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• With Kennedy on the Ballot, Vance Talks Public Health in Michigan. Senator JD Vance of Ohio spoke of the occurrence of “weird childhood diseases” that may be caused by “weird stuff” in the food and water supply.
• Romney Won’t Endorse Harris, Saying He Wants to Keep His Voice in the Party. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, says the party may need to be rebuilt.
• 13 Things We Learned From Harris’s Interview With Howard Stern. In a lengthy sit-down, the veteran radio host extracted an array of new details about Kamala Harris’s life.
• Poll Finds Support for Florida’s Abortion Ballot Measure Is Falling Short. Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.
• How Helene Has Upended North Carolina’s Election Plans. With 13 counties devastated by flooding, the state is trying to make sure that residents can still vote. Candidates have been forced to abandon door-knocking and phone banks.
• Vandals Deface Harvard Statue and U. of Michigan Leaders’ Homes. It was not clear who was responsible for the broken windows, fake blood and pro-Palestinian slogans.
• Inside a Harris Ad in Which Ex-Trump Aides Blast Him as Unfit for Office. An attack ad from Kamala Harris’s campaign uses denunciations of Donald Trump by his own former top security lieutenants to portray him as too risky to restore to power.
• Vote by Mail Often Subject To Pitfalls In Counting. Voting by mail is increasingly popular, but mail ballots are rejected far more often than in-person ones. In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, parties are battling over which ones to count — or not.
• Trump and G.O.P. Are Betting Big On Trans Issues. Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars on the ads, part of an attempt to help them win over suburban female voters.
• U.S. Budget Deficit Rises to Highest Level in 3 Years: $1.8 Trillion. New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show continuing fiscal strain, despite steady economic growth.
• Ex-Houston Police Officer Gets 60 Years in Prison in Drug Raid Killings. A jury had found Gerald Goines guilty of felony murder in the deaths of two people who were fatally shot during a botched drug raid in 2019.
• On ‘The View,’ Harris Hits at Trump’s ‘Callousness’ in His Storm Response. In a wide-ranging interview, the vice president also she could not think of a way she would act differently from President Biden, and laid out a plan to help Americans take care of aging loved ones.
• Top Musk Lieutenant Joins Trump Super PAC for Final Push. Steve Davis is often called upon by Mr. Musk to help in all-hands-on-deck situations, such as after Mr. Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
• Pro-Palestinian ‘Uncommitted’ Group Comes Out Firmly Against Trump. The organization that emerged from protests against the Biden administration’s Middle East policies now says a second Trump term would be far worse.
• Biden Warns Floridians to ‘Evacuate Now’ as He Postpones Foreign Trip Over Hurricane Milton. President Biden had been scheduled to leave for Germany and Angola on Thursday.
• Iran Crisis Ignites New Debate About Trump’s Nuclear Deal Exit. President Donald J. Trump labeled it “the worst deal in history.” But critics of the withdrawal say it prompted Iran to accelerate its nuclear program.
• School Absences Rise as Special Education Fails Students, Suit Says. A class-action lawsuit argues that the New York City school system falls short in helping students with emotional disabilities, leaving them to miss too many school days.
• Trump Secretly in Touch With Putin After Office, Book by Woodward Says. A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward also reports that Donald J. Trump, while still in office, secretly sent Vladimir Putin what were then rare Covid-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s personal use.
• A U.N. Official’s Payments: Zero Interest Loans, a Mercedes and a Tennis Sponsorship. The official secretly took $3 million in gifts from a businessman to whom he steered the organization’s funds, a court ruled. The U.N. got a song about the ocean.
• Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
• Justices Appear Receptive To Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’ At issue was how the Biden administration had interpreted a federal statute to regulate kits that could be assembled into homemade guns, skirting background checks.
• Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change. A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris with a slim lead over Donald J. Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a break from the status quo.
• Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma Has an Unusual Ally: The State’s Attorney General. Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 3,385 registered voters from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Texas. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 617 likely voters in Texas from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 2024.
• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters in Texas. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 617 likely voters in Texas from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 2024.
• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters in Florida. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 622 registered voters in Florida from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the National Likely Electorate. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 3,385 likely voters from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Florida. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 622 likely voters in Florida from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Trump Sees Antisemitism in Only One Direction: On the Left. At an event marking the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Donald Trump claimed that antisemitism existed within the Democratic Party but not the Republican Party.
• 7 Takeaways From Harris’s Interview on ‘60 Minutes’ Pressed repeatedly, Kamala Harris stayed focused on the points she wanted to make. She also spoke about owning a Glock, and Tim Walz revealed she had told him to be a “little more careful” speaking.
• That Gun Harris Told Oprah Winfrey About? It’s a Glock. “And I’ve had it for quite some time,” Vice President Kamala Harris said on “60 Minutes.”
• Protest That the University of Maryland Sought to Prevent Goes On. The school, citing safety, had said no to an event planned on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, but a judge’s ruling last week allowed it to go ahead.
• Trump Says He’s Visited Gaza, but No Record of Such a Trip Exists. An aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the former president’s trip to Israel. But Gaza is not in Israel.
• Russia, China and Iran Intend to Stoke False Election Claims, Officials Warn. Intelligence officials said that foreign adversaries were planning to take advantage of another close U.S. election to undermine trust in the country’s democratic process.
• The Price of a Mega Millions Ticket Will More Than Double to $5. Mega Millions officials said players’ odds would be increased and jackpot sizes would be bigger after the price increase next April.
• Trump’s Ugly Closing Argument. He delivers a mix of disinformation, false claims about cheating in elections and personal attacks.
• Lofty Goals Unmet, Biden Faces Limits of U.S. Clout in a Powder-Keg Region. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, the president stepped in to support Israel, counsel moderation and seek a lasting peace.
• Inside a Trump Ad Attacking Harris on Energy and the Environment. An ad in Michigan and Pennsylvania revives the vice president’s past positions on climate change and the environment.
• Washington Worries the Israelis Will Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites. But Can They? For 22 years, Israeli forces have planned for this moment. But it seems unlikely that they will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next round of retaliation, or that they would be successful without American help.

