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• Secret Tapes Reveal Nixon’s Views on Marijuana. Two years after launching the war on drugs, President Richard Nixon made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. He said that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” The remarks, captured by the former president’s secret rec...
• Nixon Started the War on Drugs. Privately, He Said Pot Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous.’ President Richard Nixon’s remarks were captured on his secret White House recording system but had eluded the notice of leading Nixon era historians until now.
• No Criminal Charges Expected in Aftermath of Maui Wildfire. Hawaii’s attorney general released the latest findings on the 2023 fire that destroyed much of the town of Lahaina, finding a range of shortcomings in the response.
• California Drug Clinic Operator Convicted in $3 Million Kickback Scheme. Casey Mahoney, 48, of Los Angeles, illegally paid “body brokers” to lure clients, a federal jury found.
• Sentence for Paramedic Convicted in Elijah McClain’s Death Is Reduced to Probation. Peter Cichuniec was sentenced in March to five years in prison. On Friday, a judge reduced the sentence because of “unusual and extenuating circumstances.”
• Earlier Investigation of School Shooting Suspect Ended Too Soon, Experts Say. The teenager charged in the Sept. 4 shooting in Georgia was questioned by the police last year about online threats. The investigator said he couldn’t determine if the teen had been the one behind them.
• Pennsylvania Court Throws Out Ruling Requiring Misdated Ballots to Count. The State Supreme Court declined to rule on the merits of the case, instead finding that the lower court lacked jurisdiction in its decision last month.
• No Charges for Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor in Trump Election Case. The decision not to indict Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was made by Pete Skandalakis, who is a veteran Georgia prosecutor and a fellow Republican.
• Activists Convicted of Conspiring to Act as Russian Agents. The four defendants were acquitted of a more serious charge of failing to register as Russian agents. The case in Florida offered a window into Russian influence operations.
• The Fight Against Three Major Wildfires in Southern California: What We Know. Weather conditions have given firefighters a better chance of preventing more damage from the blazes that have displaced tens of thousands of residents.
• End of Affirmative Action Yields Puzzling Class Data. Here is what we know about the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision curtailing race-based admissions at selective universities. And why many experts and administrators are baffled.
• Christian Conservatives Face Reality: Increasingly, They Stand Alone. As opposition to their agenda grows, especially on abortion, many conservatives are grappling with how to handle this new uncertain political world.
• Barely Escaping: Video Captures a Woman Staggering Through a California Wildfire. Officials said a battalion chief was retreating from an evacuated area when he spotted her. The woman is being treated at a burn center.
• Amid several burned properties, a market survives.
• California Man Assaulted Frontier Flight Attendants, Prosecutors Say. The violent episode resulted in an emergency landing. The man now faces federal flight interference charges.
• Is my house still there? Are my relatives safe? Fire evacuees worry, and wonder what comes next.
• Arson charges were filed in the Line fire, which has displaced thousands of people.
• Border Agents Made Decision to Confront Gunman in Uvalde, Report Finds. A report by the federal border agency on the school shooting in 2022 found that its agents lacked adequate training and authority to respond to active shooter situations.
• ‘Big Weather Break’ Gives California Firefighters the Upper Hand. Cooler temperatures and higher humidity enabled crews to gain ground on major fires in San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties.
• Rain delivers significant relief to firefighters in Oregon and Idaho.
• Georgia Judge Tosses 3 More Charges in Trump Election Interference Case. While the judge kept most of the case intact, it was a win for the defendants, who have been trying to chip away at the case.
• Harris Courts Polish American Votes in Pennsylvania. Polish Americans are an important, if politically overlooked, demographic. But in Pennsylvania, many have tended to lean Republican.
• Scenes From Southern California as Wildfires Persist. Firefighters struggled to contain three large fires threatening areas including Los Angeles and San Bernardino County.
• Residents describe harrowing escapes as fire consumed nearby homes.
• North Dakota Judge Overturns Near-Total Ban on Abortion. A judge ruled that the State Constitution protected a woman’s right to abortion until the fetus was viable. The state’s attorney general said he would appeal.
• Their School Has Yet to Reopen After a Shooting. They’re Unsure What to Expect. The 1,900 students at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., were just settling into the rhythms of a new year before a shooter killed two teachers and two students.
• Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Spied for China Is Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison. The former officer, who also worked as a contract translator for the F.B.I., provided classified documents to Beijing.
• Francine Leaves Behind Flooding and Power Outages in Louisiana. The storm made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday before weakening overnight into a tropical depression.
• DeSantis Digs In Over Abortion Referendum. Florida’s governor has come under fire from critics who say he is using state resources to work against a proposed abortion-rights amendment to the state Constitution.
• Missouri Judge Rejects Innocence Claim by Man on Death Row. Marcellus Williams, who was convicted in a 1998 killing, now faces execution later this month.
• Earthquake Rattles Coastal Area Near Los Angeles. Preliminary estimates said a 4.7-magnitude temblor was centered near Malibu. The authorities were determining whether there was any significant damage.
• Map: 4.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Los Angeles. View the quake’s shake area and aftershocks.
• Jon Bon Jovi Helps Woman Off Ledge of Bridge. The singer, who was filming a music video nearby, helped coax a woman to safety in Nashville.
• Forecast of Cooler Weather Offers Relief to Firefighters Battling Blazes in the West. In California, the fires have displaced tens of thousands of people, charred more than 100,000 acres and strained the state’s resources.
• How Colleges Are Changing Their Rules on Protesting. Ahead of a new school year, colleges across the country have adopted a wave of new rules around protest and speech.
• Man Charged With Drugging and Raping Women He Met Online. The man, Andrew J. Gallo, 40, of Bristol Township, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, is accused of raping or sexually assaulting six women he met on dating sites.
• Officers Beat Tyre Nichols as ‘Run Tax’ for Trying to Flee, Prosecutors Say. Federal prosecutors began their case against three former Memphis police officers with an explosive accusation, while defense lawyers said that the officers had acted in line with their training.
• French Ship That Sank in 1856 Disaster Is Found Off Massachusetts Coast. Le Lyonnais was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean about 140 miles east of Nantucket, Mass. More than 100 died after the French passenger steamship sank.
• Prison Where Capote Interviewed Killers for ‘In Cold Blood’ Will Open to Tourists. The historical society in Lansing, Kan., hopes to attract visitors to the city of about 11,000 residents by welcoming visitors to the former Kansas State Penitentiary.
• In Rhetoric Over Abortion, A Misleading Phrase Jolts. During the debate, the former president used the phrase “execute the baby” to attack Kamala Harris for her support of abortion rights.
• Russia Wields North Korean Arms. Russia has received new shipments of Hwasong-11 short-range ballistic missiles, according to a new report.
• Black Students Enter Harvard At Lower Rate. Defying expectations, a Supreme Court decision curtailing race-based admissions still had a relatively small impact at some highly selective schools like Harvard, even as other schools saw big changes.
• Grieving Father Tells Trump and Vance to Stop Talking About His Son. Nathan Clark says the candidates are exploiting his son’s death in a crash caused by an immigrant outside the small city of Springfield. “This needs to stop now.”
• Wildfires Burn Dozens of Homes in California. Three fires in Southern California exploded in size overnight, and the authorities arrested a man suspected of starting one of them. Large blazes continued to burn in Oregon and Idaho.
• Swift’s Endorsement of Harris Wasn’t a Surprise, but Its Timing Was. Her Instagram post backing the vice president came shortly after Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump had stepped off the debate stage.
• Lawyer Wins Democratic Primary in New Hampshire’s Second District. Maggie Goodlander, who has deep Washington ties, edged out Colin Van Ostern, who unsuccessfully ran for New Hampshire governor in 2016.
• Inmate’s Wife Subjected to Cavity Search Will Get $5.6 Million in Settlement. Christina Cardenas of California was subjected to the search after going to visit her husband at a state prison in 2019, according to her lawsuit. “It left me traumatized,” she said.
• Illinois Man Wrongly Convicted of 2008 Murder Is Awarded $50 Million. Marcel Brown, 34, spent nearly 10 years in prison after he was coerced into making a false confession in connection to a 2008 murder, a jury decided Monday.
• A Weather Change Could Spark New Wildfires, Then Help Contain Them. A system that will bring a beneficial shift in temperatures and humidity to California later in the week could first drive winds that send sparks into dangerously dry undergrowth.
• Ballot Issue On Abortion Is Restored In Missouri. The court ruled hours before the state’s deadline for printing ballots for absentee voters, reversing the secretary of state who had invalidated the measure weeks after certifying it.
• Maps: Tracking the Wildfires Around Los Angeles. Here’s a look at where fires are burning and where smoke is expected.
• Fires Near Los Angeles May Intensify Before They Are Contained. Mountainous terrain, dry weather and winds are making it difficult to fight the wildfires threatening communities near Los Angeles.
• Here’s what to know about the fires.
• An Orange County Leader Is Facing Federal Scrutiny Over Covid Aid Spending. Andrew Do, an Orange County supervisor, has been asked to resign after directing more than $13 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter and allies. The group was supposed to spend the money on meals for vulnerable residents.
• Trump Wants to Shut Down the Department of Education. Is That Possible? Donald Trump has argued he would use the department to further his priorities — or close it. But the agency has relatively limited power, and any plan to shutter it would face major hurdles.
• Rancher’s Tree Ambitions Cost Utah Taxpayers. The state footed a big bill for the owner of a hunting retreat to knock down trees on his and nearby properties. He made big environmental promises, but the science was lacking.
• Man Dies During River Trip in the Grand Canyon. His death is the seventh reported in Grand Canyon National Park since July 31.
• Wildfire Erupts in Orange County, Forcing Evacuations. A small brush fire in Southern California quickly grew to over 5,000 acres, threatening nearby suburban neighborhoods.
• 2 Charged With Inciting Violence and Promoting Hate Crimes Around the World. Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison are accused of soliciting hate crimes through the terrorist network they led on the platform Telegram, according to federal prosecutors.
• Police Incident With Dolphins Star Escalated Quickly, Video Shows. Body camera footage showed an officer pulling Tyreek Hill out of his car on Sunday after repeatedly ordering him to keep the window down during a traffic stop, apparently for speeding.
• Walt Ehmer, Former Waffle House C.E.O., Dies at 58. Mr. Ehmer steered the diner chain through the pandemic and preached spending more time in one of his 24-hour restaurants than in his office.
• Evacuations Ordered as Wildfire Spreads in Southern California. The Line fire has burned more than 20,500 acres in San Bernardino County since it started on Sept. 5, California officials said.
• The Trade-Off for Mountain Tranquillity in California? Increasing Fire Risk. Many Southern Californians have moved to San Bernardino County for more affordable homes and calmer lifestyles, but some also face disaster risks.
• Manhunt Continues for Highway Shooting Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder. At least seven counties in southeastern Kentucky closed schools on Monday as the authorities continued to comb a remote region of the state.
• Springsteen’s Wife Reveals Diagnosis. Ms. Scialfa, 71, revealed she was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2018, which has curtailed her appearances onstage with the E Street Band.
• Long Prison Terms Deserve Second Look and ‘a Little Humanity,’ Judge Argues. In a new book, Judge Frederic Block, who has served for decades, urged courts to vindicate the promise of the First Step Act, which lets prisoners ask for compassionate release from their sentences.
• For Mormon Church Leader, Now 100, ‘Time Marches On’ Russell M. Nelson is older than the pope and the Dalai Lama. But serving as president in one’s 11th decade comes with challenges.
• He Is an Anti-Trafficking Hero. Women Share a Different Story. Tim Ballard’s work on sex trafficking became the basis of the hit movie “Sound of Freedom.” But a series of women, in lawsuits and interviews, have accused him of being a sex predator.
• Hollywood Bowl Cancels Show as Heat Wave Knocks Out Power. One power supplier said its systems had been overloaded by the prolonged high temperatures. Excess heat warnings remain in place for more than 17 million people in California and Arizona.
• Officers on Trial as Memphis Fights State G.O.P. As three police officers face a federal trial, the city is embroiled in a standoff with state Republican leaders over its policing and public safety policies.
• ‘Trump Train’ Encounter With Biden Bus in 2020 Goes to Trial in Texas. A federal civil jury will consider the fast-moving confrontation on a Texas highway between President Trump’s supporters and a Biden bus just before Election Day in 2020.
• Typhoon Weakens After Killing 49 in Vietnam. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression after churning across the country’s north. It left at least 24 dead in China and the Philippines last week.
• In a Grief-Stricken Georgia City, Seeking Solace, and Answers. As residents in Winder, Ga., consoled one another, questions rose about whether more could have been done to prevent the attack.
• Republicans Aim to Tie Funding of Government To a Divisive Voting Issue. Clashes over both the duration of a stopgap bill and whether it should include a noncitizen voting measure demanded by the G.O.P. could force a government shutdown at the end of the month.
• North Carolina Governor’s Race Showcases a Deep Divide. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican, could cement North Carolina as a conservative state if he wins. Democrats hope his incendiary style moves swing voters to their candidate, Josh Stein.
• From a Gym Floor, A Migrant Family Builds a Better Life. Margarita Solito and her family fled violence and poverty in El Salvador, hoping to build a better life in San Francisco. The city often wasn’t what they thought it would be.
• Fast-Spreading Wildfire in Southern California Forces Evacuations. The Line fire more than quadrupled in size over the weekend, leading to evacuation orders for more than 11,000 people and threatening thousands of structures.
• Mother of Boy Held in Georgia Called School Before Attack. The mother told relatives she reached out to the school on Wednesday morning, warning of an emergency, the suspect’s aunt said Saturday.
• Gunman Who Wounded 5 on a Kentucky Highway Remains At Large. Investigators said they paused their ground search for the suspect, Joseph A. Couch, who shot at and hit 12 vehicles from a cliff ledge on Saturday evening.
• Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Egg Recall by Wisconsin Farm. Officials said 65 people in nine states have been infected in the outbreak, which has been traced to an egg farm. No deaths have been reported.
• Dozens Fall Ill on Hawaii Hiking Trail in ‘Concerning’ Outbreak of Norovirus. Four people tested positive for the virus, which causes a highly contagious gastrointestinal illness, officials said. The trail could remain closed until at least Sept. 19.

Elections

• In Politically Divided America, Even the Walz Family Has Painful Rifts. Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has lamented the angry splits within families over politics. But he and his Republican brother rarely speak.
• How Stump Speeches by Harris and Trump Differ (and Don’t). An examination of a month’s worth of rally speeches revealed sharp contrasts in how closely the candidates stick to the script — and the facts.
• What Taylor Swift’s Endorsement Means for Kamala Harris. Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president shortly after her fierce debate with former President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Writing on Instagram, where she has hundreds of millions of followers, Ms. Swift encouraged her fans to do their own r...
• A New York Guy Basks in Warmth, Despite a Chill in the Air. On 9/11, firefighters greeted the former president with high fives and hugs. But across the street, other New Yorkers were icy.
• Harris Put Trump on Defense at the Presidential Debate. Vice President Kamala Harris baited traps for Donald J. Trump in their debate on Tuesday night — and he walked right into them, spinning into conspiracy theories. But did she say enough about her plans? Jonathan Weisman, a politics reporter for Th...
• Trump and Harris Clash in a Fiery Presidential Debate. In their first face-to-face meeting, Kamala Harris put Donald Trump on the defensive as the former president tried to tie her to unpopular Biden administration policies.
• Tracking Attacks in the First Harris-Trump Debate. See how the candidates used their speaking time to discuss the issues or criticize their opponent.
• Melania Trump, Silent for Months, Re-emerges in a Series of Cryptic Videos. In one, released online on Tuesday, she muses conspiratorially about the attempt on her husband’s life. The videos are intended to promote a new memoir.
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• Our Reporter on How Trump Is Preparing for the Debate. Ahead of Donald J. Trump’s debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Jonathan Swan, a senior political correspondent for The New York Times, learned how Mr. Trump is preparing.
• New Trump Photo Book Is Filled With Boasting, Cattiness and a Threat. “Save America” is the third coffee table book from the former president since 2021. Ten pages are given over to pictures of him with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator.
• Kamala Harris’s Key Moments in Debates. What are Vice President Kamala Harris’s strengths and weaknesses as a debater? Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, looks at moments in previous debates as Ms. Harris prepares for her high-stakes debate with Donal...

