--:-- Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. Today's Tuesday, October 15th.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Here's what we're covering. It's a big week on Wall Street, and the feeling so far is optimism. Stocks have climbed since the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates a month ago, and the market's been setting record highs, including another one yesterday.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: There had been a lot of hand-wringing over how the labor market is doing and high prices, but the most recent data coming out has showed strong hiring numbers and milder inflation.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: This week, big companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Netflix will open their books for their quarterly earning reports, data that could provide another checkup on where the economy is heading.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Earnings for big banks JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo came out last week. Their profits were down, but their results were still stronger than anticipated, suggesting the economy's in solid shape.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Not every sector of the market has been growing equally. A lot of the gains have been driven by giant tech companies who've gone big into AI. But investors hope if the economy stays resilient, other areas outside tech will see growth as well.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Kamala Harris, who's come under scrutiny for either not doing interviews or doing them with less traditional outlets, has agreed to sit down with Fox News.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The network announced that the vice president will be interviewed tomorrow by Brett Baer, its chief political anchor. It will be Harris's first formal interview with Fox, whose conservative programming often explicitly supports her opponent, former President Donald Trump.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Harris is expected to field 25 to 30 minutes of questions, and it could be an opportunity for her to reach viewers who may be skeptical of her candidacy Harris interview which will air at 6 p Eastern tomorrow will be shown on Fox the same day the network airs an unusual town hall with Trump He taping the event tonight in front of an all-female audience in Georgia, where he's expected to field questions on abortion, child care, day care, and other, quote, issues impacting women, according to Fox.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: We will never tolerate the involvement of a foreign government threatening and killing Canadian citizens on Canadian soil. A deeply unacceptable violation of Canada's sovereignty and of international law.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Canada expelled India's top diplomat from the country, along with five others on Monday, accusing them of being part of a vast criminal network targeting Canadian citizens who've criticized the Indian government.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The move immediately escalated tensions between the two countries and now runs the risk of broadening into a wider international dispute.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: India and Canada have been at odds since last year when the outspoken Sikh cleric Hardip Singh Najjar was assassinated in Canada. At the time, Canada blamed the Indian government for the killing, accusing them of running covert operations against the religious minority in the country.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Canada fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. We expect the Indian government to do the same for Canada.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: During a press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said police had uncovered new evidence of those operations.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: India has rejected the accusations, calling them politically motivated, and immediately retaliated by ordering six Canadian diplomats to leave.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: Both Canada and India, while super different countries, are both what we would call middling powers on the world stage.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: You know Canada is a traditional Western player They part of NATO part of the G7 And India is a huge country an ascendant power on the global stage
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: And a power that many of Canada's allies, such as the United States and European Union countries, want to have as a friend.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: They want India to be their ally, both geopolitically, economically, and in trade terms.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: And so I think because of the gravity of the allegations, this breakdown between Canada and India and the relationship makes things quite awkward.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: It puts quite a lot of pressure on the allies of both countries to pick sides.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: And that's going to be something the United States and others don't want to do.
--:-- Matina Steves-Gridneff: And so that makes this problem in a way bigger than what it appears at first glance.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: In Gaza, dozens of people were injured or killed by Israeli airstrikes yesterday, including one that hit the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, according to health officials and the UN.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Many families had set up camp in the hospital's parking lot, hoping that international laws prohibiting attacks on hospitals would mean it was safe.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Instead, the families tell The Times they've survived repeated attacks.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Monday's strike led to a fire that engulfed the camp.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: People scrambled to try and put out the flames, which were fueled by canisters of cooking gas in the family's plastic tents.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: A 20-year-old man living at the camp told The Times, It's like living inside a recurring nightmare. Every time we sleep, we wake up to the same scenario of tents struck, people screaming.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas command center near the hospital.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Israel's come under repeated criticism for hitting hospitals and other civilian infrastructure over the last year.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes are now overwhelming the health system there.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The United Nations says some Lebanese hospitals have had to close due to damage Others have been abandoned after staff fled fearing for their safety
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Israel been mounting a major offensive in Lebanon after trading cross blows with Hezbollah for nearly a year.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The Israeli militaries accused Hezbollah of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Lebanese officials and officials from the militant group have denied those claims.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And finally... I think pandas are awesome. I think it's a staple here in D.C.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: A lot of excitement's been building for the return of pandas to the National Zoo.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: We are so, so excited to have them back. It's been a little bit of a bummer without them.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: They're part of a long-running collaboration between the U.S. and China, so-called panda diplomacy, which some had worried would end because of frosty relations between the two countries.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But as the pandas arrive in D.C., a new investigation from The Times has uncovered some troubling realities about the panda program.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: It started in the 90s, with China sending pandas abroad in the hopes that foreign zoos would breed them and they'd be released into the wild.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But over the last three decades, more pandas have been moved into captivity than have been released.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Aggressive attempts to have the pandas breed has injured some animals.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And while the whole thing is explicitly supposed to be a conservation effort, not a financial arrangement, the Times investigation found that money has been at the center of the conversation from the beginning.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: You can find the full investigation into the Panda program at nytimes.com.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines. Today on The Daily, how control of the House of Representatives could hinge on what happens in two deeply blue states.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: That's next in the New York Times audio app, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
