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• Vaccines for Young Kids? Some parents are hesitant to vaccinate 5-11-year-olds.
• A Governor’s High School Basketball Dreams Are Blocked. And He Is Crying Foul. As his state was battered by Covid-19, Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia applied to coach a boys’ team in his spare time. When the school board rejected him, he threatened to haul the members before a judge.
• Even California Has a Mosquito Problem. It looks as if an invasive species will be a regular summer scourge.
• ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ or Dangerous Nuisance? A Hawaiian Landmark Is Set to Be Scrapped. Honolulu officials said that maintaining the Haiku Stairs, an illegal hiking trail of 3,922 steps that crosses a mountain range, is too much of a liability.
• Lawsuits Filed Against Texas Doctor Could Be Best Tests of Abortion Law. Legal experts said two lawsuits filed this week might test the constitutionality of the Texas law more than federal challenges by abortion providers and the Justice Department.
• Gabby Petito’s Death Ruled a Homicide, F.B.I. Confirms. The search continues for Brian Laundrie, Ms. Petito’s fiancé, who has been named a person of interest in the case.
• Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today. J. & J. boosters.
• Read the Trump campaign’s internal memo. Last November, communications staff members on the Trump campaign hastily assembled a memo examining outlandish election claims. The memo found that many of the allegations were baseless.
• Key Biden allies express outrage over Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian migrants. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said that the administration could not “continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies that disregard our refugee laws.”
• House Democrats introduced the ‘Protecting Our Democracy Act.’ The broad package of new curbs to executive power is a response to numerous norms of self-restraint that former President Donald J. Trump violated.
• The House approves a spending bill that would raise the debt ceiling, setting up a clash with Republicans. The bill, which passed with only Democratic votes in the closely divided House, appears doomed in the Senate.
• In California, Even Fire-Resistant Trees Need to Be Protected From Flames. Giant sequoias struggle to withstand the intensity of recent fires.
• When Sacred Ground Is Also Multimillion-Dollar Real Estate. What to do with the site of the collapsed condo in Surfside, Fla.? There is no easy way to both honor victims and compensate condo owners.
• Lawsuits are filed against a Texas doctor who said he performed an abortion. The suits, brought by men in Arkansas and Illinois, appear to be the first under a state law that bans most abortions after the six-week mark.
• D.C.’s mayor says adults in schools and eligible student-athletes must get vaccinated by Nov. 1. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s announcement eliminates an earlier testing option for school employees but retains exemptions for religious or health reasons.
• Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today. Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine
• In Tennessee, some worry that politics is hampering the pandemic response. Gov. Bill Lee is ‘trying to walk this tightrope’ between the coronavirus and a political base that opposes efforts to rein it in, a Republican state senator says.
• ‘America’s Oldest Park Ranger’ Is Only Her Latest Chapter. Betty Reid Soskin has fought to ensure that American history includes the stories that get overlooked. As she turns 100, few stories have been more remarkable than hers.
• Pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children 5 to 11. Will parents buy in? Children have so far been vaccinated at lower rates than adults, and polling indicates greater hesitation among parents of younger children.
• California’s New Housing Laws: Here’s What to Know. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two bills aimed at easing the state’s housing crisis.
• At the Supreme Court, a Plea to Reveal Secret Surveillance Rulings. The justices will soon consider whether to hear a case arguing that the First Amendment requires disclosure of a secret court’s major rulings.
• U.S. Troops Are Still Deploying to Iraq, Even as Afghan War Ends. In the other country the United States invaded after 9/11, American troops continue to serve combat tours in harm’s way. Meet the soldiers headed for duty in Iraq.
• In Texas Border Town, Residents Feel Impact of Migrant Crisis. The influx of thousands of migrants has led to squalor under a bridge, and a dispirited town beyond it.
• What we know about Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of Gabrielle Petito. Mr. Laundrie, who is missing, was the last known person to have been with Ms. Petito before she went missing, according to the authorities.
• Police in Utah previously encountered couple during their cross-country journey. The police in Moab, Utah, responded to a report of a “domestic problem,” saying the couple got “into some sort of argument.”
• Who is Gabrielle Petito? Gabrielle Petito had worked as a pharmacy technician to save money for a crosscountry trip with her boyfriend.
• The remains believed to belong to a woman who disappeared during a van trip have been found. The authorities said they had found human remains in Wyoming consistent with a description of Gabrielle Petito, 22. The authorities continue to search for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie.
• The human remains were found in a remote, but popular, camping destination. Ms. Petito was last known to be driving toward the area with her fiancé as they embarked on a cross-country trip, according to her family.
• Rose, the Third Tropical Storm in Recent Days, Is Expected to Weaken. The storm, which formed off the west coast of Africa, is currently not expected to impact the U.S. directly, a meteorologist said.
• Beto O’Rourke Draws Closer to Entering Texas Governor’s Race. Mr. O’Rourke has been calling Democratic leaders in Texas to tell them he is seriously considering challenging Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022.
• Remains Believed to Be Missing Woman in Van Mystery Are Found. The authorities said remains found in Wyoming were consistent with a description of Gabrielle Petito, 22. She was reported missing after her fiancé returned alone from a cross-country van trip.
• Military Jet Crashes in Texas Backyard, Injuring 2 Pilots. Three homes were damaged and three residents treated for minor injuries, the Fort Worth Fire Department said. “It could have been a lot worse,” a fire chief said.
• Tropical Storm Peter Forms in the Atlantic Ocean. The 16th named storm of the 2021 season formed in the open ocean, east of the Caribbean.
• Alabama Begins Removing Racist Language From Its Constitution. Many outdated provisions have long since been invalidated, but the language that was specifically intended to enshrine white supremacy has remained.
• The ‘Murdaugh Murders’: What to Know About the South Carolina Mystery. The unsolved killings of a lawyer’s wife and son have brought new scrutiny to three other deaths in recent years.
• In the Heart of Nashville, Rolling Parties Rage at Every Stoplight. As Nashville’s popularity has grown, so has the “transportainment” business — a motley assortment including old buses, farm tractors and a truck with a hot tub. Many think it has gotten out of hand.
• Texas Doctor Says He Performed an Abortion in Defiance of New State Law. In an opinion essay in The Washington Post titled “Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban,” Dr. Alan Braid wrote, “I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly.”
• California governor says two of his children have tested positive for the coronavirus. Gavin Newsom’s office said the state’s first family was “following all Covid protocols.”
• In Orange County, the Recall’s Defeat Echoes Years of G.O.P. Erosion. Voters struck down the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, continuing the political seesawing that has defined the former Republican stronghold.
• Three Weeks After Hurricane Ida, Parts of Southeast Louisiana Are Still Dark. As businesses and schools have reopened in New Orleans, ongoing power outages in communities just beyond the city put recovery out of reach.
• Texas Lawmakers, After a Rightward Shift, Plan for More of the Same. The state recently completed one of its most conservative legislative sessions, widening a divide among many residents.
• An F.D.A. panel’s vote deals the Biden administration’s push for universal booster shots a setback. The panel recommended against blanket access to Pfizer boosters for those 16 and older, but urged offering them to those 65 and older and “at high risk,” a term that offers the White House some room to expand access.
• Harassed and Harangued, Poll Workers Now Have a New Form of Defense. Threatened by extremists and under fire by politicians, election workers now have their own legal defense network. It’s a perk they never expected to need.
• How Hope, Fear and Misinformation Led Thousands of Haitians to the U.S. Border. Some left to find work. Others to escape violence or racial discrimination in other countries. But many believe ‘there is nothing to go back to.’
• Sidelined on Jan. 6, Walker Has Top Job Securing Capitol Against a Repeat. William J. Walker has testified about how his requests for approval to deploy the National Guard on Jan. 6 went unanswered. Now it falls to him to prevent another rampage.
• Robert Durst Found Guilty of Murder After Decades of Suspicion. Mr. Durst, the onetime heir to a Manhattan real estate empire, was convicted of killing a close confidante in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2000.
• F.D.A. Advisory Panel Recommends Pfizer Boosters for Older People and Others at High Risk. The committee said there was insufficient evidence to recommend third shots for all adult recipients of the vaccine, as Pfizer had requested.
• Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today. The F.D.A. rules on boosters
• Tropical Storm Odette Forms Off Mid-Atlantic Coast. The storm is expected to bring dangerous surf conditions to the northeastern United States before unleashing strong winds and heavy rains in Newfoundland, forecasters said.
• Del Rio Mayor Addresses Growing Migrant Camp. Thousands of migrants were crowded under a bridge outside the border community in Texas, part of a massive surge in migration across the Rio Grande this week. The mayor of Del Rio asked for federal support for his city.
• Sequoias Are Being Wrapped in Special Foil to Protect Them From Fires. At least two wildfire complexes are threatening some of the giant sequoia groves in Central California.
• A Timeline of the Search for Gabrielle Petito. The authorities are investigating the disappearance of Ms. Petito, 22, who had traveled to national parks with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Their social media accounts provide a glimpse into their trip.
• TikTok’s Latest Craze: Stealing Stuff From School. Students are taking things like soap dispensers, fire alarms and bathroom mirrors. TikTok and educators are trying to stop it, but it’s gone viral.
• Joy in the Outdoors: Black History Continued. Here are moments when readers found bliss outdoors, edited for length, and one memory from me.
• Parents of ‘Person of Interest’ in Van Mystery Say They Haven’t Seen Him in Days. The police spoke with the family of Brian Laundrie after his fiancée, Gabrielle Petito, disappeared on a cross-country trip.
• How to Hold Onto Post-Lockdown Joy: Practice Gratitude. It’s proven to make you happier.
• Security Memo on the Sept. 18 Rally. Read the memo prepared by the Department of Homeland Security assessing the possibility of violence at a rally in Washington Saturday, protesting the charges against members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
• It’s That Time of Year, Experts Warn: Get a Flu Shot. Public health experts recommend an annual flu shot, and are worried a “twindemic” with Covid-19 could further burden health care facilities this year.
• Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado Marries His Longtime Partner, Marlon Reis. Mr. Polis is the first sitting governor to have a same-sex wedding.
• The U.S. virus surge appears to be declining in some states, but deaths are still increasing. Many officials have taken to calling the current wave, fueled by the more contagious Delta variant, a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
• Vaccination Is Required at U.N. Meeting, N.Y.C. Mayor Says. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said he had told António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, that the city’s vaccination requirement for entering convention centers would apply to participants in the annual General Assembly.
• Thousands of Migrants Huddle in Squalid Conditions Under Texas Bridge. The temporary camp in Del Rio has grown with staggering speed in recent days during a massive surge in migration that has overwhelmed the authorities.
• Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today. A pivotal moment for boosters.
• Cave Featuring Native American Wall Art Is Sold to Anonymous Bidder. The cave, which sold for $2.2 million in St. Louis on Tuesday, is considered a sacred site by members of the Osage Nation. A tribal leader called the sale “heartbreaking.”
• Idaho allows overwhelmed hospitals across the state to ration care if necessary. “We don’t have enough resources to adequately treat the patients in our hospitals, whether you are there for Covid-19 or a heart attack or because of a car accident,” said a top state health official.
• Alex Murdaugh Charged With Fraud After Asking Former Client to Kill Him. But Mr. Murdaugh, part of a prominent family of South Carolina lawyers, has denied any involvement in the unsolved killings of his wife and son in June.
• ‘Frankenstein’ Coupons Worth $31 Million Result in 12-Year Sentence. Prosecutors said that a Virginia couple, with fake coupons “virtually indistinguishable” from real ones, ran one of the largest coupon fraud schemes ever discovered in the United States.
• Why California Has One of the Lowest Covid-19 Rates in the Nation. Vaccinations surged as Delta took hold.
• On Death Row Half His Life, Oklahoma Man May Be a Step Closer to Release. A panel has recommended that Julius Jones’s sentence in a 1999 murder be commuted. His case, which has prompted public demonstrations and celebrity advocacy, is now on the governor’s desk.
• Will the Bus Driver Ever Come? Or the Substitute Teacher or Cafeteria Worker? Just weeks into the new year, schools are struggling to fill jobs. Low pay, few benefits and erratic schedules are keeping workers away.
• The White House offers a call to Nicki Minaj to discuss vaccine safety. The rapper did not attend the Met Gala this week because she has not been vaccinated.
• Police Are Eager to Question Fiancé of Missing ‘Van Life’ Woman. Gabrielle Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, left on July 2 for a cross-country trip in their outfitted van. He returned home without her. Her family is publicly begging him for answers.
• Police in Aurora, Colo., Engaged in Racially Biased Policing, Inquiry Finds. The investigation by the Colorado Department of Law began after the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who was stopped by the police, put into a chokehold and injected with a powerful anesthetic.
• Alex Murdaugh to Surrender for Staging His Own Killing. The police have opened a separate inquiry into the death of a housekeeper at Mr. Murdaugh’s home in 2018, the latest twist in the story of his powerful South Carolina family.
• Former Georgetown Tennis Coach Agrees to Plead Guilty in Admissions Scandal. Gordon Ernst was accused of taking bribes to designate at least 12 students as recruits, including some who did not play tennis competitively.
• Newsom Beat the Recall, Now Comes the Hard Part: Governing California. Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing multiple crises. Ninety percent of California is in extreme drought. The median home price has eclipsed $800,000. Some 100,000 people are sleeping outside or in their cars.
• L.A. County will require proof of vaccination at drinking establishments. The county’s move reflects a wider shift in how far governments want to go in restricting the life of the unvaccinated.
• How much was spent on the recall? One estimate: Nearly half a billion dollars. In adding up the recall’s price tag, including state costs and campaign spending, a Sonoma State University professor said the total was at least $450 million.
• Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today. The U.S. pandemic outlook.

Elections

• What the exit polling tells us about the California electorate, and why it might be wrong. The only exit poll from California’s recall election showed Gavin Newsom winning with an unusual coalition.