World

• Volunteers Aid Those Displaced by Israeli Attacks in Lebanon. Amid Israel’s offensive and Hezbollah’s decision to continue fighting, many have found themselves caught in the middle. In the southern coastal city of Sidon, young volunteers of diverse religious backgrounds have come together to help those affected by the conflict.
• Israeli strikes in Syria targeted a Hezbollah official involved in weapons smuggling, officials say. Missiles fired in the attack hit a residential building in a highly fortified neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus that houses embassies, according to Syria’s Defense Ministry.
• Brazil Unblocks X After Musk Backs Down. Brazil’s Supreme Court said Tuesday that Elon Musk’s social network could return in the country after a monthlong ban because the company had complied with the court’s orders.
• Israel’s Defense Minister Postpones Trip to Washington, U.S. Says. Yoav Gallant and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III were expected to discuss Israel’s response to the Iranian missile assault on Israel last week.
• Biden Excoriated Netanyahu on Israel’s Conduct in the War, Woodward Book Says. The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.
• Toronto Woman Is Accused of Murdering 3 in Serial Killings. The woman’s victims, found in a span of three days in Canada last week, included two men whom the police said she had attacked at random.
• What We Know About the Israeli Forces Fighting in Lebanon. The Israeli military has sent troops from four divisions across the border into Lebanon, but has not publicly disclosed how many.
• Russian Spies Seeking to ‘Generate Mayhem’ in Europe, MI5 Chief Says. The head of Britain’s domestic security service said Russia’s military intelligence service was pursuing “dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.”
• Netanyahu Suggests Israel Killed Likely Replacements for Hezbollah’s Leader. Hashem Safieddine had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, his cousin. It was not immediately clear who “the replacement of the replacement” was.
• Netanyahu suggests Israel killed potential replacements for Hezbollah’s leaders. Hashem Safieddine had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, his cousin. It was not immediately clear who “the replacement of the replacement” was.
• Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on central Gaza hit a home and tents, killing 12.
• France’s Government Survives a No-Confidence Vote. The outcome was not a surprise, but signals a treacherous road ahead for the country’s divided legislature.
• Inside a Field Hospital in a North Carolina Mountain Town. After Hurricane Helene hit, a group of doctors and nurses quickly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care.
• The C.I.A. director says the risk of further escalation between Israel and Iran remains.
• India’s Political Carnival Is Back in Season, With Mixed Results for Modi. Two closely watched elections, in Haryana and the turbulent Jammu and Kashmir, kept the surprises coming after this summer’s shocking national outcome.
• After Key Town Falls in Ukraine’s East, Russian Forces Push Into Another. Russian troops have now entered Toretsk, a strategic hilltop city, and are pressing with assaults elsewhere in the Donetsk region.
• Israel strikes an area south of Beirut, as Hezbollah launches another rocket barrage.
• What Is Hamas Capable of After a Year of War? The Palestinian militant group fired rockets at Israel on the anniversary of its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
• Japan Says It Manipulated a Photo of (Slightly) Unkempt Cabinet Ministers. The episode provided political fodder for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s critics and highlighted the country’s generally high standard of dress.
• A Cartel Double-Cross Turns a Mexican State Into a War Zone. An explosive deception has ripped apart one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups, the Sinaloa cartel, and ignited a war between the rival factions.
• For Many Israelis, Oct. 7 Never Ended. The Hamas-led attacks that day shattered Israelis’ faith in the state, and the year of war that followed has deepened society’s divisions. Yet many find hope in the people’s resilience.
• Here are the latest developments.
• So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies. The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive.
• Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War. Much of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel’s relentless military campaign.
• Jewish students find solace and a place to mourn with campus Hillel groups. Commemorative events marking the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel drew Jewish students at campuses around the country.
• Dueling Oct. 7 memorials reflect deep fissures among Israelis.
• New York Times reporters share stories of the war that they cannot forget.