Politics

• In Pennsylvania, Wary Voters Wonder if Harris Can Deliver. Economic issues including soaring rents, student loan debt, supply chain issues and a stagnant minimum wage are on their minds.
• Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
• Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About Jan. 6. Trump Can’t Help Himself. Donald J. Trump has made his revisionist account of the Capitol attack the foundation of this campaign, even when there is little political advantage.
• A Georgia Work Program Previews How Trump Could Reshape Medicaid. The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
• Trump Sticks to His Favorite Jabs at Rally in Las Vegas. The former president meandered over 80 minutes from complaints about Tuesday’s debate to elevating baseless claims that have circulated on right-wing social media.
• Sweeping Iraq Raid Killed 4 ISIS Leaders. The U.S. military said those killed in a joint assault by U.S. and Iraqi forces last month included the group’s top commander in Iraq and its leading bomb maker.
• Who Is Laura Loomer, the Far-Right Activist Who Traveled With Trump? After fellow Republicans criticized her appearance on the trail, noting her history of offensive remarks, former President Donald J. Trump praised her but later said he disagreed with some of her statements.
• Trump Threatens to Cut Wildfire Aid if California Doesn’t Deliver More Water. Gov. Gavin Newsom said all Americans should be alarmed that the former president wants to “block emergency disaster funds to settle political vendettas.”
• Meeting With U.S., U.K. Hints at Ukraine Weapon Decision. As the president deliberated with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the question of whether to let Ukraine use long-range weapons in Russia was a rare point of contention between allied nations.
• Biden Is No Longer Front and Center — and It’s Liberating to Him. Since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, attention has focused away from the president.
• Trump Pledges to Start Migrant Deportations in Ohio and Colorado. The former president has repeatedly leveled baseless and exaggerated claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo.
• Biden Briefly Put on a Trump Hat, and MAGA World Flipped Its Lid. Joking around with a Trump supporter at a Sept. 11 event this week, the president put on a “Trump 2024” hat for a few seconds. The pictures took on a life of their own.
• Trump Claims Ignorance of Laura Loomer’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theories. After commemorating Sept. 11 with a far-right activist who has called the attacks an “inside job,” former President Donald J. Trump said he was unaware of her remarks.
• Harris Visits Red Areas of Pennsylvania, Hoping to Cut Into Trump’s Edge. The vice president, who appeared in Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre, pledged to remove “unnecessary degree requirements” for some federal jobs, aiming to compete in conservative-leaning areas.
• Vance’s Plan Would Let Russia Keep Ukraine Land. Former President Donald J. Trump would tell the Russians, Ukrainians and Europeans to “figure out what a peaceful settlement looks like,” Senator JD Vance, his running mate, says.
• Mormons in Arizona Rethink Ties to Trump. Traditionally Republican members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints balked at Donald Trump in 2020, helping Joe Biden win a key swing state. Will they do so with Kamala Harris?
• U.S. Accuses Russian TV Network of Conducting Covert Intelligence Acts. Sanctions announced on Friday are an effort to undercut RT by making it difficult for the network to conduct global business in dollars.
• The Debate Over Debates Is Over, at Least for Now. Donald Trump’s rejection of a second meeting with Kamala Harris may or may not be final. But it could complicate his effort to portray her as ducking tough questions.
• Bomb Threats and the F.B.I.: Springfield Disrupted by Trump’s False Migrants Claim. Springfield, Ohio, is caught in the middle of the nation’s political wars after former President Donald J. Trump made a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants and pets.
• How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power. The group has abused hostages and Palestinians in its efforts to maintain control of Gaza and wage an insurgent war.
• Harris drops a new ad aimed at Latinos in Pennsylvania. The state is one of a handful of battlegrounds where a small margin of victory could make all the difference in November.
• Where Voters Will Decide on Abortion in November. Ten states could expand abortion rights via ballot measures. Nebraska will also vote on proposed restrictions.
• Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take Awhile. More Americans are using mail-in ballots, which take longer to count than those cast in person. In several battleground states, a winner may not be apparent on Nov. 5.
• Biden Administration Ratchets Up Tariffs on Chinese Goods. The administration moved to block off a popular tariff-free path for Chinese apparel coming into the United States, and added stiff levies on electric vehicles, solar panels and other products.
• When Political Memes Take on a Lie of Their Own. As campaigns increasingly communicate via meme, cat videos are outranking reality.
• Harris and Trump’s Campaign Speaking Styles Compared. An examination of a month’s worth of rally speeches revealed sharp contrasts in how closely the candidates stick to the script — and the facts.
• Laura Loomer, a Social-Media Instigator, Is Back at Trump’s Side. The former president’s decision to elevate Laura Loomer, a far-right activist known for racist and homophobic posts online, has stunned even some Trump allies.
• Trump Defends Debate Performance and Calls for Ending Tax on Overtime. Speaking at an event in Tucson, Ariz., former President Donald J. Trump called for eliminating taxes on overtime pay as he declared Tuesday’s debate a “monumental victory” for him.
• The First Votes Will Soon Be Cast. As campaigns shift from persuading voters to turning them out, mail voting is in the spotlight.
• Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan. An ad campaign in the state, funded by a group that appears tied to Republicans, seems intended to remind Muslim voters of Kamala Harris’s pro-Israel views and her husband’s Jewish faith.
• New Hampshire Tightens Requirements for Voters. The law adds the need for photo identification to cast a ballot and demands that first-time voters show proof of citizenship. The law does not take effect until after the November elections.
• Harris Challenges Trump to Debate Again as She Rallies in North Carolina. At her first big events since this week’s debate, the vice president said “we owe it to the voters” to have another. Shortly beforehand, Donald Trump had said he would not participate in one.
• The Long List of Moderators Trump Has Called Unfair After Tough Debates. The former president has a habit of working the referees before debates, and then complaining about them if things don’t go as he hoped.
• Attorney General Warns Against Politicizing the Justice Department. Merrick Garland told the department’s staff that there “is not one rule for friends and another for foes,” amid threats from former President Donald Trump to go after enemies if he is elected.
• Justice Dept. Official Calls Election Meddling a ‘Clear and Present Danger’ The head of the department’s national security division amplified warnings that other countries were seeking to sway the outcome in November, including Russia’s efforts to help Donald Trump.
• Justice Dept. Charges Two Men in Jan. 6 Assault on Times Photographer. The pair, brothers, were charged with stealing the photographer’s camera, assault with the intent to commit a felony and entering the Capitol unlawfully.
• Biden Is Poised To Clear Strikes Deep in Russia. The topic will be on the agenda Friday as Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, visits the White House.
• Early Voting Is Beginning in These States. Here’s What to Know. Which states do early voting, and when does it start?
• In a Post on His Social Media Site, Trump Says He Will Not Debate Harris Again. His declaration follows a debate performance on Tuesday that was widely criticized. He has gone back and forth before about whether to participate in debates.
• Familiar Dilemma for the House Speaker. The House speaker faces a choice of cutting a deal with Democrats or bowing to conservatives and Donald Trump and shutting down the government just before the election.
• $47 Million Flowed Into Harris Campaign in 24 Hours After Debate. The sum included donations from 600,000 individuals. Vice President Kamala Harris already had a significant financial edge over former President Donald J. Trump entering September.
• In Fight for Congress, Democrats Run as ‘Team Normal,’ Casting G.O.P. as ‘Weird’ In competitive districts, Democratic congressional candidates have pivoted from portraying Republicans as dangerous and extreme to ridiculing them as too odd to support.
• Taylor Swift’s Call to Vote Sent Hundreds of Thousands to Registration Tools. Three organizations that provide clearinghouse voting resources had traffic spikes coinciding with Ms. Swift’s post urging her fans to cast a ballot.
• Israeli Commandos Destroyed Facility For Hezbollah Missiles in Syria Raid. The missile production facility was destroyed in the attack, according to Western officials. Syrian state media reported that 18 people were killed in the strike.
• After Bomb Threats and Political Vitriol, Ohio Mayor Says Enough. Springfield, which has attracted thousands of Haitians, has been at the center of a fiery immigration debate and baseless rumors amplified by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.
• Linda Ronstadt Criticizes Trump Before He Appears at Venue Named for Her. The singer denounced the former president, singling out the impact of his administration’s family separations policy in Arizona, and endorsed Kamala Harris.
• Why House Republicans Are Targeting China Now. The G.O.P. pushed through an array of legislation to get tough on China, seeking to persuade voters that they are the party that will protect Americans from economic and military threats from Beijing.
• Harris Targets One County as Key to Taking North Carolina. For 16 years, the state has been a heartbreaker for Democrats, and so has Mecklenburg County — a reliably blue area that just hasn’t been blue enough.
• Corporate Tax Aimed at Closing ‘Loopholes’ Leaves Gaps. The Treasury Department estimates that a new law requiring big companies to pay a 15 percent tax will raise $250 billion from large corporations over the next 10 years.
• Absentee Ballots Are Mailed in Alabama, the First State to Send Them Out. Mail ballots in North Carolina are also set to go out soon. In-person voting is set to start next week in parts of Pennsylvania and in Virginia.
• With Debate Success In Rear View, Harris Faces ‘Game of Inches’ Her campaign is riding high, but still sees the race as an exceedingly close grind. Her aides have new hopes of focusing the race squarely on Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
• U.S. to Waive Requirements For Egypt Aid. Cairo will receive its full military aid allotment of $1.3 billion after the secretary of state also said it had made progress on releasing political prisoners and protecting Americans.
• Certification of Election Will Get Extra Security to Try to Prevent Another Capitol Attack. The Homeland Security Department approved adding federal, state and local resources to help protect the counting of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2025.
• Debate Puts Trump’s Affinity for Putin Back in the Spotlight. The former president’s refusal to back Ukraine’s war effort showed the likely limits of U.S. support for Kyiv if he returns to the White House.
• Trump Crows About Debate Performance, but Actions Speak Louder. Donald J. Trump’s aggressive spinning of his debate performance suggested he knew it was suboptimal, and left aides considering how to move ahead with eight weeks to go.
• Is Donald Trump Too Emotional for This? Kamala Harris sought to rattle Trump — and flip a gender dynamic on its head.
• At Debate, Trump Was Quick to Bring Up the Migrant Crisis, and to Place Blame. Former President Donald J. Trump has long tried to stoke fear about immigration. Now, he’s doubling down as the presidential race heats up.
• Top Election Officials Warn Postal Service of Mail Ballot Issues. Democratic and Republican secretaries of state highlighted incidents of voters being disenfranchised by ballots not being delivered on time.
• Trump’s False Tale of Immigrants’ Eating Pets Draws Pushback and Derision. The city manager in Springfield, Ohio, said it was disappointing that the presidential race was amplifying a bizarre narrative about the city’s immigrants.
• Fact check: Trump misled about a Russian pipeline during the debate. The former president asserted that he had stopped a pipeline and that President Biden “put it back on Day 1.”
• Online Legions for Trump and Harris Clash, Wielding Images of Cats and Aliens. Supporters of Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris are taking the debate’s spiciest moments for inspiration in memes, video reels and fake photos.
• Trump Undermines Vance on Abortion Ban Veto: ‘I Didn’t Discuss It With JD’ Scrambling to shelter himself on abortion, Donald J. Trump disavowed his running mate’s pledge that, if re-elected, the former president would veto a national abortion ban.
• With Obamacare in Favor, Trump’s Alternative Is Now Just ‘Concepts of a Plan’ Former President Donald J. Trump once promised to replace Obamacare with “something terrific.” But as the 2010 law has become more popular, he has sounded less confident about a repeal.
• Temporary Truce as Politicians Mark a Somber Anniversary. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump joined President Biden and other dignitaries in a daylong journey to sites of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
• How Taylor Swift Surprised Harris, and Entered a New Political Era. The pop star capped a big night for Kamala Harris with an unexpectedly timed endorsement that could draw in more young voters. Ms. Swift’s political message, too, was newly direct and personal.
• Debate May Widen the Money Gap Between Harris and Trump. Large donors to former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign expressed concern after his performance. The Democrats raised big money in the hours after the debate.
• Democratic Swifties are ecstatic (even in a swing state where she didn’t tour).
• House Speaker Drops Vote On Stopgap Spending Bill. The scuttling of the six-month stopgap measure, which includes a requirement to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, sets back Republicans’ plan to avert a government shutdown.
• Trump Dismisses Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Harris. “She’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace,” the former president said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” regarding the pop star, who backed Biden in 2020.
• Ohio Dad Asks Trump Ticket to Stop Using Son’s Death for ‘Political Gain’ Aiden Clark was killed when an immigrant’s minivan crashed into a school bus he was travelling in last year.
• After Debate, Harris and Trump Shake Hands at Sept. 11 Memorial. The morning after their first face-to-face meeting, the two candidates attended a ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks. Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to say “thank you” to her rival.
• To Trump, U.S. Is Failing. To Harris, There’s Hope. Former President Donald J. Trump is gambling that Americans are as angry as he is, while Vice President Kamala Harris hopes voters are exhausted by the Trump era and ready to move on.
• Trump Assails ABC, but He’s Not Thrilled With Fox News, Either. The former president played media critic during a Wednesday morning interview on “Fox & Friends.”
• Will There Be Another Debate? Trump Isn’t Sure. The former president suggested immediately after the debate and in a call-in to Fox News on Wednesday morning that he was not inclined to agree to another.
• Trump Media Loses Value as Its Stock Nose-Dives After a Presidential Debate. Shares of the parent company of Truth Social, which have traded like a proxy for former President Donald Trump’s election prospects, set a new low for the year.
• Asked if He Wants Ukraine to Defeat Russia, Trump Doesn’t Say Yes. At Tuesday’s debate, Mr. Trump repeated his claim that he can end the war and refused to say if defending Ukraine was in America’s national security interests.
• Defense Secretary’s Decision Might Not Mean End of Plea Deal in 9/11 Case. How the latest controversy in the long-running death-penalty case at Guantánamo Bay could play out.
• Voters on Fence May Not Be Ready To Take the Leap. Voters said the vice president talked about a sweeping vision to fix the country’s most stubborn problems. But they wanted the fine print.
• Trump Paints Dark Picture in Scattered Performance. Former President Donald J. Trump offered a dire portrait of America, often relying on false and debunked claims as he described “a failing nation.”
• In Debate With Trump, Harris’s Expressions Were a Weapon. Tuesday’s debate was expected to center on defining Kamala Harris. Instead, with words and with body language, she turned it into a referendum on Donald Trump.
• As Trump Links Her to Biden, Harris Says, ‘You’re Running Against Me’ Vice President Kamala Harris largely deflected former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to tie her to President Biden.
• Harris Dominates as Trump Gets Defensive: 6 Takeaways From the Debate. Laying out bait that Donald Trump eagerly snatched, the vice president owned much of the night, keeping him on the back foot and avoiding sustained attention on her own vulnerabilities.
• Harris Put Trump on Defense Over Abortion — and Kept Him There. For Trump, anger seemed to be the feeling of the night.
• Who Won the Debate? A Sharp Harris Rattled Trump. Commentators, even Republicans, concluded that Kamala Harris had succeeded in provoking Donald Trump into veering off message.
• Best, Worst and Most Surprising Lines From the Presidential Debate. Kamala Harris reminded viewers she owns a gun. Donald Trump repeated a debunked internet rumor about immigrants eating cats.
• Trump Walked Into the Media ‘Spin Room’ Himself After the Debate. It was an unusual move for a presidential candidate.
• The Moment Trump Couldn’t Resist Bungling. A four-minute stretch, in which the former president wandered from crowd sizes to cat conspiracy theories, seemed to alter the evening’s trajectory.
• Fox News hosts decide who lost the debate: ABC News.
• After Questioning Harris’s Race, Trump Tries to Walk It Back at Debate. Donald J. Trump tried to soften his claim that Vice President Kamala Harris had changed her racial identity. She called his divisive remarks a ‘tragedy.’
• Rep. Joe Wilson Is Hospitalized. Mr. Wilson, 77, a Republican running for re-election in South Carolina, “experienced stroke-like symptoms,” his son said.
• “This business about taking everyone’s guns away — Tim Walz and I are both gun owners.”
• Yes, Kamala Harris Owns a Handgun. In rebutting a claim from former President Donald J. Trump during their debate, the vice president asserted that she owned a gun, adding, “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”
• “When Donald Trump was president, 60 times he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act — 60 times.”
• “He lost manufacturing jobs.”
• “We have created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs.”
• “I had a choice to make” on Obamacare. “Do I save it and make it as good as it can be? Or do I let it rot? And I saved it. I did the right thing.”
• “All I can say is I read where she was not Black. That she put out. And I’ll say that and then I read that she was Black, and that’s OK. Either one was OK with me.”
• “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.”
• “Over the last four years, we have invested $1 trillion in a clean energy economy.”
• “Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”
• “For years we were paying almost all of NATO. We were being ripped off by European nations, both on trade and on NATO. I got them to pay up.”
• “They sent her in to negotiate with Zelensky and Putin, and she did, and the war started three days later.”
• Trump Ties Harris Critically to Her Father, a Professor Who Studied Marxism. Donald J. Trump called Kamala Harris a “Marxist” because her father taught the subject at Stanford University, though she has repeatedly made clear that she supports capitalism.
• ‘They’re Eating the Cats’: Trump Repeats False Claim About Immigrants. Donald J. Trump amplified an outlandish internet theory from the debate stage, drawing laughter from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
• Biden “ended the XL pipeline, the XL pipeline in our country. He ended that.”
• “A lot of these illegal immigrants coming in —” Democrats are “trying to get them to vote.”
• I “have built it into many, many billions of dollars; many, many billions.”
• “She wouldn’t even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech. She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers.”
• “Putin endorsed her last week, said, ‘I hope she wins.’”
• “Crime here is up and through the roof.”
• All of Trump’s legal challenges to the outcome of the 2020 election were dismissed on “technicalities” or the basis of “standing.”
• “Every one of those cases was started by them against their political opponent.”
• Harris Blames Trump for State Abortion Bans in Contentious Debate. Vice President Kamala Harris went on offense over abortion policy. “The government and Donald Trump, certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” she said.
• “And when she ran, she was the first one to leave because she failed” in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
• Harris appears more interested in talking to voters than battling Trump.
• “Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a blood bath if this, and the outcome of this election, is not to his liking.”
• “I had nothing to do” with Jan. 6.
• “We had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history, because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over-rely on foreign oil.”
• “The Trump administration resulted in a trade deficit — one of the highest we’ve ever seen in the history of America.”
• “She went out in Minnesota and wanted to let criminals that killed people, that burned down Minneapolis.”
• “Remember that she was the border czar. She doesn’t want to be called the border czar because she’s embarrassed by the border.”
• “By the way, Joe Biden was found essentially guilty on the documents case.”
• “Her vice-presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth. It’s execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born is, OK, and that’s not OK with me.” “Her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth. It’s execution, no longer abortion because the baby is born is okay and that’s not okay with me.”
• “And as far as the abortion ban, no, I’m not in favor of abortion ban.”
• “Fracking? She’s been against it for 12 years.”
• “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
• “We made ventilators for the entire world.”
• “People give me credit for rebuilding the military.”
• “I have nothing to do with Project 2025.”
• “We handed them over a country where the economy and with — the stock market was higher than it was before the pandemic came in. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”
• “Every legal scholar — every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative — they all wanted” abortion policy “to be brought back to the states.”
• Immigrants are “coming in and they’re taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans.”
• Immigrants are “taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently.”
• “She’s a Marxist. Everybody knows she’s a Marxist.”
• “The only jobs they got were bounce-back jobs.”
• “We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. Probably the worst in our nation’s history: We were at 21 percent.”
• “Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.”
• “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums.”
• Biden celebrates his granddaughter’s birthday in New York before the Trump-Harris debate.
• Trump mocked Harris’s height, but her fans see a certain stature.
• Here Are Some of the Prominent Surrogates at the Debate Site. Anthony Scaramucci and Tulsi Gabbard are there. But you might be surprised which candidate they’re supporting.
• Harris’s stop at a spice shop in Pittsburgh left some feeling salty.
• The Optimism and Anxiety Ahead of Tonight’s Debate. I asked again how you’re feeling about the debate. You responded with new worries and hopes.
• Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Oprah and other celebrities pitch in for Harris.
• Trump and Harris will face off in Pennsylvania, which looks increasingly crucial.
• ‘Flip-Flop’ or Evolution: Trump and Harris and Their Reversals on Issues. Kamala Harris has backed away from some progressive positions she took in the 2020 primaries. Donald Trump has changed his stripes on a host of issues big and small, sometimes repeatedly.
• Kamala Harris Visited a Spice Shop. Her Critics Flooded Yelp With Bad Reviews. Penzeys, a chain of spice stores in more than 20 states, has frequently criticized Republicans.
• Harris’s challenge: Pushing ahead without leaving Biden behind.
• Five climate questions for the candidates.
• Event to Honor Fallen Troops Comes With Whiff of Politics. Leaders awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the families of 13 military service members killed during the evacuation, as Republicans seek to use the attack to tarnish Vice President Kamala Harris.
• Sovereign Wealth Fund For the United States? Easier Said Than Done. Donald Trump has suggested he wants one, and the White House indicated that it has been quietly working on a proposal to set one up.
• Harris Ad Features Obama’s Oblique Joke About Trump. The spot, which focuses on Barack Obama’s remark about a “weird obsession with crowd sizes” and accompanying gesture, is airing in media markets where Donald Trump is likely to be.
• Here’s how Trump has used debates to belittle women.
• Gunman Who Shot Trump Was Not Spotted as Early as Reported. A law enforcement officer at the rally where the former president was shot now says he misidentified a man he saw earlier that day as Thomas Crooks.
• Experts Say Trump Is Making Promises About Economy That He Can’t Keep. Economists and analysts are dubious of Trump’s promises to slash gas prices or prod interest rates lower.
• Here Are the Key Debate Attacks to Expect. Hint: It May Get Personal. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have never met, and may not meet again onstage during this campaign. Tonight they have a huge, fleeting spotlight to change how voters see their rival.
• JD Vance Appears to Backtrack on False Claim About Haitian Migrants in Ohio. The Republican vice-presidential nominee acknowledged that an outlandish claim he had amplified about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets could “turn out to be false.”
• Johnson’s Spending Plan Falters as Both Parties Balk. The speaker’s first effort to avert a government shutdown ran into a buzz saw of opposition from both far-right and mainstream Republicans.
• Harris Economic Plan Aims Focus on Prices, A Major Vulnerability. Vice President Kamala Harris has been balancing the challenges of defending “Bidenomics” and charting her own course on the economy.
• The Rules for the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate on ABC. The campaigns agreed to the same guidelines that were used in June, when former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden faced off.
• The candidates will square off at 9 p.m. Eastern. Here’s the latest.
• Almost 50 Million Americans Have Had an Obamacare Plan Since 2014. The Biden administration released data showing roughly one in seven U.S. residents had been covered by the Affordable Care Act at some point over the past decade.
• Trump Embraces Tariffs as a Cure For Wider Needs. The former president has proposed using tariffs to fund child care, boost manufacturing, quell immigration and encourage use of the dollar. Economists are skeptical.
• ‘I’m Speaking’: What Harris’s Top Debate Moments Could Tell Us About Tonight. In 2019, she attacked Joe Biden and was rattled by Tulsi Gabbard. In 2020, she cut off Mike Pence as he interrupted her. On Tuesday, some of the same strategies and weak points may come into play.
• Conservative Princess Says Alito and His Wife Paid Visit to Her Castle. Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis said Justice Alito and his wife were guests at St. Emmeram Palace for a summer music festival. She called the couple her “friends” and the justice “a hero.”
• Where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Stand on the Issues. Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.
• Trump Paints His Foes As Due for Punishment. The former president is vowing to prosecute those he sees as working to deny him a victory, while laying the groundwork to claim large-scale voter fraud if he loses.
• I Rewatched the Trump-Clinton Debates So You Don’t Have to. In 2016, Trump used sexist attacks to turn his opponent’s perceived strengths into weaknesses.
• White House Says G.O.P.’s Afghanistan Report Offers ‘Little or Nothing New’ President Biden’s spokesman denounced the House Republican investigation of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal as partisan and one-sided.
• Former Project 2025 Leader Accuses Trump Campaign Advisers of ‘Malpractice’ The remarks from Paul Dans, the former director of the policy initiative, revealed discontent on the right about what some see as a pivot to the center.
• A Justice Discusses Seeing Threats To Everyday Rights Beyond Abortion. The justice said the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dobbs case called into question access to contraception as well as gay and interracial marriage.
• Kennedy Will Be on Ballot in Michigan, State’s Supreme Court Rules. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had ended his presidential campaign and endorsed Donald J. Trump last month. His presence on the ballot could be significant in the crucial battleground state.
• Trump Campaign Amplifies False Claim About Haitian Migrants in Ohio. A local official said there was “absolutely no evidence” that Haitian migrants have stolen and eaten pets, an outlandish claim amplified by the Trump campaign on Monday.
• Too Old? The Focus Is Now on Trump. With President Biden no longer in the race, former President Donald J. Trump would be the oldest person ever to serve in the Oval Office. But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have stirred concern among voters.
• Here’s What’s Keeping Democrats Up at Night Ahead of the Debate. Heading into the high-stakes debate on Tuesday, the mood in the party remains upbeat. But with polls looking tight, concerns are starting to seep in.
• On Debate Stage, Trump Has a Long History of Belittling Women. Over nine years in politics, Donald J. Trump has honed a playbook of explicitly gendered attacks in clashes with female candidates and journalists.
• In radio interview, Harris makes a debate prediction: ‘I think he’s going to lie.’
• Here’s the latest on the 2024 campaign.
• The Trump-Harris Debate: What We’re Likely to Hear. As the candidates meet for their only scheduled debate on Tuesday night, here is what to be on the lookout for.
• Rivals Face Different Tests In Crucible of TV Debate. At Tuesday’s debate, Kamala Harris, the vice president, will try to promote herself as a change candidate without criticizing President Biden, whom she has served for years.
• What Harris and Trump Say About Each Other. In the seven weeks they have been campaigning against each other, the vice president and the former president have attacked each other on social media dozens of times. Only Mr. Trump frequently gets personal.
• Justice Alito Reported $900 Concert Tickets From a German Princess. Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a former 1980s party girl and art collector who is now known for her connections to far-right conservatives, told a German news organization the Alitos were “private friends.”
• The Latest Zoom for Harris? ‘Paisans for Kamala,’ Featuring Robert De Niro. Steve Buscemi, Marisa Tomei, John Turturro, Mark Ruffalo and Lorraine Bracco joined Bill de Blasio, Nancy Pelosi and Leon Panetta to raise money for Kamala Harris.
• G.O.P. Report Faults Biden Administration Over Afghanistan Exit. In an election-season document, Republicans are set to offer few new revelations but instead heap blame on the “Biden-Harris administration” while absolving former President Donald J. Trump.
• Cheney Accuses G.O.P. Trump Backers of Betraying Their Principles. The former Republican representative criticized Nikki Haley for now supporting former President Donald J. Trump and compared JD Vance unfavorably with Mike Pence.
• Poll Finds Race For White House Is Neck and Neck. The survey finds that Donald J. Trump is retaining his support and that, on the eve of the debate, voters are unsure they know enough about where Kamala Harris stands.
• Taking the Fight to Trump On Abortion at the Debate. The candidates are all but certain to clash over the issue, which Kamala Harris sees as a major strength. Donald Trump may try to avoid political blowback for his approach.
• Cross-Tabs: September 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 1,695 registered voters from September 3 to 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: September 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 1,695 likely voters from September 3 to 6, 2024.
• Toplines: September 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 1,695 registered voters from September 3 to 6, 2024.
• Trump Threatens Lawyers, Donors and Others With Prosecution After Election. In a social media post on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump wrote that “when I win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
• Trump Lays Out Vision for Bending the Federal Government to His Will. In Wisconsin, former President Donald J. Trump called for eliminating the Department of Education and said he would work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, on health issues.
• Harris Releases Ad Targeting Trump for Helping Overturn Roe v. Wade. The ad, which will run in several battleground states, comes as a growing share of voters say that abortion is their top issue.

