Newsletter: Today: Autumn at Hofstra: Clinton vs. Trump. What a Way to Send Off Vin.

I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today.

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Autumn at Hofstra: Clinton vs. Trump

Tonight’s debate could be the most watched presidential bout ever. Will one side deliver a knockout punch? In the red corner, weighted down by doubts about his stability and credibility, is Donald Trump. In the blue corner, weighted down by doubts about her trustworthiness and understanding of everyday Americans, is Hillary Clinton. Here’s what each needs to do and whom they need to win over.

More Politics

-- Never in modern presidential politics has a major candidate made false statements as routinely as Trump has.

-- Times editorial: Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Trump would be a catastrophe.

-- Trump has some Latinos so unnerved, they’re turning to the supernatural for help.

-- Mary McNamara: TV news needs to pull itself together for the presidential debates.

-- Watch the debate with us, online or in person in downtown L.A.

The Differences Between Tulsa and Charlotte Are Transparent

Two fatal police shootings of black men. Two different reactions. The biggest factor in why Charlotte, N.C., turned violent while protests in Tulsa, Okla., remained peaceful may have been how transparent each city’s police department was with the public. While authorities in Tulsa acted quickly in releasing video and ultimately filing charges, Charlotte officials made video public only after days of pressure.

Why Robots, Not Humans, Will Keep On Truckin’

The future of driverless cars is coming faster than most of us could have imagined, and long-haul trucking might be the first type of driving to become fully automated. That could put a lot of people out a job. And it looks as though many other kinds of work, like gardening, home construction and trash collection, are heading for automation, which could deepen inequality as higher education is prioritized over blue-collar skills.

He Commanded Arnie’s Army

Arnold Palmer had the swing of a powerful duffer. No problem. He had swagger. That bold style of play may have lost him a few tournaments, but it won him 62 PGA Tour events and a legion of fans as golf entered the age of television. Those chiseled features didn’t hurt, either, when corporate sponsors came calling. The golf champion nicknamed “the King” has died at age 87. See why he said, “There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be.”

What a Way to Send Off Vin

Vin Scully deserves a Hollywood ending to his 67-year career, and the Dodgers are giving him just that. For Scully’s final game at Chavez Ravine, the boys in blue clinched the playoffs with a walk-off homer in the 10th inning. In the meantime, before that final call Oct. 2 in San Francisco, take a moment to soak in what Scully has meant for so many people. As Bill Plaschke puts it, “For the people of Los Angeles, he is not merely the announcer of baseball games, he is the soundtrack of our lives, the dignified and graceful accompaniment of endless sandy summers, a daily harmonic reminder of the Southern California dream.”

More About Vin Scully

-- “I would like to be remembered, No. 1, as a good man. And, by being a good man, I mean as honest as possible.”

-- Three calls that are arguably Scully’s all-time best.

-- Hector Becerra: How Scully helped me learn English and kept my Mexican American family together.

OUR MUST-READS FROM THE WEEKEND

-- The suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings grew up in a perfect corner of the American melting pot, but cultures clashed when he met his high school sweetheart.

-- After five decades in the jungle, Colombian guerrillas get a PR makeover as they prepare for peace.

-- No touching. No human contact. The hidden toll on jail inmates who spend months or years alone in a 7-by-9-foot cell.

-- Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne on how the first skyscrapers proposed for L.A.’s Arts District will change the neighborhood.

-- The Mexican peso has tumbled to historic new lows, nearing a psychological barrier of 20 pesos to the U.S. dollar and causing much anxiety.

-- What’s it like to drive an electric car that runs on hydrogen?

-- The mysterious world of the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón.

-- John Scalzi, one of The Times’ Critics at Large, writes about really long books. Don’t worry, it’s a quick read.

CALIFORNIA

-- A man who said he did his childhood friend a favor by killing him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

-- The moon and big tides could be a trigger for big earthquakes.

-- The Big Tujunga Wash, among Southern California’s most powerful and least developed waterways, is at the center of a political battle over the route of the bullet train.

-- George Skelton: The problems with rushing to legalize marijuana for stoner use.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

-- Meg Ryan has been happy to be out of the spotlight, but now she’s back with “Ithaca,” her directorial debut.

-- Bruce Springsteen’s 508-page autobiography, “Born to Run,” is a lot like one of his concerts.

-- Zach Galifianakis discusses that “Between Two Ferns” episode with Clinton.

-- A fly-fishing guide who’s “Hollywood beautiful [and] curses like a sailor” helped get Bill Whitaker his “60 Minutes” job.

-- The first Music Tastes Good festival showcased Long Beach as a vibrant music community.

NATION-WORLD

-- Disturbing details about the man accused of killing five people at a Washington state mall have begun to emerge.

-- The U.N.’s top envoy to Syria accused the government of unleashing “unprecedented military violence” against civilians in Aleppo.

-- A Jordanian journalist was shot to death on the steps of an Amman courthouse after posting a controversial cartoon to Facebook.

-- Maryam Monsef was hailed as Canada’s first Afghan-born member of Parliament. Then news broke that she was born in Iran.

BUSINESS

-- Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf and Carrie Tolstedt, the retiring executive who headed the bank’s retail operations, could lose tens of millions of dollars over the still-unfolding scandal.

-- Why do customers flock to one item on the shelf and ignore another? Stores turn to heat mapping to figure it out.

SPORTS

-- Sports editor Angel Rodriguez remembers Miami Marlins ace pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died in a boating accident, and what he meant to Cubans and Cuban Americans.

-- The Rams survived the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a lightning delay for a 37-32 victory.

OPINION

-- Clinton and Trump will be held to different debate standards, but that’s OK.

-- Will adding a veggie burger to the In-N-Out menu destroy the country? You’d think so, based on the reaction to this petition.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

-- Are those high-intensity LED streetlights a health hazard? (Washington Post)

-- At home with Charles Osgood and his pianos. (CBS News)

-- Rare photos of China during the Qing dynasty. (The Atlantic)

ONLY IN L.A.

Anthony Hernandez grew up on the Eastside. The son of a machinist and a meatpacking worker, he once ran with the wrong crowd. But during his senior year at Roosevelt High School, a friend gave him a photography manual he’d found in an East Los Angeles College bathroom. That was the start of his career as an artist who would re-imagine street photography with an L.A. sensibility. Never heard of him? You’re not alone. See his work here.

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