New York

• A City Hall Official Is Charged With Witness Tampering in Mayoral Inquiry. Mohamed Bahi, who resigned Monday from the mayor’s office of community affairs, was accused of instructing witnesses to lie to federal authorities.
• Will Trump Get Jail Time? We Looked at Similar Cases to Find Out. Donald J. Trump faces sentencing on Nov. 26. The election three weeks earlier may determine not only if he returns to the presidency, but if he ends up behind bars.
• Top Deputy Mayor to Eric Adams Resigns, Intensifying Wave of Departures. Sheena Wright, the first deputy mayor of New York City, became the seventh senior leader to leave City Hall in the past few weeks, as federal investigations into the Adams administration widen.
• New York Has 7 Million Trees. Here Are 120 Great Ones. The Parks Department is releasing a list of “great trees” for the first time since 1985. The commissioner loves a willow in Brooklyn.
• An Artists’ Squat Fought New York City for Decades. Did It Just Win? ABC No Rio was a vital, dangerous and confrontational art space on the Lower East Side. Decades after it opened, it has made a deal with the city for a new building of its own.
• Why a Measure to Protect Abortion Rights in New York May Be in Trouble. The statewide ballot measure, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, has become a target for Republican opponents who have cast it as an attack on family values.
• In New York on Oct. 7, Honoring the Dead and Calling for an End to War. In the city, which is home both to the largest Jewish population outside Israel and to thousands of Palestinians, some gathered in protest and others in solemn remembrance.

Business

• Qantas Apologizes for Showing R-Rated Film With Nudity to Entire Flight. The scenes played on every screen, according to comments from social media users. The airlines has since said the movie “was clearly not suitable.”
• TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health. More than a dozen states sued TikTok on Tuesday for creating an app designed to be addictive to children and teenagers.
• How Google Was Forced to Open Up. A federal judge ordered the tech giant to let rival app stores onto its Android smartphone platform, adding to its growing list of legal headaches .
• China to Penalize European Brandy Imports, Striking Back at Car Tariffs. Beijing’s action came days after European nations moved toward tariffs on electric vehicles from China, and it included a threat to also hit pork and car imports.
• As Hurricanes Strike, Insurance Costs Soar for Commercial Real Estate. Struggling landlords and developers are seeking leeway on coverage from their lenders — mostly in vain.
• China’s Policy Reversal Sparks ‘Mind Boggling’ Stock Rally. The government has fired up investors by encouraging banks to lend more to buyers of stocks and real estate, but officials refrained on Tuesday from promising more stimulus.
• CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates. Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.

