravery of the people who stopped it.

And that's Up First for Saturday, October 17th, 2026.

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Our producer is Elena Torre.

Radiolab adventures right on the edge of what we think we know, wherever you get podcasts.

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Hashtag I am Jane Doe is surging on social media in response to allegations of a gang rape at Cornell University.

The campaign is seeing women naming their abusers and calling for accountability across the country.

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Our supervising senior producer is Liana Simstrom, and our executive producer is Irene Noguchi.

I'm Ayesha Rascoe, and Up First will be back tomorrow with all the news you need to start your week.

Until then, have a great rest of your weekend.

Hundreds of thousands of people have lost power, and now the storm is moving inland.

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So far, it's been a quiet season for hurricanes.

And that's Up First for Saturday, October tenth, twenty twenty-six.

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And I'm Ayesha Rascoe.

Dave Mistich produced today's podcast, along with Michael Radcliffe and Gabe O'Connor.

Oh, gosh, that's a great question.

There is an episode that we did when Beyoncé dropped Renaissance, and it was myself, Candace Benbow, Ayesha Rascoe from NPR, and one other person.

I'm sorry, my brain is failing me right now.

It's perimenopause.

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[gentle music] Let's go back to an event two years ago in a fancy ballroom in Midtown Manhattan.

It's staged by the media giant Fox.

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We're back with The Sunday Story.

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I'm handing things off to NPR's David Folkenflik, who brings us this exclusive story about a fatal assignment in covering the war in Ukraine.

A warning: the following material involves graphic language about injury and death.

Black unemployment spiked significantly.

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[gentle music] The sector that added the most jobs last month? Healthcare.

After the Big Beautiful Bill was passed from DC and about 27,000 Iowans were at risk of losing their healthcare in just Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.

In Ayesha, rural healthcare is critical in farm country, and James says the way she can best care for her neighbors, also alluding to the gospel story of the Good Samaritan, is taking their cause of rural healthcare to the US Capitol.

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"Love is patient.

Love is kind." And in the moment, when I glanced up, I was struck by the sudden tenderness on her face.

And Ayesha, I'll point out that when I interviewed her, Trone Garriott defended both assisting with the wedding and telling the story.

It's a story about the power of scripture, and I believe it spoke to that couple in that moment, who seemed like the wrong people in the wrong place, and it was speaking to me.