{"id":262139,"date":"2025-11-04T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262139\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:53:11","slug":"a-big-election-day-inflation-denial-traveling-for-free-catch-up-on-the-days-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262139\/","title":{"rendered":"A big Election Day, inflation denial, traveling for free: Catch up on the day\u2019s stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n \ud83d\udc4b Welcome to 5 Things PM! Voters in several states are casting ballots in critical races in what\u2019s shaping up as an early referendum on President Donald Trump\u2019s second term. Track live results<\/a> and join Charlamagne tha God and Ben Shapiro for an exclusive Election Day conversation<\/a> at 8:30 p.m. ET.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s what else you might have missed during your busy day.\n <\/p>\n

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\n President Trump denies that Americans are struggling with grocery prices and inflation. It\u2019s the same mistake<\/a> that haunted his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and contributed to the Democrats losing the White House.\n <\/p>\n

\n Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza spent 107 days on the front lines documenting the heartbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Now he\u2019s living in the US and looking for a way forward<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n NASA workers worry that the agency is quietly gutting the Goddard Space Flight Center\u2019s main campus in Maryland. Buildings there are being emptied and padlocked<\/a> during the government shutdown, sources said.\n <\/p>\n

\n People seeking to lose weight and manage blood sugar may one day receive an injection that transforms their own cells into miniature factories<\/a> \u2014 producing the same protein found in medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.\n <\/p>\n

\n Travel volunteering \u2014 exchanging skills for a place to stay and sometimes food or other benefits \u2014 is exploding in popularity among young people around the world. They\u2019re risking everything to do it<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

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Thousands of people race to the top of the iconic ‘Vortex’ building in Switzerland\n <\/p>\n

The annual race at the University of Lausanne attracted about 2,000 runners this year. The Vortex building is student housing at the university and the circular structure features a continuous ramp at a 1% incline the whole way up.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of people race to the top of the iconic ‘Vortex’ building in Switzerland<\/p>\n

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\n \ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udfff\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u200d\u27a1\ufe0f Race to the top: About 2,000 people ran up the ramps<\/a> to the eighth floor of the iconic \u201cVortex\u201d building in Switzerland. The circular structure houses students at the University of Lausanne.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f \u2018A magical moment\u2019: On D\u00eda de los Muertos, some believe the door between the world of the living and the dead swings open. One small Mexican town is keeping those traditions alive<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \ud83d\udd25 Whom did People magazine just name the \u201cSexiest Man Alive?\u201d
A. Chris Evans
B. Harry Styles
C. John Krasinski
D. Jonathan Bailey
\u2b07\ufe0f Scroll down for the answer.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2705 Most popular in yesterday\u2019s newsletter: Dramatic moment of police rescuing infant<\/a> trapped underneath car\n <\/p>\n

\n \ud83e\udde0 Quiz answer: D. Bailey, who starred in \u201cWicked\u201d and \u201cBridgerton,\u201d called it \u201cthe honor of a lifetime<\/a>.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \ud83d\udc4b We\u2019ll see you tomorrow.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns shared with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper that grief shaped him into the storyteller he is today. Has your grief inspired you to grow or make a difference? Join the conversation<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc4b Welcome to 5 Things PM! Voters in several states are casting ballots in critical races in what\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-262139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}