Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navas is away. On the news hour tonight,

a top Hamas leader is assassinated in Iran. The implications for the war in Gaza and the broader Middle East.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris try to make inroads with voters in crucial swing states ahead of November's elections.

And Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at whether the news media is making political polarization

worse.

I think a lot of people now turn to the media to be reinforced in what they believe

rather than to learn something. Welcome to the news hour. The top political leader of Hamas Is Ismail Hania, was killed overnight in Tehran,

just hours after an Israeli airstrike killed one of the top military leaders of Hezbollah

and Beirut, taken together after 10 months of war in Beirut. Taken together, after 10 months of war in Gaza,

the attacks escalated fears

that a simmering regional conflict could explode

into a new and more dangerous phase.

Nick Schifren starts our coverage.

In the hours before his death, Hamas political leader Ismail Hania

met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's new president, and with Iranian

lawmakers pledged the victory he spent his life promising. It was his final public

expression. Overnight he and his Iranian bodyguard were killed in what Hamas and Iran described as an Israeli

drone strike.

Iran immediately vowed vengeance.

Chamoni posted it is our duty to take revenge.

And the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Israel will quote,

face a harsh and

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