Trump backs out of a ’60 Minutes’ prime-time interview, CBS says 60 Minutes announced on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has backed out of an interview he had agreed to do as part of its prime-time election special next week. Read more on NPR

Hurricane Helene upends election planning in some parts of North Carolina North Carolina election officials have said early voting would start as planned on Oct. 17. But they don’t know how many voting sites might be unusable in the swing state because of Hurricane Helene. Read more on NPR

Watch the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate Simulcast On NPR Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance will take the debate stage tonight starting at 9 p.m. Watch the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate Simulcast on NPR. Read more on NPR

Israel Invades Lebanon, Iran Attacks Israel Iran launched long-range missiles against Israel, just hours after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive into southern Lebanon against Iran’s main proxy, Hezbollah. The dramatic escalation is raising fears of an all-out war in the Middle East. We hear from two NPR correspondents in the region. For more coverage…

More than 165 ‘Artists for Kamala’ auction their work in support of Harris Amy Sherald, Jeff Koons, Shepard Fairey and Rashid Johnson are among the visual artists who have donated works for an auction that will raise money for the Harris Victory Fund. Read more on NPR

Loved ones search for the hundreds of people still missing after Helene Hurricane Helene left widespread damage in Western North Carolina where officials are still looking for at least 600 people unaccounted for. Law enforcement in Tennessee say an estimated 100 people have been reported missing. Read more on NPR

John Amos, star of TV’s ‘Good Times’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 84 Amos starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots.” Read more on NPR

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’ In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Read more on NPR

Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs over fire risk Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. The automaker says the risk of fire is reduced when the battery charge is depleted. Read more on NPR

JD Vance’s performance has audience of one: Trump, says former debate opponent Vance’s former Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, says the Ohio senator is likely to aggressively attack Harris-Walz during the debate Tuesday night to appeal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Read more on NPR