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🎧 NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben tells Up First there is a stark contrast between Harris’ and Trump’s current message. Harris is highlighting women who have lost their lives or had their lives threatened by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. On the other hand, one of Trump’s openers made a joke about Taylor Swift being killed by her boyfriend. This isn’t a winning message for women voters — a demographic Trump is behind in the polls for, Kurtzleben says. As the end of his campaign nears, he is still rolling out new proposals including a tax credit for people caring for family members.
➡️ Harris promoted a new pledge to boost Puerto Rico’s economy yesterday, contrasting the messages made at Trump’s rally. Megastar Bad Bunny highlighted the pledge to his 45 million Instagram followers.

🎧 One of South Korea’s concerns is North Korean troops getting battlefield experience, something they haven’t had since 1953, NPR’s Teri Schultz says. Nobody knows what else Russia and North Korea could be exchanging, such as ballistic missiles. NATO can issue a statement about how this cooperation is unacceptable but it doesn’t have the authority to tell North Korea and Russia what to do. South Korean intelligence will also brief European Union officials and the country has the ability to impose sanctions.

🎧 “Historically teams that win the first two games, not a surprise, go on to win the series more often than not —  80% of the time,” NPR freelance reporter Steve Futterman says. But teams have come back from 0-2 deficits many times. In fact, the last two times these two teams faced off in the World Series in 1981 and 1978 that’s exactly what happened.