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Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, have wrapped up their nearly week-long barnstorm across the country. Their last stop was at a rally in Las Vegas Saturday where Harris talked about a particular policy she plans to lay out and Piers DePeshivrim replied.
Harris said she supports eliminating taxes on tips, which received huge applause from the Las Vegas crowd, including many service workers from the Culinary Union. It was the first time Harris has said she'd back the policy. A campaign official says it would require legislation through Congress, and Harris would work with them on that, as well as increasing the minimum wage.
Former President Trump was quick to criticize Harris online. He proposed the same idea earlier this year and said Harris was copying him.
Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Las Vegas. Harris also told those at the rally that Democrats will win the state in the November election. Harris and her running mate have been appearing all week in front of energized crowds, while former President Donald Trump seems to have difficulty coming up with a new line of attack for the newly minted Democratic ticket, as NPR's Stephen Fowler tells us. In the weeks since Biden dropped out, the campaign has also been dogged by bad news cycles, and his comments being more meandering, disjointed, and rooted in grievance.
It's a lot like 2016, but this time he's not an unknown quantity writing anger and attacks to the White House. Instead, it's a replay of all the parts of that campaign that people didn't like and that weren't as helpful. Also, unlike 2016, Trump is not doing as many rallies.
Officials in Brazil still have no idea why a commercial airliner crashed into a gated community while it was on approach to Sao Paulo's international airport. All 62 people on board the plane were killed. Search teams have now recovered the plane's black box, which records certain information before a crash occurs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is praising his country's troops for their attack into western Russia this week. The strike caught the Russian military by surprise, as NPR's Greg Myrie reports. These were Zelensky's most explicit remarks so far on Ukraine's ongoing offensive. In his nightly video address, President Zelensky said he'd receive updates on the operation to, quote,
push the war into the aggressor's territory. He went on to say that the offensive is exactly the kind of pressure that's needed, pressure on the aggressor. Ukrainian officials have been tight-lipped about the offensive that began with Tuesday's surge into Russia's Kursk region, but some information is starting to emerge.
Ukrainian troops are beginning to post on social media from inside Russia. They show themselves tearing down Russian flags and standing in front of road signs to indicate they've entered a village or town. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Kiev. And you're listening to NPR News.
Belarus sent troops to reinforce its border with Ukraine on Saturday. Officials there say Ukrainian drones are violating its airspace. The incursions began after Ukrainian forces invaded Russia's nearby Kursk region.
Demolition began Saturday morning on a Texas church where a gunman killed 26 people in 2017. Texas Public Radio's Kayla Padilla has more on the controversy the demolition has caused. Residents drove by with their windows down as workers began tearing down the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. In the town of about 600, some of the victims' families considered the memorial inside the church to be one of the only places they could grieve their loved ones.
In 2021, the church committee held a vote to decide the building's fate. 66 voted to tear it down and 33 voted to keep it. But a lawsuit filed by a church member earlier this year claims that some victims' families who wanted the building to remain as a memorial did not get their say. The church leadership maintains that the process was fair. Nearly two years after the shooting, a church three times as big was built on the same property where it remains today.
I'm Kayla Badia in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The U.S. women's soccer team beat Brazil 1-0 on Saturday to win the gold at the Olympics in Paris. It was their first gold since the 2012 London Games and the third U.S. win over Brazil in an Olympics final. The U.S. men's basketball squad also won a gold on Saturday, beating France 98-87. Stephen Curry scored 24 points in the win. It's the fifth consecutive men's basketball gold for the U.S. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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