World

Africa

• Three Americans Sentenced to Death for Failed Congo Coup. The punishments were handed down months after the Democratic Republic of Congo lifted a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.
• United States Backs Africa’s U.N. Security Council Bid, With a Catch. The announcement provides U.S. support to permanent council seats for African nations, though not new veto powers. But the path to adding members requires far more than White House approval.
• Man Accused of Killing Ugandan Olympic Runner in Gasoline Attack Dies. Dickson Ndiema died from injuries he sustained when he set Rebecca Cheptegei, his partner, on fire. The police had planned to charge him with murder.
• Killing of Tanzanian Opposition Figure Fans Fears of Crackdown Before Voting. Ali Mohamed Kibao was beaten and acid had been poured on his face, according to an autopsy, his party said.
• Nigeria Fuel Tanker Crash Kills Dozens. The traffic accident was the latest disaster to highlight how roads across many African countries are some of the world’s deadliest.

Americas

• Trudeau’s Party Has a Problem With Voters: Trudeau. A vote in Montreal is seen as a referendum on Canada’s prime minister, who has brushed aside calls to step down as party members fear a wipeout in the next general election.
• Paraguay Is Obsessed With a Cartoon Mouse Named Mickey. (No, Not That One.). Mickey, a homegrown food-packaging company, is famous for facing down Disney in Paraguay’s Supreme Court. As the family business turns 90, why is it still so popular?
• Brazilian Court Makes One Musk Company Pay Fines of Another. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice said that because Elon Musk controlled both X and Starlink, one company was responsible for the fines of the other.
• Will Electing Judges Make Mexico’s Courts Better, or More Political? A sweeping change would have thousands of judges, from local courtrooms all the way up to the Supreme Court, elected instead of appointed.
• Mexico Remakes Its Entire Judicial System as States Back Vast Overhaul. The plan, championed by Mexico’s president, would have voters elect judges at every level, dramatically restructuring the third branch of government.
• As Venezuela Slides Deeper Into Autocracy, U.S. Imposes Limited Sanctions. The sanctions against 16 government officials appointed by the authoritarian president of Venezuela were seen as unlikely to be effective by observers and analysts.
• Why Venezuelan Election Observers are Exiled in Colombia. As the government of Nicolás Maduro doubles down on declaring him the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, political opponents are fleeing to neighboring countries to escape threats to themselves and their families. Alex Pena, a senior vid...
• Why Voters Could Soon Elect Nearly All of the Judges in Mexico. The legislation passed by Congress could produce one of the most far-reaching judicial overhauls in any major democracy.
• Mexico Approves Proposal to Overhaul Its Judiciary System. The chamber’s approval clears away the last major hindrance to the sweeping proposals championed by the president, which have prompted nationwide strikes.
• These Venezuelan Election Observers Got Death Threats. Now They’re in Hiding. The New York Times spoke to several election volunteers for Venezuela’s opposition party who found that Edmundo González defeated Nicolás Maduro in July. They fled the country after facing death threats from Maduro’s supporters.
• El Salvador’s Police Chief Dies in Helicopter Crash. Mauricio Arriaza Chicas led the nation’s police force during a crackdown on gang violence. The president expressed doubt that the crash had been an accident.
• Flight of Rival Helps Maduro Firm His Grip. The opposition candidate’s decision to seek asylum in Spain and the autocratic leader’s antagonism toward regional powers lessen the chances of a political transition.
• The Opponent Of Maduro In Venezuela Flees to Spain. Edmundo González, who is widely considered to have won July’s disputed presidential election, was facing an arrest warrant.
• Many Livelihoods Are Upended Over X Ban in Brazil. The ban on Elon Musk’s X has dealt a blow to Brazilians whose livelihoods depended on internet followings they had amassed for years, and which disappeared overnight.

Asia Pacific

• Typhoon Yagi Leaves at Least 110 Dead in Myanmar. Rescuers in Myanmar reported finding bodies swept away by the powerful storm, which left a trail of destruction there and in neighboring countries.
• Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy. The sports term refers to a time during a game when defeat becomes inevitable. Officialdom is warning against using it to take veiled jabs at the country’s political and economic system.
• China Raises Retirement Age for the First Time Since the 1950s. The move, made in the hope of addressing an aging population, was decidedly unpopular.
• Toronto Film Festival Pulls Documentary on Russian Soldiers. The festival canceled the screenings of “Russians at War,” which has been criticized as Kremlin propaganda. The filmmaker has said it is an antiwar film.
• North Korea Gives First Glimpse of Weapons-Grade Uranium Factory. Its leader, Kim Jong-un, visited the factory and urged his country to produce more highly enriched uranium to build “exponentially” more nuclear weapons.
• Pope’s Grueling Tour of Asia Points Toward a Less Western Church. The long trip by a frail, 87-year-old pope was seen as a bold endeavor and a muscular step for a global church looking East.
• Pakistan Seemed Close to Beating Polio. Now It’s Spreading Quickly. The resurgence is part of a global revival of a disease once close to being eradicated, but geographic and cultural factors magnify Pakistan’s challenge.
• In South Korea, Misogyny Is Armed With A.I. Sex Videos. Men in chat rooms have been victimizing women they know by putting their faces on pornographic clips. Some Korean women say the only thing new about it is the technology.
• Indian State Under Curfew As Violence Rages Anew. Ethnic tensions have turned Manipur into an open war zone. Struggling to contain the unrest, the authorities have reimposed a curfew and internet blackout.
• Hanoi Floods as Death Toll From Typhoon Keeps Rising. Days after the storm made landfall, northern Vietnam was being battered by incessant rain. A landslide buried a whole village in a mountainous province.
• A China Stopover Turned Into a Life Sentence. Dawn Michelle Hunt, who is serving a life sentence, says she was duped into carrying drugs. Her family says she is seriously ill and should be sent home.
• Pakistani Lawmakers Aligned With Khan Arrested in Raid on Parliament. In an overnight raid on the Parliament, police arrested at least 10 members of Khan’s party, deepening the political battle between the imprisoned ex-leader and the country’s powerful military.
• How a Philippine Televangelist Ended Up on the F.B.I.’s Most-Wanted List. Here is what to know about the powerful doomsday preacher Apollo Carreon Quiboloy and his arrest.
• Typhoon Yagi Tears Through Vietnam. Typhoon Yagi, one of the most powerful storms to hit northern Vietnam, left a trail of destruction from floods and landslides.
• Clergy Abuse Casts Shadow Over a Papal Visit to East Timor. The Roman Catholic Church played an important part in East Timor’s independence struggle. But one of its heroes from that time has been accused of sexual abuse.
• Philippine Pastor Sought by F.B.I. Is Captured. Weeks of tense standoff in the Philippines have ended in the capture of a pastor accused of leading an international ring of sex abuse and trafficking of young women and girls.
• North Korea Sends New Salvo of Balloons, but South Barely Shrugs. Hundreds of propaganda balloons ferrying trash have landed in South Korea in recent days, where officials say they typically do not pose a threat.
• China’s Women Look to Reclaim Rightful Payout. Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it.
• Typhoon Yagi Lashes Vietnam With Strong Winds and Torrential Rain. At least four people have died and thousands have been evacuated after Typhoon Yagi, one of the strongest storms to hit northern Vietnam, made landfall.

Australia

• A Long Life, Thanks to Where You Live? Not Likely, Says Ig Nobel Winner. An Australian researcher found that many areas that supposedly produce lots of centenarians also produce shoddy record-keeping.
• Australia Plans to Bar Young Children From Social Media. The government is considering setting a minimum age for platforms like TikTok and Instagram that could be as high as 16.

Canada

• Churchill, Abducted From Canada, Is Found Glowering in Italy. The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph.
• Churchill, Abducted From Canada, Is Found Glowering in Italy. A forgery delayed the discovery of the theft of the photograph long enough for it to be sold at an auction in London.
• Canadian Court Sentences Ex-Fashion Mogul for Rape. Mr. Nygard was convicted in Toronto of sexually assaulting four women in his company’s headquarters. He also faces trials in Montreal, Winnipeg and New York.

Europe

• Ukrainian Troops Talk of Stiffer Resistance as They Fight in Russian Territory. Soldiers and military analysts say that Ukraine is largely holding onto land it seized in the Kursk region, even as Moscow has begun a counterattack.
• The Long-Range Weapons Ukraine Wants to Use on Russia, Explained. The United States and its allies are once again considering expanding the capabilities they provide to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
• Sexual Abuse Allegations Shatter a Crusading Priest’s Legacy. Abbé Pierre campaigned for decades against homelessness and poverty. Revelations about his treatment of women have destroyed his image as a symbol of virtue in France.
• Both Trump And Harris ‘Against Life,’ Pope Says. He said American Catholic voters had to choose the “lesser of two evils” because of Donald Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants, and Kamala Harris’s support of abortion rights.
• As Starmer Aids Kyiv, Britain-Russia Relations Get Frostier. A trip to Washington by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, came after President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the allies’ next step could mean war for NATO.
• Sweden Plans $34,000 Offer For Migrants To Go Home. The government greatly increased a grant to encourage more immigrants to return home. Critics say it sends the wrong message and, in any case, may not tempt many refugees.
• Read Putin’s Warning to NATO on Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Weapons. The Russian president said Western support for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia would put his country and NATO “at war.”
• Robert Lewandowski on Fame, Frailty and the One Voice He Won’t Ignore. Much has been said about the increased workload of top players, the Barcelona star said, but the mental toll of expectations and fame is just as likely to lead to burnout.
• Battlefield Gains May Inspire Peace Talks Between Kyiv and Moscow. For both Ukraine and Russia, battlefield gains now might provide an upper hand in any negotiations later. That’s reflected in their discussions over arms with allies.
• Putin Warns Ukraine’s Use of Western Weapons Means War With NATO. Vladimir Putin said allowing Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons would mean NATO countries were “at war with Russia.” It was one of his most direct threats yet.
• Report Concludes China Broke Rules in Doping Case but Clears WADA. An investigator hired by the global antidoping regulator found no bias toward China in a case that has outraged Olympic athletes and led to an F.B.I. investigation.
• Red Cross Says Three of Its Workers Were Killed in Ukraine. The aid workers lost their lives as they were preparing to distribute heating supplies in preparation for winter in the region of Donetsk.
• Russian Forces Are Stepping Up Attacks on Strategic City, Ukraine Says. Bombardments are increasing in and around Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, with water supplies now cut, while Russian troops simultaneously press a new counterattack in the Kursk region.
• Ukraine Says Russia Struck A Grain Ship With a Missile. If confirmed, the attack would be the first on a commercial vessel in open waters since the 2022 invasion, and a sharp escalation of hostilities in the Black Sea.
• The Grenfell Fire and the Unbearable Slowness of Public Inquiries. Holding an inquiry has become one of the British government’s go-to responses to outrageous harm. But that approach can sometimes stall change and delay justice.
• Should Ukraine Launch Western Weapons Deep Into Russia? President Biden has refused to allow Ukraine to use long-range Western missiles on Russian military targets, but he appears to be wavering.
• After an Assassination Attempt Against Slovakia’s Leader, a Purge. Prime Minister Robert Fico has purged prosecutors, cultural officials, journalists and others he believes fueled “hatred and aggression” against him.
• England’s Health Service Is in Deep Trouble, Report Finds. A government-commissioned review into the National Health Service laid bare the challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces after years of underinvestment.
• 4 Climbers Are Found Dead on Mont Blanc in the French Alps. The climbers from Italy and South Korea were found on Tuesday after they went missing three days earlier during a period of bad weather on the peak.
• With New Prime Minister, a ‘Rupture’ in French Politics and Barbs for Macron. President Emmanuel Macron’s newly picked prime minister wasted no time in putting a pointed distance between himself and France’s weakened leader.
• Blinken Discusses Strikes on Kyiv Trip. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his British counterpart, David Lammy, made a rare joint trip to Ukraine to show allied solidarity as the American presidential election looms.
• Russia’s Steady Gains Threaten to Dislodge Ukraine in the East. Russia is getting closer to cutting critical supply lines for troops in the remaining Ukrainian strongholds across the region.
• U.K. Spat Over Benefits Bruises Prime Minister. Prime Minister Keir Starmer survived a test of his authority, but more than 50 Labour lawmakers did not back his plan to reduce fuel aid.
• White House Is Drawn Into a Bitter Dispute Over Chinese Doping. World Anti-Doping Agency officials, furious at U.S. investigations into the handling of positive tests, have sought to exclude a Biden administration representative from its board meetings.
• Ukrainian Drone Attack Hits Apartment Buildings Near Moscow. One woman was killed in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoye after Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war, Kremlin officials said.
• Singles in Spain Look for Love in the Grocery Store, With Pineapples as Props. How the Spanish grocery chain Mercadona got a reputation as an unlikely dating hub, with its upside-down pineapples as props.
• Husband on Trial in Rape and Drugging Case in France Is Taken to a Hospital. Dominique Pelicot, 71, was due to testify on Tuesday over charges he invited dozens of men to his home to abuse his wife, Gisèle Pelicot. His condition was not immediately clear.
• U.S. and Britain Accuse Iran of Sending Short-Range Missiles to Russia. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke in London, where his British counterpart also promised a punitive response. They plan to visit Ukraine together.
• U.K. Hedge Fund Tycoon Adds The Spectator to His Growing Media Empire. Paul Marshall, a multimillionaire founder and investor in upstart conservative media outlets, has bought the right-wing British magazine in a deal worth about $131 million.
• Islam Scholar Is Convicted Of 2008 Rape In Geneva. An appeals court in Geneva overturned a previous acquittal and found Tariq Ramadan guilty. He faces separate charges in France.
• What to Know About the FGC-9 and Other 3D-Printed Guns. Homemade firearms are spreading faster than governments can keep up. For many gun designers, that’s the idea.
• Our Reporter on How the FGC-9 Is Spreading Across the World. The FGC-9 is a semiautomatic weapon that can be assembled with a commercial 3-D printer and some metalworking skills. Here’s how The New York Times linked the FGC-9 to terrorists, drug dealers and rebels in at least 15 countries and tracked down a...
• Guns Made at Home for Militias and the Masses. From his Illinois home, he champions guns for all. The Times confirmed his real name and linked the firearm he helped design to terrorists, drug dealers and freedom fighters in at least 15 countries.
• Deadly Swarm of Ukrainian Drones Takes War Closer to Moscow. A woman in the capital region was killed during the attack, officials said. Russian air defenses shot down 20 drones around Moscow and almost 150 nationwide, according to the Defense Ministry.
• Amid Bombs, Nail Salons Can Soothe A Country. In Ukraine, even a visit for a manicure, which often involves navigating power outages and air-raid sirens, can turn into an act of defiance.
• Political Tension Moves Germany To Tighten Rules At Its Borders. The government said it would expand patrols as part of a ‘hard line’ on illegal migration following two deadly stabbings by rejected asylum seekers and a surge in support for the far right.
• Video Reports Princess Kate Has Finished Chemotherapy. In a video message, Catherine said she would return to more of her duties, a positive development, but many questions remain about her condition and treatment.
• Two Ukrainian Villages Reportedly Fall to Russia. Russia appears to be trying to cut off Ukrainian soldiers around the strategic city of Pokrovsk, a focal point of the war in recent months.
• Montenegro Is Torn Between Russia and Europe. A falling-out between former political allies in Montenegro has complicated the country’s efforts to join the European Union and curb pro-Russian influence.
• Skulls Are Returned to Finland, Righting a 19th-Century Wrong. Dozens of skulls exhumed in Finland in the 19th century and taken to Sweden by scientists who wanted to study their racial characteristics were reburied in Finnish soil on Sunday.
• Overwhelmed, Greek Islands Try to Reduce Tourist Influx. In a country where vacationers are a keystone of the economy, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is embracing a European trend toward tighter tourism regulation.
• In Tajikistan, Punished for Beards and Hijabs. After Tajiks were charged with a deadly attack in Moscow, the country has cracked down on signs of Islam. But experts say it’s not addressing the causes of terrorism.
• Allies’ Spy Chiefs Doff Trench Coats. Appearing together publicly for the first time in the history of their agencies, the heads of the U.S. and British intelligence services discussed Ukraine’s incursion into Russia and the war in Gaza.
• Russia Drive on Pokrovsk Is Said to Stall in Part. Russia’s drive toward Pokrovsk has stalled along one part of the frontline, but its troops continue to advance in other parts of eastern Ukraine, and its long-range aerial attacks continue.

Middle East

• At Funeral in Turkey, Family Mourns American Activist Killed by Israeli Gunfire. The father of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a dual citizen of Turkey and the United States, said that Washington had not done enough to pressure Israel over her death.
• How Israeli Forces Destroyed a Secret Weapons Facility in Syria. Here is what to know about Israel’s deadly raid on a Hezbollah weapons production facility in Syria.
• In Tulkarm, residents want to rebuild but fear more destructive Israeli raids.
• Palestinians take a seat at the U.N. General Assembly, and other news.
• The Fight for Control Over the Philadelphi Corridor. The increasingly bitter dispute has not just affected cease-fire talks but also destabilized a once-strong security partnership between Egypt and Israel.
• Some Gazans Say Polio Drive Is Futile While Israel Keeps Bombing. Palestinians living with the daily fear of Israeli strikes see a level of absurdity in the international drive to vaccinate their children.
• Some Gazans say polio vaccinations won’t make a difference because Israeli attacks are a greater threat. Palestinians living with the daily fear of Israeli strikes see a level of absurdity in the international drive to vaccinate their children.
• An oil tanker still burning in the Red Sea raises alarms at a U.N. Security Council meeting.
• Israeli Strike on a Gaza Shelter Is Condemned. Israel said the former school had become a haven for militants and released a list of men it said were Hamas fighters targeted in the attack.
• As the U.N. criticized the strike, Israel said the former school had become a haven for militants.
• American Shot in West Bank Is Set to Be Buried in Turkey. The body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American dual citizen, was being sent to Turkey for her funeral. Her fatal shooting by Israeli forces has sparked outrage in both countries.
• U.N. Says Gaza’s Anti-Polio Campaign Is Ending With High Hopes. Health workers have reached many vulnerable children. But for the effort to be considered a success, they must also be able to administer a booster round of vaccinations in a few weeks.
• The United Nations said the vaccination campaign was going well in difficult conditions.
• U.A.E. evacuates critical patients and their family members, and other news.
• 6 Aid Workers Among Dead in Israeli Attack on School-Turned-Shelter. While resuming its offensive against militants in the West Bank, Israel also kept up its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, striking a school building used as a shelter for displaced people.
• Six U.N. employees are among dozens of people killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza.
• Islamist Party’s Gains in Jordan Reflect Anger Over Gaza. The political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood won a sizable share of seats in Parliament, though not enough to challenge the government’s pro-Western tilt.
• Where Do Trump and Harris Stand on Israel-Gaza Conflict? The war in Gaza merited a few scant mentions in the presidential debate. Here’s a look at where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stand.
• Biden Says He Is ‘Outraged’ Over Killing of American Activist in West Bank. In his first extensive remarks on the death of Aysenur Eygi, the U.S. president called for accountability from Israel.
• Palestinian authorities said five people were killed during the overnight operation in Tubas.
• Iran’s president visits Iraq as tensions have soared with Israel, and other news.
• New President of Iran Starts Cordial Iraq Visit. In a region in turmoil, Tehran’s ties to its neighbor are more important than ever.
• Israeli Air Raids Hit Gaza Refuge. The Israeli airstrike, which the military said targeted Hamas militants, appeared to use 2,000-pound bombs, which Israel has been criticized for using in heavily populated areas.
• Here are the latest photos from the Middle East Crisis. Mideast Crisis in Photos
• I.C.C. Prosecutor Presses Court for Arrest Warrants for Hamas Chiefs and Israeli Leaders. The prosecutor, Karim Khan, asked the court to make its decision on the warrants with the “utmost urgency” because of “the worsening situation in Palestine.”
• Israel Details Conditions 6 Hostages Experienced. The hostages, whose bodies were recently recovered, appear to have spent the last weeks of their lives in a tight and humid tunnel about 20 meters underground.
• The Israeli military details the brutal conditions six hostages endured before they were killed in a tunnel.
• 2,000-Pound Bombs Likely Used in Al-Mawasi Strike. The large size of the two craters left in the aftermath of the attack suggest that Israel used the powerful bombs, according to experts and a New York Times analysis.
• Domestic Issues and War in Gaza Dominate Jordan’s Parliamentary Election. The Muslim Brotherhood has campaigned on opposition to the Gaza war, but analysts say it won’t be as decisive a factor in parliamentary elections as high unemployment.
• Israeli Military Says It ‘Unintentionally’ Shot American Activist in West Bank. The Israeli military said the killing of Aysenur Eygi in the occupied West Bank was unintentional. The top U.S. diplomat said the shooting was “not acceptable,” and Israel’s conduct must change.
• Polio Shots Begin in Northern Gaza Despite Israel’s Detaining U.N. Convoy. The U.N. said that Israeli forces had held staff members at gunpoint for several hours. The Israeli military said that it had intelligence suggesting there were “Palestinian suspects” with the convoy.
• Fearing Airstrikes, Gazans Turn Gunmen Away From Shelters. Residents, already forced to flee their homes by intense bombardment, want to avoid becoming a target for Israeli forces hunting Hamas.
• Hostages Still Held by Hamas Are in ‘Grave Danger,’ Families Warn. Six hostages who were found dead in Gaza recently had been held in narrow tunnels and suffered from malnutrition, family members said, citing an Israeli military investigation.
• New details of hostages’ dire conditions emerge, as families warn of ‘grave danger.’
• Israel Strikes in Part of Gaza Packed With Displaced People. The Civil Defense in Gaza said a large number of people had been killed and wounded. Israel said it had attacked militants.
• Israel says it struck in humanitarian area in Gaza.
• At Least 18 Dead in Hit On Syria Weapons Hub. Syria accused Israel of carrying out the attacks in and around Masyaf, where experts say missiles and unconventional weapons are developed. Israel did not comment.
• Mournful Tribute for American Protester. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old from the Seattle area, was shot and killed, when Israeli forces opened fire during a protest she was attending in a village in the West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.
• Palestinian Militants in West Bank Flex New Capabilities, Adding to Spiral of Violence. The increased Palestinian attacks, coupled with the expansion of Israeli military raids and increased settler violence, have created a spiral of violence that analysts say is set to worsen.
• A deadly shooting at a border crossing highlights worsening unrest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
• Three Israelis are killed at a border crossing, and other news.
• Syria blames Israel for what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks in the country in months.
• At Least 18 Killed in Airstrikes in Syria, State Media Reports. Syria blamed Israel for strikes that it said targeted military sites, in what was one of the deadliest attacks there in months. Israel declined to comment.
• Three Israelis Are Fatally Shot at a West Bank-Jordan Border Crossing. The Allenby crossing, near the West Bank city of Jericho, has been the scene of violence in the past.
• Kuwait Is Awash in Oil Money. But It Can’t Keep the Power On. The Persian Gulf nation has instituted rolling blackouts to cope with surging summer electricity demand, stirring frustration among citizens.
• Family Seeks Own Inquiry After Killing At a Protest. With witnesses and Palestinian officials accusing Israeli soldiers of firing the fatal shots, “an Israeli investigation is not adequate,” the family said in a statement.