Technology

• How Does It Feel to Win a Nobel Prize? Ask the ‘Godfather of A.I.’ The computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton spoke with The Times shortly after learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Obituaries

• Greg Landry, 77, a Lion Who Was a Dual Threat. Known for his legs as well as for his arm, he was the last Detroit Lions quarterback to make the Pro Bowl for more than 40 years.
• Luis Tiant, 83, Who Baffled Hitters With an Elastic Windup, Dies. Cuban-born and charismatic, with a personal tale caught up in politics, he was a dominant hurler with a quirky windup who helped lead the Red Sox to a pennant in 1975.

Briefing

• Millions Are Fleeing Florida’s Gulf Coast Ahead of Milton. Also, the Supreme Court appeared open to limits on “ghost guns.” Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Wednesday Briefing: An Israeli Airstrike in Syria. Plus, revisiting Oppenheimer’s Communist ties.
• Federal Debt and the Election. National debt may soon exceed G.D.P. We explore the causes — and possible solutions.
• Tuesday Briefing. Israelis and Palestinians commemorate a year of loss.

Podcasts

• How NAFTA Broke American Politics. Since its passage in 1993, the trade agreement has played an outsize role in presidential elections.
• Poll Finds Harris Rising, and Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton. Plus, have we reached peak human life span?

Science

• Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists. With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said.
• Revisiting Oppenheimer’s Communist Ties. As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science was, and was not, a true Communist at the same time.
• How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nearing Earth and getting brighter.

Climate

• When a Television Meteorologist Breaks Down on Air and Admits Fear. John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.
• Our Planet’s Twin Crises. In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Record Hot Water Is Fueling Hurricane Milton. Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.
• Does My Home Have Lead Pipes? And What Can I Do About Them? New rules will require utilities to replace lead pipes nationwide. That will take time, but you can protect yourself by taking these steps.
• Utilities Must Replace Lead Pipes, E.P.A. Says. The “historic” rule aims to eliminate a major source of lead poisoning and comes a decade after a drinking-water crisis in Flint, Mich.

The Upshot

• A Florida Poll That Should Change the Way You Look at the Election. A big Trump lead in the state paradoxically adds to evidence of a smaller Electoral College edge for him. And a choice by pollsters may be causing them to miss state shifts.

Opinion

• Harris Spends an Hour in the Warm Embrace of Howard Stern. The shock jock has become a required stop for Democratic politicians.
• Harris Should Offer to Debate Trump Again — on Fox. There’s only one venue where Harris would have another opportunity to speak to 67 million people at once.
• Asheville, Tampa and Lessons From Hurricane Helene. Readers reflect on the devastation, the recovery and climate havens. Also: An ex-hostage’s plea; the women who accuse Donald Trump; a Trump rally.
• What Trump and Vance Want From Hurricane Helene. Trump has successfully trained millions of Americans to think of the truth as an obstacle to winning power.
• This Year’s October Surprise May Be That There Isn’t One. The polls are very, very stable in spite of events.
• How Biden’s Middle East Policy Fell Apart. The journalist Franklin Foer traced the Biden administration’s diplomacy in the Middle East since Oct. 7 and emerged with an “anatomy of a failure.”
• I Was a Teacher in Gaza. This Is What Haunts Me Now. Since Oct. 7, 80 percent of the schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. Mosab Abu Toha reflects on what has been lost.
• Is New York Ready to Forgive Andrew Cuomo? History has presented Mr. Cuomo with an opportunity. But it’s one that New York voters may not swallow.
• Biden’s Moral Failure in Israel. The American president promised equality. He didn’t deliver.
• Black Men Are Waiting for a Democratic Party That Delivers for Them. Democrats have spent too much time drawing symbolic distinctions with Republicans without illuminating substantive differences.
• We Can Do Better Than ‘Positive Masculinity’ It doesn’t challenge stereotypes; it reinforces them.
• ‘This Issue Is Not Going Away’: Why These Undecided Voters Are Wary of Trump. The participants discuss the vice-presidential debate and if and how it influenced their vote for president.

