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

Kamala Harris courts young black voters and tests out a new campaign

pakic playing clips of her opponent Donald Trump at her rally.

Israeli airstrikes increasingly threaten areas once

considered safe havens for Lebanese civilians already

displaced by violence. And in his new book Bob Woodward pulls back the curtain on

the Biden and Trump presidency's and their starkly different relationships with controversial world leaders.

All of the moments are very, very tense because the stakes couldn't be higher. Welcome to the news hour. Three weeks to go until election day and the race for

president remains a dead heat.

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Detroit tonight,

meeting with business owners,

and hitting the radio waves to make her case,

especially to black male voters.

But we start tonight in Chicago

where Donald Trump talked tariffs and tax cuts

at an economic event and defended

reported conversations he's had

with Vladimir Putin since leaving office.

Here's Stephanie Sigh.

Donald Trump faced a grilling at the Economic Press Club of Chicago today

and was evasive when asked directly about his recently

reported phone calls with Russia's president. Can you say yes or no whether you

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