Countdown 2025 from KNX News

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Ahead of the most consequential election of our lifetimes, KNX News chief correspondent Charles Feldman and anchor Margaret Carrero host the key players in the biggest races facing America and Southern California, dive into the most critical issues in the 2024 campaign, and ensure you have the information you need to be an informed voter.

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Gaza braces for a full scale invasion by the Israeli Defense Forces -- Taking global terrorist threats too seriously, or not seriously enough -- Glimmer of hope for SAG-AFTRA?

The Israeli Defense Forces have reportedly carried out their first raids inside Gaza ... which is only the start of what is anticipated to be a long, grinding and extremely destructive assault on Hamas in The Strip. We will go In Depth on whether Israel's goal of wiping out Hamas can really be achieved. And with Gaza already experiencing a full blown humanitarian crisis, even before Israeli troops enter, how much worse will it get for the over 2-million Palestinians living there? Could there be ...

Oct 13, 2023•34 min

Actors & studio executives halt negotiations, while moribund Hollywood hangs on by a thread -- The mother of an Israeli man kidnapped by Hamas pleads for her son's return

The hopes of a quick resolution to the months-long actors strike were dashed when, in the early morning hours, SAG-AFTRA announced that studio executives have walked away from contract negotiations. Meaning the actors strike will continue indefinitely. What went wrong and how soon before the two sides get back to talking? We'll go In Depth. And then we're going to hear from some of Hollywood's support businesses who are hurting badly ... and are growing desperate for film and TV production to ge...

Oct 12, 2023•38 min

Israel prepares for a brutal ground assault on Gaza -- House Republicans do the Speaker dance all over again -- New CDC director on In Depth

About a million Israelis living in the northern territories of the country were sent scrambling for bomb shelters today, over reports that there was a massive incoming attack from Lebanon and Syria ... likely coming from Hezbollah fighters. The reports turned out to be a false alarm, but it shows how on edge Israel remains ... and how the possibility of a much broader and more destructive war remains very much in play. We'll go In Depth on all of it. Republicans might have finally resolved their...

Oct 11, 2023•31 min

The Israel-Hamas war is only just getting started: What is the range of Israeli self defense? Does the U.S. have enough weapons to arm two allies at once? And a survival story from an Israeli dance music festival

Air raid sirens have been going off most of the day over Israeli cities, as Hamas continues its barrage of rockets aimed at civilian targets ... meanwhile Israeli warplanes have already dropped over 1-thousand bombs on Gaza, with hundreds of Palestinians killed. With reports of horrific atrocities emerging from Southern Israel, the war between Israel and Hamas is really just getting started. We'll go In Depth on all of it. We're going to hear a survival story from an American-Israeli who was at ...

Oct 10, 2023•39 min

Israel and Hamas at war, thousands already dead and the threat of the entire Middle East getting involved

Hamas launches a massive sneak attack on Israel. We will go In Depth on what has been the largest and deadliest attack on Israel since the 1948 ... and Israel's response. We'll also look at what this means for the entire region... and the intelligence failure that left Israel unprepared. We'll hear from both the Palestinian perspective on events ... and the Israeli view of things.

Oct 09, 2023•31 min

Boom time for jobs, but some say it's bad news for the economy

The economy added more than 330-thousand new positions last month. We go In Depth. Electing a new Speaker: one Republican gets a very big endorsement. And...we talk with film-maker Ken Burns about an animal that has become an American icon, but was nearly wiped out.

Oct 06, 2023•29 min

Bed bugs creep out Paris. Are they a big problem here in southern California?

Paris--the city of lights. But it's not so romantic anymore. Why? Creepy little bed bugs. We go In Depth though into whether southern California needs to also worry about massive bed bug infestations. An idea quickly catching on amongst Republicans is invading Mexico to stop drug cartels. A Biden family member gets the boot from the White House. We tell you all about the bark and bite behind this story.

Oct 05, 2023•29 min

Should Kaiser workers legally be allowed to strike?

Thousands of Kaiser workers in California and elsewhere are on strike. We go In Depth into whether those in the health care field should have the legal right to walk off the job. So what do the conservative Republicans in the House want exactly? They kicked out Kevin McCarthy. We go In Depth into what's next for them. More kids are now getting a disease associated with alcoholics.

Oct 04, 2023•28 min

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gets booted

A conservative rebellion in the House. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out. Follow our live coverage as the vote was happening. A big national test is set for tomorrow. Don't worry. You won't miss it and you can't fail. There's a plan to shoot and kill a lot of deer on Catalina Island. We explain why.

Oct 03, 2023•35 min

Will $0 bail lead to more crime or more fairness in the criminal justice system?

Zero bail--A get out of jail free card? Or is it bringing fairness to the criminal justice system? We go In Depth with LA County DA George Gascon on a lawsuit trying to stop the policy. The governor has picked a new Senator. We look into who Laphonza Butler is. Is Gen Z not ready to work? Some bosses out there seem worried.

Oct 02, 2023•31 min

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