New York

• After Commissioner’s Exit, Intrigue Swirls at N.Y.P.D. The new top police officer will take over an agency that Mayor Eric Adams has seeded with loyalists, who have created an atmosphere of intrigue and aggression.
• Living Near the Water, for Better or Worse. New Yorkers are spending billions on houses in flood-prone areas despite growing awareness of the effects of climate change.
• At 90, Her Job Is Making Fun of Herself. D’yan Forest goes swimming, plays golf and then closes her day with a 10-minute set at Gotham Comedy Club that brings her a “huge sense of happiness and success.”
• Police Fatally Shoot Brooklyn Man Hiding in a Bathtub. The man, Vilmond Jean Baptiste, was in an apartment in Flatbush. The police said he was wanted on a warrant from 2022 and was a person of interest in three homicides this summer.
• Tracking Investigations In Eric Adams’s Orbit. Several federal corruption inquiries have reached into the world of Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who faces re-election next year. Here is a closer look at how people with ties to Adams are related to the inquiries.
• Timberlake Pleads Guilty To Driving While Impaired. The pop star agreed to pay a $500 fine and serve 25 hours of community service at a charity of his choosing.
• Jessica Ramos Will Run for Mayor Against Eric Adams. Jessica Ramos, a state senator from Queens, is the latest candidate to challenge Mayor Eric Adams as his administration faces a series of federal investigations.
• What’s Being Buried on the B.Q.E. This Weekend. An infamous short section of the highway will be closed while workers install sensors that can weigh trucks.
• The Mortal American Dream of Alberto Castañeda Aco. He spent years stitching together shirts, trousers and relationships with the children he had once left behind. It all unraveled on a busy street in Los Angeles.
• In a Transformed Neighborhood, a Funeral Home Finds New Life as a Gym. The former Scotto Funeral Home, a landmark of bygone Brooklyn, is reopening after a multiyear renovation and Catholic blessing — as a boutique gym.
• Adams Is Surrounded by Scandal. Will Voters Really Care? Corruption has been a mark of municipal politics for hundreds of years. Tolerance for it has been high.
• Correction Officers Who Failed to Aid Dying Inmate Won’t Be Charged. Correction Department rules “do not clearly require officers to provide immediate care to people with severely bleeding wounds,” the New York attorney general’s office said.
• What to Know About New York City’s Interim Police Commissioner. Before being appointed by Mayor Eric Adams, Thomas Donlon ran a security company and was New York State’s head of homeland security.
• New York City to Consider Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People. The city joins a growing number of cities and states, including New York, that are taking action to examine the effects of slavery and possible reparations.
• N.Y.P.D. Boss Out As Inquiries Roil Allies Of Adams. Edward Caban had been asked to quit after federal agents seized his phone as part of a criminal investigation, one of several involving members of the administration.
• Weinstein Faces New Indictment for Sex Crimes in New York, Prosecutors Say. The disgraced Hollywood mogul, who underwent emergency heart surgery this week, was not present in court Thursday.
• A Science Museum in Queens Names a New President. Lisa Gugenheim, the former director of the natural history museum, makes a move to the New York Hall of Science.
• Cuomo’s Legal Defense Has Cost New Yorkers $25.4 Million and Counting. Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his aides have mounted a forceful defense, paid for by state taxpayers, against accusations of sexual harassment and other misconduct.
• For Months, Zoo’s Star Attraction Has Been Out of View. The star attraction of the Bronx Zoo hasn’t been seen since July. The zoo says she’s fine. Animal rights activists are not so sure.
• Justin Timberlake to Plead Guilty to Lesser Charge in D.W.I. Case. The singer, who was charged after an erratic drive in Sag Harbor, N.Y., is expected to appear in person in court on Friday.
• Guards Say Top Adams Aide Threatened Them in Arrest. Two security guards said the aide, Timothy Pearson, attacked them then had them arrested. Federal agents seized his cellphone last week as part of a separate investigation.
• Across New York City, Mourners Remember Victims of 9/11 Attacks. Commemorations for those killed in the attacks 23 years ago took place throughout the city, with politicians joining those assembled at ground zero.
• The Fire Department’s Painful 9/11 Legacy. Since 2001, the department has lost more than 360 men to 9/11-related illnesses, a number greater than its death toll on Sept. 11.
• For Some Families, 9/11 Is Still an Unresolved Tragedy. Some families are still pushing for recognition after their loved ones died from cancer that they believe is linked to Sept. 11, but that the federal government won’t recognize as such.
• Adams Ally Drops His Bid To Be Top Lawyer for City. Randy Mastro, a former federal prosecutor and aide to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, said he had been denied a fair hearing by the City Council.
• House Panel Grills Cuomo on New York’s Covid Response. The Republican-led subcommittee sought to blame the former governor for the state’s early-pandemic guidance that may have left New Yorkers more vulnerable to dying in nursing homes.
• Firm Run by Brother of Top N.Y.C. Officials in Bribery Investigation. Terence Banks opened a consulting firm and soon found work with companies that do business with the city agencies overseen by his older brothers.
• Officer Demoted After Writing Traffic Tickets Gets $175,000 Settlement. Matthew Bianchi said he was transferred after he angered a high-ranking official of the New York Police Department by ticketing a friend.
• Ex-Music Teacher Sentenced For Sexual Abuse of Students. Jesus Concepcion, a teacher at a Bronx middle school, gave cellphones to girls so he could contact them without their parents’ knowledge, and he bought them gifts to lure them in.
• How a Tuesday Rush Hour Became a Doom Loop for New Jersey Commuters. On Tuesday morning, trains and buses from New Jersey were stymied by a power outage and traffic accidents.
• A Student’s Wisdom Helped This Teacher Win $200,000. Diana Imbert-Hodges, who runs Defying Legal Gravity, is one of the winners of the David Prize. She credited a student for inspiring her to start the organization.
• City Hall Seeks New York Police Commissioner’s Resignation. Edward Caban has faced increasing pressure since last week, when federal agents searched the homes of top officials in the Adams administration and confiscated electronic devices.
• Bribes Over Tainted Chicken Tenders in Schools Get Official a 2-Year Term. Eric Goldstein, who ran food services for the New York City Education Department, took bribes to put tainted chicken tenders back on the lunch menu, prosecutors said.
• Lawyer Is Charged With Burning Israeli Flag at Columbia Protest. The Manhattan district attorney filed arson and criminal mischief charges against a Brooklyn lawyer who was arrested in a university administration building.
• Adams Tests Positive for Covid, Prompting Him to Scale Back Schedule. Mayor Eric Adams canceled two planned events as federal investigations swirl around him and his inner circle.
• Harvey Weinstein Is Hospitalized for Emergency Heart Surgery. The disgraced Hollywood mogul, who has been held on Rikers Island since April, is scheduled to return to court in New York later this month.
• Searches of Top Adams Aides Suggest Intensifying Inquiries. Former corruption prosecutors said that dramatic moves by federal agents hint that U.S. inquiries have made a significant step forward.
• House Panel Faults Cuomo’s Covid Response in Nursing Homes. A House subcommittee detailed how Andrew M. Cuomo, then the governor of New York, and his aides sought to undercount and deflect blame for deaths in nursing homes early in the pandemic.
• What the Mayor’s Troubles Mean for New York. Federal investigations are swirling around Eric Adams at a time when the city faces numerous challenges.
• Mourning the Gaudreau Brothers in Places Big and Small. The night before their sister’s wedding, John and Matty Gaudreau were fatally struck by a car while riding bicycles near their family home in southern New Jersey.
• Underground Repairs and a Park Avenue Transformation. A glimpse at the future of one of Manhattan’s most famous streets — and a look at its history, from train tracks to illegal weed.
• Citing His Troubles, Adams Seeks Solace From the Pulpit. The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, compared himself to a biblical figure who endured suffering, telling parishioners that he was having a “Job moment.”
• New Jersey Is Prompting a New Sports Identity Crisis in Philadelphia. The state is already home to four teams whose uniforms say “New York.” Now it’s trying to lure the N.B.A.’s 76ers.
• After Year of Legal Peril, Trump Is Free for Election. Donald J. Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan was delayed, thanks in part to his legal resources and political status. It raised a question: Is he above the law?
• ‘I Leaned Out the Window and Asked if I Could Have a Cigarette’ A chance encounter in Greenwich Village, playing Sudoku on the 1 train and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Details on Inquiry Into New York City Officials. Federal agents and prosecutors have launched an array of inquiries into Mr. Adams and some of his highest-ranking aides in City Hall.

Business

• He Wasn’t a Billionaire. He Just Played One on TV. The inside story of how the producers of “The Apprentice” crafted a TV version of Mr. Trump — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — that ultimately fueled his path to the White House.
• 20 Million Cards: A Sports Memorabilia Gold Mine Uncovered in Virginia. Three years ago, a businessman bought a collection of roughly 20 million sports cards from its reclusive owner. Now he wants to show it to the world.
• Trump to Keep All His Shares Of Truth Social. Donald J. Trump, the largest shareholder in the parent company of Truth Social, said he won’t sell his stock when a restriction ends next week.
• Final Call On Steel Sale Faces Delay. The White House has faced backlash for politicizing its review of Nippon Steel’s takeover of the company.
• Here’s What to Know About the Boeing Strike. Thousands of Boeing workers in Washington State and Oregon walked off the job on Friday in the first strike at the plane maker in 16 years.
• Nvidia Holds the Key to the Market. But Is It Worth This Much? One of the hazards of buying individual stocks is that their current price may have little to do with their fundamental value, our columnist says.
• China Fines PwC $62 Million for Botching Its Work for Evergrande. Authorities also imposed a six-month suspension on the local operations of the global firm, which was once a dominant auditor in China.
• Slide Persists As Rates Drop To 6.2 Percent On Mortgages. The average rate on 30-year mortgages declined to 6.2 percent this week, the lowest point since early 2023.
• Watchdog And Navient Reach Deal Over Loans. The company has been banned from servicing federal student loans and must pay $100 million to harmed borrowers, as well as a $20 million penalty.
• European Central Bank Reduces Rates to 3.5%. The reduction, to 3.5 percent from 3.75 percent, comes as inflation has slowed and the bank faces pressure to bolster the region’s flagging economy.
• G.M. and Hyundai Plan to Work Together on New Vehicles and Supply Chains. General Motors and the South Korean automaker say they will collaborate on new vehicles, buying parts and clean energy technologies.
• Young Chinese Émigrés Confront America’s Brutal Work Visa Lottery. For Chinese seeking educational opportunity, the United States has long been the top spot, but as more want to stay to work, their paths are full of roadblocks.
• Norfolk Southern Fires Its C.E.O. After an Ethics Investigation. The railroad company’s board said it dismissed Alan Shaw and an executive he had a consensual relationship with.
• Cleaning Up Steel Making At U.K. Plant Will Shed Jobs. The British government and Tata of India said they would invest 1.25 billion pounds in a plan to convert the steel mill at Port Talbot in Wales to an electric furnace.
• Inflation cooled on a yearly basis in August.
• Housing costs remain stubborn, complicating the inflation picture.
• Prices remain a key campaign issue. The latest report is unlikely to change the overall narrative as Republicans hammer the case home to voters.
• Food price gains moderated in August.
• Prices at the Pump Fall, a Win for Efforts to Fight Inflation. A gallon of regular gasoline in August was down nearly 12 percent from a year earlier, reflecting a fall in oil prices as well as a decline in demand.
• What to know about the report. Fresh Consumer Price Index figures are expected to show only mild August inflation, as
• Inflation Cooled in August, Keeping Fed Poised for Cuts. Consumer Price Index inflation continued to cool, reaching a new three-year low. But signs of stubbornness lingered under the surface.
• No One Hurt After 2 Delta Planes Collide on Tarmac. The incident involving two planes getting ready to take off was the latest in a series of mishaps and near accidents at the country’s airports.
• Volkswagen, Looking to Cut Jobs, Is Planning to End Labor Agreement. A week after the automaker announced it was considering closing factories in Germany, the company said it was exiting a labor contract that protected workers from layoffs.
• After Fierce Lobbying, Regulators Soften Proposed Bank Rules. A top Federal Reserve official said blowback to proposed rules on capital requirements had led him to “relearn the lesson of humility.”
• Southwest Overhauls Board, but Backs C.E.O. The airline has been under pressure from the hedge fund Elliott to replace its top management and make other changes to increase its profits.
• Only One Supermarket Is Left. A Takeover Could Threaten It. Federal regulators are trying to block Kroger’s merger with Albertsons. In a Portland suburb, residents already know what deteriorating access to fresh food looks like.
• He Was Lured By a Job Offer And Trafficked To Scam People. A Ugandan man named Jalil Muyeke traveled to Thailand for a promising job opportunity. He ended up being trafficked into a cybercrime operation.
• China’s Huawei Shows the World Its $2,800 ‘Trifold’ Phone. The latest announcement from Apple’s China rival came just hours after the unveiling of iPhone 16.
• New Lawsuit Accuses Browns’ Watson of Sexually Assaulting a Woman in 2020. In a lawsuit filed Monday, a woman said the N.F.L. quarterback, who faced numerous accusations of sexual misconduct several years ago, assaulted her in 2020.
• At Univision For 40 Years, Ramos Says He’s Leaving. TelevisaUnivision announced on Monday that Mr. Ramos and the network had mutually agreed not to renew his contract.
• Northvolt To Cut Costs As Demand Falls in E.U. The Swedish battery manufacturer said it would eliminate jobs and seek partnerships as it grappled with competition from China.
• Criminal Charge Against Outspoken Short Seller Unsettles Wall St. Andrew Left is fighting a range of criminal and civil charges related to his trading practices, and other investors who make money by betting on a decline in stock prices are watching closely.
• In 9 Days, Trump Can Sell the Stock Bearing His Name. A lockup provision has kept him from being able to sell Trump Media shares. With that prohibition about to expire, the price is down more than 70 percent from its peak.
• E.U. Budget Must Grow, Study Warns. The European Union, facing a shrinking share of the global economy, needs to increase its spending by nearly $900 billion a year, according to a long-awaited report from Mario Draghi.
• Greed, Gluttony and the Crackup of Red Lobster. How missed opportunities, a $1.5 billion real estate deal, all-you-can-eat shrimp and the global pandemic sank the country’s largest seafood chain.
• Agreement Is Reached By Boeing And Unions. The proposed contract, if approved by union members on Thursday, includes a 25 percent raise over four years and a promise to build the next plane in the Seattle-Portland area.

DealBook

• Should Betting on Elections Be Legal? Election wagers have long been banned in the United States. But for a brief period on Thursday, a regulated prediction market was permitted to offer them to Americans.
• A Stake in the Miami Dolphins Is Back on the Block. Owner Stephen Ross is talking to private equity firms after the N.F.L. changed the rules on what types of investors can buy into the league.
• OpenAI Aims for a $150 Billion Valuation. The ChatGPT maker is closing in on another mega funding round as investors bet the boom in artificial intelligence has plenty of room to grow.
• The Big Takeaways for Business from Debate Night. The showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was light on policy, but there were still sparks as they laid out different visions for the economy.
• PGA Tour Meets Saudis To Discuss Deal With LIV Golf. More than a year has passed since the tour agreed to a deal with LIV Golf, but there is some hope an in-person gathering in New York could create momentum.
• What Wall Street Wants to Hear at the Debate. Taxes, tariffs, trade and regulation: Business leaders have a long list of topics they want addressed in Tuesday’s presidential showdown.
• Hedge Fund Targets Murdochs’ Control of News Corp. Starboard Value, a fund that takes stakes in companies and agitates for changes, said political disagreements among Rupert Murdoch’s children could be “paralyzing” for the media firm.
• Google’s Next Antitrust Battle. The tech giant has lost a series of legal fights that investors have largely shrugged off. But a new trial over its advertising business could carry big consequences.

Economy

• Ending the Boeing Strike Won’t Be Easy. Here’s Why. The vehemence of workers over wages and other issues caught the company and union leaders off guard.
• New Tariff Rules Could Reverse a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Retail. Under pressure from Chinese competitors, Amazon, Walmart and other U.S. retailers have been exploring ways to avoid tariffs. Could a new Biden administration rule change that?
• Rejecting Deal, Workers Leave Jobs at Boeing. Thousands of union members began the first walkout at the company since 2008. Federal mediators said the company and the union would meet early next week.
• Layoffs Are Few. So Why Are Jobs Harder to Find? Past economic cycles show that unemployment starts to tick up ahead of a recession, with wide-scale layoffs coming only later.
• Prices, Pay And Poverty Rose in 2023. More faced hardship in the United States last year, the Census Bureau said, as inflation and the end of subsidies outweighed higher incomes.

Energy & Environment

• Broken Blades, Angry Fishermen and Rising Costs Slow Offshore Wind. Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.

Media

• Disney and DirecTV Reach Deal, Ending ESPN Blackout. The agreement ends a two-week dispute that had prevented many of DirecTV’s 11 million customers from watching programs like Monday Night Football.
• Future of Murdoch Empire Comes Down to a Court in Nevada. Next week, a probate official will hear evidence in a clash between Rupert Murdoch and some of his children over who should control his media companies after he dies.
• How Media on the Left and Right Covered Taylor Swift’s Harris Endorsement. Liberal commentators celebrated the megastar’s endorsement of the Democratic ticket. Conservatives either downplayed the impact Taylor Swift might have, or attacked her.
• Fee Dispute With Disney Shows Perils Of DirectTV. While the cable TV business is declining quickly, satellite TV is decaying even faster.
• 67 Million Saw Debate on TV, Nielsen Says. The TV audience for the Harris-Trump matchup was roughly comparable to the second Trump-Clinton debate in 2016.
• ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump. Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.
• ABC says its moderators will ‘facilitate,’ not fact-check.
• Two ABC News Anchors Will Steer the Harris-Trump Debate. The moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, have the difficult task of guiding a high-stakes encounter.
• Meet the moderators: Linsey Davis and David Muir of ABC News.
• Predicting the Debate Ratings: Super Bowl? Nah. ‘Seinfeld’ Finale? Maybe. A semi-scientific theory about how many Americans will tune in to watch Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday night.
• Jamie Heller to Be Next Top Editor of Business Insider. Ms. Heller spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal, most recently leading corporate coverage.
• 90 Significant Minutes for ABC News. ABC News is under a microscope as its journalists prepare to host one of the most scrutinized moments of the 2024 campaign.
• How Mickey’s Realm Became a ‘Snake Pit’ The inside story of how Bob Iger undermined and outmaneuvered Bob Chapek, his chosen successor, and returned to power at Disney.

Your Money

• $300 for a New Checking Account? Banks Offer Bonuses to Attract Customers. Facing competition for business, banks are offering incentives to switch. But as one expert put it, “You have to read the fine print.”

Technology

• Bankman-Fried Files Appeal to Overturn Fraud Conviction. Mr. Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was convicted last fall and is serving a 25-year sentence in prison.
• Trump Plans To Introduce Crypto Firm He’s Starting. Mr. Trump said he would introduce the project on Monday, continuing his embrace of the crypto industry, a major source of political donations.
• tk tk. As threats to his personal safety have become graver, the world’s richest man has barricaded himself behind a phalanx of bodyguards that operates like a mini-Secret Service.
• Newest ChatGPT Version Can Do Math, OpenAI Says. Driven by new technology called OpenAI o1, the chatbot can test various strategies and try to identify mistakes as it tackles complex tasks.
• U.S. Presses Nigeria to Release Imprisoned Binance Employee. Diplomats are calling for the release of Tigran Gambaryan, an employee of the crypto exchange who was arrested in February.
• OpenAI Fund-Raising Talks Could Value Company at $150 Billion. The San Francisco start-up hopes to raise $6.5 billion as part of an aggressive push for more investment.
• Zuckerberg Holds Court Among Pals. Mr. Zuckerberg talked to a packed house Tuesday night for the “Acquired” podcast. It’s a sign of how tech titans reach the public now.
• How Eating Family Pets Became a Trump Talking Point. Falsehoods claiming migrants in Ohio are killing cats and decapitating ducks went viral this week. The Trump campaign embraced them.
• Tech Giants Face Billions In Penalties In E.U. Cases. The cases had established the European Union as the world’s leading tech watchdog, but have since raised questions about its protracted appeals process.
• U.S. Opens Its Ads Case Vs. Google. The tech giant went to court on Monday in a second antitrust trial, this one focused on its dominance in advertising technology software. The case could reshape its business.
• New iPhone’s Latest Feature: Built-In Artificial Intelligence. The company also showcased a new Apple Watch and AirPods that can reduce noise at concerts or near construction sites.
• A.I. Can Now Create Lifelike Videos. Can You Tell What’s Real? Test your understanding of A.I. in this quiz.
• New iPhones Will Be Put To A.I. Test. On Monday, the company will introduce smartphones with A.I. features that could take the technology mainstream or sow fresh doubts about its viability.
• U.S. Is Set To Challenge Google’s Grip On Ad Sales. In a second antitrust trial that starts on Monday, the Justice Department has called for a breakup of the tech giant, which it says controls the vast majority of online advertising.
• How Google Has Fared in Major Legal Battles in U.S. and Europe. How the tech giant has fared in its major legal battles across the U.S. and Europe so far.

Personal Tech

• Old iPhones Can Become A.I. Phones. Apple is using Apple Intelligence, a suite of tools for generating images and text, to upsell the iPhone 16. But you can get similar features elsewhere.

Sports

• Stephen Peat, Former Washington Capitals Player, Dies at 44. The N.H.L. Alumni Association said that Peat had died of injuries from a “tragic accident” that occurred more than two weeks ago.
• The No. 1 Breaker in the World Is … Raygun? The Australian breaker who was mocked at the Olympics for her kangaroo-hopping routine is now atop the official world rankings. Here’s how it happened.
• Marathon Runner Loses Bronze for Aiding Guide. A visually impaired runner briefly let go of the tether to her guide after he cramped near the finish line, costing her a bronze medal.
• Miami Dolphins Player Tyreek Hill Detained by Police Outside Hard Rock Stadium. The wide receiver was released from custody before starring in a win against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. A police officer for Miami-Dade County has been placed on administrative duty.