Politics

• House Democrats demand answers by Friday about treatment of Haitian migrants. A letter from lawmakers on the Oversight Committee asks for Customs and Border Protection officials to brief the committee by the end of the week about the conduct of border agents.
• Even as the Biden administration deports some Haitian migrants, it is letting in others. Thousands of migrants who arrived in Del Rio, Texas, are being allowed into the country and must report to immigration officials at a future date, according to an official familiar with the matter.
• Biden Presses Global Partners to Amplify Pandemic Response. President Biden called for a heightened, unified global response to the pandemic as he convened a virtual Covid-19 summit in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
• Biden speaks with Macron for the first time since the U.S.-France diplomatic feud. The call came days after President Emmanuel Macron of France recalled his country’s ambassador to the United States.
• Podesta warns Democrats: Scale back the $3.5 trillion social policy bill or lose Congress. His message included a blunt call to progressives to accept a scaled-back price tag, in a bow to the party’s centrists.
• Biden calls on global partners to bolster the world’s Covid response: ‘We need to go big.’ President Biden has been under intense pressure from global health experts to do more to address the vaccine shortage.
• Biden is set to meet with Democrats as his economic agenda hangs in the balance. The president will sit down separately with Democratic leaders and lawmakers from both chambers as he seeks to advance trillions of dollars in spending.
• Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology. Moderna accepted $2.5 billion in taxpayer money to develop its Covid-19 vaccine. But officials in the U.S. and overseas are having trouble persuading the company to license its technology.
• House Passes Spending Bill and Debt Limit Increase Over G.O.P. Opposition. The measure now heads to the Senate, setting up a clash with Republicans, who have warned they will block any debt ceiling increase.
• Images of Border Patrol’s Treatment of Haitian Migrants Prompt Outrage. The footage offered a glimpse of the chaos that has been unfolding in Texas and called into question President Biden’s decision to swiftly deport thousands.
• The fate of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill remains unclear as Biden prepares to meet with Democrats. Liberal and moderate wings of the House Democratic caucus remain at odds over whether that measure should pass without work finished on the sweeping, $3.5 trillion economic package.
• What’s at Stake in the 2022 Races for Governor. The attention may be on House and Senate campaigns, but these races — some of which will be true tossups — may be just as important.
• The House passes a bill to provide care for U.S. officials suffering from ‘Havana syndrome.’ The bill, which was approved by the Senate in June, now heads to President Biden’s desk.
• A Botched Drone Strike in Kabul Started With the Wrong Car. An errant strike that killed 10 civilians has called into question the reliability of the intelligence that will be used to conduct future U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
• Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows. Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false, court filings reveal.
• The Biden administration is combating ransomware with a crackdown on cryptocurrency payments. Previewing its new approach, the Treasury Department announced sanctions against a virtual currency exchange called Suex.
• Biden faces an uphill climb as he tries to reassure allies at the U.N. General Assembly. In conversations over the past two weeks, allies say they have new concerns about the United States.
• Democrats Begin Effort to Curb Post-Trump Presidential Powers. But to appeal to Republicans, a bill being introduced in the House to impose checks on executive authority may be broken into pieces in the Senate.
• Justice Dept. Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Roe v. Wade. The department also sought permission to present oral arguments in December when the court hears a case challenging Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law.
• Homeland Security investigates border patrol’s treatment of Haitian immigrants. Photos and video have emerged showing agents chasing and grabbing immigrants while on horseback.
• C.I.A. Officer Suffers Havana Syndrome Symptoms. The officer, who had been traveling in India with the agency’s director, was given medical attention after an unexplained incident triggered injuries.
• Veterans discharged under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ may be eligible for full V.A. benefits. The new guidance comes on the 10th anniversary of the policy’s repeal.
• Appeals Panel Overturns Army Judge’s Ruling on Torture. The decision on a case at the Guantánamo war court did not resolve the broader issue of whether prosecutors can use evidence obtained through torture.
• Democrats to Pair Spending Bill With Raising Debt Ceiling, Pressuring G.O.P. The approach essentially dares Republicans to follow through on their threats to oppose increasing the debt limit, by coupling it with urgently needed federal spending.
• C.D.C. requires quarantine after measles vaccination for Afghan evacuees. Officials know of 16 confirmed cases of measles among Afghan evacuees and Americans who fled Afghanistan in recent weeks.
• After Setback, Democrats Vow to Push Ahead on Immigration Overhaul. After a top Senate official rejected a proposal to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, Democrats said they would craft an alternative.
• Progressives Worry Their Priorities Will Be Left Behind, Despite Biden’s Bold Words. The White House says it is committed to reducing gun violence, keeping abortion safe and legal, and protecting voting rights. But that has done little to ease anxiety among activists.
• The Biden administration will raise the cap on refugee admissions to 125,000. The move indicates the president’s intention to open the country’s doors after four years in which the Trump administration sought to prevent refugees from settling in the United States.
• Mnuchin’s Private Equity Fund Raises $2.5 Billion. The former Treasury secretary has attracted investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
• U.S. to Lift Pandemic Travel Restrictions, Easing Tension With Europe. Travelers who provide proof of full vaccination against the coronavirus before boarding a flight will be able to enter the United States.
• Most Americans disagree with the Supreme Court decision on Texas’ abortion ban, a poll finds. Monmouth University Poll released its findings the same day the Supreme Court added hearings on a Mississippi abortion case.
• The Republican leading Wisconsin’s 2020 inquiry defends its legitimacy and warns of subpoenas. Michael Gableman, a conservative former State Supreme Court Justice, declared that the state’s partisan inquiry into the election results was not meant to overturn President Biden’s victory.
• The Biden administration will lift restrictions on fully vaccinated international travelers in November. Travelers who provide proof that they are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus before boarding a flight will be able to fly to the United States.
• Democrats to pair stopgap spending with debt ceiling increase, testing Republican opposition. The approach essentially dares Republicans to follow through on their threats to oppose raising the debt limit, by coupling it with urgently needed federal spending.
• Medicare Expansion Clashes With Health Care for the Poor as Budget Bill Shrinks. Under pressure to cut the bill’s cost, Democrats disagree over whether to offer more benefits to older Americans or to cover more of the working poor.
• Biden to Push Global Plan to Battle Covid as National Gaps Widen. The U.N.-backed vaccine program is so far behind schedule that not even 10 percent of the population in poor countries is fully vaccinated, experts say.
• Democrats Dealt a Blow on Immigration Plans. The Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that Democrats’ plan to give 8 million immigrants a path to citizenship could not be achieved through the reconciliation process.
• Read the Letter to President Biden. Dozens of human rights and other advocacy groups urge President Biden to back a $25 billion investment that would produce 8 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within a year.
• Jill Biden Is Chasing the President’s Most Elusive Campaign Promise: Unity. As the president tries to prove that bipartisanship is still possible, the first lady is not standing on the sidelines.
• With Abortion Rights Under Threat, Democrats Hope to Go on Offense. Warning of Texas-style laws nationwide, the party believes it can use the issue to turn out suburban women in the Virginia governor’s race this fall and the 2022 midterms.
• Biden Administration Seeks to Expand Telehealth in Rural America. New funding will allow more medical appointments to take place via video in rural communities, where some of the nation’s oldest and sickest patients live.
• Biden Administration to Deport Haitians in South Texas. The U.S. will begin flying migrants back to Haiti and other countries on Sunday as President Biden struggles to manage an immigration system already buckling under record migration.
• Sparse Right-Wing Protest of Jan. 6 Arrests Draws Huge Police Response. Organizers said the police response had dampened turnout for the “Justice for J6” rally, which served as a platform for pro-Trump politicians seeking House seats next year.
• Secret Talks and a Hidden Agenda: Behind the U.S. Defense Deal That France Called a ‘Betrayal’ In meeting after meeting with their French counterparts, U.S. officials gave no heads-up about their plans to upend France’s largest defense contract.
• And Then There Were 9: The Road Ahead for Pro-Impeachment House Republicans. The 10 G.O.P. lawmakers who voted to impeach Donald Trump face angry primary voters and challengers inspired or endorsed by the former president. So far, only one has given up on re-election.
• Memorial Along National Mall Offers Stark Reminder of Virus’s Toll. Hundreds of thousands of white flags honor the more than 670,000 people in the United States who have died from the coronavirus.
• The Bureau of Land Management is moving back to Washington. The Trump administration had moved the agency’s headquarters to Colorado. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said that office would become the agency’s ‘Western headquarters.’
• A prominent lawyer pleads not guilty in the inquiry examining the Russia investigation. Michael A. Sussmann is accused of lying to the F.B.I. in a 2016 meeting with bureau’s top lawyer about possible links between Donald J. Trump and Russia.
• North Carolina court strikes down a voter ID law, citing racial discrimination. The court cited “persuasive evidence” that the state legislature had rushed the law to passage at least in part to make it harder for Black voters to cast ballots.
• Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians. The findings of the inquiry mirrored a New York Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul.
• Law Enforcement Heightens Security at the Capitol Ahead of Rally. J. Thomas Manger, chief of the Capitol Police, said authorities were aware of and prepared to address threats of violence associated with a protest at the Capitol Saturday for defendants charged in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 riot.
• White House Offers to Call Nicki Minaj to Discuss Covid Vaccine. The White House offered Nicki Minaj a call with a doctor to answer questions about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine, Jen Psaki, the press secretary said, after the rapper questioned its efficacy on Twitter this week.
• Biden Urges World Leaders to Accelerate Action on Climate Crisis. At a virtual forum, President Biden pressed for a global allegiance in fighting climate change less than two months before a United Nations conference where nearly 200 nations are expected to announce new emissions-cutting targets.
• The Biden administration is negotiating to buy another 500 million Pfizer doses to donate overseas. The talks come just in time for a global Covid-19 summit that President Biden will host on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting next week.
• Pandemic-related illness forces cancellation of Sept. 11 hearing at Guantánamo. The judge scrapped the hearing “in an abundance of caution” on the last day of the first session of hearings for the Sept. 11, 2001 case during the pandemic.
• The timing for possible Moderna and Johnson & Johnson boosters in the U.S. is murky. Moderna has submitted an application for the authorization of its booster shot, but J. & J. has not.
• U.S. officials warn of potential violence at the Sept. 18 rally, but see no ‘specific or credible plot.’ An internal report by the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office cited concerning internet chatter ahead of the rally supporting the suspects in the Jan. 6 riot.
• Debunking the Pro-Trump Right’s Claims About the Jan. 6 Riot. A rally scheduled for Saturday in Washington is intended to continue a Republican effort to rewrite the narrative of the assault on the Capitol. The facts undercut their assertions.
• Biden implores world leaders to take action on climate change: ‘We don’t have a lot of time.’ The president urged nations to take on more ambitious climate targets.
• An F.D.A. panel recommends Pfizer boosters for those over 65 or at high risk of severe Covid. The same advisers overwhelmingly recommended against authorizing boosters for people under 65, complicating the Biden administration’s hopes to offer them more broadly.
• Ohio House Republican, Calling Trump ‘a Cancer,’ Bows Out of 2022. Representative Anthony Gonzalez, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump, is the first of the group to retire rather than face a stiff primary challenge.
• For Some, Afghanistan Outcome Affirms a Warning: Beware the Blob. The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan exposed the shortcomings of views within the foreign policy establishment, also known as ‘The Blob.’
• U.S. Seeks to Block Bankruptcy Plan That Would Free Sacklers From Opioid Claims. The Justice Department has been appealing the deal, approved earlier this month.
• Where Redistricting Stands in 14 States. We took a look at possible shifts in partisan power as redistricting maps start to trickle out.
• Trump-Era Special Counsel Secures Indictment of Lawyer for Firm With Democratic Ties. The defendant, Michael Sussmann, is accused of lying to the F.B.I. in a meeting about Trump and Russia. He denies wrongdoing.
• Biden speaks with Democratic leaders as key policy deadlines loom. The conversation largely focused on advancing the president’s $3.5 trillion economic package.
• The United States says it gave France only a few hours’ notice of defense deal that Paris called a ‘knife in the back.’ The degree of French anger recalled the acrimonious rift between Paris and Washington in 2003 over the Iraq war and involved language not seen since then.
• California Judge Cuéllar to Lead Influential Think Tank. An immigrant and Obama White House aide, Mr. Cuéllar takes over an institution with close ties to President Biden.
• Thousands of Afghans on American military bases await resettlement. Many who left the country in August are waiting for medical and security screenings and flights from overseas that were halted by measles.
• Justice Dept. to Review Enforcement of Civil Rights Protections in Grants. The review, part of the Biden administration’s efforts to make preserving civil rights protections a priority, applies to federal funding for local law enforcement agencies.
• ‘It’s Always Going to Haunt Me’: How the Capitol Riot Changed Lives. The Jan. 6 attack was a moment of national and political crisis. For those present that day, it was also a deeply personal trauma.
• Struggle for Control of Afghanistan Comes to K Street. Ahmad Massoud, a leading figure in the resistance to Taliban rule, hired a lobbyist to seek military and financial support in the United States.
• U.S. Booster Policy Is in Flux as Studies Add to Dissent. A week before President Biden’s plan is to roll out, scientists are at odds about whether extra coronavirus shots are needed and for whom.
• Drug Plan Fails, Signaling Thorny Path for Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Bill. Senior Democrats said they could still preserve elements of their plan to lower prescription drug prices, but they have little room for defections, and divisions remain on that and other issues.
• Congress pushes for a path to citizenship for ‘documented Dreamers.’ There is a growing bipartisan push to protect the children of nonimmigrant visa holders who were raised in the United States but cannot obtain green cards.
• Durham Is Said to Seek Indictment of Lawyer at Firm With Democratic Ties. The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is accused of lying to the F.B.I. in a 2016 meeting about Trump and Russia. He denies wrongdoing.
• Republicans, Wary of Political Fallout, Steer Clear of Rally for Riot Suspects. The “Justice for J6” rally planned for Saturday on Capitol Hill has presented a dilemma for Republicans, who are toiling to avoid dredging up memories of the Jan. 6 riot.
• Biden Administration Pushes for Expanded Child Care Funding. Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen urged an overhaul of the country’s child care system. The Biden administration detailed failures by the private sector to provide affordable, high-quality care to families as the U.S. faces labor shortages.
• Biden to host leaders to discuss climate change ahead of a U.N. summit. In a virtual meeting Friday, Mr. Biden will urge countries to take more ambitious steps to tackle climate change, including curbing methane.
• As G.O.P. Digs In on Debt Ceiling, Democrats Try Shaming McConnell. Senator Mitch McConnell says Republicans will not support raising the federal borrowing limit. Weeks before a potential default, Democrats do not appear to have a strategy for doing so.
• Read the document. In a memo, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III urged military personnel and civilian officials to report symptoms associated with the so-called Havana syndrome.
• Biden Announces Defense Deal With Australia in a Bid to Counter China. President Biden said the United States and Britain would help Australia to deploy nuclear-powered submarines, adding to the Western presence in the region.
• Federal regulators publish the first analysis of Pfizer’s booster shot application. It comes two days before an outside advisory committee of experts is scheduled to meet to recommend whether or not the agency should approve the company’s request.
• Pentagon Asks Personnel to Report Any Symptoms of Mysterious Ailments. The episodes, known as Havana syndrome, have left spies, diplomats, soldiers and others with brain injuries.
• Biden expresses confidence in Milley amid questions about his calls to China. A new book alleges that Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretly called China over concerns that President Donald J. Trump might start a war.

World

• Volcanic Eruption Destroys Hundreds of Homes on La Palma. Days of flowing lava on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma has forced thousands of evacuations and prompted warnings of toxic explosions.
• A gas station attendant is killed in Germany after telling a customer to mask up. He was shot with an unlicensed weapon, in what appears to be the country’s first killing over coronavirus rules.
• Climate, Covid and Biden’s Challenged Credibility Underline U.N.’s Big Week. The United Nations General Assembly session, the world’s biggest diplomatic convocation, will commandeer attention with a lineup of leader speeches starting Tuesday.
• Mississippi’s governor plays down state’s high death rate. Gov. Tate Reeves calls the death rate a “lagging indicator” of how Mississippi is faring during the pandemic.
• Chris Rock says he has Covid. The comedian shared the news on social media and told his followers to get vaccinated.
• Fauci urges Americans not to get booster shots until they are eligible. Dr. Fauci is also defending President Biden’s decision to release a plan for Covid boosters before regulators had given their recommendations.
• The Covid crisis is now a garbage crisis, too. Overblown fears that the coronavirus could be transmitted through surfaces have created a stigma around handling nonhazardous trash, experts say. Some recyclable waste has been junked or burned.
• Madrid is set to remove most of its restrictions on Monday. The 14-day infection rate in Spain has fallen to its lowest level since August 2020.
• Lions and tigers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo test positive for the virus. It is unclear how the animals were infected.
• Covid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history. “Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.
• Health experts voice support for opening booster access to older and at-risk Americans. Some, however, wondered why the cutoff age is 65, and not 60.
• The Covid Crisis Is Now a Garbage Crisis, Too. Overblown fears that the coronavirus could be transmitted through surfaces have created a stigma around handling nonhazardous trash, experts say. Some recyclable waste has been junked or burned.
• England’s coronavirus restrictions on international travel will ease, and simplify, as of Oct. 4. The system features a single “red” list of countries and territories that present the highest coronavirus risk, and simplified travel measures for arrivals from the rest of the world.
• Italy extends its health-pass requirement to cover most workers, public and private. The new mandate that workers be able to show proof of vaccination, immunity or a recent negative test by mid-October is one of the most sweeping in Europe.
• China says it has fully vaccinated 1 billion people. The country stepped closer to its goal of inoculating 80 percent of its population of 1.4 billion by the end of the year.
• North and Central America are driving a surge in Covid cases. As cases rise in the U.S. and Canada, officials say the impact on young people across the Western Hemisphere is especially worrisome.

Africa

• Sudan Leaders Say They Thwarted Coup Attempt by Loyalists of Former Dictator. Government officials blamed the bid on supporters of longtime ruler Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 by a military takeover prompted by widespread popular protests.
• From Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ to Dissident, to 25-Year Prison Sentence. The trial of Paul Rusesabagina, whose story was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie, was denounced by human rights advocates as a “show trial” intended to silence critics of Rwanda’s president.
• Fighting a Pandemic, While Launching Africa’s Health Revolution. Public health in Africa has been a story of neglect and dependency, says John Nkengasong, the first director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control. But he’s on a mission to turn things around.
• In Senegal, Demand for Covid Vaccines Grows, but They’re Hard to Get. As rumors and misinformation about coronavirus vaccines gradually subside and the West African country emerges from a third wave, Senegalese are less reluctant to take a shot.
• Biden Threatens New Sanctions Against Ethiopia War Leaders. In an executive order, President Biden targeted all sides of the widening conflict in Africa’s second most populous country, demanding an end to fighting and safe passage for aid.
• South African Court Rejects Former President’s Plea to Overturn Prison Sentence. The arrest of Jacob Zuma set off days of violent unrest and exposed deep rifts in his party, the African National Congress. But some hailed it as a victory for democracy.
• Death of Jihadist Behind Attack on U.S. Soldiers Is Latest Blow for Militants. With France’s killing of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, experts say the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has suffered a big loss, but caution against declaring victory.
• African public health experts call for the U.N. General Assembly to speed the delivery of vaccines. Only 2 percent of doses administered globally so far have been given in Africa, where one-sixth of the world’s people live, according to the W.H.O.
• French Forces Kill an ISIS Leader in Sahara, Macron Says. Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui’s group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. soldiers in Niger. President Emmanuel Macron also blamed the group for killing French charity workers.

Americas

• In Argentina, a Political Alliance of Convenience Comes Undone. Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, masterminded the plan to elect President Alberto Fernández. Now they’re openly sparring.
• Brazil’s health minister tests positive for the coronavirus at the U.N. General Assembly. The minister was accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro, who has refused to be vaccinated.
• The Taliban nominate a U.N. envoy, complicating a quandary for the General Assembly. The move sets up a possible showdown with the current envoy, nominated only months ago by a government that has since collapsed.
• As the General Assembly returns to New York, so does the traffic. Dozens of streets will be closed as world leaders descend on the east side of Manhattan.
• A top European official calls for a ‘pause and reset’ in the U.S. relationship. An E.U. Commissioner said that “something is broken in our trans-Atlantic relations,” as other European officials question Washington’s motives after its submarine deal with Australia.
• Unvaccinated and defiant, Bolsonaro pushes back against criticism in his U.N. speech. Brazil’s far-right president, who bypassed the U.N. General Assembly’s vaccination requirement, was the first leader so speak, portraying his country as a success story portrayed unfairly by the media.
• Who is speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, who isn’t — and why did Brazil go first? Many leaders are taking advantage of the in-person platform, but others sent recorded video or had lower-ranking officials step in. Either way, in several cases that choice signals a message, too.
• Here’s how pandemic rules are shaping the U.N. gathering. Unlike last year, when the session was fully virtual, more than 100 heads of state and government are planning to address the General Assembly in person.
• In his U.N. debut, Biden calls for global unity against common threats. His efforts to move the United States past President Donald J. Trump’s more confrontational policies come amid growing frustration among allies with his administration’s approach.
• Deported by U.S., Haitians Are in Shock: ‘I Don’t Know This Country’ Haitians who lived abroad for years have been returned to a country in crisis that they barely recognize — often, they say, without a hearing.
• Haiti Protests Mass U.S. Deportation of Migrants to Country in Crisis. Haiti migration officials have asked the United States for a “humanitarian moratorium” even as they receive the first returnees from Texas. “Will we have enough to feed these people?”
• Despite Censorship and Poor Internet, Cuban Podcasts Are Booming. New audio shows made in Cuba are finding a rapt audience and upending the island’s hyperpartisan media landscape.
• As Populists Decline, the Center-Left Sees Hints of a Comeback. A long-struggling political faction has seen surprising gains this year, in part because of changes wrought by the pandemic. Can it hold on to them?
• Vaccination problems may vex the U.N. General Assembly gathering. Under the host city’s pandemic rules, all those who attend must show proof of vaccination.
• Venezuela’s Judicial System Abets Repression, Says U.N. Rights Panel. An investigation found that political interference pushed judges and prosecutors to provide legal cover for killings, torture and other abuses.
• A Spiraling Power Struggle? That Is the Least of Many Haitians’ Concerns. In a country where food is scarce and the land can shake underfoot at any moment, political infighting is just one crisis among many.
• Bolsonaro’s Ban on Removing Social Media Posts Is Overturned in Brazil. President Jair Bolsonaro had issued rules forbidding social networks from removing many posts that the sites considered misinformation. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Senate and top court killed the policy.
• North and Central America are driving a hemispheric coronavirus surge, the W.H.O. says. Officials pointed to the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on young people in the Americas as especially worrisome.

Asia Pacific

• India Opens Its Highest Military Ranks to Women After Lengthy Fight. Combat roles will still be restricted, but female soldiers and sailors will have greater access to the academy that leads to choice leadership positions.
• China Says It Won’t Build New Coal Plants Abroad. What Does That Mean? Beijing is the undisputed king of coal, but the announcement at the United Nations General Assembly this week was cautiously welcomed by climate experts.
• 简报：习近平联大讲话批评美国；恒大危机凸显中国房地产市场脆弱性. 美英澳防务协议或加剧亚洲军备竞赛；特鲁多以微弱优势赢得加拿大大选；塔利班完成临时政府组建……这里是今日要闻。
• At U.N., Biden Calls for Diplomacy, Not Conflict, but Some Are Skeptical. The president said he wants global cooperation to meet challenges, but some allies and adversaries say his actions point to confrontation with China and unilateral action, belying his words.
• Duterte accuses rich countries of hoarding Covid vaccines while the poor ‘wait for trickles.’ “There is a man-made drought of vaccines ravaging poor countries,” the Philippines leader told the U.N. General Assembly in prerecorded remarks.
• China won’t build more coal plants abroad, Xi Jinping says. One analyst called the announcement, which the Chinese leader made in prerecorded remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, “an important step by the world’s biggest provider of overseas coal finance.”
• Taliban Complete Interim Government, Still Without Women. The Taliban spurned calls from the United Nations and big donors to include women in its new cabinet, but did add a few men from minority ethnic groups.
• Pakistan Laments Cricket Matches Unplayed, and Blames Politics. Many see the pullouts by the England and New Zealand teams as punishment for the country’s support of the Afghan Taliban.
• Australia’s Submarines Make Waves in Asia Long Before They Go to Sea. Some nations fear an accelerated arms buildup in a region where larger countries have already ramped up their military spending or capabilities.
• BTS Took Center Stage at the U.N. Over One Million Fans Watched Live. The boy band’s seven members accompanied President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who designated them as special presidential envoy for future generations and culture.
• A Harsh New Reality for Afghan Women and Girls in Taliban-Run Schools. Afghanistan’s new government is likely to severely restrict education for girls and women despite the Taliban’s claims that schooling will eventually resume.
• India plans to resume vaccine exports starting next month. The announcement could help speed the delivery of Covid shots to poorer countries, five months after India halted shipments to fight its own outbreak.
• An American Journalist Sits in Prison as Myanmar Suppresses Dissent. Danny Fenster on Monday was ordered to remain in confinement. The court hearing marked his 120th day in custody after being detained by the junta in May.
• New Zealand will ease Covid restrictions in Auckland. Restaurants and cafes will reopen for takeout in the country’s second-most populous city. But Prime Minister Jacinda Arden said she remained committed to stamping out the virus.
• Boxer Manny Pacquiao Joins Philippine Presidential Race. The country’s best-known athlete already holds a seat in the Senate and has faced tough opposition from President Rodrigo Duterte.
• A Hard-Line Conservative Hopes to Be Japan’s First Female Leader. If Sanae Takaichi wins, it would be a milestone for the country. But some feminists hope that doesn’t happen.
• First Tied to ISIS, Then to U.S.: Family in Drone Strike Is Tarnished Twice. The U.S. admission that a drone strike that killed 10 civilians was a “tragic mistake” did nothing to ease the sense of vulnerability among surviving family members and co-workers living under Taliban rule.
• Taliban Seize Women’s Ministry Building for Use by Religious Police. Taliban leaders have turned the Kabul building that housed Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs into the offices for the religious police, an ominous portent for women’s rights.
• India boosts its Covid vaccine drive with 25 million shots given on Modi’s birthday. After early setbacks, the inoculation push in the world’s second most populous country has gained momentum. India now counts more than 793 million administered shots.
• In Panjshir, Few Signs of an Active Resistance, or Any Fight at All. On a recent visit, few civilians were about and signs of heavy fighting were scarce. What remained were opposing narratives and claims of massacres, ethnic cleansing and false charges.
• Hong Kong Forces Tiananmen Vigil Group to Delete Online Presence. The deletions were the most high-profile instance of internet censorship under the national security law.
• 简报：中法愤怒回应美英澳核潜艇协议；调查称世界银行官员人为调高中国商业排名. 中国称已为10亿人完成新冠疫苗接种；新研究动摇美国疫苗加强针策略；中国延长对81种美国商品关税豁免；杜特地拒配合国际刑事法院调查……这里是今日要闻。
• 你为什么应该关心《尚气》？. 《尚气》在美国的成功，代表着一个中国文化在客场从边缘走向中心的罕见时刻。
• Philippines Is Defiant as Hague Court Announces Full Drug War Inquiry. The International Criminal Court will investigate the killings of thousands under President Rodrigo Duterte. His lawyer says it has no authority to do so.
• Indonesian President Found to Be Negligent Over Jakarta Pollution. A court ruled in a lawsuit that President Joko Widodo and six other top officials had neglected to fulfill citizens’ rights to clean air and ordered them to improve the air quality in the capital.
• 简报：拜登回应米利与北京私下沟通；报道称恒大将停付下周到期利息. 美英将助澳大利亚部署核动力潜艇以抗衡中国；朝鲜发射两枚弹道导弹，韩国以测试潜射弹道导弹回应；全球首个“全平民太空飞船”发射升空……这里是今日要闻。
• Sri Lankan Minister Accused of Abusing Political Prisoners Resigns. Claims that the minister in charge of prison affairs had barged into jail while drunk and forced Tamil inmates to kneel at gunpoint come amid U.N. discussions on the country’s human rights record.

