The Campaign for the Midwest, and Antiracism Demonstrations in the U.K.

8th. Here's what we're covering.

The battle to win over the Midwest is on.

Both the Harris-Walls and Trump-Vance campaigns made dueling appearances in the same cities

yesterday.

Harris and her running mate held a packed rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, then another

in Detroit, while J.D. Vance stopped in Eau Claire and the Detroit suburbs.

We landed about the same time that she did.

The two swing states narrowly went for Joe Biden in 2020.

And at the events yesterday, Harris brought in some of the biggest crowds of her campaign

to date.

But in Detroit, she also faced pushback.

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted her speech, accusing her of supporting genocide

in Gaza.

Harris moved to shut them down.

You know what?

If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that, otherwise I'm speaking.

Opposition to the war has been a fault line in the Democratic Party and will continue

to be an issue heading into November.

As vice president, Harris has been more outspoken than Biden about the suffering of Palestinians,

but has not strayed far from Biden's support of Israel.

Her campaign will continue tomorrow when she and Walls hold their next rally in Arizona.

Trump, meanwhile, will be back on the campaign trail talking to voters in Montana.

Across the U.K. last night, thousands of people took to the streets to denounce the violent

right-wing riots that have swept the country in recent days.

Keep the fascists out!

They chanted anti-racism slogans and held signs saying, refugees welcome and fascists

out.

Britain's been in turmoil for the last week after misinformation spread online about the

background of a teenager accused of a deadly attack on a children's dance class.

Authorities have said the suspect was born and raised in Britain, but rumors that he

was an undocumented immigrant circulated on social media.

Right-wing extremist groups amplified the claims, and rioters in more than a dozen cities

have attacked mosques, looted businesses, and targeted hotels that house immigrants

seeking asylum.

The rate of immigration into the U.K. has spiked in recent years, turning the issue

into a flashpoint, particularly on the right, and the rioters have included neo-Nazis and

anti-Muslim campaigners.

More than 400 people have been arrested so far, including some accused of using the internet

to incite the violence.

The country's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has criticized social media companies for

allowing the misinformation and calls for violence to spread on their platforms.

And he said, quote,

The far right are showing who they are.

We have to show who we are in response to that.

Three nights of Taylor Swift's blockbuster Eras tour have been canceled after authorities

in Austria said they'd arrested two men who were plotting a terrorist attack.

Swift had been scheduled to play three shows in Vienna starting today, with 200,000 fans

expected to attend.

Authorities say one of the men arrested, a 19-year-old Austrian citizen, recently pledged

allegiance to the Islamic State after becoming radicalized online.

He was considering the Eras tour as a target, and officials raided his home and sent a bomb

squad there after finding chemical substances.

The Islamic State has carried out three high-profile attacks on concert venues in the past decade.

One counterterrorism expert said several plots have been foiled across Europe this year,

and that many of those plots have featured young ISIS supporters, some of whom were radicalized

via TikTok.

Today marks one year since a wildfire swept through Lahaina on the island of Maui.

It reduced the town to ashes and killed at least 102 people.

In the last year, officials have put new funding into firefighting equipment.

They've revamped evacuation procedures and cut back the grasslands that fueled the flames.

But Times reporter Mike Baker, who was there in the days after the fire, says the town

is just at the beginning of what will be a years-long rebuilding effort.

You know, the old foundations that survived the fire, many of them have been wiped away.

A lot of the lots now are just layers of fresh gravel.

So you drive down the streets and sometimes it's difficult to tell, what was the landmark

that used to be here?

What building was this that was on this corner?

What street am I at?

Some want to resurface layers of Hawaiian history that were buried by time and development.

Lahaina was once home to palaces for the royal Hawaiian family, while others want to bring

back a bustling commercial waterfront.

too focused on catering to tourism and had maybe lost sight of that deeper native Hawaiian

history.

You know, there's a lot of a push to restore more of that heritage, maybe renaming the

street names, maybe bringing back some of these old grounds that were central to the

Hawaiian kingdom.

But there are others who also have deep ties to the area who are native Hawaiian who want

to see that waterfront rebuilt as it was, to see the waterfront restaurants and nice

boutiques and fancy art galleries come back and restored just as it used to be.

this year.

And finally.

We knew that it potentially had a higher risk than a flight on a vehicle that has more experience,

more flights on it.

two of its astronauts on the International Space Station don't really have a ride back

to Earth yet.

June, the first time the craft had ever carried astronauts.

It was supposed to be an eight-day trip, but there were problems with the ship that have

kept them up there now for more than two months.

And NASA says it's got a plan B.

It's going to keep trying to fix the Starliner, but if it can't, the astronauts will just

become a regular part of the space station crew for now and come back on a capsule built

by SpaceX in February.

The whole thing adds more headaches and embarrassment for Boeing, which had been trying to prove

it can be a player in space and compete with SpaceX.

Those are the headlines.

Today on The Daily, a look inside the Harris Campaign's Wisconsin field office and how

they're trying to win over voters.

You can listen on the Times audio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

We'll be back tomorrow.