Cycling

• 18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World. It took Lael Wilcox 108 days to circumnavigate the globe. Improbably, she said it was “the most fun ride of my life.”

Obituaries

• Rebecca Horn, Enigmatic Artist With Theatrical Flair, Dies at 80. Her widely exhibited work in sculpture, performance, film and more didn’t represent anything in particular so much as it evoked an experience.
• Sybil Haydel Morial, New Orleans Civil Rights Matriarch, Dies at 91. The wife of Ernest N. Morial, the city’s first Black mayor, she fought for equal rights for Black women.
• Bob Weatherwax, Who Trained Lassie And Other Celebrity Dogs, Dies at 83. Like his father, who taught him, he bred and coached the collies that played the heroic star of television and movies.
• Mark Jury, 80, Army Photographer Who Captured War and, Later, Death. He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
• Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Champion of Latino Photography, Dies at 93. A New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, he helped start a collective that brought recognition to Hispanic photographers and illuminated life in the city’s barrios.
• Lloyd Kaufman, 97, Who Studied Why The Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon. He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night sky.
• Edward B. Johnson, C.I.A. Hero in Iran Hostage Crisis, Dies at 81. He was a secret partner who helped rescue six American diplomats in 1980 by passing them off as a film crew. The caper inspired the movie “Argo.”
• Dr. Francisco Lopera, 73, Neurologist And Pioneer in Alzheimer’s Research. A neurologist in Colombia, he worked with the world’s largest extended family with Alzheimer’s and helped fuel research to prevent or delay dementia symptoms.
• A Signature Gravitas and Dignity That Elevated Many of His Roles. A look at standout movies featuring the actor, who died on Monday at the age of 93.
• Maria E. Redo, 99; Won Discounts for Older Adults. She started a nonprofit in New York City in 1971 by asking stores if they would offer reduced prices for people 65 and over. Thousands of retailers said yes.
• James Earl Jones, Resonant Voice of Stage and ‘Star Wars,’ Dies at 93. He gave life to characters like Darth Vader in “Star Wars” and Mufasa in “The Lion King,” and went on to collect Tonys, Golden Globes, Emmys and an honorary Oscar.
• Mr. Greedy, Father to Many African Penguins at Maryland Zoo, Dies at 33. An African penguin who left many offspring in his long life, he belonged to the largest colony of the aquatic bird species in North America, according to the zoo.
• Lloyd Ziff, 81, Visionary Magazine Art Director and Photographer, Dies. He designed some of the most visually exciting magazines of the 1970s and ’80s. But his real love, and eventually his focus, was photography.

Americas

• Alberto Fujimori, 86, Peruvian Leader Jailed for Atrocities, Dies. During his decade in power, he revived the economy and crushed two violent leftist insurgencies. But he was forced out in a corruption scandal and later imprisoned for human rights abuses.

Baseball

• Ed Kranepool, a Teenage Met Who Lasted 18 Seasons, Dies at 79. “Steady Eddie” joined the team at 17, played in more games than any Met and in 1969 helped a once-woeful franchise pull off a “miracle” — a World Series title.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• Francisco Lopera, pionero en la investigación del alzhéimer, muere a los 73 años. Este neurólogo colombiano trabajó con el mayor clan familiar del mundo con alzhéimer y ayudó a impulsar la investigación para prevenir o retrasar los síntomas de la demencia.

Cultura

• James Earl Jones, actor cuya voz podía amenazar o seducir, muere a los 93 años. Dio vida a personajes como Darth Vader en “La guerra de las galaxias” y Mufasa en “El rey león”, y llegó a coleccionar premios Tony, Globos de Oro, Emmys y un Oscar honorífico.

Dance

• María Benítez, Dancer Who Championed Flamenco, Is Dead at 82. “People came from everywhere to see her shows,” an admirer said — including, on at least one occasion, the ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Europe

• Donald Sheppard, British D-Day Veteran, Dies at 104. He helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi concentration camp where Anne Frank had died.

Music

• Herbie Flowers, ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ Bassist, Dies at 86. A celebrated session musician who appeared on a host of classic rock albums, he made his most lasting mark with his contribution to Lou Reed’s most famous song.
• Screamin’ Scott Simon, Dynamic Sha Na Na Keyboardist, Dies at 75. A mainstay and manager of a rock ’n’ roll nostalgia band, he wrote the lyrics to “Sandy,” a song heard in the hit film “Grease.”
• Frankie Beverly, 77, Maze Frontman Who Wrote R&B Hits for 50 Years. A consistent hitmaker on the R&B charts for almost 50 years, he had announced just this year that he would be retiring.
• Will Jennings, Oscar Winner for ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ Dies at 80. As an in-demand lyricist, he won a shelf of awards for hits with Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and Dionne Warwick, as well as for the theme song for “Titanic.”
• Dan Morgenstern, Prolific Chronicler and Friend of Jazz, Is Dead at 94. He wrote prolifically about the music and played an important role in documenting its history, especially in his many years with the Institute of Jazz Studies.

Politics

• James Sasser, Senator and Clinton’s Envoy to China, Is Dead at 87. He became ambassador after three terms as a senator from Tennessee. In 1999, he was made a virtual prisoner in the embassy in Beijing during a siege by protesters.

Pro Football

• Joe Schmidt, 92, Hall of Famer Who Elevated Middle Linebackers, Dies. A Hall of Famer who played for powerful Detroit Lions teams and later coached them, he embodied a tidal shift in N.F. L. strategy with the rise of the passing game.

Briefing

• Divided Attention. On the eve of the Emmy Awards, it’s worth taking a look at what we’re actually watching.
• Britain Is Prodding Biden to Allow Kyiv to Strike in Russia. Also, have some patience on election night. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
• The State of the War in Ukraine. We explain using maps.
• The New York Times News Quiz, September 13, 2024. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Friday Briefing. President Biden may loosen restrictions on Ukraine.
• The N.Y.P.D. Commissioner Resigned. Also, a billionaire completed the first commercial spacewalk. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Friday Briefing: U.S. May Let Ukraine Use Long-range Weapons. Plus, will Taylor Swift’s endorsement affect the U.S. election?
• The Stakes on Presidential Power. We explain the contrasting approaches Donald Trump and Kamala Harris take to the executive office.
• Thursday Briefing. The aftermath of the Harris-Trump debate.
• Harris Reveled in Her Debate Reviews. Also, Hurricane Francine is pelting southern Louisiana. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Thursday Briefing: Who Won the Harris-Trump Debate? Plus, a video game provokes outrage.
• The Harris-Trump Debate. Kamala Harris seemed to win the debate with Donald Trump, but didn’t have a perfect night.
• Wednesday Briefing. A contentious U.S. presidential debate.
• Tonight’s Debate Will Focus on Defining Kamala Harris. Also, Louisiana is bracing for Francine. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Wednesday Briefing: A Guide to the Harris-Trump Debate. Plus, the great films of James Earl Jones.
• Questions for Donald Trump. Twenty-four questions on issues including the economy, abortion and foreign policy we wish Trump would answer.
• Tuesday Briefing. A preview of the U.S. presidential debate.
• Harris Said She Is Ready for the Debate. Also, the U.S. argued that Google has an ad-tech monopoly. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
• Tuesday Briefing: Trump and Harris Prepare to Debate. Plus, is it A.I. or real life?
• Abortion on the Ballot. We explain the 10 measures that would let voters decide abortion policy in their states.
• Monday Briefing. New polling on the U.S. election.
• Monday Briefing: Judge Postponed Trump’s Sentencing. Plus, rural women in China fighting for land rights.
• Obsessed With Sleep. The science behind popular methods for improving sleep, and the downsides of caring too much about it.

Podcasts

• U.S. May Approve Ukrainian Strikes Deep in Russia, and Early Voting Begins. Plus, a theater season packed with celebrities.
• Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Division. Welcome to our 100th episode!
• It’s Time (Again!) for the Emmys. From “The Bear” to “Baby Reindeer,” our guide to TV’s big night.
• Harris and Trump’s Next Moves, and Francine Lashes Southern Louisiana. Plus, debunking claims about immigrants in Ohio.
• What Undecided Voters Are Thinking. 105 minutes on a Philadelphia debate stage wasn’t enough for some people to fully make up their minds.
• Key Debate Moments, and the Gulf Coast Braces for Hurricane Francine. Plus, the truth about recycling coffee pods.
• 3 Shel Silverstein Poems to Read With Your Children. Hilarious and tender, he was ahead of his time.
• Inside Trump-Harris Debate Prep, and Israel Strikes Humanitarian Zone. Plus, remembering an iconic Hollywood voice.
• The Stakes of a Harris vs. Trump Debate. Some voters are still trying to make up their minds. Here’s what they’re listening for.
• Trump and Harris Neck and Neck in a New Poll, and a Manhunt in Kentucky. Plus, a Pulitzer-winning Super Bowl halftime headliner.
• Meet Me at the Fair. A million people go to the Iowa State Fair, all with their own goals and dreams.

Op-Ed

• Transcript: Ezra Klein on the Harris-Trump Debate. The September 11, 2024, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

The Daily

• The Story Behind ‘They’re Eating the Pets’ A false claim made by Donald Trump in the presidential debate has its origins in an Ohio town.
• How the Election Is Sinking a $15 Billion Business Deal. The Biden administration is expected to block a takeover of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.
• Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate. Commentators, even Republicans, concluded that the vice president succeeded in provoking the former president.
• Judge Delays Trump Sentencing Until After Election. Explaining a legal win for the former president, and its limits.
• The Harris Honeymoon Is Over. Almost 30 percent of voters said they needed to learn more about her.

Science

• These Apes Dance Like Someone Is Watching. Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?
• Starliner Astronauts Say What They’ll Miss During Extended Stay in Space. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing orbital transport returned to Earth uncrewed.
• A New Mini-Moon Is Being Captured by Planet Earth. It’s just a little guy, and not everyone agrees that it’s actually a mini-moon.
• These Monkeys Call One Another by Name. Marmosets are the first nonhuman primates known to use name-like labels for individuals, a new study suggests.
• First Private Spacewalk Achieves a Milestone For Musk’s Mars Vision. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading the Polaris Dawn mission, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, exited and re-entered their spacecraft in a test of commercial space technologies.
• The ‘Country Doctor’ Who Upended Our Understanding of Dementia. Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Europeans Used Cocaine Much Earlier Than Previously Thought, Study Finds. In human remains buried in an Italian crypt, researchers found evidence of cocaine use from the 17th century.
• Polaris Dawn’s Civilian Astronauts Prepare for Their Walk in Space. After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any astronaut since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s.
• 4 Astronauts Take Off on SpaceX Mission of Firsts. The mission is taking people farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since the end of NASA’s Apollo moon missions.
• 10,000 Feet Up, Scientists Found Hundreds of Airborne Microbes. In 10 flights over Japan, researchers found a host of bacteria and fungi. These high-altitude germs could help spread disease around the world.
• The Terrifying Way That Eels Escape a Hungry Fish’s Stomach. X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal.

Climate

• The Big City Is Vibrant. Birds There Might Be Getting Less So. Recent studies show that certain feather pigments can help neutralize toxic pollution. It means darker, duller birds could have a survival advantage.
• U.K. to Fund ‘Small-Scale’ Outdoor Geoengineering Tests. As climate change continues unabated, the goal is to examine technologies that could artificially cool the Earth “responsibly and ethically.”
• Climate Lawsuits Are Exploding. Are Homicide Charges Next? The courts have become one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight over planet-warming emissions. Here are prominent cases to watch.
• Is Inequality the Key to the Climate Change Debate? In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality.
• New Look at Landslide Potential Shows 44% of U.S. Is at Risk. A new federal database helps users determine the likelihood of their community experiencing a landslide.
• Youth Group Asks Supreme Court to Revive a Landmark Climate Lawsuit. The case argues the government violated young people’s constitutional rights by failing to curb the use of fossil fuels. A lower court had thrown it out.
• Researchers mapped the sites in Francine’s path that risk flooding and toxic spills.
• How climate change is transforming hurricanes. Scientists are confident that the warming of the planet is affecting how storms behave.
• Climate at the Debate: Trump Ignored the Question and Harris Hedged. Vice President Kamala Harris nodded to the urgency of climate change but also highlighted the country’s record levels of oil and gas production.
• Those Keurig Coffee Pods? They’re Not So Recyclable, the S.E.C. Says. The agency said Keurig, in its financial filings, had claimed its pods could be “effectively recycled” but didn’t note that two big recycling companies wouldn’t accept them.
• Prolonged hot temperatures make fighting California wildfires more difficult.
• 5 Climate Questions for the Candidates Ahead of the Presidential Debate. Here’s what the Times climate team would ask Harris and Trump about climate change, energy policy and the environment.
• Colombia Is Deadliest Nation for Environmental Activists, Report Finds. As Colombia prepares to host a global biodiversity summit, killings of environmental defenders in the country rose again last year, according to a new report.
• Wildfire Seasons Expanding Amid Climate Change. While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
• Green Washing, Not Greenwashing: What’s the Best Way to Do Laundry? The suds that go down the drain can be harmful to wildlife. We’ve got tips on how to clean clothes and support nature.

The Upshot

• Today’s Parents: ‘Exhausted, Burned Out and Perpetually Behind’ The surgeon general is warning about parents’ stress, a sign that intensive parenting may have become too intense for parents.
• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, September 14, 2024. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• The Campaign Issue That Isn’t: Health Care Reform. The topic has been a major concern in presidential elections for decades. Its absence as a top issue now is notable.
• 10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Unicorn Rests in a Garden’ We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
• Will Swift’s Backing Of Harris Influence Votes in Fall Election? What the research says about celebrity endorsements — and what might make this one different.
• The Debate Was About Trump. That Was Good for Harris. It can be hard to tell when a debate bounce will last, but there are rough parameters that can guide us.
• State of the Race: A Dead Heat With 8 Weeks to Go. Each Monday morning for the next two months, we’ll take an in-depth look at what the polls can tell us.
• Harris’s Support May Have Stalled After a Euphoric August. Almost 30 percent of voters said they needed to learn more about her.

Opinion

• How Democrats Treat Trumpites. Readers discuss Nicholas Kristof’s column urging Democrats not to demean Trump supporters.
• The Week in Bad Political Behavior. Loomer versus Greene; the martyrdom of Eric Adams; the sheer looniness of Marianne Williamson.
• Worried About Kamala Harris? ‘That’s Tomorrow’s Problem.’ There is nothing more baffling than the undecided voter.
• Where Was Merrick Garland When Justice Needed Him?
• D.E.I. in College, Attacked and Defended. Readers discuss diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Also: The debate; Donald Trump’s mental state; the Sentinel missile program; a walker in Manhattan.
• The Dirtiest Trick Whitey Bulger Ever Played on Boston. A generation of students was lost amid the violence that surrounded the advent of busing.
• Even Harris’s Strongest Supporters Long for More Details. They want specifics, particularly on her economic plans.
• Hurricane Francine Tells Us a Lot About Storm Seasons to Come. Even quiet seasons can produce very significant weather events.
• Something Important Is Happening With JD Vance, Laura Loomer, Project 2025 and Donald Trump. To me, this is the biggest political dynamic coming out of Tuesday’s debate.
• Should We Refrain From Gossip? Readers offer different answers in response to a guest essay. Also: Protests on campus; China’s adoption policy; Trump the fixer; hearing loss.
• What Harris Shouldn’t Say About the Economy. There’s no point in looking backward and defending the administration’s record.
• One of Trump’s Insidious Lies on Abortion Is Grounded in an Old Truth. Yes, there were once a few liberals who criticized Roe, but that still doesn’t support his claim.
• If Football Were Treated Like Inflation. It’s better to focus on the most recent price changes, not a year’s worth.
• Actually, Europe Is Doing a Lot for Ukraine. Trump’s claim that European allies aren’t doing their fair share is false.
• The Question Kamala Harris Couldn’t Answer. Some voters may still be left looking for an answer.
• There Is a Right and a Wrong Way to Wield Sanctions. Individual sanctions offer a rare form of accountability for autocrats.
• How to Diminish a Former President. In the end, only a woman could do that for us.
• Over 90 Minutes, Trump Descended to His True Self. He fell right into the traps Harris set for him.
• On Abortion, Trump Floundered in Fantasy Land. Abortion bans are a losing issue for Republicans.
• I’m Hearing Huge Relief From Democrats Over Harris’s Debate Performance. Time and again, she laid the bait, and Trump took it.
• Trump Is Provoking a Congressional Fight He Can’t Win. Most Republicans don’t want a government shutdown right before the election.
• 3 Questions: When Women Kill Their Abusers. It costs money to do this kind of research, and no one wants to fund it.
• JD Vance’s Outrageous Smear of Haitian Immigrants. It’s not only a vicious lie, but it’s a classic method of dehumanizing outsiders in order to persecute them.
• Was It Written by ChatGPT, or a Novelist? Three readers could pick the story written by Curtis Sittenfeld; another calls the experiment unfair. Also: Afghan women; athletes and crowds; pro-union workers.
• Kamala Harris Could Be in Trouble. Her momentum stalled after a lackluster CNN interview. The debate is her best chance to restart it.
• Donald Trump and the Meaning of a Raised Fist. A history of the appropriation of a political gesture.
• A Clear Choice on the Issue Voters Care About Most. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have plans to address the high cost of living. The differences between them are stark.
• Sex Trafficking Is Not a Hoax, Even if the Conspiracies Usually Are. The overblown fears of crimes committed by immigrants often overshadow the real dangers of American men abroad.
• The Lonely Anger of Democratic Women in North Carolina. At a Harris-Walz event, many said they are outnumbered and ostracized.
• Advice for the Trump-Harris Debate. Readers discuss strategies, the debate rules and possible questions. Also: Migrants in New York schools; household chores; exploiting animals, and humans.
• The 23 Words Harris Needs to Say to Win. It’s OK to admit that reality has changed her mind on the big issues.
• Which Trump Will Be on the Debate Stage With Harris? Will he be subdued, or aggressive and rambling?
• These ‘Trash Trees’ Are Actually a Banquet for Wildlife. High in the boughs above us, the hackberry tree lays out its riches just as the fall migration is reaching its peak.
• How Project 2025 Would Change the Country. How Project 2025 would change the country.
• The Decision to Delay Trump’s Sentencing. Readers disagree about whether putting off sentencing until after the election was the right move. Also: Risky Covid behavior; outdoor dining; a librarian’s fight.

Letters

• Harris vs. Trump: Assessing a Fierce Debate. Readers analyze the candidates’ performances, the moderators, the likely impact and claims of pet-eating.

Op-Ed

• JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target. The Ohio senator’s anti-Haitian lies are putting people in danger.
• The Organizers Are Jewish. The Cause Is Palestinian. This College Won’t Be Hosting. An event for the magazine Jewish Currents took a surprising turn.
• Elizabeth Warren: What Donald Trump Isn’t Telling Us. It’s to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance.
• Sympathy For the Voter. 2024 and the dilemmas of the elite-populist deadlock.
• The Climate Peril We Overlook. We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.
• The Secret Behind the TV Show Set to Sweep the Emmys. Audiences saw a hit adaptation of the Japanese story “Shogun” back in 1980. But it was very different from today’s version, and America was different then, too.
• Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line. There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.
• Trump’s Economics, Too, Are Sounding More Authoritarian. His economic agenda would concentrate more power in the hands of the president.
• What Is Pro-Life Realism? Can pro-life states survive in a pro-choice country?
• The Real ‘Border Czar’ Defends the Biden-Harris Record. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas explains what his agency has done to address the challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border.
• How a Naked Man on a Tropical Island Created Our Current Political Insanity. Trump has made himself the most hated person in America, and that’s the way he wants it.
• What Really Matters Is How Presidents Think About Power. A successful presidency is much more about organization, vision and values than it is the scope of a given legislative package.
• A Blind Photojournalist Goes to the Paralympics. The athletes’ stories help her understand her own.
• How Much More Does Harris Need to Say to Win? A good debate doesn’t decide an election.
• A ‘Dopamine Fast’ Will Not Save You From Addiction. A misunderstanding of brain chemistry and neural circuitry has made people believe they should avoid pleasure.
• The U.S. Military Is Not Ready for the New Era of Warfare. It is not prepared for the fact that artificial-intelligence-powered autonomous weapons systems are changing the fundamental nature of war.
• How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris. People can be bitter for only so long. Harris’s happy strength may offer a glimpse of a sunnier national mood to come.
• Trump’s ‘Concepts of a Plan’ Is No Plan at All. Trying to come up with a viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act would probably just mean reinventing it.
• Harvard, Brown and Other Top Schools Are Thinking About Black Freshmen the Wrong Way. I’ve seen firsthand that this scenario does not play out the way alarmists think it does.
• Kamala Harris Is Serious. Donald Trump Is Not. Her careful cramming and his cocky hamming tell you all you need to know.
• MAGA Will Fall for Anything. Apparently, this election is about … pets.
• The Deeper Meaning of Taylor Swift’s Democratic Mic Drop. Some regarded the timing as brilliant, others as bizarre. I promise you, she doesn’t care.
• I’m a Doctor. The Conversations About IUD Insertions Are Long Overdue. Doctors underestimate the pain of IUD insertion.
• Harris Can Win on the Economy, but She Needs a Stronger Message. Optimistic words and some admirable proposals aren’t enough to overcome the discontent and anger that a large majority of Americans feel about the economy.
• Trump, Tariffs and the Truth About His Economic Plans. Binyamin Appelbaum on why Harris’s ill-defined plan is still better than Trump’s.
• We Have Taken a Monumental Step to Protect America’s Public Lands. You can now lease federal property to restore it, not just to mine, cut or graze it.
• To Put It Bluntly. Much ado has been made of euphemism inflation. While it’s easy to make fun of it, it’s worth examining its logic.
• Harris Had a Theory of Trump, and It Was Right. The vice president successfully baited Trump’s angry, conspiratorial, free-associating side. But what wasn’t said was just as telling.
• A Debate Recap With Song, Dance and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The debate analysis you didn’t know you needed.
• Will Harris’s Debate Victory Sway Voters? The election is too close to call, but the vice president has exposed the former president.
• Is Europe Turning Its Back on the Left? The elections went well. It’s what came afterward that is worrying.
• Parenting Has Always Been Hard. Accepting that is the first step toward making it more tolerable.
• MAGA vs. Science Is No Contest. A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
• ‘I Feel Like She Humiliated Him’: How Trump Lost the Debate. Two Opinion writers break down the Trump-Harris debate.
• ‘Harris Excelled, and Trump Flailed’ Our columnists and contributors rate Trump’s and Harris’s debate performances.
• Trump’s Obsession With Oil Could Destroy America’s Auto Industry. If Donald Trump wins a second term, America would be at risk of falling even further behind China.
• Trump Looked Livid. Harris Looked Amused. It Was No Contest. Donald Trump can be beaten. That was the clearest takeaway on Tuesday night.
• Chris Christie: I’ve Debated Trump 6 Times. Here’s What Harris Needs to Do Tonight. Millions of Americans are waiting for her to earn their vote. Here’s how she can do that.
• The Mirage of $2 Gas. Trump is promising something he can’t possibly deliver.
• Trump Makes No Sense and Is Full of Meaning. On the question of his political opponents, he’s clear. He will punish them, if we give him the power to do so.
• What Polls Say About a Key Group: Begrudging Trump Voters. In Tuesday’s debate, the vice president needs to win over this slice of the electorate.
• Charging Parents Won’t Stop Mass Shootings. Focusing on parental responsibility allows the state to shift blame from weapons laws to families.
• The End of Impunity for Tech Giants. They are facing legal pushback that may signal a new era of accountability for social media titans.
• How to Talk to Colombia’s Largest Criminal Group. Cautious negotiations with the Gaitanistas could be the country’s best chance at safety for its people.
• ‘It’s Not Pandering When You Tell the Truth’: Five Columnists Game Out the Debate. What does success or failure look like for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s debate?
• Trump Can Afford to Disrespect His Pro-Life Voters. The ex-president has remade the religious right in his image.
• Trump Doesn’t Grasp Why the World Uses Dollars. Another day, another bizarre tariff proposal.
• Higher Taxes Are on the Horizon. Don’t Let Them Spoil Your Retirement. Unsustainable deficits will likely force an end to this era of low taxes, but you can plan for it.
• The Taliban Have Reached a New Low. New rules that make a woman’s voice illegal in public show why the world must make gender apartheid a crime against humanity.
• Kamala Harris Is Her Own Woman. A vice president is expected to never disagree with the president in public. But as a candidate to succeed her boss, she must also make a case for her own accomplishments.
• Trump Picks His Own Rally Music. What Is He Trying to Say? A politics editor analyzes Trump’s bizarre campaign music choices, so you don’t have to.
• The World Isn’t Ready for What Comes After I.V.F. There’s a vibe shift coming for reproductive medicine.
• How Tennessee Keeps Nearly Half a Million People From Voting. The state’s process for restoring voting rights is a master class in undermining democracy.
• A New York Law Could Bring Hope to Prisoners Like Me. A new law would bring hope to people like me.
• The Taylor Swift Endorsement Fantasy. It’s seductive to think that superstars can sway elections. But we shouldn’t hope that celebrities will save us from the hard work of winning people over.
• My Teenage Son Thinks the World Is Falling Apart. I’ve Changed How I Talk to Him About It. My instinct to minimize what is happening in much of the world was robbing my sons of a sense of urgency that demands their attention.
• MAGA Is Nothing Without Trump. The movement’s national success depends on one man.
• The Rapid Normalization of Violent Politics. A large number of the people who make decisions in this country have either seen violence over the past decade or felt the pressure and constraint of potential violence.
• People Blame Rape Victims, and It’s Not Just About Slut-Shaming. A deeper psychological tendency is also at work.
• What’s in a Name? Probably Not Your Destiny. The weird, mostly bad science of nominative determinism.

