Newsletter: Today: Why the Streets of Charlotte Erupted. A Kids Awards Show on Hollywood’s Fringe.

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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Why the Streets of Charlotte Erupted

On the surface, Charlotte has prided itself on being a diverse and prosperous Southern powerhouse. But as it has drawn Fortune 500 companies and skilled workers from across the East Coast and South, the divisions have grown between white and black, rich and poor, and the police and racial minorities. This week’s fatal police shooting was just the tipping point for the violent protests that followed.

The Troubles in Tulsa

Less than a week after a white, female Tulsa police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man on a stretch of highway in Oklahoma, prosecutors filed first-degree manslaughter charges against her. Unlike in Charlotte, where the police chief has refused to publicly release video of the police shooting of a black man they say was armed, Tulsa’s chief released multiple videos. Read on to see why an investigator said Police Officer Betty Shelby became “emotionally involved to the point that she over-reacted.”

The Tale of the Debate Tape

He loves to go off script. She loves to talk about policy details. That’s just the start of how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s debate styles couldn’t be more different. On Monday they will finally face off in person in a debate that is likely to break viewership records. See how they stack up in our debate primer.

More Politics

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

-- Several polls indicate Clinton appears to have survived one of her worst stretches on the presidential campaign, including concerns about her health, with her lead intact in some key battleground states.

-- Trump promises to “lift the restrictions on American energy” in an appeal to the fracking industry.

A Kids Awards Show on Hollywood’s Fringe

At the 37th Young Artist Awards, child actors with dreams of stardom picked up golden statuettes. On the red carpet, middle-aged men collected their autographs. Hollywood’s power players? Nowhere in sight. Instead, the event drew “a Fellini-esque assortment of showbiz hangers-on,” as The Times’ Daniel Miller reports. Over the years, that has included a handful of people found by authorities to have troubling backgrounds with children. Here is an in-depth look at an awards show on the fringe.

The Rodney Dangerfield of Wines

Temecula’s wines don’t get any respect: They are too sweet; the aromas are funky; they lack complexity; they smell like burning tires. Or so the critics have said over the years. Now some Temecula winemakers are trying to change all that with new techniques and a push to get elite reviewers to give them another chance.

CALIFORNIA

-- A plan for turning a former rail yard next to the Los Angeles River into park space, wetlands and other amenities could cost more than $252 million, city analysts say.

-- Landlords are offering tenants buyouts from their rent-controlled units. L.A. is trying to crack down.

-- A labor union called on state and federal election officials to investigate the potential illegal use of foreign money in a heated Beverly Hills ballot measure.

-- A groundbreaking homeless shelter for college students in Santa Monica hits a snag.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

-- The FBI was informed of “a child welfare” incident involving Brad Pitt on an international flight last week, according to a law enforcement official. The allegation involved unruly behavior by Pitt with his child present.

-- How the West wasn’t white: the challenges of building a diverse cast for a remake of “The Magnificent Seven.”

-- The film “Deepwater Horizon” sets out to dramatize the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Here’s how it was made.

-- Disney is pulling from sale a number of children’s items tied to its upcoming film “Moana” amid controversy over whether they are examples of cultural misappropriation.

-- “The Exorcist” is turning heads again on TV.

NATION-WORLD

-- Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that others helped suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami in a bomb plot in New York and New Jersey, according to an official.

-- Some Miami Beach residents are more afraid of naled, an insecticide being used to curb the spread of Zika, than the disease itself.

-- Negotiators in Afghanistan signed a draft of a peace agreement that would bring a notorious former warlord into the government fold while forgiving allegations that he was responsible for serious war crimes.

-- The Chinese space lab is about to crash and burn, and that’s OK with China.

-- Studies on the perils of polyester underwear and the personality of rocks have won Ig Nobel Prizes, bestowed by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research.

BUSINESS

-- David Lazarus looks at a recipe for ripoffs: pricing drugs by their “value” to sick people.

-- Change that password: Yahoo Inc. announced that hackers may have obtained personal information from at least 500 million accounts in a 2014 data breach.

SPORTS

-- The Dodgers and catcher Yasmani Grandal had a grand time against the Rockies.

-- The success of young quarterbacks in the NFL is ratcheting up the pressure on the Rams to play Jared Goff.

OPINION

-- Should we let an unstable person have control of the nuclear arsenal? No, but that’s not the right question.

-- Autonomous vehicles could cost America 5 million jobs. What should we do about it?

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

-- The FDA says it is committed to transparency, but documents show the agency denying access to reporters and exercising control over whom reporters can talk to before a news story has broken. (Scientific American)

-- The history of the Addy doll, American Girl’s first African American doll and until recently, its only one. (Slate)

-- Curl Up & Dye. Wish You Were Beer. Spex in the City. A map of punny business names across America. (Atlas Obscura)

ONLY IN L.A.

Roz Wyman “moved heaven, earth and Walter O’Malley,” columnist Patt Morrison writes, to get the Dodgers to move to L.A. Luckily, she also helped bring Vin Scully along as part of the deal. On Sunday, he’ll call his last game at Chavez Ravine. Wyman, the youngest person and second woman to serve on the L.A. City Council, looks back at Scully’s career. As she said, “Thank God he decided not to be a lawyer!”

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