Arts

• Cissy Houston Saw Music’s Peaks and Life’s Valleys. The singer, who died this week, was the mother of Whitney Houston and a contender for the greatest voice of the country, our critic says.
• Is It Too Late Now to Say Sorry? 8 Songs for the High Holy Days. Apology, forgiveness, moving on: These are some of humanity’s richest themes, and they have rich songs to match.
• ‘La Máquina’ Is a Starry Mexican Boxing Drama. The Spanish-language Hulu drama, starring Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, skews more loopy and mysterious than gritty.
• Art or Trash? It Can Be a Fine Line. Two beer cans were displayed in a Dutch museum. Then they were accidentally thrown out.
• Studio Museum in Harlem to Open New Building in Fall 2025. The 82,000-square-foot structure on 125th Street will open with a show featuring the artist Tom Lloyd.
• Welcome to Mike Kelley’s World: Beautiful, Ugly, Funny and Dumb. The American artist died in 2012, but a new exhibition in London shows how his deadpan-weirdo works continue to resonate today.
• The Role of New York’s Lauded Looted Art Unit Is Challenged in Court. The fight is over an Egon Schiele drawing held by the Art Institute of Chicago that the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized as Nazi loot. But it has wider implications.
• Ali Wong Dishes on Life After Divorce. Her Real Subject Is Fame. Her gossipy portrait of singlehood as a celebrity is a sunny contrast to the darker view of her Netflix stablemate Hannah Gadsby.
• The Real Housewives Weren’t There, but Their Fans Were. At a Bravo-themed brunch, we met some devoted watchers of “Vanderpump Rules,” “Below Deck” and other staples of reality television.
• The $550 Million Question: How Does David Geffen Hall Sound? The New York Philharmonic’s home underwent an extensive renovation that was finished two years ago. But that was only the beginning of the quest for the perfect sound.
• The Quick-Witted, Self-Lacerating James Blunt Would Like a Word. Twenty years after his hit “You’re Beautiful” turned him into an overnight star, the British singer and songwriter takes his music — and his haters — to task.
• Shaker Cradles for Adults? They Rocked Frances McDormand’s Mind. A soulful exhibition curated by the actress and her friend Suzanne Bocanegra, an artist, explores caregiving and community.
• What Is the Sound of a Teardrop? You Can Hear It at MoMA. Otobong Nkanga’s installations can seem simultaneously futuristic and primordial, apocalyptic and utopian. Her latest opens at the museum this week.
• Seth Meyers: Trump Rallies Are Like an Escape Room. “Generally speaking, if you’re at an event and the host of that event keeps insisting no one is going to leave, it is time to start worrying,” Meyers said on Monday.

Books

• An Exquisite Queer Odyssey by a Literary Master. In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.
• Exposing the Violence of Empire in the Novels It Left Behind. For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.
• What Does Utopia Look Like for Black Americans? Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.
• Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way. Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.
• A Patchwork Satire of Ivory Coast, Pre- and Post-Independence. “Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.
• How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar. Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a...
• Lisa Marie Presley Makes Her Voice Heard, Once and For All. In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.

Movies

• Waiting Hours for 3 Minutes in the Criterion Closet (Well, Van). A mobile version of movie fans’ favorite stockroom drew hundreds of New York Film Festival visitors eager to experience what celebrities do in popular videos.

Food

• Acru, From the Atomix Team, Serves a Tasting Menu With an Australian Twang. Grand Army sets up shop in Threes Brewing, Ánimo! brings all-day Mexican breakfast to Midtown and more restaurant news.
• Our Book Is Here! The cover star: Melissa Clark’s five-star skillet chicken with tomatoes, pancetta and mozzarella (a.k.a. pizza chicken).

Style

• Protein, Pickles and Purists: There Are Many Ways to Drink Diet Coke. Opinions abound on how to customize the popular soda. Purists, meanwhile, will see you at McDonald’s.
• Peter Hujar’s Only Book Is Back in Print. His Friends Say It’s About Time. John Waters, Fran Lebowitz and other friends of the photographer, who died in 1987, remember an artist impatient for the recognition he’s only recently begun to receive.
• A Taste for Vibes, and Sometimes Wine. Some Gen Z-ers and young millennials say the culture and aesthetics of wine meld with their lifestyles, whether they’re drinking or not.
• Reading With My Father. A conversation through books.

Magazine

• Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated. Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.
• Grappling With the Talmud in the Midst of Crisis. What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

T Magazine

• GET DRESSED. After seasons of pared-down styles, designers are once again ready to go bold with wild prints and big-night-out gowns.

Travel

• 5 Irresistible Fall Train Trips. Why navigate crowded roads to get your fill of autumn colors when you can ride the rails and enjoy gorgeous scenery you can’t see from the highway?