Arts

• Should a ‘Diverse’ Campus Mean More Conservatives? Republicans are demanding colleges embrace “viewpoint diversity.” They aren’t the only ones who are concerned.
• 5 Things to Do This Weekend. A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including “The Old Man,” “How to Die Alone” and other TV picks for fall.
• Chad McQueen, 63, ‘Karate Kid’ Actor Who Also Followed Father Into Auto Racing. The son of Steve McQueen, he was most widely recognized for his role as Dutch in the hit 1984 teenage martial arts film and its sequel.
• War Now Permeates a Franchise. The Ukrainian developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 are trying to distance the video game from Russia’s invasion, but the conflict inevitably altered the creative process.
• Artistic License Clashes With Fans’ Expectations. The video game franchise long emphasized its historical accuracy in settings such as Athens, Florence and London. Then details of its first foray to Japan were attacked online.
• The Best True Crime to Stream: All the Cool Kids Are Wearing It. Four picks across television, film and podcasting that examine dark stories about some of the most trendy clothing brands.
• Art Institute of Chicago Receives $75 Million Gift. The donation from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed will support the museum’s new galleries.
• A Last Resort for Assault Accusers. The law, which underpins several civil suits against Sean Combs, is the only remaining tool for reviving older claims in New York.
• Everything Is Go for Astro Bot. Astro, a babylike robot designed to show off the power of PlayStation hardware, has graduated to his own full-length adventure game.
• John Mulaney to Star on Broadway in a New Comedy About Love. “All In: Comedy About Love,” a new play by Simon Rich, includes a celebrity cast taking on the roles of pirates, dogs and other zany characters.
• Telling the N.Y.P.D.’s Little-Known Tales. The podcast from Chenjerai Kumanyika reframes modern debates about the police by rewinding the clock to the moment in which the department was created.

Art & Design

• A New Perspective on Van Gogh’s Final Flowering. A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter’s final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works.
• He Tried to Flee Shadows Cast by His Early Success. MoMA’s centenary exhibition of the artist revered for a groundbreaking book makes the case for his later work.
• A Tease to a Writer’s Hidden Depths. At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer’s mystique. But our critic dived deeper.
• Noguchi Museum Fires Three Employees for Wearing Kaffiyehs. The Noguchi Museum said the headscarves, a symbol of Palestinian identity, violated a dress code that recently banned “political messages, slogans or symbols.”
• Is It Food or Art? A Symbolic Field Can Still Be Eaten. An acre of wheat designed by the artist Agnes Denes has cropped up at a new exhibition space in Montana, where agriculture is rapidly giving way to development.
• Longtime MoMA Director to Step Down. After 30 years at the helm of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Glenn Lowry will depart in September 2025.
• Art and Science Stir Curious Minds. The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know.
• Her Skies Are Typically Cloudless. In an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artist known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor is showing how much else she can do.

Music

• A Shocking Country Song Is Dominating TikTok. Is Girly Girl for Real? “10 Drunk Cigarettes” is from an album that boasts it was made with help from A.I. It pairs dark internet humor with a poppy sound that just might find a bigger audience.
• The Lijadu Sisters, Nigeria’s Twin Musical Pioneers, Are Celebrated Anew. Taiwo and Kehinde were groundbreaking for their funky songs, as well as their feminism. Five years after Kehinde’s death, their albums will be reissued.
• 5 of My Most Anticipated Albums of the Fall. A new indie-rock supergroup, a fruitful (if unexpected) partnership, an alt-rock icon going solo and more.
• The Weeknd’s Glimmering Synth-Pop, and 8 More New Songs. Hear tracks by Soccer Mommy, FKA twigs, Reyna Tropical and others.
• Inspiring Opening For Season In Flux. The conductor led the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an inspiring opening night for a season starting off unsettled.
• Sean Combs’s Legal Team Takes His Case to TikTok. As the music mogul faces civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, one of his lawyers is defending him — in the court of social media.
• A Soprano Who Despises Encores Interrupts Her Co-Star’s. Angela Gheorghiu drew criticism after she stormed onstage to stop a tenor’s encore during a performance of “Tosca” in Seoul.
• ‘Music Heals Me. So That’s What I Try and Do.’ The English songwriter will follow up his Mercury Prize-winning 2019 LP with his fourth album, “Small Changes,” in November.
• ‘These Days,’ Then and Now. Browne wrote “These Days” at 16. Now 75, he and some famous admirers reflect on his unexpected mainstay: “If a song is worth anything, it’s about the life of the listener.”
• Then and Now Merged At MTV Video Awards. Taylor Swift set a record and Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Katy Perry delivered noteworthy performances as the show struck a balance between past and present.
• Essential Songs That Still Carry On. The singer, who died on Tuesday at 77, had a smooth, sunny delivery that turned at least one track into a lasting anthem of Black celebrations.
• Popcast: Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl, Sabrina Carpenter on Top. Plus: A conversation about the career of Rich Homie Quan, who died last week.
• Danity Kane Singer Sues Sean Combs, Alleging Threats and Groping. The lawsuit was filed by Dawn Richard, a member of groups assembled by Mr. Combs. A lawyer for Mr. Combs called the suit “manufactured” to get a “payday.”
• Juilliard Receives $20 Million in Gifts. The donations, from John and Jody Arnhold, will expand creative work across disciplines, help pay for an annual fall festival and support the jazz program.
• Once Called Too Exotic, Her Music Is in Demand. Gabriela Ortiz, Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence this season, has spent her career channeling the sounds and sensibilities of Latin America.
• Readers Pick Their Song of the Summer. You sent in an eclectic mix of tracks from Chappell Roan, Bad Bunny, Lawrence and more.
• Embattled Conductor Plans Return. John Eliot Gardiner, who hit a singer during a tour in France last year, said he was starting a new choir and orchestra.
• The CMA Awards Snub Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ The country-plus-everything-else album was given only limited promotion on country radio, with the success of the song “Texas Hold ’Em” driven by streaming and downloads.
• Kendrick Lamar to Headline 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show. The rapper, who’s had a big year thanks to a beef with Drake that led to the smash song “Not Like Us,” will perform in New Orleans in February.
• ‘Very Radical Time’ Inspires a New Album. The saxophonist and composer made “The World Is on Fire” with recent racial violence — and protests decrying it, and demanding change — in the foreground.

Television

• 7 Days in the Cultural Life of a Real Housewife of N.Y.C. Between seasons of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” Erin Lichy is researching recipes, listening to Charli XCX and checking out fashion at the Met.
• Sasheer Zamata Is OK With Being the Practical B.F.F. The “Saturday Night Live” alumna plays a sorceress in the new “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along.”
• ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Bucking the Odds. The sardonic British series about spies no one wants is as likable as ever in its fourth season. Is that enough?
• Politicians Get Roasted on This Beloved British Show. Can It Be a U.S. Hit? “Have I Got News for You” will inject some levity into the CNN schedule. But on a news network, finding comedy in politics during an election year comes with risks.
• The Best of Late Night This Week. The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was the big topic of this week, with the hosts discussing the number of households that watched live and Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris.
• How to Watch the Emmy Awards. The Emmys are on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, two hours after the red carpet festivities begin.
• The Penguin? You Sure It’s Him? Played by Colin Farrell under pounds of prosthetic makeup, the character anchors the latest superhero series, a bridge between “Batman” films that aims to be more than a mere brand extension.
• Late Night Enjoys Biden’s Encounter With a Trump Fan. When President Biden briefly donned a Trump hat, he “gave everyone in QAnon a brain aneurysm at once,” Jimmy Kimmel said.
• Where Every Cigarette Break Feels the Same, Feels the Same. And yet, compared with the British “Office,” it is a model of restraint.
• ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Royal Pains. This week’s focus was largely on the deepening political drama in Numenor and Khazad-dum, where things have gotten predictably messy.
• Jimmy Kimmel Chides Trump for His Debate Performance. “More than 67 million Americans watched the debate on television last night, and of that 67 million, the only one who seems to think Trump did a good job is Donald Trump,” Kimmel said.
• Harris Got the TV Show, And the Foil, She Wanted. In Tuesday’s debate, the vice president made herself the studio audience for a cringe comedy starring her opponent.
• Late Night Hosts Declare Harris the Winner in the Debate. Stephen Colbert said that the vice president needed to “rattle Trump’s cage. And now that it is over, they are still looking for pieces of his cage in low orbit.”
• The Cast Is Set for ‘S.N.L.’ Season 50. Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline will be the show’s new faces in its landmark season.
• Timing May Be Right For the Super Emmy. Fifty years ago, the Emmys created an uber-award in a widely derided stunt. But amid today’s category confusion, perhaps a super solution is required.
• Late Night Observes ‘Debate Night Eve’ Jimmy Kimmel predicted Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will face questions “on all the big issues: the economy, immigration, electrocution, sharks.”
• The Life-Changing Journey of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ The four actresses who played Lenù and Lila from adolescence to middle age discuss the end of the HBO series.
• This Week on TV. The VMAs, Creative Emmys and Emmy Awards are on the schedule, while ABC is hosting the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
• Complex Arcs Come Full Circle In the End. HBO’s Elena Ferrante adaptation completes one of the best portraits of a lifelong relationship ever made for TV.
• Kathy Bates Takes One Last Case. The Oscar winner found surprising depths in this reboot of the beloved procedural, which she said will be her final job. “This is my last dance,” she said.
• Pro Athletes Drawn to Anime. Young professional athletes are increasingly broadcasting their obsession with anime like “Pokémon” and “Naruto,” upending preconceptions about kinds of fandom.

Theater

• Family Tale That’s Fit For an Epic. No theatrical wizardry is needed for this compelling drama about a woman’s journey to Australia from war-torn Sri Lanka and the generations that follow.
• Opposites Reinvent Identities Together. A Bronx grifter and an Iowa homebody share a house and eventually learn from each other in this Broadway star vehicle.
• The Search For Love, With Songs. The duo behind the Broadway hit follow it up with a meta reflection on finding love online that is relatable and fun but lacking narrative drive.
• Two Chinese Dramas Broaden a Theater Festival’s Scope. By presenting “The Orphan of Chao” and “Snow in Midsummer,” the Shaw Festival is helping “the past to smash its way into the modern world.”
• ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Musical Plans Broadway Bow Next Year. The show, adapted from the play and movie, was first staged last winter at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
• Stars on Stage. George Clooney as Murrow! Denzel Washington as Othello! Mia Farrow as a larcenous landlord! So much to see!
• Jones Set an Example for Actors. The two actors talk about how the stage and screen great was a one-of-a-kind inspiration to them, and many others.
• Learning to Tumble Into Love Is Hard Work. As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.
• For James Earl Jones, The Stage Was Home. In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights.
• Lincoln Center Theater Chooses a New Leadership Team. DeBessonet, currently the artistic director of Encores!, will work alongside Bartlett Sher, who will serve as executive producer.
• Warhorses Saddled Up, With Today’s Concerns. Revivals of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Our Town,” “Gypsy” and “Sunset Boulevard” aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.
• James Earl Jones: A Life in Pictures. Onstage and in movies and television, Jones delivered with a deep, authoritative, powerful and sometimes menacing voice.
• Julianna Margulies’s Dream Role. The actress returns to Broadway after 18 years, starring in Delia Ephron’s new play about falling in love again after her husband’s death.

Books

• A French Punk Feminist Takes on #MeToo and Addiction. Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
• Pedro Almodóvar Offers A Bit of Paradox in Print. In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
• ‘Chaos’ Reigns! ‘Chaos’ is an unruly word for a volatile time. The election is the least of it.
• Reflecting On Legacy Of Caro’s Bold Book. Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
• One Weighty Tome Is Finally an E-Book. Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.
• It All Comes Down To This. The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it — doing any publicity — remains a challenge, she said.
• A Career Upheaval, Then an Unraveling. In his new memoir, the CNN veteran opens up about faith, his midlife career upheaval and that time he got into homemade laundry detergent.

Book Review

• Transitions. In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
• Robert Caro on 50 Years of ‘The Power Broker’ The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
• Horror That Illuminates Humanity’s True Monsters. The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
• A Wondrous Hymn to What’s Lost and Found. With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
• Paint It Black. Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
• 7 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Debt Was Supposed to Cure Poverty and Help Pay for College. What Went Wrong? Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.
• The Nothing That Is. Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.
• Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”
• His Poems Are a Joy to Hear, Even When Their Meanings Aren’t Clear. In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.
• Sex, Drugs, Raves and Heartbreak. In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.
• Escapes. A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste.
• The Book That Prepared This Veteran Editor for a Literary Life. A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.
• Pulling Back the Silicon Curtain. Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.
• What Makes the Far Right Tick? In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.
• An Unlikely Pair’s Difficult Pilgrimage From Rural Alabama to the White House. In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.
• In Liane Moriarty’s Bustling New Novel, Fate Takes Flight. There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.
• In ‘Still Life,’ a Trans Woman’s Homecoming Is Shaped by Grief. In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.
• Wander Lonely, Never Die and Other Things a Cloud Might Do. Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.
• Do You Know These Sports Books That Became Movies? Try this short quiz about screen adaptations and the source material that inspired them.
• The Endless Drama, and Tedium, of a Medical Mystery. Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”
• Did Ronald Reagan Pave the Way for Donald Trump? In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party.
• She’s Rich, Beautiful and Lethal to Men. Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.
• Was Iraq an ‘Artificial Nation’ Created by the West? This History Says No. A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.
• The Nicest Hostage Takers You’ll Ever Meet. In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due.
• She’s Been to Hell and Back. Now Comes the Reckoning. In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of her own.

Books Update

• Buried for Years in an Archive, a Novel by a Master of Horror Is Out. “Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.

Movies

• She’s Getting the Hang Of Being a Movie Star. The actress is seemingly everywhere this year, and in “The Substance,” she delves into an unusually disturbing new role.
• Coppola Sues After Report Said He Tried to Kiss ‘Megalopolis’ Extras. The director Francis Ford Coppola is seeking at least $15 million in damages from Variety.
• Five Horror Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include a silent killer, a demonically possessed painting and a hellish queer romance.
• 5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include documentaries for animal lovers and an animated fantasy from Ukraine.
• Transcendent Films Slice Through the Gloom. Films by Mati Diop, Raoul Peck and Mike Leigh, among others, mesh the personal and political in engrossing, insistent ways.
• 9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
• Ian McKellen Has Clapped Back at Critics. Now He’s Playing One. In the new film “The Critic,” he plays the titular acid-tongued reviewer in 1930s Britain, who is terrified of being outed as gay.
• Can a Film Find Something New to Say About the Border Crisis? “Borderland: The Line Within” takes a surprisingly multidisciplinary approach fueled by both personal history and government data.
• ‘Gladiator II’: Friends, Romans, Sharks. How the Colosseum, filled with water and stocked with predators, becomes the scene of epic naval combat in Ridley Scott’s sequel.
• Uglies. Joey King plays a teenager in a dystopian world where cosmetic surgery seems to be the cure for inequality.
• The Killer’s Game. An assassin (Dave Bautista) meets his match (Sofia Boutella), but a diagnosis sets off an absurd chain of events in this rom-com action movie.
• Winner. This dramedy starring Emilia Jones depicts the life and times of Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor and whistle-blower.
• Girls Will Be Girls. The filmmaker Shuchi Talati’s debut feature follows a model student and her stifled mother, who are both vying for the attention of a new crush.
• Matt and Mara. Two former college friends reconnect for a possible romance in this irritatingly vague and vapid drama.
• The Critic. Ian McKellen stars as a drama critic in 1930s London who has much higher standards for the theater than for his own professional ethics.
• The 4:30 Movie. The writer-director Kevin Smith looks back fondly on his New Jersey childhood in this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy.
• That Aggressively Friendly Man Seemed So Nice. In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!
• She’s 18 and Has a Chance to Meet Her Future Self at 39. A buoyant comedy with a big heart follows a teen girl who meets her older self the summer before college.
• Was James Earl Jones an EGOT Winner? It’s Complicated. The actor won just about every award he could — but his Oscar was an honorary one. Is that enough for an EGOT?
• Body Politics, and Demi Moore. She has become known for baring all (or, at least, a lot). But her work, including her newest film, “The Substance,” should be understood in a wider context.
• ‘The Room Next Door’ Wins Top Prize in Venice. The film, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, is the director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut.

Food

• The Plum Torte. Seven ingredients, five stars, 14,000 ratings and 41 years of being a stone-cold, stone-fruit classic.
• Late Summer Recipes for Early Cozy Season. Before we hit peak soup season (hello, lentil tomato soup), there’s still time for tomato curry and grilled eggplant with turmeric tahini.
• Parmesan Your Cauliflower. And char your eggplant, steam your blue crabs and stir-fry your potatoes.
• The Bars With the Best Free Food. Free hot dogs. Free fried olives. Free truffle popcorn. Did we mention it was free?
• La Grenouille, Vestige of New York’s Old-School French Dining, Will Close. Six decades after its birth as an elegant refuge for Manhattan’s elite, the Midtown restaurant says ‘adieu’ this week.
• Why Your Favorite Restaurant Sounds Like That. Owners are putting more thought than ever into the music playing through their speakers, sometimes tapping professionals for help.
• Chewy Brownie Cookies, Because I Don’t Like Playing Favorites. The fudgy, chocolaty goodness of a brownie meets the crisp edges of a cookie in Vaughn Vreeland’s perfect new recipe.
• Restaurant-Fancy Pasta for a Worn-Out Wednesday. Andy Baraghani’s minimalist crispy artichoke pasta keeps the prep time doable, with Parmesan, garlic and red pepper to round everything out.
• The Riches of Northern France in Fort Greene. Plus cocktails inspired by red sauce standards, bistro fare for the East Village and more restaurant news.
• Tortellini to the Rescue. Ali Slagle’s tortellini with prosciutto and peas turns a refrigerated staple into a surprisingly luxurious one-pan dinner.
• Sweet Surrender: Cult of the ‘Weiser Melons’ Let’s be honest, so am I.
• The Miracle of the One-Pot Recipe. Dan Pelosi’s new chicken and rice dish is a master class in ratios and timing.
• This Yucatán Marinade Is Perfect for Steak Tacos. The chef Alex Henry bucks tradition with a citrusy, garlicky, earthy mixture for sliced rib-eye.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Your Drinks Are Missing a Key Ingredient: Coconut Water. With its velvety mouthfeel and refreshing taste, this utility player is an excellent addition to cocktails, your morning coffee and more.
• Instead of Dry Martinis, It’s Great to Go Wet. The wet martini served by a new restaurant in Manhattan reflects an appreciation of vermouth that’s been a long time coming.

