News Summary at 2:17 a.m. EDT

In an AP roundup timed for 2:17 a.m. EDT, President Donald Trump pledged $5,000 to every American if Republicans hold Congress in the midterms, while attacking Democrats as extremists at night one of the GOP convention in Dallas. He offered no clear details on how the payment would work, though he compared it to corporate dividends. The report notes the promise could cost more than $1 trillion and would worsen the country’s roughly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit. The roundup also covered NTSB highlights from a Miami Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five people: cockpit audio indicates the pilot repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast and did not receive consistent verbal acknowledgement. Separately, AP reporters recalled documenting the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago.