Axios

Former President Trump turned down a "60 Minutes" offer of back-to-back conversations with both presidential nominees, with his campaign saying he didn't want interruptions for fact checks.

• Vice President Harris will appear on the show, airing Oct. 7. "60 Minutes," the highest-rated news program on TV, says the invitation to Trump stands.

Why it matters: With Trump saying it's "too late" for another debate with Harris, the show could have been a final chance for both candidates to reach a mass audience, 29 days before Election Day.

Former President Trump claimed in a court filing Tuesday that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to release new evidence and witness testimony in his federal Jan. 6 case just as early voting for the 2024 election begins.

The big picture: Trump has made this argument before in the same case, accusing Smith of trying to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

Hurricane Helene likely caused damage totaling at least in the tens of billions of dollars, according to insurance industry estimates.

Why it matters: The economic hit from the storm, while not yet fully known, could have ripple effects beyond the hardest-hit areas.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is facing an exponentially growing number of sexual assault allegations after a Texas-based attorney announced 120 accusers have come forward.

The big picture: The music mogul was charged last month with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.

Iran launched around 180 ballistic missiles toward Israel in a two-wave attack on Tuesday that U.S. and Israeli officials say was largely repelled.

The big picture: This was Iran's largest-scale attack ever against Israel. Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israel and the U.S., and there are no reports of deaths inside Israel. One Palestinian civilian was reportedly killed in the West Bank.

The son and daughter-in-law of the late Martin Luther King Jr. have spearheaded efforts to create a national Black-Latino coalition similar to one the civil rights leader sought to launch before his assassination.

Why it matters: Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, tell Axios now is the right time to start a new "Black-Brown coalition" as income inequality grows and voting rights are under attack.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened its first-ever probe into one of the deadliest race massacres in the nation's history more than a century later.

The big picture: A commission, historians, lawyers, and others have investigated the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, but the DOJ never has, leaving Black victims and later their descendants with little acknowledgment from the federal government or compensation for generations of trauma.