Style

• Shoes Off. Laptops Out. Airport Tray Photo Shoot? A new social media trend involves creatively arranging your TSA bins, and showing them off.
• Ella Emhoff Had a Busy New York Fashion Week. As Kamala Harris prepared for a big debate, her stepdaughter graced runways and front rows. Plus: purple hiking boots, the LVMH Prize and browsing for moisturizers.
• Before Every Race, a Sprinter Gets Into Character. Kenny Bednarek isn’t as flashy as some runners, but his Olympic medals, and a vast collection of anime-themed headbands, make him stand out.
• The Many Lives of Hannah Berner. The former tennis player and fired “Summer House” cast member has found her footing in comedy, with a hit Netflix special and a podcast tour.
• Hardships and Challenges Don’t Stop This Couple. Elizabeth Higgins Clark and Lauren Pomerantz endured quite a bit of grief after their 2018 wedding. Despite times of doubt, loneliness and loss, their relationship remained strong.
• Who Says Your Couch Can’t Match Your Sweater? Bold colors and bright patterns mark the first collaboration between fashion house Clare V. and home goods company Schoolhouse.
• PETA Wants More Than a Friendly Statement From Pharrell Williams. After an animal rights protest at a film premiere, Mr. Williams, the creative director of Louis Vuitton, said he had “plans to change things.”
• The Return of Oasis Hair. News of a new tour put the band — and the rough-hewed hairstyles popularized by its sibling frontmen, Liam and Noel Gallagher — back in the spotlight.
• Redefining American Style. A new generation of New York designers is changing the look of the country.
• The First ‘Golden Bachelorette’ Knows ‘It’s a Weird Way to Meet Somebody’ Joan Vassos, a 61-year-old school administrator and grandmother, didn’t find love on “The Golden Bachelor.” She’ll give it another try as the star of ABC’s new spinoff.
• After a Life of Competitive Sports, Love Is Now Their Priority. When Nicholas Scarvelis, who competed in the shot put for Greece in the 2016 Rio Olympics, decided to retire in 2022, he was finally able to plan a future with Noelle Zappia.
• South Meets North India at an Inclusive Hindu Wedding. When Dr. Yuvaram Reddy, who had lived in South India, and Chetan Jhaveri, who is of North Indian heritage, chose to marry, their families’ approval was crucial.
• Friends for 16 Years. Lovers for One Night. We realized much too late that we were right for each other.
• Former High School Classmates Finally Become Sweethearts. Austin Mills and Taylor Mills both attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, Calif., but didn’t connect until years later at an Los Angeles nightclub.
• After a Slow Start, Smooth Skating. Sarah Botwinick and Jason Pollack attended the same college at the same time, but their paths never crossed. After meeting through a dating app, not even a pandemic could stop their momentum.
• The National Park Service Is More Than Just Its Iconic Hat. For fashion week, the N.P.S. has its employees showing off their various uniform options. One ranger in North Dakota has stood out among his peers.
• First Comes Marriage. Then Comes the Rehearsal Dinner. Some couples are opting to get the wedding out of the way first, so they can relax and enjoy the rest of the festivities.
• September Is a Summer Month. Die-hard fans of the season say the best part starts after Labor Day.
• Dating After 40: It’s Not for the Weak of Heart. But neither is it hopeless. Forty-somethings describe their dips into the dating pool, ranging from horror stories to happy endings.
• Real Diversity at the Corner of Edgy and Traditional. The breadth of people in the streets at New York Fashion Week meant there was no shortage of great outfits.
• Calvin Klein Tries Something New. The buzzy designer Nensi Dojaka will offer a moodier take on the famous underwear. No tight white briefs or sweaty six-packs in sight.
• Why a YouTuber’s Drastic Weight Loss Went Viral. Nikocado Avocado, a popular vlogger known for his mukbang videos, said he spent the last two years plotting the reveal.
• A Rock Star’s Mystery Baby Offers a Lesson in Crisis Communication. The timing and content of Dave Grohl’s admission that he had a child outside his marriage was complimented for addressing the issue and relying on short memories.
• My Cousin’s Young Children Are Hellions! What Can I Do? A reader is unsure how best to help a cousin she sees as a little sister but who so far hasn’t asked for any parenting advice.
• Battle of the Political Brands. When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off on the debate stage, governing style was on display.
• Paul Smith. At 78, the designer, who stumbled into fashion when an accident ended a competitive cycling career, is still hurtling along at full speed.
• The Internet Spent Years Searching for Her. She Had No Idea. A mysterious woman came to be known on Reddit as Celebrity Number Six. She told us she is not sure how to feel about the sudden crush of attention.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Had a Crush on the Teacher’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Lindsay Lohan in Their Fashion Week Best. At a gala and auction in Midtown, the Kering Foundation drew one of the starriest crowds of New York Fashion Week.
• Inside the Funeral Home for New York’s Luminaries. Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
• Women Making Waves. Tory Burch plays to win, and Rachel Scott of Diotima has a star-making show.
• Trump Mocks Harris’s Height. But Her Fans See a Certain Stature. Kamala Harris is modest in stature, but is considered by some to have Tall Energy. Donald Trump has insisted she shouldn’t be allowed to use “boxes or artificial lifts” during the debate.
• 7 Apple Picking Tips From the Guy Behind Apple Ratings. Brian Frange has been pontificating on apples since 2016. He has a few things to say before you hit the orchards.
• An Eye for Fashion, and He’s Only 8. An interest in design and a knack for sewing have earned Max Alexander celebrity fans and millions of social media followers.
• Sweden’s Understated Power Couple of Style. The Stockholm fashion label Toteme has a no-nonsense, “pragmatic” look — and a lot of fans in New York.
• What Do You Believe In? We want to hear from you — whether you’re religious or not.
• Givenchy Appoints Sarah Burton as Creative Director. The British designer will be the second woman to oversee collections for the 72-year-old French brand.
• The Best View of New York. Off-White celebrates the allure of the melting pot.
• Are Special Clothes You Don’t Wear Anymore Worth Keeping? A reader wonders what she should do with the high-end garments that stay in her closet year round. Our fashion critic explains her options.
• At the U.S. Open, a Quest for $100 Chicken Nuggets. The tennis tournament is known for upscale offerings, but a new box of six “golden” nuggets drew a covetous crowd, and plenty of attention online.
• A Soap Star’s Dramatic Return to the Runway. Susan Lucci hits the catwalk for the first time since she took a memorable tumble. Plus: giant Loewe vegetables, poufy dresses and browsing for backpacks.
• A Buzzy U.S. Open Got an After-Party to Match the Vibe. Celebrities like Issa Rae and Nicky Hilton Rothschild, and former tennis stars like Maria Sharapova and James Blake, helped close out the tournament in style.
• Off-White Evolves With a New Catalyst. Ibrahim Kamara on Mr. Abloh’s fashion legacy and bringing the brand he built to New York Fashion Week.

Magazine

• Demi Moore Is Done With the Male Gaze. The actress discusses how her relationship to her body and fame has changed after decades in the public eye.
• My Friend’s Husband Makes Me Fear for Her Safety — and Mine. The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to help a friend who’s in a volatile marriage.
• Main Character Energy. Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
• My Ailing Mom Hates Pot. Do I Tell Her What’s in Her Gummies? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to notify an unsuspecting woman that she’s been consuming medicinal cannabis.
• Crisis Mode. UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, has survived 75 years of Israeli-Palestinian strife. Can it survive the latest conflict?
• Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. What if you’re comfortable and the fridge is really far away?
• In the Holiday Spirit: This smoky shrimp saganaki can inspire the feeling of a seaside vacation. Smoky saganaki can inspire the feeling of a seaside vacation.
• Spirited Away. The algorithm of entertainment was not built for ancient knowledge extracted from sacred spaces.
• Saints. Set aside the notion of flawless miracle workers. Focus instead on their exuberance and compassion, inner balance and commitment to a meaningful vocation.
• The Prince We Never Knew. A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.

T Magazine

• Blood Red Is the New Barbie Pink. And other cultural predictions based on movies that played at the Toronto International Film Festival, including Pedro Almodóvar’s latest.
• Fall’s Best Boots Are Rugged and Buckled. Here are our favorite pairs, in a range of prices.
• No Shoes, No Phones Allowed at This Brooklyn Shop. Plus: Sardinian furniture, a Jordan Casteel exhibition and more recommendations from T Magazine.
• In the South of France, a Utopian Town Inspired by Ancient Pyramids. Once derided, La Grande Motte, a surreal 1960s resort in the South of France, is increasingly seen as having been ahead of its time.

Travel

• Stuck During Tech Crash, Flying Solo. Airlines pledged assistance, refunds and reimbursements to passengers whose travel had been disrupted by this summer’s software outage. Instead, passengers told us, they were on their own.
• Walking From Manhattan to the Catskills on the ‘Long Path’ Intrigued by a trail marker he spotted upstate, a photographer set out to follow a meandering — and little-known — hiking route north from New York City.
• 36 Hours in Lima, Peru. Swim with sea lions, cycle along the coast, and gorge on ceviche and fried-fish sandwiches in Peru’s underappreciated capital.
• Thinking About a Solo Cruise? Here’s What to Know. As solo cruising becomes more popular, pricing and cabin types are changing. Deals can be found, especially with advance planning, but it takes a little know-how.
• Sacred Sites and Sun-Dappled Canals: Kyoto from the Water. The Japanese city is famous for its temples and gardens, but it is laced with waterways that can offer a different, and no less enchanting, view.
• Marseille Is for Pizza Lovers. Get the full flavor of France’s second-largest city through its favorite street food, whether it’s topped with raw garlic, sweet Corsican sausage, Emmental cheese or anchovies.
• British Country House Hotels, Without the Folderol. The Pig boutique hotels offer a casual take on the country house experience, with local food and muddy boots. They’ve just opened two new spots in the Cotswolds.

Real Estate

• Can I Bequeath My Co-Op To All Three of My Children? Passing a co-op to a family member is possible, but with multiple children, it can be a little more complicated.
• $800,000 Homes in Tulum, Mexico. A solar-powered home in the Mayan jungle, a duplex penthouse with a rooftop pool and a modern villa with a mural by the artist Jorge Tellaeche.
• One House, One Homeowner and More Than 100 Shades of White. The neutral can be very colorful, a homeowner learned the hard way. Take our quiz to see if you can tell the difference between shades.
• With a Baby on the Way, They Wanted to Buy a Three-Bedroom House in Chicago. When a couple learned they were expecting, finding a bigger home became a priority. Could they afford an extra bedroom, a decent kitchen and some outdoor space?
• Homes for Sale in Connecticut and New York. This week’s properties are three-bedroom homes in Westport, Conn., and Huntington, N.Y.
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens. This week’s properties are in Hell’s Kitchen, the financial district and Forest Hills.
• Onscreen Homes: Now Unaffordable. From “Friends” to “Breaking Bad” to “Twilight,” a study looked at current rents and home prices to see who could still live in the homes viewers know and love.
• Former Realtor Employee Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against Trade Group. A woman who worked for the National Association of Realtors says she was fired after she reported instances of sexual harassment and discrimination, according to a federal lawsuit.
• $1.4 Million Homes in Utah, Georgia and California. An 1890 Queen Anne Revival house in Salt Lake City, an 1872 brick townhouse in Savannah and a 1938 Spanish-style home in Albany.
• Native Landscapes Can Be Hard to Plant. But Help Is Here. The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be a member to use it.
• Making Music (and a Home) in Montclair. Christian McBride, the Grammy-winning bassist, was reluctant to move out of New York, but his wife, Melissa Walker, a jazz vocalist, turned a century-old house in New Jersey into a sanctuary.
• It’s Hard to Beat a Cozy Window Seat in the Fall. The best ones have several things in common, according to the pros. Here’s how to design yours.
• $2.5 Million Homes in California. A midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, a ranch-style retreat in Palm Springs and a modern farmhouse in St. Helena.
• The New York Apartment That Has Sheltered One Family for 86 Years. A rent-controlled apartment is a rare thing, and so is the family that shared their home with students and refugees, rent-free, over the decades.

Health

• Three Medical Practices That Older Patients Should Question. Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies have called a few into question.
• Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Prospect of Human Transmission. A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not tested, and the cause of the illness is unknown.
• W.H.O. Authorizes Mpox Vaccine, Clearing Way for Use in Africa. The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.
• Boar’s Head Shuts Virginia Plant Linked to Listeria Outbreak. The company said that the site would close indefinitely and that it would permanently stop making liverwurst. Union officials said the plant’s 500 workers would be given severance and offered relocation.
• A DebunkBot Nudges People Away From Conspiracy Theories. In a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot.
• Elevated Lead Levels Found in One-Third of Cinnamon Samples. Consumer Reports found lead in a variety of products, at a time when federal regulators are seeking authority from Congress to combat the problem of heavy metals in foods.
• Dr. Chatbot Will See You Now. Americans are already turning to A.I. for health information in large numbers, new research suggests.
• Easily Preventable, Cholera Is Spreading And Deaths Are Rising. Fatalities spiked 71 percent last year, far outpacing the 13 percent rise in cases, the World Health Organization said.
• Health Threat Found at Plant Two Years Ago. U.S. inspectors listed serious problems in 2022 that could have resulted in strict measures like a pause in production. But the plant continued operating, and some conditions persisted.
• Black Women Face More Unneeded C-Sections. Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found.
• Yale Settles With Patients Who Sued Over Painful Egg Retrievals. Patients received “substantial” payments, their lawyers said, and the clinic agreed to staffing changes.
• Teen Girls’ Brains Aged Rapidly During Pandemic, Study Finds. Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns.
• Animal Wet Markets Unnerve Scientists. It’s not just rural farms. Urban animal markets are fertile grounds for viral transmission, experts say.
• Quashing Inmates’ Opioid Cravings With a Shot. A sheriff fought to give prisoners addicted to opioids a shot that suppresses cravings for a month. Upon release, they were more likely to continue treatment.

Well

• End-of-Day Meltdowns Are Not Just for Kids. But there are ways to avoid them.
• Violent Convulsions and Lost Speech: Listeria Survivors Describe Harrowing Illnesses. The outbreak, linked to Boar’s Head products, has been especially devastating for high-risk groups like pregnant women and older adults.
• Real-Life ‘Golden Bachelorettes’ Would Like a Word. The series is selling a fantasy. But straight women in their 60s and 70s say the dating scene is anything but rosy.
• When States Banned Abortion, Sterilizations Rose Among Women. Experts said the new research finding underscored how abortion bans had affected women’s contraceptive choices.
• How to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke. Monitor air quality, prepare to stay inside and pay close attention to people with chronic conditions.
• How to Make Squats Easier on Your Knees. You can still work out, even if you your joints aren’t what they once were.
• A Tireless Quest For Maximizing Sweet Dreams. Online and off, so-called sleepmaxxers are going to extreme lengths in pursuit of better sleep. Is that a problem?

Family

• The Midlife Marriage Tuneup. Therapists and relationship researchers share 6 questions that can bring couples closer during this stage.

Live

• Gillian Anderson Wants Women to Put Pleasure First. With a new book about fantasies, the “Sex Education” star is hoping to help women tap into their most intimate desires — in and out of the bedroom.
• What Could a Menopause-Friendly Workplace Look Like? The Menopause Society announced a new initiative to support workers during this life stage. Whether employers implement it is another story.
• The Truth About ‘Man Flu’ Videos and memes mock men for overreacting when they catch an everyday illness. But is there a biological reason for men’s behavior?
• What to Know About the Mercury in Your Dental Fillings. The European Union banned mercury amalgam fillings to protect the environment. Should you worry about protecting your health, too?

Mind

• Adderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Risk, Study Says. New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants.
• Why Can’t I Get This Song Out of My Head? Here’s why earworms are never gonna give you up.

Times Insider

• How a TV Critic Navigates Endless Content. James Poniewozik, The New York Times’s chief television critic, discusses the state of modern television and the struggle to watch it all.
• Dissecting the Anatomy of an Online Scam. In a series for the Business desk, a reporter is chasing down sophisticated online scams that target Americans, particularly older adults.
• When Self-Driving Cars Don’t Actually Drive Themselves. An immersive article shows readers what a New York Times reporter has tracked for nearly a decade: Robot taxis still need human help.
• Exposing a Hospital Chain’s Disturbing Practices. Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas spent months looking into a psychiatric hospital chain that held some people against their will for financial reasons, not medical ones.
• In China, Searching for Sparks of ‘Twilight Love’ Every week, lonely retirees in the city gather in a public park — and an Ikea canteen — with one goal in mind: finding true love. Alexandra Stevenson shared their stories.

Corrections

• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Saturday, September 14, 2024.
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• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024.
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• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.
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• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Monday, September 9, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, September 8, 2024.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024.

Crosswords & Games

• The Connections Companion No. 462. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,184. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, September 15, 2024.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Interjection of Interest. Christina Iverson presents a clean and cozy themeless puzzle.
• The Connections Companion No. 461. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,183. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, September 14, 2024.
• Gets High on a Kite. Boaz Moser makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
• Wordle Review No. 1,182. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, September 13, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 460. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.
• Rewards for a ‘Good Boy’ Parker Higgins needs our help making good matches.
• Wordle Review No. 1,181. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, September 12, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 459. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024.
• Part of a Club. Barbara Lin reflects on common sayings.
• Wordle Review No. 1,180. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, September 11, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 458. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024.
• Give or Take. Daniel Bodily shows himself to be a man of letters.
• The Connections Companion No. 457. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,179. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, September 10, 2024.
• Words to Live By. Tim D’Alfonso makes his New York Times debut.
• The Connections Companion No. 456. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,178. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, September 9, 2024.
• Life Milestones. Meghan Morris’s Sunday puzzle asks us to save the date(s).

The Learning Network

• Would You Ever Want a Tattoo? Or do the price, the permanence and the pain scare you off?
• Road Trip. Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: circumvent. This word has appeared in 169 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 18, 2024. Should a bronze medal count the same as a gold when determining who won the Olympics? What’s the best way to rank countries based on medal count?
• What Students Are Saying About Summer Vacation and Heading Back to School. Welcome to a new year of Current Events Conversation!
• What’s Going On in This Picture? | Sept. 16, 2024. Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
• Conversations With Journalists: An Invitation for Teenagers. This fall we’re choosing some teen-friendly Times articles and inviting students to talk to the people who made them. Post your thoughts, ask questions or suggest ideas, and the reporters will reply!
• Forum 2 | How Often Do You Have Meaningful Conversations With People Who Don’t Share Your Views? More and more of us are living in bubbles with like-minded individuals. What have your experiences in having conversations across divides been?
• Smiley Faces. What do you think this image is communicating?
• Word of the Day: consternation. This word has appeared in 149 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Sleep Routine. What do you do to get ready for a good night’s rest?
• Word of the Day: volatile. This word has appeared in 684 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Is Your Reaction to the First Harris-Trump Debate? On Tuesday night, the candidates met for their only scheduled debate. Did you watch?
• Weekly Student News Quiz: Record Heat, Chicken Nuggets, Summer Song. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• Forum 1 | How Does Your Identity Inform Your Political Beliefs and Values? We invite you to introduce yourself and to think about when you first became aware of having political opinions. What do you think shaped them? Have they changed over time?
• Athletes and Anime. What fandoms are you a part of that might surprise people?
• Word of the Day: impunity. This word has appeared in 256 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Should Schools Ban Student Phones? More and more states are cracking down on students’ use of cellphones. Are these restrictions fair? Can they work?
• Word of the Day: scalable. This word has appeared in 31 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

En español

• México replantea su poder judicial, ¿en qué consiste el proyecto de ley? Una legislación divisiva y una gran modificación al sistema de impartición de justicia. Además: microbios en el espacio y Keaton, Keaton, Keaton.
• Pedro Almodóvar ha escrito un libro que no puede clasificar. En ‘El último sueño’, el director español, maestro del cine enigmático, ofrece un vistazo a su complicada relación con la creatividad y la mortalidad.
• El planeta Tierra captura una nueva miniluna. La roca espacial fue detectada recientemente por telescopios terrestres y puede informar sobre otros objetos que pasan cerca del planeta, incluyendo los que a veces chocan con él.
• Jon Bon Jovi ayudó a una mujer que quería saltar de un puente. El cantante, que estaba grabando un video musical en las inmediaciones, ayudó a poner a salvo a una mujer en Nashville.
• Cómo hacer sentadillas sin dañar tus rodillas. Puedes seguir haciendo ejercicio aunque tus articulaciones ya no sean lo que eran.
• México está dividido frente al nuevo plan para elegir a los jueces. Mientras una amplia propuesta para elegir casi 7000 jueces se aproxima a convertirse en ley, algunos mexicanos se han manifestado contra ella. Otros han celebrado la posibilidad de votar por los jueces.
• Con Edmundo González asilado en España, las esperanzas de democracia se reducen en Venezuela. La decisión del candidato opositor de solicitar asilo en España y el antagonismo del líder autocrático, Nicolás Maduro, hacia las potencias regionales reducen las posibilidades de una transición política.
• ¿Y si nuestra obsesión por dormir mejor nos roba el sueño? El tiempo total de sueño ha aumentado en las dos últimas décadas, según la encuesta anual del gobierno federal sobre cómo emplean su tiempo los estadounidenses.
• ¿Quién le teme a la esposa tradicional? Por qué las mujeres que se disfrazan de amas de casa de la década de 1950 están enloqueciendo a internet.