Real Estate

• An Artist Who Loved the City Finds ‘Paradise’ Upstate. Take a tour of the place where Jules Feiffer said he found his “fire.”
• The Living Room Should Be for Living. Designers show us how to turn what used to be the most formal area of a home into an inviting, multipurpose space.

Health

• On Drug Prices, Harris Pushes for Deeper Cuts While Trump Offers Few Specifics. Both have campaigned for lower prescription costs. Kamala Harris has promised to expand President Biden’s policies. Donald Trump is a wild card.
• 3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds. A survey by the C.D.C. found high rates of sadness, bullying and suicide attempts among transgender and gender-questioning teenagers.
• Harris Plan Would Expand Medicare to Help Cover Home Health Care. The vice president’s health care plan is meant to help Americans who are struggling to find affordable home care for themselves or aging relatives.

Well

• How to Let People Down and Be OK With It. Setting boundaries often means disappointing others. We asked therapists for advice on how to do it — without feeling guilty.
• Her Face Was Unrecognizable After an Explosion. A Placenta Restored It. The same qualities that make placentas so valuable during pregnancy make them profoundly useful for healing burns and wounds, too. So why do we throw so many away?
• Is It Better to Eat Before a Workout or After? How you time your meals can influence your performance and recovery, experts say. Here’s what the research suggests.

Corrections

• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Crosswords & Games

• Wordle Review No. 1,208. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 486. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Give Some Lip. Justin Werfel edges toward the endgame.

The Learning Network

• Weekly Student News Quiz: V.P. Debate, Middle East, Nibi the Beaver. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• Fall Video Games. What new games are you playing?
• Word of the Day: debacle. This word has appeared in 259 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

En español

• 7 puntos clave de la entrevista de Harris en ‘60 Minutes’ Aunque fue presionada en repetidas ocasiones, Kamala Harris se mantuvo centrada en los puntos que quería tratar.
• Una encuesta en Florida ofrece otra perspectiva de las elecciones. La delantera de Trump en el estado se suma a la evidencia de una menor ventaja para él en el Colegio Electoral. Y una decisión de los encuestadores haría que pasen por alto los cambios en el estado.
• Kurt Vonnegut, diseñador de juegos de mesa. “El hombre creó el tablero de ajedrez”, escribió una vez Vonnegut. Mientras trabajaba en novelas en los años 50, creó su propio juego de mesa.
• ¿Ya estás embarazada? China presiona para aumentar su población. El gobierno intenta de nuevo inmiscuirse en las decisiones de las mujeres sobre la maternidad, haciendo visitas inesperadas y realizando llamadas con preguntas que algunas consideran muy invasivas.
• Trump siguió en contacto con Putin tras dejar la presidencia, según un nuevo libro. El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.
• A cuatro semanas de las elecciones, las encuestadoras hacen una pausa. Hasta el momento, ninguno de los candidatos tiene una ventaja significativa.
• El boleto de Mega Millions aumentará a 5 dólares, más del doble actual. Los responsables de esta lotería dijeron que las probabilidades de los jugadores aumentarían y el tamaño de los premios sería mayor tras el aumento de precio el próximo mes de abril.
• Una nueva encuesta muestra a Harris en ascenso al desafiar a Trump en materia de cambio. Un sondeo nacional de Times/Siena revela que Kamala Harris aventaja ligeramente a Donald Trump. Los votantes son más propensos a verla a ella, no a Trump, como una ruptura con el statu quo.
• Una guerra sin final. A un año de los ataques el 7 de octubre, violencia en México y otras lecturas para ponerse al día.
• Dos científicos reciben el Nobel de Física por su investigación pionera en IA. Con sus trabajos sobre el aprendizaje automático mediante redes neuronales artificiales, John Hopfield y Geoffrey Hinton “mostraron una forma completamente nueva de utilizar las computadoras”, dijo el comité.
• Culiacán, zona de guerra tras una traición en el Cártel de Sinaloa. Un engaño explosivo ha desgarrado a uno de los grupos delictivos más poderosos de México y ha desatado una guerra entre las facciones rivales.
• Milton ya entró en los libros de récords. Esto es lo que puede seguir. La tormenta se intensificó al doble de la velocidad con que crecen estos fenómenos.
• ¿Quiénes están detrás del turbio proyecto de criptomonedas de Trump? Donald Trump ha dicho que su nueva empresa, creada con dos emprendedores poco conocidos con un largo historial de demandas y deudas, ayudaría a convertir a EE. UU. en “la capital cripto del planeta”. Los expertos no están tan seguros.
• El impacto de la teoría de juegos sobre Israel, Irán y los riesgos de escalar la guerra. Cada bando debe predecir cómo reaccionará el otro para evitar destruirse mutuamente.
• Las 4 conclusiones de ‘Los hermanos Menendez’, en Netflix. El documental, basado en nuevas y extensas entrevistas con Lyle y Erik Menendez, añade nuevos matices y detalles sobre los asesinatos de sus padres y las secuelas.
• La nueva vida de Melinda French Gates: la política del aborto y Kamala Harris. Tras divorciarse de Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates pasó a disponer de miles de millones de dólares con los que podía hacer lo que quisiera. Solía insistir en parecer apartidista, pero ya no.
• En las encuestas hay dos historias distintas de las elecciones de EE. UU. Una elección metodológica ha creado trayectorias divergentes en los resultados de los sondeos. ¿Estas elecciones se parecen más a las de 2020 o a las de 2022?
• El huracán Milton se intensificó en 24 horas. Así es como pasó. Milton era una tormenta tropical el sábado por la tarde y se volvió huracán el domingo. El lunes a mediodía ya era categoría 5.
• Los discursos de Trump, cada vez más iracundos y confusos, reavivan el tema de la edad. Una revisión de sus apariciones públicas en los últimos años sugiere que los discursos del expresidente de 78 años se han vuelto menos centrados, más oscuros, hostiles, largos, furiosos, soeces y cada vez más obsesionados con el pasado.