Australia

• Earthquake in Australia Forces Hospitals and Residents to Evacuate. The 5.9-magnitude quake damaged buildings in Melbourne, but there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths.
• Construction workers in Melbourne protest mandatory vaccinations. A second straight day of demonstrations included violent clashes with the police.
• A pilot program hints at an eventual end to Australia’s hotel quarantine system. New South Wales will allow some returning international travelers to quarantine at home starting at the end of the month.
• Why Reviving the Right to Picnic Offers Hope in Melbourne. The lockdown isn’t over. But at least we can gather on the grass.
• Why Australia Bet the House on Lasting American Power in Asia. Less than three years ago, Australia’s leader said his country need not choose between the U.S. and China. A nuclear submarine deal shows that much has changed since then.

Canada

• Trudeau Wins, but Is Diminished by a Futile Election. The prime minister struggled to find a campaign issue that could distinguish his party and expand its power in Parliament.
• 4 Takeaways From the Canadian Election. A vote few Canadians wanted took the country back to 2019.
• Trudeau Projected to Remain Prime Minister, but Falls Short of a Majority. Voters denied him the expanded bloc of power he had been seeking in Parliament, unofficial results showed.
• Many Canadians, weary of their prime minister, still see him as the least bad choice. Some voters lining up at their polling stations were angry about the election itself, and anxious about the polarization of the nation.
• Climate change was supposed to be a big issue this election. It wasn’t. The Conservative Party moved leftward on the issue, effectively depriving the Liberals of a point to attack them on.
• They watch him on TikTok, but will young supporters turn out for Jagmeet Singh? The party has focused on the Indigenous vote; also on economic issues like income distribution and taxing the ultra-wealthy.
• Why did Justin Trudeau call for an early election? His opponents have denounced the move as unnecessary and potentially dangerous amid a continuing pandemic.
• Canada’s Election: What to Know. Justin Trudeau will remain the prime minister. But his Liberal Party fell short of a majority.
• Trudeau Seeks a Fresh Start, but Many Voters See a Power Grab. A snap election that was supposed to be a show of strength has instead allowed opponents to highlight the prime minister’s weak points.
• Indigenous Issues Are Sidelined in Canada’s Election. The discovery of over 1,000 remains in unmarked graves at former residential schools started a dialogue that hardly surfaced in the campaign.

Europe

• Photos of an Eruption: Canary Island Volcano Sends Thousands Fleeing. This is what it looks in La Palma, where the most powerful volcanic eruption in half a century has upended life for islanders.
• France, Striving for Global Power, Still Struggles to Get It. Though often seen as vanity or pique, France’s assertiveness abroad is calibrated to manage a quandary it has faced since World War II: how to act as an independent power while depending on allies.
• Top Adviser to Ukrainian President Is Targeted in an Assassination Attempt. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would return to Ukraine from New York immediately. The adviser, Serhiy Shefir, was unharmed, but his driver was shot and wounded in the attack.
• 1921: Deadly Chemical Works Explosion in Germany. Hundreds of people were killed in Oppau in an explosion at a chemical plant. It ripped the roofs from houses and sent shock waves across neighboring towns.
• Germany’s Far Right Is Nowhere in the Election. But It’s ‘Here to Stay.’ In the next national Parliament, the far-right Alternative for Germany party is likely to remain a pariah force. But it looks assured, too, of a role in shaping the country’s future.
• Family of U.K. Teen Reaches Deal With U.S. State Department Employee After Car Accident. Anne Sacoolas was charged in the death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn in 2019, while she was a State Department employee. The police said she had been driving on the wrong side of the road.
• For Families in Europe, U.S. Travel Ban’s End Is a New Beginning. Plans to lift the restrictions were met with relief by those who have been unable to visit loved ones. Others, though, are coping with lost jobs and lost opportunities.
• U.K. Police Charge 3rd Man in Effort to Kill Russian Dissident. The authorities added a suspect in the attempted assassination of Sergei V. Skripal in 2018. Separately, a European court blamed Russia for Alexander V. Litvinenko’s murder in 2006.
• In Spain, Abortions Are Legal, but Many Doctors Refuse to Perform Them. Many physicians in the country call themselves “conscientious objectors” and deny the procedures, often forcing women to travel long distances for one.
• France Asks ‘Forgiveness’ for Its Abandonment of Algerian Harkis. After fighting on the French side in the Algerian war of independence, Algerian Arabs were left to be slaughtered in Algeria or were abused in France.
• Macron Takes on U.S., a Big Gamble Even for a Bold Risk-Taker. For President Emmanuel Macron of France, a debacle over a lost submarine deal with Australia suggests that the NATO alliance is debilitated through lack of trust.
• Volcano Eruption in Canary Islands Forces Thousands to Evacuate. A volcano on the Spanish resort island of La Palma erupted for the first time in 50 years, destroying homes and leading to thousands of evacuations.
• In Russia Election Results, Online Votes Sweep Putin Opponents Aside. The official tally gave a strong parliamentary majority to President Vladimir V. Putin’s United Russia party. Opposition leaders cried foul, pointing to earlier signs of gains for their own candidates.
• Law Student Armed With Shotgun Kills at Least Six at a Russian University. A social media post attributed to the gunman went up shortly before the attack, a misanthropic screed suggesting a lifelong fascination with violence.
• Thousands Evacuated as Canary Island Volcano Erupts. A volcano on the island of La Palma spewed lava and smoke, prompting an evacuation of thousands and forcing the Spanish prime minister to delay a trip to New York.
• Merkel’s Children: Living Legacies Called Angela, Angie and Sometimes Merkel. For some refugee families who traveled to Germany during the migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016, gratitude for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to welcome them comes via a namesake.
• Russian Election Shows Declining Support for Putin’s Party. With voting in the country neither free nor fair, United Russia is still expected to retain power easily even if its seats in Parliament slip.
• When Covid-19 Stole Their Smell, These Experts Lost Much More. French perfumers, sommeliers and winemakers with coronavirus infections are sometimes deprived of a crucial tool: their high-performing noses.
• Stabilized Notre-Dame Cathedral Is on Track for 2024 Reopening, Officials Say. The restoration effort is seeking to meet President Emmanuel Macron’s ambitious plan to reopen the cathedral five years after it was ravaged by a fire — just in time for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
• Submarine Deal Gives Post-Brexit Britain Its Moment on the Global Stage. The British government played an early role in brokering the alliance with the U.S. and Australia to deploy nuclear-powered submarines in the Pacific, officials in London and Washington said.
• Furious Over Sub Deal, France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S. and Australia. It is the first time in the long history of the French-U.S. alliance that a top diplomat has been recalled, illustrating the depth of France’s anger.
• The Sharp U.S. Pivot to Asia Is Throwing Europe Off Balance. The new U.S. alliance with Australia and Britain against China has put Europe closer to a question it has tried to avoid: Which side are you on?
• Britain Signals Intent to Revert to the Imperial System. The government announced plans to allow shops to sell produce in pounds and ounces, rather than using the metric system, as part of an effort to “capitalize on new Brexit freedoms.”
• A Celebrated Virtuoso on an Instrument She Wasn’t Meant to Play. The hallowed tradition of kora playing in Sona Jobarteh’s family passed down the male line. One of her teachers dismissed it as “an ethnic thing.” But it has brought her international acclaim.
• Black Irish, Mariah Carey’s New Liquor, Can’t Be Sold in Ireland. A trademark dispute with an Irish company has prevented the singer’s new line of Irish cream liqueur from reaching customers in Ireland or the rest of the European Union.
• From TV to the French Presidency? A Right-Wing Star Is Inspired by Trump. Éric Zemmour, a writer and TV celebrity known for his far-right nationalism, dominates political talk in France as he weighs a run for president.
• Google and Apple, Under Pressure From Russia, Remove Voting App. The app, created by allies of the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores, reflecting a new level of pressure against U.S. technology companies in the country.
• Fake Parties and Cloned Candidates: How the Kremlin ‘Manages’ Democracy. The Russian authorities have used a variety of deceitful tactics to try to manufacture a big victory in parliamentary elections this weekend. Here’s how they do it.
• Two Men Charged in Killing of Journalist in Northern Ireland. Lyra McKee was fatally shot while covering rioting in Derry two years ago.
• Russia to Open New Frontier in Space, Shooting First Full-Length Movie. Racing to beat NASA, an actress and a film director will blast off next month for the International Space Station, where they will film “The Challenge.”
• As Russians Vote, Resignation, Anger and Fear of a Post-Putin Unknown. Many in Russia say they are fed up with corruption, stagnant wages and rising prices. But they worry, as one man said, that “if things start to change, there will be blood.”
• In Submarine Deal With Australia, U.S. Counters China but Enrages France. The reaction signals a widening rift among Western allies over China. French officials accused President Biden of acting like his predecessor.
• At Least 9 Drown Swimming Off the Coast of Southern France. The victims had ventured into the waves at various beaches despite high seas stirred up by strong winds that formed perilous underwater swells.
• In Bid to End Secession Dispute, Spain Tries Talking With Catalonia. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain met with the leader of Catalonia in an attempt to resolve the fate of the region.
• Could Navalny’s ‘Smart Voting’ Strategy Shake Up Russia’s Election? Five of the opposition leader’s exiled allies are engineering an election campaign that they hope will put dozens of Kremlin opponents into Parliament.

Middle East

• Cairo’s Antique Elevators, Glorious and Glitchy, Are Scenes of Love and Fear. For some Cairenes, the city’s geriatric lifts are beautiful marvels. Others consider them frustrating and frightening. Everyone has a story.
• Israel Captures Last 2 Palestinian Inmates Still Free After Prison Break. Six prisoners had tunneled out of a maximum-security facility on Sept. 6, in an embarrassment for Israel.
• ‘There Is Chaos’; Iran-Backed Militias Battle Activists in a Holy Iraqi City. Militia violence has driven antigovernment protesters underground and shaken Karbala, a city of gold-domed Shiite shrines.
• دانشمند وربات قاتل مجهز به هوش مصنوعی و کنترل از راه دور. سال‌ها بود که ماموران اسرائیلی می‌خواستند دانشمند هسته‌ای ایران را ترور کنند. عاقبت راهی پیدا کردند تا بدون حضور مأموران در صحنه این کار را انجام دهند.
• The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine. Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.
• With Fuel from Iran, Hezbollah Steps In Where Lebanon Has Failed. The militant group trucked more than 1 million gallons of diesel into Lebanon, flouting U.S. sanctions and billing itself as savior to a suffering population.
• U.S. and Egypt Put Improving Egypt’s Human Rights on the Agenda. Both countries took steps aimed at improving Egypt’s poor human rights record, but rights advocates found them short of the mark.

New York

• 12th Man Dies in N.Y.C. Custody This Year as Jail Crisis Deepens. The man was being held at the Vernon C. Bain Center, a floating jail barge docked just north of Rikers Island.
• When will there be a verdict in the R. Kelly trial? Closing arguments began Wednesday afternoon, and it could be at least another day before the jury begins deliberations.
• R. Kelly will not testify in his own defense. Taking the stand could have been perilous for Mr. Kelly, who lost his composure in a widely viewed interview with Gayle King in 2019.
• Trump Sues His Niece and The New York Times Over Leaked Tax Documents. Former President Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Mary Trump and three Times reporters of conspiring to publish information about his tax records.
• Google’s Big Bet on Manhattan Office Space. A $2.1 billion purchase of a Hudson Square building is a shot in the arm for the ailing New York office market.
• A Family, a Dream and a Season of Fear. Than Than Htwe and her husband moved to America in hopes of better opportunity for their son. They were greeted with violence instead.
• Have you persuaded someone to be vaccinated? Tell us how you did it.
• Teenager Pleads Guilty in the Killing of Tessa Majors. Ms. Majors, a Barnard College student, was stabbed to death in 2019 in a killing that rattled New York City. One of her killers pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
• Google to Spend $2.1 Billion on Manhattan Office Building. The technology giant has built a sprawling campus on the West Side of Manhattan and has 12,000 employees in the city.
• Eric Adams, N.Y.C.’s likely next mayor, wants to turn shuttered hotels into permanent housing for the homeless. Thousands of rooms in hotels shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic would become “supportive housing” under a plan announced by New York’s likely next mayor.
• He Nearly Qualified for Release From Rikers. Instead, He Died There. Isaabdul Karim was being held on a parole violation when he died on Sunday, becoming the 11th person incarcerated at the jail to die this year.
• A Week Into the School Year, the Mayor Makes Changes. There will be more testing and less quarantining as New York City pushes to keep its public schools open during Covid.
• Long Island Man Targeted Latino Immigrants for Attack, Police Say. The authorities said the 19-year-old man chose victims at gathering places for day laborers.
• Man Threatened Life of Dominican President, Prosecutors Say. Enrique Figueroa, 47, is accused of writing a series of social media posts threatening President Luis Abinader.
• New York City Schools’ Strategy: Test More, but Keep Classrooms Open. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced weekly testing of students and relaxed quarantine rules but continued to resist mandatory vaccination of schoolchildren.
• Glitch Reveals Ballot Choices of N.Y.C. Voters, Including Mayor’s Son. The Board of Elections inadvertently allowed the mayoral primary votes of 378 New Yorkers, including Dante de Blasio, to become public, a report found.
• N.Y.C. Sues Jail Officers, Saying Illegal Strike Worsened Rikers Crisis. The lawsuit said that there was no plausible explanation for a “staggering” number of absences by correction officers this year other than a concerted and illegal job slowdown.
• New York City Will Institute Weekly Coronavirus Testing in Schools. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said the city would start weekly coronavirus testing at all public schools starting next week, and relax quarantine rules for unvaccinated students to bring them in line with C.D.C. guidance.
• N.Y.C.’s tourism industry, hit hard by the pandemic, sees a reason for hope with changes to travel rules. Only 2.4 million international visitors came to New York City in 2020, a steep decline from 13.5 million in the year before the pandemic.
• R. Kelly’s Defense Opens as Singer’s Trial Nears Its End. A former Chicago police officer said he had never seen Mr. Kelly with underage girls, but added that he “wasn’t checking IDs at the studio.”
• Trump Organization Trial Is Scheduled for Next Summer, Judge Says. A Manhattan judge set a trial schedule for Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization on Monday that could coincide with the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
• New York City will increase testing at schools and relax quarantine rules. The city will introduce weekly coronavirus testing at all public schools starting next week, as officials try to strengthen safety protocols, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
• How Can New York City Prepare for the Next Ida? Here’s a To-Do List. The recipe sounds simple: Improve drainage. Use plants, tanks and barriers to slow water. But it takes money and cooperation.
• Making Streetside Dining Permanent. New York is moving to make outdoor restaurant sheds permanent, but some activists are fiercely opposed.
• Cuomo Ally Resigns From Post as State Watchdog. Letizia Tagliafierro, the former inspector general, is the latest in a string of high-profile departures, as allies and appointees of the former governor leave state government.
• ‘My Heart Started Pounding When I Realized I Was That Someone’ Distressed on the Dumbo pier, meeting a college basketball legend and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Footage Reveals New Details in Tourist Melee at N.Y.C. Restaurant. Three Black women from Texas were arrested, but a lawyer for one called it “mutual combat” after they were called a racial slur.
• Rep. Lee Zeldin Confirms Leukemia Diagnosis. Mr. Zeldin, a conservative Republican, says the disease is in remission, and that his bid for governor of New York will be unaffected.
• As Climate Change Fears Grow, a Real Fight Over Fake Turf. A city’s decision to replace actual grass with a synthetic version sets off a conflict over the possible environmental and health risks of the move.
• Hochul Orders Release of 191 Detainees as Rikers Crisis Deepens. The New York governor signed a bill on Friday that authorized the release of the detainees, but the population of the city’s notorious jail will remain far higher than it was last spring.
• Tourists Attack N.Y.C. Restaurant Hostess Over Vaccine Proof, Police Say. A lawyer for the tourists said their proof of vaccination had been questioned “unjustifiably” because they are Black and denied that they had tried to “forcefully violate” the requirement that they show it.
• He Was Swept Down a Sewer Pipe: ‘I Just Let the Water Take Me’ Devastation from Hurricane Ida’s remnants stretched deep into New Jersey, forcing residents and officials to address “a new reality.”
• The Changing Midtown Cityscape. When you return to the office, you may not find your favorite coffee place.
• How a Barber and Journaling Expert Spends His Sundays. John Casey bears witness to New Yorkers’ stories, whether they are in his chair or taking his writing workshops.
• Parents of Students With Disabilities Try to Make Up for Lost Year. In New York City, the shift to remote learning “exacerbated pre-existing achievement gaps” for the 200,000 students with disabilities.
• Why This Superstar Pitcher for the Mets Started a Book Club. ‘I just think that’s what being a New Yorker is all about, being hungry for more,’ said Noah Syndergaard, an avid reader.
• R. Kelly Pressed Victims to Write Letters Absolving Him, Prosecutors Say. Many of Mr. Kelly’s accusers say he pressured them to write letters that said he was innocent of the sexual abuse that they now say he committed.
• N.J. to Pull $182 Million Out of Unilever Over Ben & Jerry’s and Israel. After the company said it would no longer sell its ice cream in the occupied territories, New Jersey invoked a law that prohibits public investments in companies that engage in boycotts.
• The Politics of Mapmaking. Everyone expected New York's redistricting process to be messy, but it turned into a partisan squabble from the very beginning.
• Die, Beautiful Spotted Lanternfly, Die. There’s a new natural predator in New York City, and the government wants us to kill it. Can we summon the resolve?
• Why the Empire State Building, and New York, May Never Be the Same. It once symbolized an urban way of working, and New York’s resilience. In the pandemic’s second year, the future of the world’s most famous skyscraper is in doubt.
• Officials connect 16 Covid cases to New York’s Electric Zoo music festival. New York City’s health commissioner is urging all who attended to get tested immediately.
• FEMA agrees to cover Covid-19 costs for New York City public hospitals. The agency increased its contribution after an initial decision to reimburse only a fraction of the health system’s request for nearly $900 million.
• 2 Parties, 2 Maps: Democrats and Republicans Squabble on Redistricting. Two competing proposals advance, and the failure to compromise may pave the way for Democrats to step in and knock out Republican congressional seats.

Business

• A low-carbon economy is cheaper than the costs of climate change, a report says. The European Central Bank put the region’s economy under a microscope to assess the impact of climate change action and inaction.
• Here’s What’s Behind Europe’s Surging Energy Prices. Britain and the rest of Europe are watching natural gas prices and utility bills soar, and Russia is coming under pressure to provide more gas.
• Volkswagen’s truck unit warns that the chip crisis will undercut sales. Traton, the maker of Scania, MAN and Navistar trucks, said it was also suffering from shortages of many other critical components.
• They Never Could Work From Home. These Are Their Stories. A parallel universe of millions of employees did not have the luxury of thinking about returning to the office — they never left. Six workers share their experiences.
• Jerome Powell is likely to face questions about Fed officials’ securities trading. The Fed is embroiled in an unusual drama: Some officials traded stocks and other financial products last year, prompting calls for an investigation.
• The signal from the Fed that markets are watching for today. The Federal Reserve is expected to clearly signal that it will slow bond purchases later this year. But the meeting comes as stocks sink.
• The Fed signals that its close to withdrawing some economic support. The Federal Reserve officials also predicted that they might start to raise interest rates next year.
• Jerome Powell is likely to face questions about Fed officials’ securities trading. The Fed is embroiled in an unusual drama: Some officials traded stocks and other financial products last year, prompting calls for an investigation.
• American Airlines and JetBlue Face Antitrust Suit Over Alliance. The Justice Department said their partnership amounted to a merger in the New York and Boston markets and reduced competition more widely.
• AutoNation names Mike Manley as its chief executive, replacing Mike Jackson. The former chief executive of Fiat Chrysler, Mr. Manley will start at the automotive retail giant on Nov. 1.
• After 92 years, Fortune will have its first female editor in chief. Alyson Shontell, 35, will be in charge of content across Fortune’s magazine and website, as well as its conferences, newsletters, videos and podcasts.
• Evergrande Crisis Shows Cracks in China’s Property Market. Experts are making increasingly grim predictions about the developer’s ability to hold on without a government bailout, and the consequences of a possible collapse.
• A Pandemic Space Race: Self-Storage Roars Back. Occupancy rates and rents are at record highs, drawing investors and entrepreneurs looking for growth opportunities.
• Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions. Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
• California is sued over its rule on solar power installers. A trade group is fighting a restriction on who can install batteries on solar units. A state licensing official says recent actions may have had unintended consequences.
• Uneven Global Vaccination Threatens Economic Rebound, O.E.C.D. Warns. The group forecast that the worldwide economy would grow 5.7 percent in 2021, slightly lower than its previous estimate.
• Default expectations for China Evergrande rise as a payment deadline looms. The chairman of the troubled Chinese real estate giant, predicted a turnaround, but a new report predicted Beijing may have to step in if a collapse poses a risk to the economy.
• Bezos Puts $1 Billion of $10 Billion Climate Pledge Into Conservation. A year after announcing the Bezos Earth Fund, the Amazon founder detailed how some of the money would be spent.
• The S.E.C. has opened an investigation into Activision Blizzard. Activision has spent the summer grappling with accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace discrimination.
• Emmys avoid record-low TV audience for the first time in six years. The awards show was hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, and featured an in-person ceremony for the first time in two years.
• The Daily News gets an ‘as-needed’ editor until a new one is found. Andrew Julien, the editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant, will replace Robert York, the editor in chief of New York’s Daily News, on an interim basis.
• Global Markets Swoon as Worries Mount Over Superpowers’ Plans. The S&P 500 closed down 1.7 percent over a number of jitters, like China’s sputtering real estate market and the phasing out of stimulus measures in the United States.
• Global Supply Shortages Reach All the Way to a Haitian Aid Group. Continuing disruption to factory production and bottlenecks in shipping are leaving nonprofit groups short of goods for vulnerable communities worldwide.
• Nabisco Workers End Weekslong Strike After Reaching New Contract. The impasse began in August after members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union objected to changes in shift lengths and overtime rules.
• The Week in Business: A Milestone in Space Tourism. Plus, a tax plan is proposed and the government will weigh in on booster shots.
• How Accounting Giants Craft Favorable Tax Rules From Inside Government. Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return.
• The Trump Prophets Regroup. When you are in the business of prophecy, what do you do when prophecy fails?
• Evergrande Gave Workers a Choice: Loan Us Cash or Lose Your Bonus. The Chinese property giant owes $300 billion and is on the hook for as many as 1.6 million apartments. It may owe tens of thousands of its employees money, too.
• Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill. A plan for the economy, education, immigration, climate and more binds disparate Democratic lawmakers, but the proposal risks sinking under its own weight.
• The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats. Lani Malmberg travels with a few hundred goats, which eat the tall brush and grasses that power Western wildfires.
• On the Scene: An E.V. Boom Town. Normal, Ill., is hoping the upstart electric vehicle maker Rivian can help the town become thriving once again.
• Two men plead guilty in a personal injury scheme involving pelvic mesh implants. The scheme was one of the more unsavory sides of the case against a half-dozen manufacturers of pelvic mesh including Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson.
• I.M.F. chief says claims she inflated China data at World Bank are ‘not true.’ A World Bank investigation said Kristalina Georgieva, now the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, pressured staff to improve China’s ranking in a report when she was at the World Bank.
• Gavin Newsom signs two laws to ease California’s housing crisis. One measure will allow duplexes in most neighborhoods across the state, and the other will make it easier for cities to add high-density development.
• Shutdown of fertilizer plants puts British meat supply at risk, industry says. High natural gas prices are causing a cascade of problems, including concerns over less meat in Britain’s supermarkets.
• Richard Branson’s Virgin Voyages starts U.S. cruises as the industry bounces back. Mr. Branson wants to bring to cruises the same sensibility that he brought to his airlines: younger and slightly edgy. (There is a tattoo parlor onboard.)
• ‘A Treasure in a Tree!’: Birders on Their (Expensive) Habit. Six birders on their bird-watching gear: “Last year I spent $2,300 on Swarovski binoculars. But that wasn’t enough.”
• Stocks decline for a second week as September’s slow retreat continues. Wall Street seems to be in a funk, with the S&P 500 declining about 2.3 percent since its latest high.
• I Have Seen the Future of Car Shows. Maybe. I’ve been to a lot of car shows, and they look pretty much the same, but one car show this month tried something different.
• United Airlines briefly stops all of its U.S. and Canadian flights. The airline had paused flights on Friday morning, saying it had “experienced technical system issues.”
• Merkel Leaves the German Economy With Trouble Under the Hood. Chancellor Angela Merkel steered Europe through crises, and Germany has boomed during her tenure. But she has ducked changes needed to ensure the success lasts, analysts say.
• Retailers Rethink Pandemic-Battered Manhattan. Starbucks has closed more than 40 stores, while adding mobile-order pickup counters in others. Other chains like Sonic are taking advantage of vacancies to establish themselves in New York.
• ‘Shang-Chi’ Wins a Warm Asia Greeting. Then There’s China. Marvel’s first Asian superhero movie has yet to be released in the mainland amid fierce debate over its back story and star.
• Inquiry finds World Bank officials, including now-I.M.F. chief, pushed staff to inflate China data. An investigation focused on accusations that top World Bank officials pressured the team conducting an annual survey to improve China’s standing.
• Ex-Employer of GameStop Trader ‘Roaring Kitty’ Fined for Lack of Oversight. The employee, Keith Gill, was also carrying out trades on behalf of three other people not affiliated with MassMutual, according to the settlement.
• The British retailer Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes French stores. Getting fresh food through Brexit’s “supply chain complexities” has prompted the closing of 11 stores, the company said.
• High natural gas prices lead to a shutdown of British fertilizer plants. Companies reliant on natural gas and electricity are feeling the pinch of soaring fuel prices.
• Lucid Motors beats Tesla in range, going 520 miles on a charge, the E.P.A. says. Tesla, which makes about two-thirds of electric vehicles sold in the United States, has long produced the cars with the best range.
• The Disco Ball Is How You Know She Won’t Give You a Parking Ticket. “When a meter maid car is out overnight, it’s people’s time to vent their frustrations,” one longtime San Francisco owner said. So owners break out the paint to stand out.
• California Housing Is a Crisis Newsom Can Take Into His Own Hands. Having survived a recall vote, the governor is free to focus on the state’s homeless population and housing shortage. He has more room to maneuver than he did when he first took office.

DealBook

• Facebook’s Good News. The tech giant has changed its playbook this year to rebut criticism, using its algorithm to promote positive stories about itself.
• How Bad Is It? The jitters over a potential collapse of the Chinese property developer Evergrande only tell part of the story.
• How Tax Giants Write Their Own Rules. The biggest accounting firms take advantage of the government’s revolving door.
• Why Taxing Stock Buybacks Is the Wrong Fix for Executive Pay. The supposed link between buybacks and inequality is unproven.
• What Facebook Knows. Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws.
• Back on Track. The bidding war to acquire Kansas City Southern appears to end in victory for Canadian Pacific.

Economy

• Federal Reserve Signals It May Soon Slow Bond Purchases. The Federal Reserve said it could soon slow its large-scale purchases of government-backed debt and indicated it might raise interest rates in 2022.
• What Will It Take for Electric Vehicles to Create Jobs, Not Cut Them? A report by a liberal think tank tries to quantify the potential employment gains and losses, concluding that subsidies will be crucial.
• Beyond Evergrande’s Troubles, a Slowing Chinese Economy. Investors are watching whether the property developer defaults. But in the background, the world’s No. 2 economy is flashing numerous warning signs.
• Why Washington Worries About Stablecoins. The Federal Reserve, Treasury and other regulators are worried that a technology that pledges stability will actually be a source of turmoil.
• The Fed will re-examine ethics rules after trades by two officials drew scrutiny. Senator Elizabeth Warren urged tougher restrictions after disclosures that two regional Federal Reserve presidents bought and sold stocks and real estate-tied assets last year.
• Retail sales rose in August, highlighting an inconsistency of consumer spending. The 0.7 percent climb in sales last month came after a 1.8 percent decline in July and gains earlier in the summer.

Energy & Environment

• Royal Dutch Shell Sells Permian Basin Oil Holdings for $9.5 Billion. The deal with ConocoPhillips comes with oil prices high, Permian production strong and Shell under pressure to move faster to cut carbon emissions.
• Why Louisiana’s Electric Grid Failed in Hurricane Ida. Much of the state, including New Orleans, lost power for days because many of Entergy’s electrical poles and towers were not built to withstand a major hurricane, energy experts said.

Entrepreneurship

• 100 Isn’t a Magic Number, So Why Is It Part of the Vaccine Mandate? The threshold of 100 employees adds to a patchwork of small-business rules. It shows up in no other major small-business laws. The reasoning behind the number is a mystery.

Media

• News Media Can’t Shake ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome,’ Critics Say. Major outlets have highlighted the case of Gabrielle Petito while often ignoring stories about women of color who go missing.
• A Hollywood Producer and a Master of Adaptation. “That’s my skill,” said Bruna Papandrea, who teamed with Reese Witherspoon on hits like “Wild” and “Gone Girl.” She now has her own company providing shows and movies to a number of streaming services.
• The Washington Post is adding 41 new editing jobs as part of its expansion. The roles include two new deputy managing editors and a number of positions for other editors as the news outlet expands its national and international coverage.
• How the U.S. Helped, and Hampered, the Escape of Afghan Journalists. The secretary of state cites a “massive effort” by the government, but people involved in the evacuation instead describe bureaucratic snags.
• Piers Morgan signs a new deal with his first boss, Rupert Murdoch. The television host's last job came to an end when he stormed off the set. Under the new deal, he will host a show and write a column.

Your Money

• Proposed Tax Changes Focus on the Wealthy. How is that defined? The tax plans in Congress essentially say a wealthy individual earns $400,000 a year. But that figure, a financial psychologist says, is “arbitrary.”
• What’s Changing in the New FAFSA and What’s Not. The latest version of the federal form for college aid will be available on Oct. 1 for the 2022-23 academic year. But a planned major overhaul of the form may not take effect for several years.

Technology

• These Apps Deliver Food and Misery. We all want ice cream fast, but app delivery services make it too easy for us to ignore their true cost.
• No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image. Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.
• Shrink Facebook to Save the World. Facebook has been used as a tool for violence and abuse in country after country. Maybe it shouldn’t be everywhere.
• Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple. Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company.
• Theranos whistle-blower concludes her testimony in trial of Elizabeth Holmes. Erika Cheung, who raised issues about how the company conducted its blood tests, spent three days on the stand in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes.
• Elizabeth Holmes trial resumes: Follow along with our reporters in the courtroom. The founder of Theranos is being tried on 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The trial is generally held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and expected to be in session today.
• The Spying That Changed Big Tech. The backlash against the industry traces back partly to the Snowden revelations.
• The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet. As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.
• Biology Starts to Get a Technological Makeover. The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Personal Tech

• Upgrading? Here’s What You Can Do With an Old Mobile Device. Before you retire that smartphone or tablet to the bottom of a drawer, there are ways to get more life out of it around the house.
• Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever. The new iPhone is 10 percent faster than the last one, and the photos are slightly better. In a word: Huh.
• What the Privacy Battle Upending the Internet Means for You. Get ready for more random ads online, higher prices and subscriptions galore. But your privacy concerns may still not fade.

Sports

• San Jose State to Pay $1.6 Million to 13 Students in Sexual Harassment Case. Investigations by the university and the Justice Department identified 23 student-athletes who had been inappropriately touched by an athletic trainer, officials said.
• The Mannings Give TV Sports Yet Another Alternate Viewing Option. ESPN has the quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning. CBS has the slime and SpongeBob allure of Nickelodeon. A boxing upstart even got Trump. For viewers, it’s ever more options beyond just watching the game.
• For a TikTok Running Star, It’s All Uphill From Here. Erin Azar, a.k.a. Mrs. Space Cadet on TikTok, invited followers to join her, “a slightly overweight person who drinks too much beer,” as she trains for a marathon. She didn’t anticipate millions would respond.
• Alabama Barely Edges Out Florida in SEC Opener. Florida’s second-half surge took the Crimson Tide by surprise but was not enough to topple No. 1 Alabama.
• 4 Tips for Getting Back to Running Injury-Free. Here's how to stay on track for a fall race — be it a 5K fun run or an ultramarathon — and keep yourself healthy in the process.

Baseball

• Anthony Gose Completes Unusual Conversion, From Hitter to Pitcher. A former outfielder follows a path few others have taken, and does it throwing 100 miles per hour.
• The Yankees’ Roller Coaster of a Season Hits Another Big Dip. Fighting for their postseason life, the Yankees got embarrassed at home, again, despite having Gerrit Cole on the mound.
• A Metronome of Power Keeps the White Sox Humming. Jose Abreu is known for picking up checks, crowding the plate and driving in runs — a lot of runs. He is quiet in the news media, but his teammates have plenty to say about him.
• A Flooded Stadium Went Viral, but the Home Team Didn’t Quit. The Somerset Patriots lost cars and equipment to Hurricane Ida’s aftermath — and had fish swimming in the on-deck circle — but the Yankees affiliate returned home a week later.
• In an Era of Throwers, a Pitcher Remains. Still an ace at 40, Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals is having his best season in years. His secret? “It starts with a game of catch.”

College Basketball

• In a Scheduling First, Pac-12 and SWAC Plan Home-and-Home Basketball Games. The deal between a Power 5 league and the Southwestern Athletic Conference could help H.B.C.U. teams draw big crowds.

College Football

• Robert Gates Ran the Pentagon. Can He Help Save the N.C.A.A.? The former defense secretary now leads a committee that could remake college sports — or, as often happens with the N.C.A.A., that has little to show after many meetings.
• Robert Gates on Org Charts at N.C.A.A. and Pentagon: They’re ‘Incomprehensible’ “They look like an AT&T wiring diagram,” said the former defense secretary, who now leads a committee that is rewriting the N.C.A.A.’s constitution.

Golf

• At the Ryder Cup, Would 12 Divided by 3 Equal Victory for the U.S.? In 2008, Paul Azinger led the United States to victory over Europe after dividing his team into three four-man “pods.” Would that system change the Americans’ luck this year?

N.B.A.

• The Sun Are Ready to End the Storm’s Reign. Connecticut has the league’s best record, but Seattle has the best track record. But none of that may matter if the Las Vegas Aces hit their stride.
• Star Rookie and Veterans Steer Liberty’s Rocky Season to the Playoffs. Michaela Onyenwere, the favorite for the Rookie of the Year Award, and the veteran Betnijah Laney proved critical in what looked to be a down year.
• Seimone Augustus Found Her Voice Long Before Coaching. Augustus, laden with championship rings and now an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks, first realized her true strength fighting for L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
• Nets Rookie Goes Apartment Shopping. Needs Ice Cream. Day’Ron Sharpe, the 29th overall pick in this year’s N.B.A. draft, is making himself at home in New York as he gets ready for his first season alongside the Nets’ big stars.
• Seattle Has a Winning Basketball Team. Good Luck Finding a Jersey. Inside the arena, Seattle Storm fans bring the passion. Outside, the city has yet to fully embrace a team that has won four W.N.B.A. championships.
• Pascal Siakam Has Heard the Rumors, but He’s Ready to Lead. Frustrated by not feeling like he was his team’s focus, and slowed by illness and injury, Siakam believes his future is in Toronto. And that the future is bright.

N.F.L.

• Is Getting Healthy Enough to Make the 49ers Contenders? After an improbably injury-riddled 2020, 49ers Coach Kyle Shanahan’s disaster-proof offense is back on track.
• How the Ravens’ Gutsy 4th-Down Call Paid Off. Instead of punting to Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City, Coach John Harbaugh put the ball in Lamar Jackson’s hands.
• Baltimore Flips the Script and Beats Kansas City. Lamar Jackson rushed for 107 yards and threw for 239 in a duel of former M.V.P. Award winners.
• Are the Jets and Giants Watchable Yet? We enlisted two experts — one locally focused, one nationally — to offer readers their opinions.
• What We Learned From Week 2 of the N.F.L. Season. Bill Belichick sees a path toward making the Patriots a dynastic contender again, the Cowboys’ talent got a chance to shine, and Sam Darnold looks … happy.
• Bills Offense Cruises in Low Gear to Win in Miami. In a rout of Miami, the Bills offense did not even need Josh Allen’s best. He still finished 17 of 33 passing for 179 yards and two touchdowns to take the lead in the A.F.C. East.
• Carl Nassib Made History, but Also a Big Play. Last week Nassib, 28, became the first openly gay player to compete in an N.F.L. game. Teammates, the news media and observers casually noted the feat, then cheered his game-changing play.
• Giants, Leaving Points on the Board, Come Up One Short. Washington won a thriller on a last-second field goal, sending Daniel Jones and the Giants to another 0-2 start.
• N.F.L. Week 2 Predictions: Our Picks Against the Spread. Daniel Jones and the Giants head to Washington; Josh Allen and the Bills try to bounce back in Miami; and Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs aim to maintain a winning streak against Baltimore.
• The N.F.L.’s New Play: Embrace Betting Ads, Watch the Money Pour In. The placement of gambling ads during football game broadcasts shows how much the N.F.L. has changed in its approach toward gambling.

Soccer

• Soccer Clubs in England Permitted to Add Standing Areas. A practice banned for decades could return with new safety features.
• M.L.S. and Liga MX Fill a Hole In Soccer’s Schedule With Themselves. The Leagues Cup, part of an effort to capitalize on global interest in the game, will likely raise new concerns about soccer players’ exhausting schedules.
• At Barcelona, a Feeling Worse Than Sorrow: Pity. The Camp Nou’s reaction to a humbling defeat in the Champions League was a measure of how far and how fast a mighty team has fallen.
• Why Is Everyone Talking to Ibai Llanos? A 26-year-old Spanish streamer counts Lionel Messi as an admirer and Gerard Piqué as a business partner. His interviews might be a glimpse into the future of sports media.

Tennis

• A Week After the Open, Championship Tennis Continues in Queens. A Davis Cup tie between South Africa and Venezuela is being held in front of a small group of fans at the West Side Tennis Club — the first Davis Cup action there since 1959.

Obituaries

• Saadi Yacef, ‘Battle of Algiers’ Catalyst and Actor, Dies at 93. At the center of the Algerian effort to throw off French rule, he re-created that role in Gillo Pontecorvo’s searing 1966 movie, based on a book by Mr. Yacef.
• Reuben Klamer, Creator of the Game of Life, Dies at 99. He developed an estimated 200 toys and other items, including a phaser rifle for “Star Trek.” But his best-known product was a game for “literally everyone on earth.”
• Kenneth Schoen, ‘Linchpin’ in Criminal Justice Reform, Dies at 89. In Minnesota, New York and nationally, he pushed for better conditions for prison inmates and more options for “community-based corrections.”
• John Shelby Spong, 90, Dies; Sought to Open Up the Episcopal Church. Bishop Spong pushed for women in the clergy and same-sex marriage, and he called on his followers to reject “supernatural” aspects of Christianity.
• Peter Williams, Who Painted the Black Experience, Dies at 69. His colorful works could be quite personal, or they could be blunt responses to police brutality or other news of the day.
• Yolanda López, Artist Who Celebrated Working-Class Women, Dies at 78. She was celebrated for recasting the Virgin of Guadalupe in her own image as a feminist superhero — a young, strong, brown woman in running shoes.
• Jane Powell, Hollywood’s Girl Next Door, Is Dead at 92. Typecast from the outset, she was a star of movie musicals before she was out of her teens. But her big-screen career peaked when she was in her 20s.
• Joan Washington, Dialect Coach to the Stars, Dies at 74. She taught Penélope Cruz, Jessica Chastain and countless other performers how to sound like someone else.
• Jean-Claude van Itallie, ‘America Hurrah’ Playwright, Dies at 85. He was a central figure in the experimental theater movement for decades. His best-known work, a trilogy of one-acts, opened in 1966 and ran for more than 630 performances.

Baseball

• Ruly Carpenter, 81, Dies; Owned the Phillies’ First Championship Team. Distressed by soaring salaries, he sold the team a year after they beat Kansas City in the 1980 World Series. “We hoped common sense would prevail,’’ he said. “But it didn’t.”

Middle East

• Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s Longest-Serving President, Dies at 84. He joined the country’s fight for independence in the 1950s and helped lead it out of a brutal civil war in the 1990s. He was ousted in 2019 after 20 years in office,
• Ida Nudel, ‘Angel’ to Soviet Jews Seeking to Flee, Dies at 90. During the Cold War, she fought for the rights of others and waged a 16-year fight of her own for an exit visa to Israel. She finally won in 1987.

Music

• Barbara Campbell Cooke, 85, Widow of the Slain Sam Cooke, Is Dead. They were teenage sweethearts, but their marriage turned tragic, and when she married the protégé singer Bobby Womack, the publicity was intense and the boos were loud.
• Sarah Dash, the ‘Glue’ of the Vocal Trio Labelle, Is Dead at 76. She brought her church-rooted soprano and high harmonies to the rock and funk powerhouse best known for the No. 1 hit “Lady Marmalade.”
• Adalberto Álvarez, Latin Dance Music Maestro, Is Dead at 72. He was known as the “Gentleman of Son” because of his infectious enthusiasm for repopularizing the genre considered the bedrock of the Cuban sound.
• Ralph Irizarry, Innovative Latin Percussionist, Dies at 67. A colleague said Mr. Irizarry, who played timbales with Ray Barretto and Rubén Blades and led his own bands, expanded the instrument’s possibilities “to the nth degree.”

Space & Cosmos

• Antony Hewish, Astronomer Honored for the Discovery of Pulsars, Dies at 97. He received a Nobel Prize for his finding. Some criticized the prize because it was a graduate student in his lab who had first detected the signals.

Television

• Willie Garson, ‘Sex and the City’ Actor, Dies at 57. Mr. Garson was also known for his role as the con man Mozzie on “White Collar.”

Briefing

• The Evergrande Troubles. Is China’s housing market a huge bubble that’s starting to burst?
• Your Wednesday Briefing. President Biden at the U.N.
• United Nations, Haiti, Google: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
• Your Wednesday Briefing. Biden tries to reassure allies at the U.N.
• Where Are the Tests? Other countries are awash in Covid tests. The U.S. is not.
• Your Tuesday Briefing. An end to the U.S. travel ban.
• Vaccines, Stocks, Travel: Your Monday Evening Briefing. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
• Your Tuesday Briefing. U.S. to allow vaccinated foreigners.
• The State of Covid in the U.S. We offer an update on the pandemic with four charts.
• Your Monday Briefing. Post-Brexit Britain on the world stage.
• Your Monday Briefing. France recalls its U.S. and Australian ambassadors.
• Booster Shots, France, Fall Books: Your Weekend Briefing. Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.
• Afghanistan, Pfizer, Arc de Triomphe: Your Friday Evening Briefing. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
• The Weekender. Why Norm Macdonald, who died on Tuesday, was comedy royalty. Also in this edition: Broadway’s return, and a review of Colson Whitehead’s new novel.
• Valorizing Jan. 6. Capitol Hill is bracing for another pro-Trump rally.
• The New York Times News Quiz, September 17, 2021. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Your Friday Briefing. Tensions over a U.S.-Australia submarine deal.
• Extreme Weather, Australia, Fall Books: Your Thursday Evening Briefing. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
• Your Friday Briefing. Tensions over Australia’s submarine deal.
• Nicholas, Big and Slow. Nicholas continues dumping rain on the South.
• Your Thursday Briefing. A new defense pact challenges China.
• Booster Shots, California, Halle Berry: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
• Your Thursday Briefing. A defense deal between Australia, the U.S. and Britain.

Podcasts

• Does Elizabeth Holmes’s Gender Matter? Answering your questions about her trial.
• What Is Drama? The Bungled Plan at ‘Jeopardy!’ to Choose a New Host. Replacing the late Alex Trebek has been an ongoing saga for the game show. Here’s how it unfolded.
• Colson Whitehead’s New Novel and the Secret to Raising a Resilient Child: The Week in Narrated Articles. Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.

Op-Ed

• Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Leslie Reagan. Ezra Klein interviews Leslie Reagan

The Daily

• Submarines and Shifting Allegiances. Why the U.S.-British deal to sell military technology to Australia has unleashed claims of backstabbing and betrayal.
• A ‘Righteous Strike’ Inside the Times investigation that forced the U.S. military to acknowledge that a drone attack in Afghanistan was a deadly error.
• One Family’s Fight Against the Dixie Fire. As flames consumed rural towns in California this summer, it became clear how far residents would go to preserve their way of life.
• The Sunday Read: ‘The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music’ Nicholas Britell’s scores — for “Succession,” “Moonlight” and “The Underground Railroad,” among others — suggest whole new ways of writing for film and television.
• A Broadway Show Comes Back to Life. One theater production’s journey back to the stage after the longest and costliest shutdown in New York theater’s history.
• The United States v. Elizabeth Holmes. The trial of the Theranos founder throws a spotlight on tech stardom, start-up culture and Silicon Valley hubris.

Science

• How Humans Lost Their Tails. A new study suggests that a single genetic mutation helps explain why monkeys have tails, while apes and people do not.
• Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy. Anatomists have bid farewell to “pudendum,” but other questionable terms remain.
• What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program. One thing’s for sure: Escaping the dung heap doesn’t come cheap.
• Even the G-Spot is Named for a Man. Why do so many female body parts honor male scientists?
• Where NASA Will Send Its First Robotic Moon Rover to Search for Ice. The agency picked the Nobile crater near the lunar south pole to seek frozen water that will be essential to future astronaut missions.
• How to Vaccinate a Siberian Reindeer Herder. Covid has reached even the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. So vaccination teams are following, and finding ways to inoculate nomadic herders.
• The F.D.A. is likely to make its long-awaited decision on Pfizer boosters this week. The agency’s ruling on who should be eligible for a third Pfizer-BioNTech dose is one of a series of vaccine decisions expected in the coming weeks.
• Inspiration4 Astronauts Beam After Return From 3-Day Journey to Orbit. The mission hinted at what space travel could look like in a more accessible future, while remaining in reach now to only the richest of the rich.
• SpaceX astronauts will get a health check after splashdown. While the Inspiration4 crew was only in orbit for three days, doctors will performing screenings to make sure they are well.
• The Inspiration4 flight showed space tourism’s potential and limitations. A crew of everypersons showed what space tourism could become in the future.
• Are water landings from space safe? SpaceX has completed two successful earlier water landings, one at night.
• Where did the astronauts go? The crew is finishing their final orbit of planet Earth.
• Coming up soon: The astronauts return to Earth. Barring issues with the weather, the crew will splash down near sun down.
• When will the astronauts return? The Inspiration4 crew are scheduled to splash down on Saturday evening.
• When will the astronauts return? The Inspiration4 crew are scheduled to splash down on Saturday evening.
• SpaceX’s large cupola gave the astronauts, and us, a new window on planet Earth. The Inspiration4 mission was able to test out a big window to see back to Earth and out into space.
• Hours before the F.D.A. vote, the C.D.C. released a study showing waning protection of the Pfizer vaccine. The study found that the shots’ effectiveness in preventing hospitalization fell to 77 percent from 91 percent four months after full vaccination.
• A talk with Tom Cruise as the astronauts cruise around the planet. The movie star may have his own ambitions of traveling to orbit one day.
• When Giraffes Fight, They Are Honorable. Researchers found that the long-necked mammals prefer a sparring partner of similar stature.
• Who Gets Sick in Space? Orbital Tourists May Offer Better Clues. Commercial spaceflight brings a more diverse cross section of humanity beyond Earth, helping medical researchers collect data.
• From ‘Jeff who?’ to ‘Thank you.’ The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos over spaceflight is well known, but the two made nice on Twitter over the Inspiration4 launch.
• Sian Proctor is the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft. The community college professor has long pursued her dream of being an astronaut.
• More people are in space right now than ever before. The four-person team raised the number of people in space to 14, passing a record set in 2009.
• SpaceX Launches Astronaut Crew Like No Other on Orbital Adventure. The Inspiration4 mission successfully lifted off from Florida, carrying with it an ambition of making spaceflight more accessible to the broader public.
• Sarah Gillis will be a key voice in the astronauts’ ears as they head to orbit. The engineer trained the astronauts on the Crew Dragon capsule's systems and will also provide key communications on their trip to orbit.
• How did the Inspiration4 crew train for their flight? Professional and amateur astronauts go through very similar training exercises.
• Why is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital involved? The Inspiration4 launch is helping to raise money for the hospital, which helps treat pediatric cancer.
• Wednesday’s flight schedule. The launch could occur as early as 8:02 p.m. But the action will begin hours before that.
• When is the launch and how can I watch it? Here’s what you need to know about the Inspiration4 mission and how to follow it live.
• Who are the other crew members? In addition to Jared Isaacman, the mission's commander, there are three other astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule.

Space & Cosmos

• Inspiration4 Civilian Crew Returns to Earth After 3 Days in Orbit. The SpaceX capsule, carrying the first crew ever to go into orbit without a professional astronaut aboard, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida’s coast on Saturday.

Climate

• Big Pledges From China and the U.S. World leaders meeting at the United Nations this week, and climate is dominating the talks.
• China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad. It marks a major shift for one of the biggest backers of coal-fired plants globally. Still, China remains heavily reliant on new coal plants at home, and is the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases.
• California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions. From June to August, the blazes emitted far more planet-warming carbon dioxide than in any other summer in nearly two decades, satellite data shows.
• Biden vows to double aid on climate change, one of the key issues facing leaders. The pledge, which depends on congressional approval, is considered key to the success of the U.N.-led climate talks that are planned for November in Glasgow.
• Endangered African Penguins, With Multiple Bee Stings, Are Found Dead. Dead bees were found near where the birds died at a park in South Africa, said officials, who suggested the bees may have become aggressive after their nest was disturbed.
• In a First, Washington Will Draft Rules on Workplace Heat Dangers. The move, aimed at protecting workers in sectors like agriculture and construction, reflects a growing recognition of the health threats posed by global warming.
• This Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft the U.S. Climate Plan. Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats’ sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program.
• United Nations Warns of ‘Catastrophic Pathway’ With Current Climate Pledges. An accounting of promises made by countries in the years since the Paris accord found that they are not enough to avoid drastic impacts from climate change.
• Climate Scientists Forecast High Temperatures Into the Fall. The Western drought will likely expand eastward, spreading to nearly all of Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
• House Panel Expands Inquiry Into Climate Disinformation by Oil Giants. Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress next month after a secret recording this year exposed an Exxon official boasting of such efforts.

The Upshot

• Murder Rose by Almost 30% in 2020. It’s Rising at a Slower Rate in 2021. The increase in U.S. murders this summer does not appear to be as large as the record spike last summer.
• ‘Can’t Compete’: Why Hiring for Child Care Is a Huge Struggle. The Biden administration is trying to address a problem with private child care that has worsened during the pandemic.
• Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill. A New York family had good health insurance. But the bills for their daughter’s care started showing up and kept coming.
• How Car Rentals Explain the 2021 Economy. Prices have fallen recently but not to previous levels. The industry reflects the American economy’s long, strange trip.
• Democrats’ Stumble on Drug Prices Shows Power of Industry. An attempt in the House to take a bite out of drug companies meets resistance.

Opinion

• Woke Words With John McWhorter, a Times Virtual Event. Join the writer and linguist on Oct. 14 for an evening of conversation and song, examining the words we continue to grapple with.
• We Need Trees, and Trees Need Us. If citizens in construction-besotted Nashville can find the political will to preserve their trees, any city can.
• Snap Out of It, America! A series from Times Opinion exploring bold ideas to revitalize and renew the American experiment.
• The Endless Catastrophe of Rikers Island. The mayor promised to close the jail years ago, but the situation there is as desperate as it’s ever been.

Letters

• Foster Care: ‘We Must Not Fail More Children’ Readers discuss a guest essay urging placement with relatives when possible.
• Stop the Deportation of Haitian Refugees. Readers urge compassion rather than sending refugees back to a suffering nation. Also: Senator Manchin and climate; the Australia sub deal; the pope and politics.
• ‘We Are Women Who Came of Age Before Roe v. Wade’ The Texas abortion law; an angry France; mental illness in prison; conservatives and Trumpists; refuge in Albania; endangered whales; a former anti-vaxxer.
• When Professors Have Affairs With Students. Professors and a recent college graduate respond to a guest essay. Also: Vaccine mandates; erosion of democracy; dental benefits.
• Religious Beliefs and Abortion Laws. How religious belief affect abortion laws and vaccination.
• Hospitals and Health Care Workers, Overwhelmed by Covid. Burned-out health professionals and overwhelmed hospitals. Also: The child tax credit; counterterrorism; Democrats and taxes; "Medicare for all."
• The Use of Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Homes. A professor, a psychiatrist and a nurse react to a Times investigation. Also: A modern Civil War; a more confident child.

Op-Ed

• No Wonder the French Are Angry. The new partnership between the United States, Britain and Australia is a diplomatic bombshell.
• ‘It’s Become Increasingly Hard for Them to Feel Good About Themselves’ A new gender gap in education has profound political and economic consequences. 
• How They Failed: California Republicans, Media Critics and Facebook. Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher join Jane Coaston to debate recent and ongoing mistakes dominating the news.
• The Roots of French Pique. France was right to be angry about the submarine deal. But it’ll get over it.
• New York’s Superstar Progressive Isn’t A.O.C. Ritchie Torres isn’t a household name. He should be.
• China’s Leaders Are Having Fun With Us. Who Can Blame Them? We need a better strategy to counter China than submarines. Biden should get back into the TPP trade deal.
• This Is for All the Girls Who Grew Up Thinking Abortion Meant Death or Jail. The Mexican Supreme Court’s decision followed years of feminist activism.
• Clamping Down on ‘Spiritual Opium’ Chinese tech regulation, Elizabeth Holmes’s trial and Facebook’s obfuscation.
• Why Not Make the Kids Alright? Spending more on children is a very good idea.
• Gender Pronouns Are Changing. It’s Exhilarating. Embrace “they” for “he” or “she.” Pronoun history is fluid.
• It’s All or Nothing for These Democrats, Even if That Means Biden Fails. The moderates’ immodest demands threaten the president’s agenda.
• We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World. The historian Leslie Reagan puts Texas’ latest abortion law in perspective.
• The Extremely Weird Politics of Covid. We need to acknowledge that it’s strange where right and left have ended up.
• I Ran the C.D.C. Here’s How to Prove That Americans Are Vaccinated. By issuing Covid-19 vaccination verification guidelines, the federal government can help verifiers ensure that mandates are effective.
• The Middle-Aged Sadness Behind the Cancel Culture Panic. It’s painful to feel repelled by the sensibilities of the young.
• Dear Joe Manchin: Coal Isn’t Your State’s Future. Coal’s glory days ended during the Reagan era, and they aren’t coming back.
• Why My NFT Toad Brought Me Joy. There’s something funny about a digital amphibian who might one day pay for my retirement. But it’s more than that.
• Does the U.S. Economy Still Need Booster Shots? This week, the Federal Reserve may hint at an answer.
• America Is Being Held for Ransom. It Needs to Fight Back. Businesses attacked. Data stolen. Miles of pipeline shut down. The scourge of ransomware is worse than ever.
• Why Covid Vaccines for Kids Are Taking So Long. The F.D.A. needs a new system for responding to pandemics.
• How Texas Has Made My Job of Helping Women More Dangerous. Navigating care for pregnancy and abortion in Texas is impossible.
• Norm Macdonald’s Comedy Was Quite Christian. His faith is key to understanding his comic legacy.
• Australia Is Making a Risky Bet on the U.S. Australia has thrust itself into a central role in America’s rivalry with China.
• The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure. It’s a proxy for a larger debate about the meaning of academic freedom and the priorities of higher education.
• History Repeats Itself. First as Tragedy, Second as Farce, Then as God Knows What. Sept. 18 was no Jan. 6.
• ‘Just Trust the Experts,’ We’re Told. We Shouldn’t. We need a new definition of expertise that relies more on track records and less on credentials and the narrow forms of knowledge they reward.
• What Is 23andMe Doing With Your DNA? C.E.O. Anne Wojcicki grapples with the ethical questions that come with building a business on customers’ personal information.
• Rich Countries Worry About Booster Shots. They Should Be Worried About Africa. Just 20 percent of people in low- and lower-middle-income countries have had a Covid-19 vaccine dose — versus 80 percent in richer countries.
• White Evangelicals Shun Morality for Power. They’ve been a “political arm of the Republican Party” for decades now.
• How Silence Became a Luxury Product. Our lives are loud — and too often it costs money to escape the noise.
• There’s a Reason Putin Keeps Winning. The Kremlin’s propaganda system, lurid and spurious, is central to the president’s power. 
• The Dangerous Politics of ‘We Will Not Forgive’ America has spent 20 years vowing revenge for terrorism. There’s a better path.
• The Economic Mistake the Left Is Finally Confronting. The left needs to think as much about supply as it does about demand. 
• What if Covid Were 10 Times Deadlier? Would a deadlier pandemic have yielded different political divides?
• The N.F.L. Bets on Betting. Gambling on football has come out of the shadows.
• How Much Can You Trust That Generic Drug You’re Taking? Competition for market share at rock-bottom prices has led to shortages, price-spikes, allegations of price-fixing, and substandard and even dangerous practices.
• A Political Road Not Taken in America. A brief look at the Confederate Constitution.
• Never Complain, Never Explain. Drop the Identity Cloak when identity is not the issue. (And tax the rich!) 
• The Endless Facebook Apology. It's shocking but hardly surprising.
• ‘The Most Important Number You’ve Never Heard Of’ A new study aims to help the Biden administration determine the ‘social cost’ of greenhouse gases.  
• The Disaster We Must Think About Every Day. Climate changes is a global problem that we must address in our own lives.
• The University of Wisconsin Smears a Once-Treasured Alum. How the school got it wrong with the Fredric March case.
• Why Has Black Enrollment Fallen at an Elite Southern University? We're failing to use one of our best tools for reducing racial economic inequities.
• Don’t Let Trump Steal the Show With ‘Stop the Steal’ The ideological belief in voter fraud is driving actual efforts to delegitimize Democratic Party victories.
• Covid Showed Us What Keynes Always Knew. How the pandemic and events of the last decade upended economic policy.
• The U.S. Needs to Stop the Confusion Over Booster Shots. Infighting over boosters is undermining Americans’ already fragile trust in the public health system. 
• Don’t Let Hunters Kill Bison Inside a National Park. The park service should stop a planned cull of these animals in Grand Canyon National Park.
• Is Self-Awareness a Mirage? We know what we’re feeling, just not how and why we got here.
• I Am Serving 28 Years to Life. Why Does One Person Decide if I Deserve Mercy? Gov. Hochul has a rare opportunity to transform the clemency process.
• Do We Need to Shrink the Economy to Stop Climate Change? The degrowth movement argues climate change isn’t a problem we can simply innovate our way out of.
• Cage Fighters Need Unions, Too. But organizing MMA fighters is a particularly tough challenge.
• The Pizza-Paved Path to the Far Side of the Covid Pandemic. With vaccines, walk the walk. It’s delicious.
• Joe Manchin Doesn’t Know What He’s Missing. Infrastructure isn’t about the price tag. It’s about what the money gets us.
• Apple and Facebook Are Coming for Your Face Next. Brace yourself for an onslaught of devices that connect your eyes to the digital world.
• I Will Never Forget That I Could Have Lived With People Who Loved Me. Group homes for foster kids have to go before more youths are harmed.
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks About His Billion-Dollar Flop. The Hollywood mogul talks about what went wrong at Quibi and why he’s still doubling down on tech.
• The Downside of High Trust in the Military. The gap between trust in the military and trust in civilian institutions of government helps explain our 20 years in Afghanistan.
• The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech. In tech, brash male founders are allowed to overpromise and underdeliver, time and again. Not so much for women.
• Democrats Continue to Struggle With Men of Color. The idea of always playing defense and never offense is, well, offensive.
• How Bitcoin Can Immunize America From Cancel Culture. The confluence of tech and finance has produced a nascent soft social credit system. Digital currency may be the only way out.
• Why Are We Still Going Great Guns? The subject is guns. The password is safety.
• The U.S. Is Winning the War on Poverty. Government programs have steadily reduced the share of people in poverty
• Delta Tells the Economy, Not So Fast. The continuing struggles of U.S. cities suggest the worst of the damage is far from over.

