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  • In the day's other news: Israel is headed toward an unprecedented third election in

  • less than a year, after a key opposition figure failed to form a government.

  • Center-right leader Benny Gantz announced that he could not secure a ruling majority

  • in Parliament.

  • Right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already fallen short.

  • The potential kingmaker, longtime politician Avigdor Lieberman, refused to endorse either

  • man for prime minister.

  • AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, Leader, Yisrael Beiteinu Party (through translator): If we roll towards

  • election, it's because of lack of leadership.

  • One, Gantz, wasn't ready to accept the president's plan for unity, and the other, Netanyahu,

  • wasn't willing to separate from his ultra-orthodox messianic bloc.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Under Israeli law, any member of Parliament may now try to form a government

  • over the next three weeks.

  • Otherwise, the country's voters will have go back to the polls.

  • In neighboring Syria, Israeli airstrikes hit dozens of sites used by Iranian forces to

  • support the Syrian regime.

  • An activist group reported that 23 were killed, including two civilians.

  • State TV showed people gathered around crumbled bricks and damaged homes just south of Damascus.

  • But Syria claimed that it shot down most of the missiles.

  • The strikes were retaliation for rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

  • The president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, claimed victory today, after a crackdown on protesters.

  • He praised thousands of pro-government demonstrators shown on state TV chanting anti-American slogans.

  • And he told a Cabinet meeting that the protests over gasoline prices were fomented from outside.

  • HASSAN ROUHANI, Iranian President (through translator): The rebels were organized and

  • armed and were precisely following a scheme plotted by the backward states of the region,

  • as well as the Zionists and Americans.

  • Our people have come out victorious in different incidents and in the face of enemies' plots.

  • This time also in riots that were the enemy's plot for creating insecurity, our people gained

  • complete victory.

  • JUDY WOODRUFF: Amnesty International says more than 100 people have been killed Iran's

  • crackdown.

  • Tehran says that number is speculative.

  • Britain's Prince Andrew is giving up his public duties amid an outcry over his friendship

  • with Jeffrey Epstein.

  • The prince said today that the issue has become a major disruption to the royal family's charitable

  • work.

  • Epstein was charged with sex trafficking in the United States, before he committed suicide

  • in jail last August.

  • Andrew was widely accused of appearing insensitive toward Epstein's victims in an interview this

  • past weekend.

  • Back in this country, the president of the United Auto Workers has resigned after being

  • implicated in a federal probe of bribery and embezzlement.

  • Gary Jones stepped down, shortly after the union moved to oust him.

  • Also today, General Motors filed a lawsuit claiming that Fiat Chrysler bribed UAW officials

  • for special breaks in labor agreements.

  • A new wave of forced power blackouts is under way for some 170,000 people across Northern

  • and Central California.

  • Pacific Gas & Electric began the shutoffs today to prevent high winds from downing power

  • lines and sparking more wildfires.

  • It's the latest in a string of much-criticized outages, and it could last into Thursday.

  • And on Wall Street, stocks fell, amid new doubts about trade talks with China.

  • The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 113 points to close at 27821.

  • The Nasdaq gave up 44 points, and the S&P 500 slipped 11.

In the day's other news: Israel is headed toward an unprecedented third election in

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