内容摘要：Italy’s Giovanni Tocci competes in the men’s 3m springboard diving preliminary at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Italy’s Giovanni Tocci competes in the men’s 3m springboard diving preliminary at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

“Running Point” also co-stars Brenda Song, Max Greenfield, Drew Tarver and Jay Ellis.As a successful executive in Hollywood herself, Kaling says she’s actually viewed being members of minority groups — both

— as her superpower.“Different personalities react to different situations, right? Because I’m Indian and because I’m a woman, my personality has always been like, ‘Ooh, I must be special,’” the recent Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree says. “It’s exciting to me to prove myself.”Mindy Kaling (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)

Mindy Kaling (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)Kaling has always known her value but, as a boss, says she’s had to learn that not everyone has confidence and sometimes talent needs to be nurtured. She wants to help others find that within themselves. One of the staff writers on “Running Point,” Akshara Sekar, used to be Kaling’s personal assistant.

“I didn’t come into this knowing how to be a role model,” Kaling says. “That’s been kind of a fun part of this, helping young women who are pretty different than the way that I was at 24, 25.”

The world of basketball is one that Kaling has long been a fan of. Growing up in Boston, she would watch Celtics games with her dad: “My dad and my mom are both immigrants and one of the ways that my dad decided he was going to be an American citizen was by embracing the sports here.”. He appeared days later at the Republican National Convention with a bandage covering his injury, an iconic image that further galvanized his supporters and became a symbol of his defiance.

The current president, Joe Biden,of the race weeks before the Democratic convention, bowing to unrelenting pressure from his party following a disastrous debate performance. He was

atop the ticket by Vice President, the first woman of color to be nominated for president by a major party.