The US midterm election season has produced unusually extreme rhetoric. But Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, says the media and public shouldn’t discount the impact of the heated rhetoric at US President Donald Trump’s rallies. Also, in Portland, Oregon, there’s a push to train immigrant workers to become skilled welders. And, a 27-year-old political newbie is a former refugee from Afghanistan. Now, she’s running for office in New Hampshire.