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• Israel said it carried out an airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern neighborhood of the Lebanese capital.
• Kamala Harris delivered speech in Georgia defending abortion rights and attacking Trump on abortion record.
• In-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election began in three states today: Virginia, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
• Georgia election officials are requiring poll workers to tally ballots by hand after the state election board voted 3-2 today to approve the new rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office, the secretary of state’s office, and an association of county election officials.
• An Alameda County court judge reached no decision today on dismissing the case against three Alameda city police officers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oakland resident Mario Gonzalez, who died in police custody three years ago.

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