This NPR News Now episode covers President Trump’s campaign stop with Ron DeSantis amid favorable Democratic polls, while also reporting on escalating Russian influence operations targeting U.S. midterms. The broadcast details France’s deployment of 70,000 officers for new protests against high living costs and updates on the delayed trial for Charlie Kirk’s killer. Additionally, it addresses a second Ebola death in Kenya, a disaster declaration for flooding in Colorado, and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders’ successful unionization.