Weather

• FEMA Chief: Hurricane Misinformation Is ‘Worst That I Have Ever Seen’ Deanne Criswell, who heads the agency, said the circulating falsehoods were hampering its work.
• Jobs and Housing Help Fuel Rapid Growth in Tampa. The region has been transformed by a number of economic and environmental factors, including its reputation for relatively few major storms.
• On Florida’s West Coast, Airports, Amusement Parks and Hotels Announce Closures. Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism organization, warned that Hurricane Milton is expected to grow and remain “extremely dangerous.” The travel industry is taking extreme precautions.
• Florida Rushes to Clear Helene Debris Before Milton Hits. Worried about flying wreckage, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the state was trying to clear as much debris from Hurricane Helene as possible before Hurricane Milton strikes.
• Fears of Hurricane Milton Drive Millions From Their Homes in Florida. More than 5.5 million people were urged to leave Florida’s western coast, one of the largest evacuations in state history. Some who have stayed for previous storms decided to go this time.
• Residents Flee Milton From Beach Towns Still Cleaning Up From Helene. A one-two punch along Florida’s Gulf Coast is confronting some residents with hard decisions, like whether to pack up for good.
• ‘Evacuate Now’: Biden Urges Floridians to Flee Hurricane Milton. President Biden called Hurricane Milton “a matter of life and death” for Florida residents.
• Mass Evacuations Clog Highways in Florida Ahead of Milton. Officials said the evacuation was likely the biggest the state has seen since Hurricane Irma in 2017, and warned residents to leave early to avoid heavy traffic.
• Milton poses an ‘extremely serious threat’ to Florida. Here’s the latest.
• Still Recovering From Helene, Florida Braces for Milton. Florida residents are preparing for Hurricane Milton while still cleaning up debris from Helene that some worry could get whipped up in strong winds.
• Milton Is Already a Storm for the Record Books. Here’s What May Come Next. The storm rapidly intensified on Monday.
• While Disney Remains Open, Other Florida Parks Announce Closures. All of the major theme parks said they were closely monitoring Hurricane Milton and would be updating their closure plans as needed.

Headway

• What We’ve Heard From Teens About the 2024 Election. Since September, the Headway team has been asking teenagers across the country for their thoughts on the election. Here’s what we’ve heard so far.
• The 10 Most Common Questions Teenagers Asked About the Election. Headway has received more than 500 questions from teens about this year’s presidential election. Here are their most frequently asked questions — and our answers.