Opinion | Politics

• The Deeper Problem Behind General Milley’s ‘Secret Phone Calls’ A recent story about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs’ actions during the waning days of the Trump presidency may not be as bad as it sounds. But there’s still cause for concern.

Sunday Review

• The World Is at War With Covid. Covid Is Winning. The world can’t end this pandemic — or prevent the next one — without global vaccine equity.
• Joe Manchin Got the Voting Bill He Wanted. Time to Pass It. Congress needs to protect voting rights. Now.
• They Couldn’t Drink Their Water. And Still, They Stayed Quiet. In a Pennsylvania town, fracking, contamination and a community unbound.

Arts

• A Broken Frame, and DNA Traces, Led to Arrest in van Gogh Theft. Dutch prosecutors said that DNA evidence tied a man to the thefts of a van Gogh and a Frans Hals painting; he denies the charges.
• 7 Podcasts for Parents Who Need a Break. These shows will provide a sense of community and useful tips for just about any parenting scenario.
• Anthony Johnson, Actor Known for ‘Friday,’ Dies at 55. Mr. Johnson, whose other film credits include “House Party” and “Menace II Society,” died on Sept. 6, his agent said.
• When 7 Psychopaths Enroll at the Same School, Terror Ensues. In her latest column, Sarah Lyall weighs in on Vera Kurian’s twisted tale, “Never Saw Me Coming,” and two other new thrillers.
• New York Public Library to Keep Picture Collection Browsable. A plan to archive the resource, used by many artists, including Warhol, has been shelved.
• Making Christo’s Dream a Reality. Wrapping the Arc de Triomphe involved 1,200 people in all. Here are large-format portraits by Elliott Verdier of some of the engineers, rope workers and laborers who made it happen.
• Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season. Among the highlights: the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Carnegie Hall’s reopened doors, and more.
• 5 Things to Do This Weekend. Clint Eastwood's latest film, an opera installation and Colson Whitehead's new book are among the cultural events to see and do this weekend.
• A Professor Plots to Seduce His Student. She Has Other Plans. In Katie Lattari’s unnerving suspense novel, “Dark Things I Adore,” a scheming thesis adviser proves no match for his young protégé.
• Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. This new cultural season promised the most triumphant of returns, but the vagaries of the virus have ushered in nervousness, too.
• Interactive Shadowboxes Breathe Life Into the Legacies of Village Artists. “Village Voices,” an interactive outdoor exhibition, honors Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock and more.
• Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal. Martha S. Jones, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, will write four books for Basic Books, starting with an exploration of the history and legacy of slavery’s sexual violence.
• ‘Savior for Sale: Da Vinci’s Lost Masterpiece?’ Review: Doubling Down. The story of how an obscure painting that was sold for $450 million at Christie’s in 2017 is maybe too good not to tell twice.
• 5 Things to Do This Weekend. Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

Art & Design

• 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now. Check out Paul Thek’s “meat piece,” Julia Bland’s textile paintings and “Modern: Ancient: Brown” by McArthur Binion.
• Students Occupied a Derelict Factory. Now It’s a Global Art Space. In Berlin, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s journey from a ruin to a serious art-world player mirrors the transformation of the city around it.
• A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal. This 39-foot-long instrument, built by local artisans and carrying musicians performing a live concert, sets a course for the future.
• Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ Yes, said Jerome Meadows, who designed the Ed Johnson Memorial to help bring the city’s history to light, with reconciliation and healing.
• Prosecutor in Geneva Drops Criminal Inquiry in $2 Billion Art Dispute. The move ends the criminal cases against Yves Bouvier initiated by the collector Dmitry Rybolovlev. The collector plans to appeal.
• Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Is Christo’s Fleeting Gift to Paris. Planned by the conceptual artist 60 years ago, the posthumous work transforms a great monument with a glistening cloak. It feels like a liberating moment for the city.
• These Are the Art Shows and Events to See This Season. From an enormous roundup of Black American portraits to a two-city retrospective of Jasper Johns, the new art season is buzzing again — and as busy as it ever was.
• A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women. Three gallery shows of new work by veteran artists who happen to be women highlight their different ways and means of development, and the way they are taking new risks.
• Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now. Check out Alvaro Barrington’s Neo-Expressionist paintings with a political edge; and Jill Freedman’s visceral photos of street cops from the ’70s.

Dance

• Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back. New York City Ballet opened its fall season on Tuesday with its first full-scale performance since the pandemic began. It felt like a rainbow.
• Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ He used to say he would be remembered more for his teaching than his ballets. The film “In Balanchine’s Classroom” provides a glimpse of that.
• Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire. “In Conversation With Merce,” a virtual program, features Merce Cunningham’s “Landrover” and responses to it, by Liz Gerring and Kyle Abraham.
• JoJo Siwa Wants to Be ‘a Role Model for People Who Love Love’ At 18, the “Dance Moms” and internet star is returning to reality TV as half of the first same-sex partnership on “Dancing With the Stars.”
• Review: A Choreographer’s of-the-Moment Brand of ‘Not Knowing’ In Julie Mayo’s “Nerve Show” at Target Margin Theater, thwarted impulses express themselves both through movement and attempts at speech.
• All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond. This season’s highlights? A new festival at Little Island, a birthday celebration for Twyla Tharp — and the return of all the things you’ve missed.
• ‘Light and Desire’ Review: Express Yourself, if You Can. In Colleen Thomas’s work at New York Live Arts, created and performed by women, the sense of pent-up release was strong.

Music

• Moor Mother’s Musical Galaxy Grows Even Bigger. Camae Ayewa makes a blend of hip-hop, spoken-word poetry, punk and electro as Moor Mother. In Irreversible Entanglements, she records scalding free jazz. Both have new albums this fall.
• Kacey Musgraves, Country Music Chameleon. The singer and songwriter’s “Star-Crossed” documents the end of her marriage. But reports of her divorce from Nashville have been greatly exaggerated.
• Lil Nas X Reveals Himself on ‘Montero’ After a record-breaking single, a tentative EP, a public coming out and another newsworthy smash, the 22-year-old pop sensation offers a fuller view of his inner world.
• Review: For Armory Recitals, a Modest but Memorable Return. Paul Appleby and Conor Hanick presented a song program focused on cycles by Beethoven and Berg.
• When a Minivan Becomes a Music Machine. Inside the world of Dominican car culture, where customized sound systems are an art of their own.
• At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future. This storied California haven of contemporary classical music returned, organized by the composer John Adams.
• 5 Songs to Listen to Right Now. I’m a pop music critic for The Times. Here are five new and notable songs, including Sam Hunt’s “23” and Bobby Shmurda’s first track post-prison.
• Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens. The cornetist led a quintet featuring Jason Moran, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan and Brian Blade as the 86-year-old establishment came back to life after its pandemic shutdown.
• Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Holds at No. 1 for a Second Week. The rapper’s latest album repeats at the top of the Billboard 200, and Kacey Musgraves’s “Star-Crossed” opens at No. 3.
• The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. The New Jersey indie rockers promised a final album. Their day jobs and families have expanded, but the band’s two creative forces kept writing — separately.
• The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions. As the orchestra’s season opens, its music director announced he would step down, its hall is under renovation and it’s still trying to diversify.
• A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage …. The punchline is “Only an Octave Apart,” featuring the unlikely collaborators Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
• Bennie Pete, Bandleader Who Kept the Beat After Katrina, Dies at 45. A tuba player and the leader of the Hot 8, one of New Orleans’s high-profile brass bands, he brought music to his fellow citizens in the difficult days after the storm.
• A Rare Look at Bob Dylan in the Studio, and 13 More New Songs. Hear tracks by Tems, Adia Victoria, Cuco and others.
• 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall. Anticipated returns (Abba, Diana Ross), intergenerational collaborations (Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett) and hotly tipped follow-ups (Brandi Carlile, Makaya McCraven) are coming in the new season.
• Fake Rock Nearly Crushes Opera Star: Accident or Sabotage? Feuding stagehands, falling props: It might sound like the plot of an opera, but in France it has been the subject of a court case.
• Fall Brings a Bounty of New Albums. Watch for These 3. A long-running indie band (Parquet Courts), a star-in-waiting (Remi Wolf) and a producer stepping into the spotlight (Illuminati Hotties) are ones to watch this season, our critic says.
• Nashville Didn’t Make Room for Mickey Guyton. So She Made Her Own. She was failed by the country music industry until the emotional song “Black Like Me” changed her career. Now comes a debut album that proved therapeutic.
• There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? Jakub Hrusa and the Bamberg Symphony have released a new recording of them all.
• 5 Pros in the Concert Trenches on Getting (Carefully) Back to Work. What’s it like mixing sound, building sets and taking care of artists’ health as the music industry hits pause and play?
• T.I. and Tiny Will Not Be Charged in Los Angeles Sexual Assault Investigation. The district attorney’s office in Los Angeles cited the statute of limitations, which expires after 10 years, in declining to pursue criminal charges regarding an alleged 2005 incident.
• Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World. Seemingly sweet yet insistently ominous, this opera installation turns a sandy beach into a spectacle of a changing climate.
• A Malcolm X Opera Will Come to the Met. Anthony Davis’s “X,” which premiered in the 1980s, will be revived in New York in fall 2023.
• Un Oedipe qui relance l’Opéra de Paris. Pour sa mise en scène l’opéra de Georges Enescu, le libano-canadien Wajdi Mouawad sonde les traumatismes de la compagnie — et les siens. “Quand on est soi-même complètement fracturé, on construit”.
• With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together. Staged by the playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad, Enescu’s opera helps inaugurate a new era for the storied company.
• ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories. A group of older Cuban musicians recorded some of their favorite songs in 1996, and the album became an unlikely blockbuster. How do we hear it a quarter-century later?
• Jaap van Zweden to Step Down as New York Philharmonic’s Maestro. Citing a reassessment of his priorities during the pandemic, the conductor will leave his post after the 2023-24 season.

Television

• In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself. In her new three-part documentary for HBO, Ry Russo-Young revisits a notable custody case: her own.
• In ‘Star Wars: Visions,’ Lucasfilm and Anime Join Forces, and Go Rogue. The Disney+ collaboration between Lucasfilm and seven anime studios pays tribute to the Japanese influence on “Star Wars” — and throws out the canon.
• Late Night (and BTS) Goes to the U.N. General Assembly. Trevor Noah referred to the U.N. event as “the annual gathering that honestly could just be a Zoom.”
• Review: What if ‘Star Wars’ Really Were Japanese? “Star Wars: Visions,” a collection of short films on Disney+, lets Japanese animators play with a franchise that has deep roots in their country’s storytelling traditions.
• Yaya DaCosta Joins Elite Society in ‘Our Kind of People’ In an interview, the actor discusses leaving “Chicago Med” for her soapy new Fox drama about a powerful Black community on Martha’s Vineyard. “I can carry a show,” she said. “It’s time.”
• Seth Meyers Does His Best Tucker Carlson Impersonation. Meyers mimicked the Fox News host on Monday night, saying Carlson could have a career in improv.
• Irma Kalish, TV Writer Who Tackled Social Issues, Dies at 96. A female trailblazer in the TV industry, she and her husband took on topics like rape and abortion in writing for sitcoms like “All in the Family” and “Maude.”
• Watch These Two New Shows Starting This Week. Fall TV is back, and our critic recommends a thoughtful reboot and a new scripted series about reality shows.
• The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever. The broadcast networks’ premiere week returns after a pandemic hiatus. Here’s what there is to see, from a new version of “The Wonder Years” to the latest addition to the “NCIS”verse.
• The Best and Worst Moments of the 2021 Emmys. Streaming services dominated a ceremony that suggested that for all of TV’s evolution, some aspects of the Emmys will always be with us.
• What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Big Leap’ and ‘The Wonder Years’ A new comedy series on Fox follows a group of people auditioning for a TV dance competition . And a reboot of “The Wonder Years” debuts on ABC.
• Review: At the Emmy Awards, TV Celebrates Its Own Survival. The telecast felt like a very private party — people seemed to be having fun, but the jollity didn’t really come through the screen.
• Michaela Coel wins best writing in a limited series for ‘I May Destroy You.’ It was Coel’s first Emmy Award and she is the first Black woman to win in the category.
• ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 10: You Can’t Make an Omelet …. Eggs will be broken. The question amid all this conniving, though, is whose?
• With ‘The Crown,’ Netflix Finally Takes the Emmys Throne. The lush Netflix series chronicling the British royal family took home the four major acting awards as well as best drama. “Ted Lasso,” on Apple TV+, and “Mare of Easttown,” on HBO, also scored numerous wins.
• Michael K. Williams was honored at the Emmys but did not win a posthumous award. The actor, best known for playing Omar Little in “The Wire,” was nominated for his role in “Lovecraft Country.”
• ‘Mare of Easttown’ takes both supporting actor awards for limited series. Julianne Nicholson won for her role as Lori and Evan Peters for his performance as Detective Colin Zabel. Both were first-time nominees.
• 2021 Emmy Winners: Complete List. The list of winners for the 73rd annual Emmy Awards.
• Michael K. Williams could win an acting award posthumously. The actor, who was found dead on Sept. 6, is nominated for best supporting actor in a drama for “Lovecraft Country,” and is a slight favorite to win.
• Here’s how to watch the Emmy Awards tonight. The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and you can watch online via cbs.com, or if you’re a CBS subscriber, via the CBS app with a cable login.
• How to Watch the 2021 Emmys. A guide to everything you need to know for television’s big night.
• The Best of Late Night This Week 🌙. This week, the late-night hosts took a moment to remember Norm Macdonald, and they riffed on the results of the California recall election and the unique SpaceX crew.
• Fall TV 2021: The 31 Shows to Watch. Television returns in earnest after last year’s pandemic wipeout, bringing new high-minded adaptations, new seasons of beloved shows and new versions of things you’ve seen many times before.
• Know Your ‘NCIS’ From Your ‘CSI’? And don’t forget “FBI.” Test your network TV knowledge in this quiz about the new fall season.
• Emmys 2021: The List of Nominees. The 73rd Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday. Several winners were announced earlier this week.
• ‘Ted Lasso’ Recap, Season 2 Episode 9: Beard Has a Late Night. A lot happened last week. This week, pretty much all of it was put on hold.
• Jimmy Kimmel Makes an Intriguing Offer to Logan Paul. The YouTube personality called Kimmel out for referring to him as one of the worst people in the world — alongside Donald Trump.
• Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings to Host ‘Jeopardy!’ Through End of Year. The sitcom star and the former contestant will split hosting duties while the show continues its quest to find a permanent replacement for Alex Trebek.
• How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? Our TV critic recommends checking out a haunted comedy, a political drama or a series about Formula 1 that even non-racing fans should enjoy.
• Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is. An absorbing account of the Iran-contra scandal avoids lecturing, but the lessons are unavoidable.
• A Chess Pioneer Sues, Saying She Was Slighted in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Nona Gaprindashvili, a history-making chess champion, sued Netflix after a line in the series mentioned her by name and said she had “never faced men.” She had, often.
• How British Crime Dramas Became Appointment TV. In Britain, a series of recent big budget BBC thrillers have drawn record viewing figures, thanks to a combination of suspenseful writing and weekly episodes.
• Late Night Takes Lots of Jabs at Nicki Minaj. The rapper’s tweets about her cousin’s friend, who she said had swollen testicles after taking the Covid vaccine, set off a flood of commentary.

Theater

• Review: In ‘Polylogues,’ Dispatches From Non-Monogamy. Xandra Nur Clark’s provocatively questing but overlong solo show is a compassionate portal into a topic often treated with prurience.
• A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. The African Theater, which had its first performance on Sept. 17, 1821, is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale.
• Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream. For the undocumented immigrant teenagers in Martyna Majok’s unsparing, unsentimental new play, home is a heartbreaking lesson in betrayal.
• David Alan Grier on Navigating the Art World as a Black Collector. The Tony-nominated actor and comedian discusses his love for overalls, citrus trees and trying to sell his teenage daughter on Frank Sinatra.
• Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family. Our intrepid reporter and photographer biked through Queens with David Byrne and some of his castmates ahead of their return to Broadway. Then the skies opened up.
• Bushwick Starr Gets New $2.2 Million Home. The innovative Brooklyn performing arts space is moving three L stops away, to a former dairy plant in Bushwick — and prepping for a new chapter as a neighborhood cultural hub.
• A Theater in a California Canyon Becomes an Oasis Once Again. Created by blacklisted actors during the Red Scare, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, a picturesque outdoor theater, is drawing audiences in the pandemic.
• Hope (and Ian McKellen) Lured Me to Britain. Was It Worth the Risk? I made the calculations before I traveled, and decided to go for it. Double masked, I stepped off the plane and set off for a week of theater.
• Theater to See This Season After a Very Long Intermission. Timely plays tackle tough subjects, while musicals get the royal treatment, thanks to a princess (“Diana”), queens (“Six”) and the King of Pop (“MJ”).
• Sondheim Is Writing a New Musical, and Hopes to Stage It Next Year. The actor Nathan Lane said he had recently participated in a reading of the show, titled “Square One.”
• ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Atlanta Performance Over Covid Concerns. After some members of a touring company tested positive for the coronavirus, Wednesday night’s show did not go on.
• Broadway Is Brimming With Black Playwrights. But for How Long? Theater seems to be responding to demands for diversity. Artists are both delighted and worried about the precarious moment in which the gates have opened.
• Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life. How five big returning shows, including “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Moulin Rouge!,” have retuned, restored and restarted their signature effects.
• In London, Musicals That Stay True to a Brand. “Frozen” and “Back to the Future: The Musical” are sure to please fans of the original screen works, without offering much more of interest.

Books

• What About the Heroine’s Journey? The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.
• What to Read: 4 New Poetry Collections. From Black queerness to bilingual poetry, these are our picks for this week.
• Lena Waithe, Gillian Flynn to Start Book Imprints. The two women are joining Zando, an independent publishing company founded last year that plans to work with authors and sell books in unconventional ways.
• ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent. Amia Srinivasan’s brilliant essays urge us to think more fully about sex, as a personal experience with social implications.
• In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Horror-Tinged New Novel, a Mesmerizing Star Appears in the Sky. “The Morning Star” chews on big ideas about God and mortality while its characters react to a bright and eerie new presence above them.
• A Brief History of Books on Wheels. For decades now, bookmobiles have existed all over the country, mostly to serve readers who don’t live by a library.
• Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power. In “Peril,” Woodward and his co-writer Robert Costa take readers up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the early days of the Biden administration.
• National Book Awards Announces Its 2021 Nominees. This year’s fiction longlist includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, a 2020 nominee in the poetry category, as well as Richard Powers, who also made the Booker Prize shortlist this week.
• For National Hispanic Heritage Month, 11 Recent Books on Latino Life. Reflections on brownness, stories about migrant workers and queer immigrants, postcolonial poems — and more.
• 16 New and Upcoming Young Adult Books to Watch For. There are novels about Black boys finding joy, nervy thrillers, fantasies filled with magic, angsty romances and much, much more.
• 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season. New novels from Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr, a political thriller by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, a Korean murder mystery — and more.
• 6 New Books on the Pandemic, #MeToo and Other Timely Topics. “The 1619 Project” expands its Pulitzer Prize-winning argument about our nation’s origins, Huma Abedin reflects on her life, and other titles imagine our post-Covid future.
• 5 New Biographies to Read This Season. The first major study of Oscar Wilde in decades, the conclusion of a “magisterial” series on Pablo Picasso, and more.
• 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season. Look for reflections from Katie Couric, Stanley Tucci and Joy Harjo — and more.
• 11 New Works of Nonfiction to Read This Season. A deeply reported look at the woman behind Roe vs. Wade, an investigation of lawbreaking animals, another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson — and more.
• Get to Know Your Favorite Actors and Artists a Little Better. Watch for new memoirs from Gabrielle Union and Alan Cumming, Jamie Foxx’s reflections on parenthood, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and more.
• For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything. The author of “All the Light We Cannot See” has a new novel, “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” that seeks to tell a sprawling story linking past, present and future.