América Latina

• Disney no pudo vencer al Mickey paraguayo. Mickey, una empresa paraguaya de envasado de alimentos, es famosa por enfrentarse a Disney en la Corte Suprema del país. Ahora que el negocio familiar cumple 90 años, ¿por qué sigue siendo tan popular?
• México rehace todo su sistema judicial: los estados respaldan una amplia modificación. El plan, impulsado por el presidente de México, prevé que los votantes elijan a los jueces de todos los niveles, restructurando drásticamente el tercer poder del Estado.
• ¿La elección de jueces mejorará los tribunales mexicanos o los politizará? Un cambio radical haría que miles de jueces, desde los juzgados locales hasta la Suprema Corte, sean electos en lugar de designados.
• Mientras Venezuela se hunde en la autocracia, EE. UU. impone sanciones limitadas. Observadores y analistas consideran poco probable que las sanciones contra 16 funcionarios nombrados por el autoritario presidente de Venezuela sean efectivas.
• Muere Alberto Fujimori, exlíder de Perú encarcelado por abusos a los derechos humanos. Durante una década en el poder, reactivó la economía y aplastó dos violentas insurgencias izquierdistas. Se vio obligado a dejar el cargo por un escándalo de corrupción y luego fue encarcelado.
• Así es como México podría transformar radicalmente su sistema judicial. La legislación aprobada por el Congreso podría producir una de las reestructuraciones judiciales de mayor alcance en cualquier gran democracia.
• El Senado de México aprueba la iniciativa para replantear el sistema judicial del país. La aprobación de la mayoría de los senadores eliminó el último gran obstáculo a las amplias propuestas defendidas por el presidente, que han provocado manifestaciones en todo el país.
• Observadores electorales venezolanos son obligados a exiliarse en Colombia. The New York Times habló con varios voluntarios que huyeron del país tras recibir amenazas de muerte de los partidarios de Maduro.
• Muere el jefe de policía de El Salvador en un accidente de helicóptero. Mauricio Arriaza Chicas dirigió las fuerzas policiales del país durante una campaña contra la violencia de las pandillas. El presidente, Nayib Bukele, expresó dudas de que el accidente hubiera sido fortuito.
• Edmundo González, candidato de la oposición venezolana, se refugia en España. El líder, considerado ganador de las disputadas elecciones presidenciales de julio, se enfrentaba a una orden de detención emitida por un tribunal venezolano que se ocupa de “delitos asociados al terrorismo”.
• La suspensión de X en Brasil causa caos en los negocios digitales. De la noche a la mañana, muchos brasileños que habían consolidado sus negocios en la red social de Elon Musk se vieron forzados a buscar frenéticamente nuevas plataformas.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• El ‘médico rural’ que transformó nuestra manera de ver la demencia. Francisco Lopera desafió rebeldes, carteles y murciélagos vampiro para convertirse en un investigador pionero del alzhéimer.
• Los europeos habrían consumido coca mucho antes de lo que se pensaba. Las evidencias extraídas de restos humanos en una cripta en Italia son el caso más antiguo de uso de hojas de coca en la Europa premoderna, unos 200 años antes de que se aislara la droga de la planta.
• La primera caminata espacial privada desde la cápsula de SpaceX logra un nuevo hito. Jared Isaacman, el multimillonario que dirige la misión Polaris Dawn, y Sarah Gillis, ingeniera de SpaceX, salieron y volvieron a entrar en su nave espacial en una prueba de tecnologías espaciales comerciales.
• El cerebro de las adolescentes habría madurado más rápido de lo usual en la pandemia. Las neuroimágenes de un estudio revelaron que las niñas experimentaron un adelgazamiento cortical mucho más rápido que los niños en el primer año de confinamiento por covid.
• Hay microbios en el aire a 3000 metros de altura. En 10 vuelos sobre Japón, los investigadores encontraron una serie de bacterias y hongos. Esos microbios a grandes altitudes podrían contribuir a diseminar enfermedades alrededor del mundo.
• Lo que hay que saber sobre la misión Polaris Dawn. Esta misión espacial privada, cuyo despegue está programado para las 5:23 a. m. hora del este del martes, busca llevar a humanos más lejos de la Tierra de lo que nadie ha viajado desde el final de las misiones lunares Apolo de la NASA.
• La IA ya puede crear videos realistas. ¿Puedes detectarlos? Pon a prueba tu habilidad para distinguirlos en este test.

Cultura

• La primera película sobre música pop que demuestra su mediocridad. Este verano, “La trampa”, de M. Night Shyamalan, se esfuerza por convertir a su estrella ficticia —y a sus fans— en héroes.
• Paciencia, constancia y creatividad: las claves del estrellato de Gabriela Ortiz. La compositora residente del Carnegie Hall esta temporada, mexicana, ha dedicado su carrera a canalizar los sonidos y sensibilidades de América Latina.
• Chad McQueen, actor de ‘Karate Kid’, muere a los 63 años. McQueen, hijo de Steve McQueen, es más conocido por su papel de Dutch en la franquicia clásica de culto de los años 80 “Karate Kid”.
• El legado fílmico de James Earl Jones. Seleccionamos 12 películas que muestran la brillante voz de Jones y sus dotes como actor de carácter.
• Michael Keaton Michael Keaton Michael Keaton. En “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, el actor retoma un papel ya consagrado en la cultura pop, con 35 años de altibajos y una nominación al Oscar en su haber.

Deportes

• Elena Congost, maratonista paralímpica, pierde el bronce luego de ayudar a su guía. Una corredora con discapacidad visual soltó brevemente la cuerda que la conectaba a su guía después de que él tuvo un calambre cerca de la línea de meta, lo que le costó la medalla de bronce.
• Tyreek Hill, jugador de los Miami Dolphins, fue detenido antes de un partido. El receptor abierto fue liberado antes de protagonizar una victoria contra los Jacksonville Jaguars el domingo. Un agente de policía involucrado en el episodio fue destinado a tareas administrativas.

Estados Unidos

• Laura Loomer, una instigadora de las redes sociales, vuelve al lado de Trump. La decisión del expresidente de encumbrar a Loomer, una activista de extrema derecha conocida por sus publicaciones racistas y homófobas en internet, ha dejado atónitos incluso a algunos aliados.
• ¿Qué efecto puede tener el respaldo de Taylor Swift a Kamala Harris? Es imposible saber exactamente la diferencia que marcará, pero he aquí algunas maneras de pensar sobre la cuestión.
• Trump dice que no volverá a debatir con Harris. La declaración se produce tras su actuación en el debate del martes que fue ampliamente criticada. En el pasado, Trump ya había dudado si participar o no en los debates.
• La historia de cómo Taylor Swift decidió respaldar a Kamala Harris. La estrella del pop coronó una gran noche para Kamala Harris con un inesperado apoyo que podría atraer a más votantes jóvenes. El mensaje político de Swift también fue directo y personal.
• Un afligido padre de Ohio pide a Trump y Vance que dejen de hablar de su hijo. Nathan Clark dice que los candidatos están explotando la muerte de su hijo en un accidente causado por un inmigrante a las afueras de la pequeña ciudad de Springfield.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Harris vs. Trump. Our polling averages track the latest trends in the presidential race, using data from national and battleground state polls.
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• Encuestas electorales 2024: Pensilvania. See the latest election polls and polling averages for Pennsylvania.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Georgia. See the latest election polls and polling averages for Georgia.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Virginia. See the latest election polls and polling averages for Virginia.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Carolina del Norte. See the latest election polls and polling averages for North Carolina.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Míchigan. See the latest election polls and polling averages for Michigan.
• Encuestas electorales 2024: Minnesota. See the latest election polls and polling averages for Minnesota.
• Una princesa alemana dice que alojó al juez Samuel Alito en su castillo. La princesa Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, conservadora, dijo que Alito y su esposa eran sus amigos y no respondió si había hecho otros regalos al juez. La pareja se quedó en el castillo durante un festival musical en julio de 2023.
• Al debatir con Trump, las expresiones de Harris fueron un arma. Serena y sin perder la compostura, Kamala Harris usó sus palabras, y sobre todo su lenguaje corporal, para desestabilizar a Donald Trump, provocar su ira y luego simplemente dejar que se hiciera daño a sí mismo.
• El secretario de Defensa revocó un acuerdo sobre el 11-S, ahora un juez evalúa su decisión. Te explicamos cómo podría desarrollarse la última controversia de EE. UU. en el largo caso de pena de muerte en Guantánamo relacionado al atentado del 11-S.
• El momento en que Trump perdió el rumbo durante el debate. Un lapso de cuatro minutos, en el que el expresidente divagó entre el tamaño de las multitudes en los mítines y las teorías conspirativas sobre los gatos, pareció alterar la trayectoria de la noche.
• 6 conclusiones del debate presidencial entre Harris y Trump. La vicepresidenta se adueñó de gran parte de la noche, manteniendo a Trump a la defensiva y evitando que se centrara la atención en sus propias vulnerabilidades.
• ‘Se están comiendo a los gatos’: Trump repitió una falsedad sobre los inmigrantes. El expresidente difundió una descabellada teoría de internet desde el escenario del debate, provocando las risas de su contrincante, la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris.
• Taylor Swift anuncia su respaldo a Kamala Harris después del debate. En un post en Instagram, la superestrella del pop dijo que el debate de la noche del martes la convenció de opinar públicamente.
• Sí, Kamala Harris tiene una pistola. Al rebatir una afirmación del expresidente Donald Trump durante el debate, la vicepresidenta dijo que poseía un arma y añadió: “No vamos a quitarle las armas a nadie”.
• Melania Trump reaparece en una serie de videos enigmáticos tras meses de silencio. En uno de ellos, publicado en línea el martes, la ex primera dama reflexiona con tono conspiranoico sobre el atentado contra la vida de su marido. Los videos pretenden promocionar unas nuevas memorias.
• Debate Trump-Harris: Análisis, verificaciones y resumen. Nuestros periodistas analizan y verifican en directo los datos del debate de Filadelfia. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
• Estos son los posibles puntos de ataque del debate entre Harris y Trump. Puede que Donald Trump y Kamala Harris no se vuelvan a encontrar durante esta campaña. Esta noche tienen un enorme y fugaz espacio para cambiar la forma en que los votantes ven a su rival.
• La edad de Trump, y sus capacidades, serán puestas a prueba en el debate presidencial. Sin Joe Biden en la contienda, Donald Trump sería la persona de más edad en ocupar el Despacho Oval. Pero sus enredadas declaraciones públicas han suscitado preocupación entre los votantes.
• Heritage Foundation difunde videos engañosos sobre votantes extranjeros. El grupo de derecha ha estado difundiendo información errónea sobre el voto en las redes sociales. La oficina del secretario de Estado de Georgia calificó un video de “artimaña”.
• Debate Trump-Harris: qué podemos esperar. Los candidatos se preparan para el debate del martes por la noche, el único que tienen programado. Analizamos los aspectos más importantes que podrían discutir.
• Trump amenaza con procesar a abogados, donantes y otros si gana las elecciones. En una publicación en redes sociales, el expresidente Donald Trump escribió “cuando gane, esas personas que hicieron trampa serán procesadas con todo el peso de la ley”.
• Se enfría el apoyo a Kamala Harris, según una nueva encuesta. Es la primera encuesta nacional no partidista en un mes en que Donald Trump aventaja a la vicepresidenta; casi el 30 por ciento de los votantes dijo que necesitaban saber más sobre ella.
• La madre del sospechoso de Georgia llamó a la escuela minutos antes del tiroteo. La mujer le contó a sus familiares que se puso en contacto con la escuela el miércoles por la mañana, advirtiendo de una emergencia, según dijo una tía del sospechoso el sábado.
• Así se preparan Donald Trump y Kamala Harris para el debate. Aunque los preparativos de las campañas de los candidatos para la gran noche de Filadelfia no podrían ser más diferentes, ambas partes reconocen la importancia del encuentro.

Estilos de Vida

• ¿Por qué no puedo quitarme esta canción de la cabeza? He aquí algunas razones por las que los gusanos auditivos nunca te abandonarán.
• Tocando por última vez a mi primer amante. Él no podía hablar ni moverse, pero la energía sexual entre nosotros seguía siendo palpable.
• Antes era resiliente. ¿Qué me pasó? Hoy en día, que se me atraviese un carro en pleno tráfico puede llevarme a una montaña rusa emocional. Así que pregunté a los expertos cómo ser más fuerte mentalmente.
• Dave Grohl, estrella de rock, ofrece una lección de comunicación de crisis. La admisión del músico de que tuvo una hija fuera de su matrimonio fue elogiada por abordar el tema y confiar en la memoria a corto plazo de internet.
• Internet pasó años buscándola. Ella no tenía idea. Por cinco años, miles de usuarios de Reddit intentaron encontrar a la dueña de un enigmático rostro, conocida simplemente como la Celebridad Número 6. Este mes, la búsqueda llegó a su fin.
• Lo que hay que saber sobre el mercurio de los empastes dentales. La Unión Europea prohibió los empastes de amalgama de mercurio para proteger el medio ambiente. ¿Deberías preocuparte si tienes alguno?
• ¿Son algunos alimentos ultraprocesados peores que otros? Un nuevo estudio podría ofrecer las mayores pistas hasta la fecha.

Mundo

• Putin ha lanzado muchas advertencias a Occidente. ¿Esta vez será diferente? Vladimir Putin dijo que permitir que Ucrania use armas occidentales de largo alcance significaría que los países de la OTAN estarían “en guerra con Rusia”. Fue una de sus amenazas más directas hasta la fecha.
• China eleva la edad de jubilación por primera vez desde la década de 1950. La medida enfrentó una amplia oposición, tanto de los trabajadores mayores como de los más jóvenes debido a que tendrían que esperar más para recibir unas prestaciones demasiado bajas.
• Las fuerzas rusas intensifican los ataques contra una ciudad estratégica, según Ucrania. Los bombardeos están aumentando en Pokrovsk y sus alrededores, en el este de Ucrania, con el suministro de agua ahora cortado, mientras que los soldados rusos presionan simultáneamente un nuevo contraataque en la región de Kursk.
• Un ataque israrelí mata a 18 personas en Gaza, según las autoridades. Al reanudar su ofensiva contra los militantes en Cisjordania, Israel siguió bombardeando la Franja de Gaza y afectó una escuela utilizada como refugio para desplazados. Entre los fallecidos había 6 trabajadores de la ONU.
• En Ucrania, las mujeres se arreglan las uñas como un acto de resistencia. Hacerse una manicura puede parecer una preocupación trivial cuando el destino del país está en juego, pero este acto de cuidado personal está protegiendo a las ucranianas del colapso.
• Y la número 1 del breaking mundial es… ¿Raygun? Con sus pantalones deportivos verdes y sus saltos de canguro, la competidora australiana causó revuelo en los Juegos de París. Ahora es la líder en la clasificación mundial. ¿Qué pasó?
• La historia de ‘Ivan el Trol’ y sus virales armas impresas en 3D. Desde su casa de Illinois, defiende las armas para todos. El Times confirmó su nombre real y relacionó el arma de fuego que ayudó a diseñar con terroristas, narcotraficantes y luchadores por la libertad en al menos 15 países.
• ¿Amor en el pasillo 9? Una moda de TikTok llena los supermercados de solteros. ¿Por qué la cadena española de supermercados Mercadona se ha convertido en un centro de ligue? ¿Y qué tienen que ver las piñas?
• Dominique Pelicot, acusado de violar y drogar a su esposa en Francia, está en el hospital. La abogada de Pelicot insistió en que su cliente tenía previsto subir al estrado y declarar ante su esposa y sus tres hijos, quienes no se han comunicado con él desde su detención en 2020.
• Grecia impondrá restricciones a cruceros para contener el turismo. Las nuevas normas pretenden aliviar la presión que la industria vacacional ejerce sobre las comunidades y hacen eco de las medidas tomadas contra el turismo excesivo en otros destinos europeos importantes.
• Los gazatíes contemplan la idea de una posguerra con presencia de Israel. Algunos dicen que soportarán de mala gana una presencia militar israelí de posguerra en el territorio si eso les permite volver a casa. A otros les preocupa otra ocupación a largo plazo.
• Catalina, princesa de Gales, concluye el tratamiento de quimioterapia. “Hacer lo que pueda para mantenerme libre de cáncer es ahora mi objetivo”, dijo en mensaje en video
• ¿El Pacífico es un ‘vertedero’ de sacerdotes acusados o condenados por abusos? A lo largo de varias décadas, más de 30 sacerdotes y misioneros católicos relacionados con abusos de menores en Occidente han sido trasladados a naciones insulares remotas.
• Testifica la hija de Gisèle Pelicot: ‘¿Cómo se reconstruye una desde las cenizas?’ Caroline Darian dijo que estaba traumatizada no solo por lo que los fiscales dijeron que le había ocurrido a su madre, sino también por el miedo a que ella misma hubiera sido víctima de abusos por parte de su padre, Dominique Pelicot.

Negocios

• ¿Tus personajes favoritos de la televisión y el cine podrían costear sus casas hoy en día? De “Friends” a “Los Soprano”, pasando por “Mi pobre angelito”, un estudio analizó los precios actuales de alquileres y viviendas para ver si sus protagonistas podrían permitirse las casas que los espectadores conocen y adoran.
• Boeing enfrenta una huelga de trabajadores por primera vez desde 2008. Miles de trabajadores que construyen aviones comerciales en las áreas de Seattle y Portland, en Oregón, rechazaron un contrato tentativo recomendado por los líderes sindicales, lo que podría costarle miles de dólares a la empresa.
• De meme a material de campaña: Trump y las afirmaciones falsas sobre mascotas muertas en Ohio. Las falsedades según las cuales los migrantes en Ohio están matando gatos y decapitando patos se hicieron virales esta semana. La campaña de Trump las hizo suyas.
• Le prometieron un gran trabajo. Luego lo convirtieron en un estafador. El ugandés Jalil Muyeke viajó a Tailandia en busca de una prometedora oportunidad de trabajo. Acabó siendo víctima de trata en una operación de ciberdelincuencia.
• Huawei muestra al mundo su teléfono ‘tríptico’ de 2800 dólares. El último anuncio del rival chino de Apple se ha producido apenas unas horas después de la presentación del iPhone 16.
• Google y Apple enfrentan sanciones millonarias al perder apelaciones en la UE. Los casos han consolidado a la Unión Europea como el principal organismo de control tecnológico del mundo; también han suscitado dudas sobre si el organismo puede seguir el ritmo de la tecnología.
• Apple presenta nuevos iPhones con inteligencia artificial integrada. La compañía dijo que los teléfonos resumirán las notificaciones, ofrecerán recomendaciones de escritura y permitirán encontrar fotos más rápidamente describiendo una imagen a Siri.
• Así es como Elon Musk influye en las políticas de Donald Trump. La rápida evolución de su amistad política se ha convertido en un problema potencial, ya que los negocios en expansión de Musk pueden presentar conflictos de intereses si Trump es elegido en noviembre.
• Debate Trump-Harris: 90 minutos clave para dos candidatos y una cadena televisiva. ABC News está bajo la lupa mientras sus periodistas se preparan para moderar el debate, uno de los momentos más escrutados de la campaña de 2024.
• Tras 40 años en Univision, Jorge Ramos se despide de la cadena. TelevisaUnivision anunció el lunes que Ramos y la cadena habían acordado mutuamente no renovar su contrato.

Opinión

• Los talibanes han ido demasiado lejos. No hay mejor manera de describir a lo que se enfrentan las mujeres afganas que el apartheid de género. El reconocimiento internacional del apartheid de género como crimen de lesa humanidad tendría un gran poder moral.
• Me encanta Taylor Swift. Su apoyo político no debería importar. Es seductor pensar que las superestrellas pueden influir en las elecciones. Pero no debemos esperar que los famosos nos salven del duro trabajo de ganarnos a la gente.

Weather

• Monitoreo de la tormenta tropical Gordon, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Gordon.
• Here is the latest on the storm.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Gordon. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Gordon.
• Monitoreo de la tormenta tropical Ileana, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Ileana.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Ileana. See the likely path for Ileana.
• Storm Brings Harrowing Night of Howling Winds and Rising Waters in Louisiana. Waters rose and then receded quickly in New Orleans and communities to its southwest, where Hurricane Francine made landfall.
• Inside a Storm Center Rebuilt After Hurricane Katrina’s Destruction. In 2005, the center operated out of an old bowling alley in the town of Bay St. Louis, right next to the Gulf of Mexico.
• A night inside the county storm center that was rebuilt after Katrina’s destruction.
• Rain bands were lashing the Florida Panhandle. Here’s what to know.
• Francine Floods New Orleans Areas Scarred by Past Storms. Southern Louisiana residents braced for floods as the storm passed through. Many were in neighborhoods that were battered by Katrina and Ida.
• Six-foot stilts may not be enough to save a marina on the Louisiana coast.
• Rising Storm Water From Francine Threatens Marina on Louisiana Coast. Tropical Storm Francine has battered homes and businesses in southern Louisiana with heavy rain. Even stilts six feet above the ground may not be enough to save one marina.
• Floodgates help New Orleans prevent damage from storm surge. What are they?
• Francine Arrives in a Region With Painful Memories of Past Storms. Francine could cut a somewhat similar path as Hurricane Ida, which left a trail of devastating consequences in 2021.
• The Hurricane Season Is Suddenly Looking More Active. Forecasters are watching more than just Francine, as several other storm systems could become the next named storm in the Atlantic.
• In New Orleans, Streets Turn Quiet as Water Builds Ahead of Francine’s Landfall. As Francine, a Category 1 hurricane, barreled toward Louisiana, many residents stayed indoors, concerned about potential flooding and power outages.
• This Louisiana gas station is always open. Francine is forcing it to close.
• For those riding out the storm, there were many reasons to stay.
• This hurricane season was expected to be busy.
• ‘There’s a storm coming?’ A Mississippi casino braces for Francine, but patrons are still rolling the dice.
• How to Stay Safe When the Power Goes Out. Improper use of portable generators carries several risks, including carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Gulf Coast States Have Been Battered by Hurricanes in Recent Years. Here’s a look at storms that have hit the area in the last few years.
• Scarred by past floods, Baton Rouge braces for damage.
• The storm is an early test for Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana.
• With Strong Memories of Katrina, Mississippi Braces for Francine. The governor declared a state of emergency as residents sandbagged homes and considered evacuating.
• The storm could still gain strength. Here’s what to know. The storm is expected to make landf
• Hurricane Francine Bears Down on Louisiana. The storm is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, bringing the threat of powerful winds, storm surge and flash flooding.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Bebinca. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Bebinca.
• Monitoreo de la tormenta tropical Francine, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Francine.
• Louisiana Battens Down as Francine Threatens to Make Landfall as a Hurricane. Forecasters warned that cities along the Louisiana coast could see heavy rainfall and a “dangerous” storm surge. Many residents were rushing to get supplies as the storm neared.
• Francine Could Be Fueled by Gulf of Mexico’s Warm Waters. Francine is forecast to become a Category 2 hurricane before landfall this week, but an even stronger hurricane isn’t out of the question.
• What to Expect From Tropical Depression Francine. Francine became a Category 2 storm just before making landfall on Wednesday afternoon, then weakened. Here’s what comes next.
• Tracking Tropical Depression Francine. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Francine.

Video

• Venezuelan Election Observers Forced Into Exile in Colombia. Volunteer election observers who collected vote tallies at precincts across Venezuela found that the opposition candidate Edmundo González had received more votes than President Nicolás Maduro did in July’s election. The New York Times spoke to se...

Headway

• Why Teen Voices Matter in the 2024 Election. Introducing the Headway Election Challenge, a running conversation with teenagers about their role in U.S. democracy.