Boring: Hillary Clinton has chosen for her running mate Tim Kaine, a career politician who’s been a mayor, a governor and now a US Senator from Virginia.

Kaine, who has never lost an election, has a reputation for being boring and he admits it’s true. He once quipped that boring is the fastest growing demographic, revealing a sense of humor that proves he’s not that boring.

Kaine is considered politically safe. He was raised Catholic and became a Jesuit missionary. He’s fluent in Spanish. He was vetted for vice president by Barack Obama and was one of the first major league politicians to endorse Clinton for president. He is a traditional politician who has supported free trade agreements and might have trouble helping Clinton to win the Bernie Sanders vote.

Love, Actually: Despite having more delegates vote against him than in any Republican convention since 1976, Donald Trump declared the Cleveland convention to be a “love fest” for him. “That was unity,” Mr. Trump said in a Cleveland hotel here. “The party has just come together.”

Then he proceeded to trash Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the runner-up who refuses to endorse the party’s nominee. An angry Trump said, “I don’t want his endorsement. If he gives it, I won’t accept it.”

Trump is a devotee of tough love.

Munich: Ten people are dead, including the gunman, after a shooting at a mall in Munich, Germany. The gunman can be seen in a video pulling out a pistol and opening fire outside a McDonald’s restaurant. Twenty-one people also were wounded as the city was put in lockdown to be certain the incident was over.

Some of the dead are children. The killer has been identified as an 18-year-old German-Iranian man whose body was found about a mile from the shopping mall where he attacked.

Germany has been on edge since Monday when an Afghan teenager slashed and stabbed passengers on a train bound for Würzburg.

You’ve Got Mail: The website Wikileaks has posted 20,000 emails purloined from the Democratic National Committee, some of which show that the DNC was looking for ways to torpedo the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. They are supposed to be neutral.

The emails support Sanders’ complaint that the committee had it out for him.

One message discussed promoting a story that the Sanders campaign was “a mess” and another says, “It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God,” wrote Brad Marshall, the DNC’s chief financial officer. “He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps.”

Nation: Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of the murderous cult leader Charles Manson, has once again been denied parole from her life sentence. Van Houten took part in the random Los Angeles murders of weathy grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. Van Houten, now 66, was 19 at the time. It was other members of the Manson cult that killed actress Sharon Tate and four other people in her home.

>US stocks yesterday finished up for the fourth straight week. We’re in the money.

Heat Wave: All but two states, Alaska and Washington, broke the 90-degree mark yesterday as what’s known as a “heat dome” sits over the entire country. It’s going to be hotter today. The highs: Joplin, Mo., 98; Dallas, 100; Columbia, SC, 99; Washington, DC, 97; New York, 99; Boston, 93. It’s expected to hit 96 in Los Angeles today, with fire smoke. Our Los Angeles Stringer Alexis Perkins reports, “Now burned 3,300 acres in Santa Clarita. What I saw at 7:45 looked like a volcano. West Hollywood residents remain unconcerned, and continue to take up 2 parking spots and leave their In-N-Out trash on the sidewalk.”

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