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“Kamala Harris largely stuck to her script during an interview Tuesday with a panel of National Association of Black Journalists members, carefully parrying questions about hot-button issues like the war in Gaza, reparations and other critical election topics,” Politico reports. “It was the vice president’s second high-profile national media interview since announcing her presidential run, and though she spoke passionately at times about abortion rights and other policies, she did not break much ground or stray far from her talking points during the near hour-long conversation.”

Minnesota state Rep. Jeff Dotseth (R) “was arrested in 2008 after his then-wife called police to report he’d assaulted her, one episode in what she and her son would describe in civil court filings as more than a decade of abuse,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. “Prosecutors charged Dotseth with misdemeanor domestic assault, according to the court records.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) accused a leading Muslim civil rights advocate of supporting extremism during a Senate hearing on hate incidents in the U. S., Reuters reports. Asked Kennedy: “You support Hamas, do you not?” Responded Maya Berry: “You asking the executive director of the Arab American Institute that question very much puts the focus on the issue of hate in our country.” In a follow-up, Kennedy asked: “You support Hezbollah, too, don’t you?” He later told her: “You should hide your head in a bag.”

“Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign,” Axios reports. “Starting in late August, a well-known Russian influence group, called Storm-1516, created and spread two fake videos online to discredit the Harris-Walz campaign, according to the Microsoft report.”

Kamala Harris spoke with Donald Trump on Tuesday to check in after a second apparent assassination attempt against him, Axios reports. Said Harris: “I told him what I have said publicly, there’s no place for political violence in our country.”

A judge ruled Trump Media breached an agreement with one of the investors that helped the company go public and must grant the sponsor a larger share of stock, CNBC reports.