Book Review

• Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO. A selection of books published this week.
• The Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political Provocateur. In a revealing new biography, “The Contrarian,” the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel’s ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and beliefs.
• Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity. Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.
• Anne-Marie Slaughter Explains What She Has Learned From a Long Career of Public Service. Slaughter’s “Renewal” looks at how a personal transformation can lead to broader social change.
• Back to the Future, With Books Instead of a DeLorean. Three new historical novels remind us how what happened in days, and centuries, gone by connects to the world today.
• Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. “The Body Scout,” “Light From Uncommon Stars” and “No Gods, No Monsters” tell stories of genetic dystopias, musical gifts and mythic creatures.
• In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest novel, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race.
• An Irreverent Novel Trains Its Gaze on Refugees and Their Rescuers. “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine, examines the relationship between Middle Eastern refugees and their Western rescuers with clear eyes and trenchant humor.
• A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects. In “You Bet Your Life,” Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
• Ruth Ozeki’s Borgesian, Zen Buddhist Parable of Consumerism. In “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” the characters are so preoccupied with material possessions that objects come to life all around them.
• Was Occupy Wall Street the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’? In “Generation Occupy,” Michael Levitin argues that the 2011 protest against income inequality shaped both the substance and style of American politics.
• Colson Whitehead on ‘Harlem Shuffle’ Whitehead talks about his new novel, and Colm Toibin discusses “The Magician.”
• Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State. Thomas Mann spent the years during World War I composing “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” an idiosyncratic assault on democracy and reason that was recently reissued. The book’s political ideas are of little use, Christopher Beha writes, but Mann’s critique of how democracies enlist writers to serve as their social conscience resonates forcefully today.
• New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’ Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
• Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor. Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
• Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King. In “The Beatryce Prophecy,” a young girl is hunted by the king because of a prophecy that she will unseat him.
• Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece. “Kaleidoscope” is the stuff of dreams — glittering shards of a wondrously ungraspable story.
• 9 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• They Survived, They Recovered (Mostly) ... What Next? Three new memoirs traverse the rocky terrain between illness and everyday life.
• Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin. A murder mystery on a London houseboat, a 16th-century Pacific voyage, and a deep dive into humans’ relationships with animals.
• Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List. Four new titles either allude to the elusive commodity or grab it by the shoulders and pin it onto the page.
• Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner. “They stopped speaking to him after he wrote some pretty cruel stuff about my mom in a story published in Esquire in 1975. I wouldn’t want Truman to stay very long though, and he couldn’t have any alcohol. Actually let’s make it Truman circa 1966, not the bloated Truman of 1975.”
• Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform? In “The Platform Delusion,” Jonathan Knee takes apart the magical aura that surrounds one of Silicon Valley’s biggest conceptual exports.

Movies

• Dr. Fauci, Movie Star. “Fauci,” a new documentary, follows his work in two health crises: AIDS and the coronavirus pandemic. He agreed to participate as long as it didn’t interfere with his work.
• ‘Undine,’ ‘My Zoe’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems. From slasher musicals to water nymph dramas, we recommend a number of unusual films to breathe new life into your streaming routine.
• ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This. This domestic thriller from Netflix is painfully dumb and laughably obvious.
• Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano. In “The Many Saints of Newark,” James Gandolfini’s son takes on his father’s iconic role. But knowing his dad hardly prepared him for the work ahead.
• How the Cast Members of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Found Their Voices. Some stars of the movie musical, like Ben Platt and Amy Adams, were ready and eager to sing. Others, like Julianne Moore, got there eventually.
• ‘Dune’: quel avenir aux Oscars? Notre critique évalue les chances et les attentes du film à l’approche de la saison des grands prix de cinéma. Aux USA, le film sort le mois prochain à la fois en salle et en streaming.
• An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival. With theaters at 50 percent capacity, our critic found herself somewhat isolated as she took in highlights like “The Tsugua Diaries” and “Hold Your Fire.”
• ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Review: Drag Queen Dreams. Despite its clichés, this musical about an aspiring teenage drag queen is a charmer.
• Five Horror Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include a home-sharing horror comedy, a slow-burn study of a nightmarish friendship and a love letter to scary drag queens.
• Watch Jessica Chastain Take a Stand in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ The director Michael Showalter narrates a sequence featuring the actress as Tammy Faye Bakker and Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker.
• ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ | Anatomy of a Scene. The director Michael Showalter narrates a scene from his film featuring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
• New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon. Look for would-be blockbusters (“Dune,” “No Time to Die”), art-house hopefuls (“Spencer,” “Flee”) and everything in between (“The Many Saints of Newark”).
• How Jessica Chastain Became Tammy Faye. To transform the actress into the title televangelist of “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” it took a little faith and a lot of artists.
• A ‘Sopranos’ Family Tree. A guide to the many mobsters of “The Many Saints of Newark” and how they prefigure the characters in the beloved series about New Jersey wiseguys.
• ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames. In this Bruce LaBruce melodrama, two twins, both alike in indecency, fall in love.
• ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable. Former ballet dancers grasp at words to describe the genius of George Balanchine in this charming documentary.
• ‘Little Girl’ Review: Growing Up and Seeking Peace. This sensitive documentary by the French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz naturalistically explores the struggles of a 7-year-old transgender girl.
• A Young Actor Steps Out of School and Into the High Heels of ‘Jamie’ Max Harwood, making his professional debut with the movie musical “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” has “this kind of magic about him.”
• ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace. Tammy Faye Bakker gets the celebrity biopic treatment in a new movie starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
• ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Review: Ahead of the Times. The pioneering legal thinker influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But this documentary by the filmmakers behind “RBG” misses the mark.
• ‘The Nowhere Inn’ Review: Personalities, Disordered. This meta exercise, starring and written by St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein, proves its point by not having a point.
• ‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ Review: A Shock Within the System. The French actor-director Mélanie Laurent delivers a feminist melodrama about the abuses of a Paris hospital in the 19th century.
• ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ Review: Going Nuclear. If the combination of Nicolas Cage and the director Sion Sono suggests a special kind of lunacy, this sunbaked samurai western more than delivers.
• ‘Los Últimos Frikis’ Review: Keep On Rocking in Cuba. The hook of this documentary is the spectacle of a revolutionary government that can’t abide the rebellion of rock without bureaucratic oversight.
• ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry. In his latest film, Clint Eastwood drives across Mexico with a troubled young man and a combative rooster.
• ‘Wife of a Spy’ Review: Trust or Fear in Love and War? In this latest work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a Japanese couple’s relationship is shaped by the forces of churning nationalism that surround it.
• ‘Blue Bayou’ Review: No Direction Home. Justin Chon’s immigration melodrama counters its soggy storytelling with deeply felt performances.
• ‘I Am Not Alone’ Review: Looking Back on an Uprising. This documentary offers a play-by-play account of nonviolent protests that shook up politics in Armenia in 2018.
• Ben Platt Isn’t the Oldest Adult to Play a Teenager Onscreen. Here are our picks for the most memorable performances with the biggest age gaps between star and character. Did they pull it off?
• Andrew Garfield Can’t Remember Who He Was Before ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ In the movie musical, Garfield plays the creator of “Rent,” who died unexpectedly at 35. Making the film helped Garfield process a death in his own life.
• Pauli Murray Should Be a Household Name. A New Film Shows Why. The lawyer, activist and minister made prescient arguments on gender, race and equality that influenced Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• ‘Nightbooks’ Review: A Fairy Tale Horror Fit for Kids. Genuine scares elevate this modern take on Hansel and Gretel, which follows a bright boy who is held captive in an evil witch’s apartment.

Food

• 10 Easy, Portable Breakfasts for the Busiest Weeks. Because a large iced coffee isn’t breakfast — no matter how many times you tell yourself it is.
• Give the Stand Mixer a Break. Genevieve Ko has two new recipes for you: a crumbly apple crisp and chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
• Jibs, Seafood Served With a River View, to Open in Hudson Yards. Barbecue in Koreatown, a mini food hall featuring Asian snacks in Williamsburg, and more restaurant news.
• Shukette Brings Modern Middle Eastern Cooking to Manhattan. Hot-from-the-oven breads, a charcoal grill and a market’s worth of fresh herbs and vegetables mark a new approach.
• The Bright Side of the Mediterranean. At Shukette, the colors and aromas evoke a bazaar at full tilt.
• Baking That’s Simple, but Always Satisfying. In her new monthly column, Genevieve Ko shares easy, streamlined recipes, like handmade crisps and cookies, so you can feed your loved ones (and yourself) effortlessly.
• Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen. An irreverent historian who gets her hands into traditional cooking, farming and crafts is finally, at 79, winning fame with Netflix’s “High on the Hog.”
• 24 Low-Fuss, High-Reward Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less. These weeknight (or any night) meals deliver deliciousness ⁠— and quick.
• De Gustibus Returns to Herald Square. The cooking school inside Macy’s found the Zoom option to be so popular during the pandemic, it’s keeping it when the classes return IRL.
• Austrian Comfort Food to Go. Café Sabarsky will now offer meal kits for takeaway, featuring Austro-Hungarian favorites like chicken paprikash and beef goulash.
• Maman Reveals Its Cookie Formula in New Cookbook. Soups, sandwiches and that chocolate chip cookie are all here in “Maman: The Cookbook,” from the downtown Manhattan cafe.
• A New Festival Presents Food on Film. The FoodxFilm Festival, supported by the United Nations Food Systems Summit, puts the focus on documentary film.
• A Wok Adapter That Really Works. Wokmon funnels the flame from a gas burner, focusing the heat on the pan for better wok hei.
• How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. As they struggle to recruit workers, many owners are raising pay. But some are trying to go deeper, to make their business fairer and more humane.
• Look Before You Cook. Spend some time outdoors this week before diving into chorizo sloppy joes and cinnamon-maple applesauce.
• Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe. On her new podcast, Ruth Rogers, the owner of the storied London restaurant, interviews her famous patrons about food and their lives.
• What to Cook This Week. Start with a Times classic: Marian Burros’s recipe for a delicious plum torte.
• 14 Classic Recipes You Should Know by Heart. Commit a few — or all — of these dishes to memory, and you’ll always have a delicious meal at the ready.
• A Wedding Dish Worthy of Weeknight. Chicken steam roast is a centerpiece at Pakistani weddings, but it’s also become a dinnertime staple.
• Pasta Aglio e Olio Gets a Plus One. Adding fried pepperoni to a classic recipe with garlic and olive oil gives it a bacon-like brawniness and a chile kick.
• The Most Adaptable Pesto Pasta. Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe absolutely delivers with whatever substitutions you throw in.
• What to Cook This Weekend. Make use of the fresh beans at the market with Gabrielle Hamilton’s braised black-eyed peas with baby turnips.
• Let’s Play Recipe Matchmaker. I pair reader requests with dishes from the New York Times Cooking database.
• 26 Fall Recipes Our Food Staff Can’t Wait to Make. It’s time for soul-warming food. Here’s what the New York Times Food staff hopes to be cooking.
• The Best Everyday Dals. These nourishing pots of lentils can be as simple or as extravagant as you’d like.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Join the Cider Club. A cidery in Michigan, Virtue Cider, now offers single-varietals in a quarterly subscription service.
• Great Oregon Wines Beyond the Willamette Valley. The Columbia River Gorge technically crosses into Washington State, but its energetic wines are pure Oregon in character. Here are four excellent producers.

Style

• ‘How Long Gone’ Is in It for the Long Haul. The podcast premiered during the pandemic and brought friends — and the friends you wish you had — together.
• The Most Eye-Popping Accessories of London Fashion Week. Bohemian charms, spiky stilettos and jewel-encrusted rubber platform sneakers are just some highlights spotted on the runways.
• The Glory and Chaos of Street Style Returned to New York. A flock of new faces at New York Fashion Week snatched the spotlight from the once familiar flock of influencers.
• Jeremy Scott Is Planning to Make Movies. The Moschino designer has plans on another art form — and lots of thoughts about fashion shows and vintage clothes.
• Ditched the Dye During Covid? Maybe Stay Gray. Lots of women had to confront their natural hair color when salons were closed or felt unsafe. Now many are sticking with it — and joyfully.
• Hiring a Wedding Planner? Here Are a Few Questions to Consider. Six event professionals offer advice on how to find a planner that will be the best fit for your celebration.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Body Told a Different Story’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• With Each Change, Their Love Continued to Grow. Joseph Schneier had spent the last year transitioning when he met Allie Brashears. More challenges (and a pandemic) came after their 2018 wedding, but so did an outdoor fire pit.
• London, Fashion and the Importance of Being … Something. There’s a sense of rebirth as physical shows return (and digital showcases come of age) in an uncertain new era.
• Valentino Wants Everyone to Get Vaxxed — and Cloned. How an upstart label joined forces with the Italian luxury brand to create some very of-the-moment sweats.
• How the Case of Gabrielle Petito Galvanized the Internet. The disappearance of a 22-year-old woman sparked national interest, in large part because of the online sleuthing of amateur detectives.
• OkCupid Introduces Feature in Support of Abortion Rights. Users now have the option to add a “pro-choice” badge to their profiles.
• The Best Looks From the 2021 Emmy Awards. Television’s biggest stars hit the red carpet.
• Jeff Probst Is the Ultimate ‘Survivor’ Despite many changes to the reality show over the last 21 years, he has been a constant.
• A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform. Emmanuel Olunkwa is named editor of Pin-Up, the fashionable architectural and design magazine.
• Having Trouble Finding Your Soul Mate? Let Mom Do It For You. As vaccine rollout continues, the pressures of online dating are back. So is the idea of outsourcing the matchmaking to your Jewish parents.
• Some Rich People Are Counting Their Antibodies ‘Like Calories’ Medical concierge services are offering coronavirus antibody tests as a perk, despite caveats about their usefulness.
• Seeing New York Fashion Week. After a long pause, it feels (a little) like old times.
• Can I Still Dress All in Black? A reader asks for guidance on their achromatic wardrobe.
• Bully Pulpit No More: Jen Psaki’s Turn at the Lectern. President Biden’s press secretary has tamped down the vitriol that colored news briefings during the Trump administration. She still may not answer your question, though.
• Utah Is a Destination Wedding Hot Spot, No Travel Required. Thousands of international couples, separated by Covid-19 travel restrictions, have found a surprising lifeboat in Provo, Utah, where the wedding process has been fully virtualized.
• TS Madison Steals the Spotlight. Her role in the summer movie “Zola” was brief, but getting there was years in the making.
• First Came Friendship for an Activist and a Single Father of Five. Kassie Edwards and Michael Ruxsaksriskul both had childhood trauma. When they met at an AIDS awareness event in Washington, neither was interested in the other romantically.
• Theater Majors Unite at the Altar. After seven years together — and time living as far apart as Germany and Texas—Victoria Lee and Benjamin Bratcher pulled off a “euphoric” wedding at a Spanish-inspired villa.
• First Came Lightning, Then Marriage. Neither Jamie Drucker nor Scott Huber had ever had a serious relationship before they met, at age 27. These days, their lives revolve around sailing, and each other.
• Love at First Slice. Lauren Annunziata and Gabriel Piscione thought they met in high school, until her relative unearthed a photo of them eating pizza together at a children’s birthday party 10 years earlier.
• Three Years Later, the Two Ran Off Together. Mariama Rose Diallo and Benjamin Gerrish Dickinson, both screenwriters and directors, met in 2018 at a Brooklyn bar. Their attraction was immediate.
• An ‘Accident of Geography’ Was the Start of Forever. Though Valeria Dueñas and John Garfinkel come from very different parts of the country, they bonded instantly at a Washington bar — and plan to name their dog after one, too.
• A Courtship Built on Adventure. “When I am with Mike, I feel invincible,” Dana Rhoden said of her relationship with Michael Baran. The two were married atop a mountain in Colorado.
• In Love Thanks to Politics — and Transparency. “Electric” early conversations grew into deeply honest ones in the relationship of Hannah Smith and Varun Anand.
• A Bond Built in Brooklyn. Justin Cooke and Erik Wallin gave their guests a tour around their favorite borough after their wedding ceremony.
• A Sunset Farewell to Summer. The Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers held an outdoor celebration for its conservancy.
• Hearing His Voice Changed Everything. I never knew my father. Did he know me?
• Cocktails At the Met Gala. Behind the scenes at the cocktail reception during the Met Gala, where musicians, actors, artists, and athletes mix and mingle.
• A.O.C.’s Met Gala Designer Explains Her ‘Tax the Rich’ Dress. “For us it was about delivering a message.”
• Where Was This Money When I Made My Down Payment? A reader is hurt by her parents’ decision to help finance her sister’s path to homeownership but not her own.
• Are Zoom Weddings Virtually Over? Couples turned to livestreaming platforms to share their nuptials last year. Now, smaller in-person weddings with a virtual option offer the best of both worlds.
• The Dead Get a Do-Over. In a flurry of streaming television shows, the departed get a second chance. And viewers find an outlet for sorrow and remorse.

Magazine

• Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old. In Athens with his daughter, Thomas Chatterton Williams could finally pay homage in person to the classical education his own father gave him.
• Scenes From an Artist’s Long-Delayed Family Reunion in Japan. Since her daughter was born, the photographer Rinko Kawauchi tried to visit her parents every two months. This summer, she finally made the trip again.
• My Accidental Visit to the Pandemic’s Party Capital. Kyiv was supposed to be a quick layover for the writer Rosa Lyster. But its underground nightlife turned out to be just what she needed.
• I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane? After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.
• She Changed Black Literature Forever. Then She Disappeared. In search of Gayl Jones, whose new novel breaks 22 years of silence.
• Poem: waiting on you to die so i can be myself. In this world filled, sometimes, with more breakdowns than breaks, it feels sometimes an anachronism to hear anybody say they love somebody deeply.
• Judge John Hodgman on Peeing in the Ocean. Newlyweds squabble over using nature as your toilet.

T Magazine

• A Tiffany Necklace With Fanciful Fringe. The brand’s latest version of the classic design, characterized by hand-twisted gold roping, also features white and autumnal diamonds.
• A Parisian Home That Breaks With Tradition. When an Italian architect was hired by his French agent to collaborate on an unusual triplex, they committed themselves to creating a space unburdened by the past.
• Candles That Are More Like Ephemeral Sculptures. A new crop of options stress form, color and process, and are sure to brighten up your space in more ways than one.
• For a New Generation of Woodworkers, Form Follows Function. In response to the colorful, zanier side of modern furniture, some American craftspeople are returning to elemental, straightforward and handmade pieces.
• Fall Fashion With a Sense of Adventure. The season brings billowing quilted coats, combat boots and protective leather layers primed for flight or roaming on foot.
• An Architect Who’s Known for Aesthetic Purity and Counts Kanye West as a Client. The cult Swiss talent Valerio Olgiati creates austere, often concrete spaces that eschew references to history or place.
• Architecture and Design That Makes the Case for Discomfort. There are some visionaries who, in their refusal to follow the rules of convention, advance their fields and make us reconsider what we think we know.
• The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week. Emotionally charged quilts, a punk Art Deco hotel — and more.
• At Coach, an Eclectic Paean to New York Cool. On Pier 76 in Hudson River Park, the brand staged a youthful, wide-ranging show complete with skateboarders and drummers.

Travel

• Barcelona Takes on Airbnb. A new rule, the only one of its kind in a major European city, forbids short-term private-room rentals, adding fuel to the debate over how to control booming prepandemic tourism.
• A Caribbean Island’s Audacious Tourism Experiment. To step onto Montserrat’s volcanic beaches, 21 travelers (so far) with an income of at least $70,000 have agreed to stay two months. The goal: to keep cash coming in, while keeping Covid away.
• The U.S. travel industry welcomes the Biden administration’s changes to travel rules. The 18-month travel ban on travelers from Europe, China, Iran, South Africa, Brazil and India has been crippling for the industry,
• Glimpses of ‘Lost Tribe’ Jewish Communities in India and Myanmar. Often overlooked, the communities in South and Southeast Asia complicate notions of Jewish identity while emphasizing its malleability.
• All-Inclusive Resorts Make Staying Put More Appealing. Business is booming at all-inclusive resorts, where travelers can enjoy multiday stays without complicated logistics — plus in-house dining, outdoor diversions and, in many cases, on-site virus testing.
• How Biden’s Economic Executive Order Aims to Improve Travel. In July, President Biden issued an executive order that included a call to make consumer-friendly changes in the travel industry. We asked experts to weigh in on the prospects for change.

At Home

• What to Do This Weekend. Preview fall culture.
• Back to School, for Now. Some seasonal constants (and variables).

