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Comala Harris talks immigration and climate change in the first major TV interview of her campaign.

Plus Donald Trump sends mixed signals about his stance on abortion and with many consumers

not ready to make the jump to electric cars, automakers downshift to plug-in hybrids.

The federal standards for emissions are also getting more stringent.

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It's Friday August 30th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News.

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,

gave their first major television interview of their

2024 campaign yesterday. Harris didn't lay out significant new details on

how she'd govern if elected president, but she did answer questions from CNN's Dana Bash about some key

policy areas where her position has shifted, like a ban on fracking that she supported during

her 2019 presidential bid before reversing her stance the following year.

And was there some policy or scientific data that you saw that you said, oh, okay, I get it now.

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