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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update- October 25th
Description: Here’s a hot new Halloween trend that has critics seriously spooked. Parents across America are partaking in “switch witch” — a seemingly harmless practice that encourages their kids to trade cavity-causing trick-or-treat candy for toys. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Israel has ramped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, reducing residential buildings to rubble and crushing families. Meanwhile, the prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Locally, a federal...