Real Estate

• House Hunting in Greece: A Custom-Built Perch on the Aegean Coast. Government investment programs are helping Greek property prices recover from their nadir following the last decade’s debt crisis.
• Sea Views in Every Direction Outside Athens, Greece. This three-bedroom home, built into a mountain on the craggy coastline of Dikastika Bay, outside Athens, Greece, is on the market for $3.37 million.
• $800,000 Homes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. A Colonial Revival home in Bloomfield Township, an 1845 farmhouse in Lumberville and a three-bedroom condominium in Washington.
• What You Get for $800,000. A Colonial Revival home in Bloomfield Township, Mich.; an 1845 farmhouse in Lumberville, Pa.; and a three-bedroom condominium in Washington.
• What Are the Best Houseplants to Get You Through Winter? Even the experts have a hard time choosing favorites. But we pressed them for answers.
• West Milford, N.J.: ‘A Real Country Town’ Close to the City. The Passaic County township is within commuting distance of Manhattan, but its lakes and green spaces encourage boating, swimming and hiking.
• Living In ... West Milford, N.J. The Passaic County township is within commuting distance, but its lakes and green spaces offer abundant opportunities to swim, boat, fish and hike.
• The Suburbs Beckoned, but They Found a Way to Stay in the City. When the rowhouse next door came on the market, one couple decided to remain in Washington, D.C., and merge the two houses. It wasn’t easy — or cheap.
• How Two Houses Became One in Washington, D.C. When the rowhouse next door came on the market, one couple decided to remain in the city and merge the two houses. It wasn’t easy — or cheap.
• $900,000 Homes in California. A Craftsman house in Sacramento, a brand-new home in Oakland and a two-bedroom condominium in Santa Monica.
• Shopping for Canopy Beds. Because a canopy bed is ‘like a cocoon’ — and this fall, we could all use a little of that.
• Homes That Sold for Around $750,000. Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
• Do I Need to Clean Up My Attic Before I List My House? Sellers should focus on the rooms where people spend the most time, but if you have the budget and time, staging the attic can offer a bonus for buyers.
• How to Learn More About the History of Your Home. Tracking down property records and researching other documents can shed light on the life of a house.
• How Old Is This Old House? Property records don’t go back far enough to date some houses. But experts can pinpoint a house’s age by studying tree-ring patterns in the house’s timber.
• The Best (and Worst) Metro Areas for Electric Cars. All places are not equal when it comes to the infrastructure that supports electric vehicles.
• Homes for Sale in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. This week’s homes are in Red Hook, Forest Hills and Greenwich Village.
• Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut. This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Greenwich, Conn.
• On the Market in New York City. This week’s homes are in Red Hook, Forest Hills and Greenwich Village.
• On the Market in the New York Region. This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Greenwich, Conn.
• Searching the Co-ops of Riverdale, Where Two-Bedrooms Are More Attainable. Which One Would You Choose? With around $400,000 to spend, a couple hoped to ‘put down roots in New York.’ But they had to find a new neighborhood, in the Bronx, to do that.

Health

• The Latest on Kids and Covid Vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in children ages 5 to 11 years, setting the stage for authorization in this group, possibly before the end of October.
• Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both Knockouts, but One Seems to Have the Edge. A series of studies found that the Moderna vaccine seemed to be more protective as the months passed than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Here’s why.
• A C.D.C. panel on who should get Pfizer boosters hears that much of vaccine protection remains stable. A discussion on who should count as high-risk could result in most Americans being eligible for an extra shot, or only a select few.
• ‘I Just Cry All the Time’: Non-Covid Patients Despair Over Delayed Care. In areas inundated with coronavirus patients, hospitals have postponed treatments and surgeries for people with other serious conditions.
• John Nkengasong, of the Africa C.D.C., Will Lead PEPFAR. Dr. Nkengasong will be the first person of African origin to oversee the U.S. government program combating H.I.V., which has ravaged the continent.
• An extra J. & J. shot substantially boosts protection against Covid, the company reports. Since the company received emergency authorization in February, 14.6 million people in the United States have received its one-shot vaccine.
• Specialty Pharmacies Cater to the Blind and Those With Impaired Vision. The pandemic has exposed flaws in services for people who can’t easily access a drive-through window for Covid shots or testing or can’t read prescription labels.
• Covid Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says. Vaccinated kids aged 5 to 11 showed evidence of protection against the virus, the company said. The data must be reviewed by the F.D.A. before children can be inoculated.
• A New Covid Testing Model Aims to Spare Students From Quarantine. More school districts are embracing “test-to-stay” protocols that allow uninfected close contacts to remain in the classroom.
• Delta variant detected in 99% of U.S. cases, according to C.D.C. The highly infectious variant of Covid-19 has contributed to a rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States.
• They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment. Championed by doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, monoclonal antibodies for Covid are in high demand — even from those who don’t want a vaccine.
• The Pain Wouldn’t Stop — Because Her Medication Had Been Stolen. Too often, seniors who use opioids become targets for exploitation and abuse.
• The F.D.A.’s day of lively debate revealed key questions about the evidence on boosters. New research indicated the booster shots were not now necessary for everyone, a view that prevailed at the agency’s advisory committee meeting.
• At U.S. nursing homes, aides were the least likely workers to be vaccinated, a study shows. The study highlights the effects that a new federal mandate for all health care workers to be inoculated against Covid may have on vulnerable populations like the elderly in nursing homes, experts say.
• New Study of Covid Booster Shots Fans Debate Over Benefits. Independent experts, including government scientists, were skeptical of the research from Israel, which included limited data over a short period.

Well

• Is Bad Indoor Air Dulling Your Brain? While we tend to worry about inhaling viral particles like the coronavirus, new research shows the air quality at work may have subtle effects on cognitive function.

Family

• Worried About Your Teen on Social Media? Here’s How to Help. For kids, developing a healthier relationship with Instagram and other platforms can be tricky.
• I Had My First Child at 45. Here’s What I Learned. A little empathy goes a long way, and people are going to judge.
• Fauci Answers Your Questions. Dr. Fauci answers questions from Times readers about vaccines, the virus and school safety.

Live

• Does My Mask Protect Me if Nobody Else Is Wearing One? Masks work best when everyone in the room has one on, but you’ll still benefit from masking up even when those around you aren’t.
• Dry Eyes Afflict Many of Us. Here’s What to Do About It. That gritty, itchy feeling in your eyes can arise from many causes, including too much screen time, and eye drops may only make it worse.
• How Much Water Do You Actually Need? Here’s how to know when you truly need to hydrate.
• Weekly Health Quiz: Sparkling Water, Exercise and Covid. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
• There’s a Reason Why You Overshare on Dates. Sometimes it’s hard to stop talking when you’re nervous. There’s a name for that — and some tips to help.
• I’m Vaccinated. When Should I Wear a Mask? Here’s what to keep in mind.

Move

• Your Workout Burns Fewer Calories Than You Think. Our bodies compensate for at least a quarter of the calories we expend during exercise, undermining our best efforts to lose weight by working out.

Parenting

• How the Pop It! Invaded Your Home. Blame a capuchin monkey and pandemic anxiety for the latest toy craze.

Smarter Living

Wirecutter

• How to Choose the Right Storage Container. Whether you’re packing away summer bedding or rethinking your kitchen pantry, the right kind of storage can make home organization a whole lot easier.

Times Insider

• In Portraits, Seared Memories of the Capitol Riot. In an interview, the photographer Jason Andrew described the inspiration behind the portraits published in The Times this week and recalled his experience covering the violence of Jan. 6.
• An Interview With Our New Politics Editor. David Halbfinger comes to the job after almost four years heading The Times’s Jerusalem bureau. “I just can’t think of a more important way that I could contribute,” he said of his new post.

Today’s Paper

• Quotation of the Day: How New York Can Fight Extreme Weather, at a Price. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, September 22, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: Painful Reminder of Baby’s Death: $257,000 Bill. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, September 21, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: Alabama Begins to Remove Constitution’s Racist Wording. Quotation of the Day for September 20, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: Texas Lawmakers, After Shift to Right, Plan More of Same. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, September 19, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: ‘It’s Always Going to Haunt Me’ Quotation of the Day for Saturday, September 18, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: Plant-Based Foods Expand and Chase Flexitarians. Quotation of the Day for Friday, September 17, 2021.
• Quotation of the Day: The TKTS Booth, Tears and Ovations. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, September 16, 2021.

Corrections

• Corrections: Sept. 22, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.
• Corrections: Sept. 21, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.
• Corrections: Sept. 19, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
• Corrections: Sept. 18, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021.
• Corrections: Sept. 17, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.
• Corrections: Sept. 16, 2021. Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021.

Multimedia/Photos

• Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. For over 100 years, the National Park Service has told the story of the American outdoors. Black park rangers are working to ensure that many important, and difficult, stories aren’t lost.

Crosswords & Games

• The Safety of Order. Finding stability in puzzles during a turbulent time.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Put Your Stamp on It. Grant Boroughs makes his New York Crossword Times debut.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• No-Win Situations? Daniel Okulitch makes a case for more puns.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Solving a Mystery. Pao Roy digs deep.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• New Look. Peter Gordon’s grid requires one’s full focus.
• Variety: Takeaway Crossword. Alex Eaton-Salners resurrects a fu* diversio*.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Home of a Massive Flock. Ryan McCarty takes some risks, but ends up pleasing the crowd.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Big Game. Matthew Stock brings us an all-star puzzle.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Welcome at the Front Door. Kevin Patterson invites us into a Thursday puzzle.

The Learning Network

• Accessible Reading and Writing Activities: A New Weekly Roundup for Teachers. We want to welcome a broader audience of learners to our site. Here is one way we’ll be doing it this school year.
• What’s Your Sunday Routine? How do you like to spend your day off?
• Writing About Your Life With ‘Sunday Routine’ In this popular column, newsworthy New Yorkers share how they spend a typical Sunday. What does your weekend routine look like?
• Your Go-To Recipes. What recipes, if any, do you know by heart?
• Word of the Day: lexicon. This word has appeared in 118 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Live Webinar: Personal Narratives From the Newsroom to the Classroom. Join us on Oct. 7 as a teacher and a New York Times editor share their perspectives on what makes a great personal narrative.
• Weekly News Quiz for Students: Recall Election, Emmys, TikTok Craze. Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• What Broadway Show Would You Most Like to See? The longest shutdown in Broadway history is over. Tell us shows you would love to see — whether they’re on now, or are a part of theater history.
• Lesson of the Day: ‘Black Surfers Reclaim Their Place on the Waves’ In this lesson, students will learn about the history of Black surfers and the actions they are taking against racism.
• Home Games. Are sports back at your school after pandemic disruptions? Are you a player or a fan?
• Word of the Day: apocryphal. This word has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• How Much Do You Know About Angola? Can you find Angola on a map? What else do you know about this country in Southern African with 33 million people?
• What Is Your Reaction to Efforts to Limit Teaching on Race in Schools? Legislation opposing critical race theory spread across the country this spring and summer. How will these laws affect you, your school and the nation?
• Lesson of the Day: ‘Critical Race Theory: A Brief History’ In this lesson, students will look at the spread across the country of legislation opposed to critical race theory. Then, they will consider the impact of these bills on their own schools and learning.
• Word of the Day: proffer. This word has appeared in 38 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What’s Going On in This Picture? | Sept. 20, 2021. Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
• Lesson of the Day: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools. In this lesson, you will learn more about residential schools for Native American children, hear from survivors, and consider the importance of history, memory and justice.
• Pulling at a Reflection. What do you think this image is saying?
• What Things Remind You of Your Childhood? Are there toys, games, foods or places that make you think of life when you were younger?
• Word of the Day: efficacious. This word has appeared in 26 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Students Are Saying About What It’s Like to Be Back in School. Many teenagers are back in school for the first time since March 2020. Whether they’re happy to be there or not, most agree nothing feels “normal.”
• Film Club: ‘The Journey of a 9/11 Tree’ It has been 20 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. What can we learn from the story of a single tree that was wounded on that tragic day?
• What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 22, 2021. How has the “normal” amount of precipitation changed across the United States?
• Lesson of the Day: ‘I Found Myself at Band Camp’ In this lesson, students will learn about the fun and magic of musical camps. Then, they will design their perfect camp experience.
• Have You Ever Felt Too Much Pressure to Win? How did you feel when Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka withdrew from recent competitions? Have you ever made a similar decision?
• In the Waves. Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: balderdash. This word has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Lesson Plans

• Summer Memories, Road Trips, Spending Money and More. Each week we spotlight five accessible activities for a broad range of readers and writers based on reporting in The New York Times.

en Español

• En Argentina se desintegra un matrimonio político. La vicepresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, ideó el plan para elegir al presidente Alberto Fernández. Ahora se están peleando abiertamente.
• Jill Biden, la primera dama que no renunció a su carrera. La primera dama de Estados Unidos recorre el país promoviendo la vacunación, la infraestructura y la unidad, mientras califica las tareas de sus alumnos de inglés.
• El científico iraní y la máquina operada a control remoto que lo mató en menos de un minuto. El padre del programa nuclear de Irán había eludido los atentados israelíes. Una operación planeada por el Mosad innovó con inteligencia artificial y sin agentes en el lugar del ataque.
• ¿Qué pasa si solo yo uso mascarilla? Los cubrebocas funcionan mejor cuando todas las personas llevan uno puesto, pero incluso si quienes te rodean no lo usan, tú obtendrás beneficios.
• ¿Qué esperar de la Asamblea General de la ONU? La reunión diplomática más grande del mundo comienza hoy y tendrá como telón de fondo temas cruciales como el cambio climático, la COVID-19 y los cuestionamientos al presidente Biden tras la salida de Afganistán.
• ¿Cuánto ejercicio tenemos que hacer para vivir más? Dos estudios sugieren que el punto óptimo para alcanzar la longevidad se encuentra en alrededor de 7000 a 8000 pasos diarios o aproximadamente de 30 a 45 minutos de ejercicio casi todos los días.
• Sin vergüenza. Revolución en la anatomía, las contradicciones de la izquierda y más para estar al día.
• Las palabras importan: un grupo de médicos quiere desterrar a la ‘vergüenza’ de la anatomía femenina. Los anatomistas han dicho adiós al patriarcado de siglos del término ‘pudendum’, pero los términos relacionados con él permanecen.
• Hasta el punto G tiene el nombre de un hombre. ¿Por qué tantas partes del cuerpo femenino homenajean a los científicos varones?
• ‘Tenía la sensación de estar haciendo algo clandestino’: abortar es legal en España pero hay médicos que se niegan a hacerlo. Numerosos doctores españoles se declaran objetores de conciencia, lo que dificulta el acceso para las mujeres que buscan el procedimiento.
• Así es la vida en las zonas rurales de Afganistán tras la toma del poder por los talibanes. En muchas regiones del país, azotado por 20 años de combates, se ha experimentado un gran descenso de la violencia. “Hace mucho tiempo que una bala no impacta nuestras casas”.
• ¿Tienes los ojos secos? Estos consejos te pueden ayudar. Esa sensación arenosa y la comezón en los ojos puede ser ocasionada por muchas causas, entre ellas el tiempo que pasas frente a la pantalla. Los colirios podrían empeorar la situación.
• La pandemia afectó tu economía. Esto debes hacer. Busca a alguien que sepa de dinero, revisa tu historial crediticio, examina tus impuestos y aleja el pensamiento catastrófico. Tú puedes.
• Once libros para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana. Reflexiones sobre la “morenidad”, relatos de trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes queer, poemas poscoloniales y mucho más.
• ¿Lentes inteligentes? Facebook le da una oportunidad a la tecnología que hizo quedar mal a Google. Nuestro reportero probó unas gafas hechas en colaboración con Ray-Ban capaces de hacer fotos, grabar videos, responder a llamadas telefónicas y reproducir pódcasts.
• Una persona ansiosa intenta tranquilizarse. Te cuento el final: nada funciona (hasta que dejas de intentarlo).
• El auge de los pódcast cubanos. Los programas que triunfan en la isla están cambiando el panorama mediático hiperpartidista y radical que ha imperado durante años.
• La tarta de fresas con crema de la abuela, reinventada. Un postre vintage adquiere una dimensión de ensueño con la ayuda de un poco de alquimia de refrigeradora e ingredientes muy frescos.
• ‘Es bueno envejecer’: Kirsten Dunst habla de sus miedos y los retos de su carrera. Fue una estrella infantil de apariencia ingenua, pero con el tiempo se ha convertido en una cronista de la desolación. Su nueva película, ‘The Power of the Dog’, podría marcar la reinvención de su carrera.
• Elecciones en Rusia: las activistas llevan la violencia doméstica a la agenda electoral. Las mujeres de mediana edad son votantes clave para el partido gobernante, que ha ignorado a las víctimas de la violencia de género.
• Christo hereda a París una obra fugaz. Concebida por el artista conceptual hace 60 años, la instalación póstuma transforma el Arco del Triunfo con un manto resplandeciente. Parece un momento liberador para la ciudad.
• Lecciones para la vida. Vivir con plenitud después de los 80, astronautas aficionados, los mamuts resucitan y más para el fin de semana.
• Mattel desempolva a He-Man, con un guiño a la diversidad. El personaje musculoso que triunfó en los años 80 ha revivido para las nuevas generaciones con dos figuras de acción y dos nuevas series animadas en Netflix.
• ¿Regresas a la oficina y te preocupa la covid? Esto es lo que debes saber. Las mejoras en la ventilación, la incorporación de purificadores de aire portátiles y el simple hecho de abrir ventanas pueden reducir el riesgo de infección en la oficina.
• La revolución de las baterías. La popularidad de Tesla ha motivado el surgimiento de una nueva ola de tecnología que ahora está disponible en un monitor de salud pero que pronto podría estar en las gafas, los coches e incluso los aviones.
• ¿Por qué todos hablan con Ibai? Lionel Messi lo admira y Gerard Piqué es su socio. Un ‘streamer’ español de 26 años está haciendo las entrevistas que podrían ser el futuro de la prensa deportiva.
• ¿El agua con gas es tan saludable como el agua sin gas? Las bebidas carbonatadas y saborizadas sin azúcar son más recomendables que los jugos o refrescos. Pero no te excedas, dicen los expertos.
• España busca un acercamiento con Cataluña para resolver el tema de la secesión. El primer ministro del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, se reunió con el líder de Cataluña en un intento por resolver el destino de la región.
• El levantamiento brasileño de glúteos aumenta, a pesar de los riesgos. El procedimiento tiene la tasa de mortalidad más alta de todas las cirugías cosméticas, pero eso no ha desanimado a muchas personas a someterse al bisturí.
• Astronautas ‘comunes y corrientes’, a bordo de una extraordinaria misión espacial. La misión Inspiration4 demuestra lo prometedor de los vuelos espaciales privados, pero también lo mucho que falta para que cualquiera pueda viajar a la órbita.

Opinión

• Cómo honrar la memoria de los líderes sociales asesinados en Colombia. Tememos que Esteban Mosquera no sea el último asesinado en un país sin memoria colectiva de sus heridas. Por eso, el gobierno debe crear un proceso de reparación para los afectados en las protestas.
• López Obrador abandona a los miléniales en México. Con el presupuesto presentado por el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, los jóvenes mexicanos pagarán más impuestos que sus padres y recibirán menos servicios que ellos.
• La izquierda latinoamericana es de derecha. La evidencia se acumula: buena parte de la izquierda ha sido conservadora socialmente y no tiene ni imaginación económica ni principios democráticos cuando llega al poder.
• Alex Saab desnuda la Revolución bolivariana. La historia del empresario colombiano y la defensa que ha impulsado el gobierno de Venezuela revelan la naturaleza real del chavismo.
• ¿Qué tienen que ver las indígenas con la politiquería mexicana? El debate sobre la estatua de Colón en México tocó muchos temas neurálgicos pero omitió el más importante: la situación terrible de los pueblos originarios.

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T Brand

• The Magic of Missoni. To embrace a new era, the Italian label finds beauty in irreverence at Milan Fashion Week.
• The Kitchen Has Evolved. Here’s How One Designer Blends Family and Function. Interior designer Sarah Robertson gives an inside look into how she designs her kitchen space to make room for family, friends and working from home.

Education

Learning

• Glimpses of How Pandemic America Went Back to School. Across the country, students are returning to classes. We connected with hundreds of them to see how they — along with teachers, administrators and parents — are coping.

The New York Times Presents

• Where Did It All Go So Wrong for Juul? A new documentary by The New York Times traces the e-cigarette maker on its path from fledgling start-up to Silicon Valley juggernaut and, eventually, public health villain.