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• Experts Say Best Defense Is Strong Ties Between Students and Adults. The gunman who killed four in Bend, Ore., entered an elementary school by shooting through a locked door, raising questions about what more schools can do to protect children.
• ‘He’s a Dad.’ Parent Heard Shots and Rushed to Stop the Gunman. The father of two girls at Silver Rail Elementary School, who confronted the shooter, was grateful for the support of the community and has asked for privacy.
• What We Know About the Shooter at an Oregon School. He was 16 years old and used a pump-action shotgun registered to his mother.
• Key to Past Hurricane Cleanup, Some Immigrant Workers Fear Florida’s Raids. Concerns about the state’s immigration dragnet may keep the itinerant labor force at home, threatening Hurricane Isaias recovery efforts.
• ‘I’m on a War Footing’: Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math. The Fields Medalist and celebrated mathematician is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.
• Parents Struggle to Help Their Children After School Killings in Oregon. The city of Bend is grappling with the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary, which killed three children and a teacher.
• Avalanche of G.O.P. Cash Keeps the Party Competitive Despite Its Problems. Republican Senate and House candidates are being out-raised by their Democratic rivals, but the party has received a huge boost from groups tied to Elon Musk and President Trump.
• What We Know About the School Shooting in Bend, Ore. A teenager opened fire at the Silver Rail Elementary School, killing three children and one teacher, before he was fatally shot by an armed bystander.
• Bruiser the Elk Left His Herd for an Island and Made It Home. After swimming across chilly waters to Whidbey Island in Washington State, the solitary elk charmed residents for more than a decade with his antics. He died at 15 to 18 years old.
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• Live Updates: Bystander Who Killed Oregon School Shooter Is Father of Two Students. A teenager shot his way into the Silver Rail Elementary School, killing three children and a teacher before an armed bystander shot him dead, the police said.
• ‘No Kings’ Events This Weekend to Focus on Voter Turnout, Organizers Say. Organizers are hoping to promote early voting ahead of the midterm elections in this latest round of nationwide demonstrations that have previously focused on President Trump.
• How the ‘Other Maine’ Has Helped Shape a Senate Race. Both Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, grew up in Aroostook County, a vast, isolated northern wilderness. Those roots have helped define them.
• City in Oregon Mourns After Deadly School Shooting. Residents of Bend attended a candlelight vigil after the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, in which three children and a teacher were killed.
• School Shooting in Oregon Adds Silver Rail Elementary to Grim List. A long string of school shootings have stricken the nation over the last three decades.
• Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says. Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
• Oregon Has Approved Tight Gun Laws, but They Have Been Held Up in Courts. The state has passed restrictive measures popular among gun safety activists. The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting seemed poised to set off conversations about gun control.
• Trump’s Press Secretary: Not Quite an Attorney at Law. In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.
• ICE Called Him a Wanted Man. His Family Said He Had Been Dead Nine Years. ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
• The shooter went on a quick but deadly rampage before he was killed, officials said.
• Oregon Elementary School Shooting Leaves Four Dead. Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Ore., on Thursday. The shooter was also dead, the police said.
• Bend, Ore., is known for its outdoor charm. The city in Central Oregon is home to Silver Rail Elementary School, where a shooting resulted in 5 dead.
• A Quiet Dog Walk Is Shattered by the Sound of Gunfire. “It’s just something that we live with here in America,” said Leah Schwartz, who heard the violence in Bend, Ore. “It’s exhausting.”
• Man Found in Barrel in Lake Mead in 2022 Is Identified by Las Vegas Police. The victim was shot once in the head in the early 1980s, the authorities said, and was identified after family members from Arkansas could provide a DNA match.
• Clancy Trial’s Holdout Juror Says That the Defendant Was ‘Methodical’ In an interview with Fox News, his first, Michael P. Desronvil said that Lindsay Clancy had thought through the killing of her three children. That, he said, was a major reason he wanted to see her convicted.
• Cornell’s Powerful Board Meets as It Fights to Protect Its Reputation. The president argued this week that replacing him would be a mistake.
• Teen Arrested Over Plan to Attack Hindu Temple, Officials Say. The suspect in suburban Chicago was in the parking lot of the temple on Sunday and told a co-worker that his gun had jammed, the authorities said.
• Teenager Guns Down 3 Children and a Teacher at an Oregon Elementary School. The suspect in the shooting was killed at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., according to the authorities, and the conditions of the injured were not immediately known.
• Here’s what to know. The suspect in the shooting was killed at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., according to the authorities, and the conditions of the injured were not immediately known.
• Luna, a Dog Who Was Lost in Yellowstone for a Month, Is Found Safe. A 10-year-old Jack Russell Terrier/Chihuahua mix, Luna lost half her weight but was otherwise healthy after several weeks in Yellowstone National Park.
• Stream of Gunman’s Execution Is Called Off by the President. The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
• Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times. Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.
• As Trump Cuts, Harvard’s Coffer Gushes to $68 Billion. The stock market has boosted Harvard’s wealth. But as federal funding slumps, the school is seeking corporate sponsors to underwrite research.
• How Trump Is Trying to Assert Control Over the Election. Many election officials fear that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to challenge the midterm results in November if they do not favor Republicans. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes what the administration is doing.
• Inert White Powder Sent to Senators and Election Officials. Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating a series of letters mailed to members of Congress and secretaries of state in recent days.
• ‘The Call’ explains why cattle farmers feel disillusioned before the midterms.
• In Kansas, they know Adam Hamilton as a pastor first and a politician second.
• El-Sayed and Ocasio-Cortez Blitz Upper Michigan as Vance Heads Downstate.
• For Texas Schoolchildren, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Criminal Charges. More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.
• Caskets on the River: The Story of an American Disaster. Covering a flood powerful enough to disrupt the dead.
• A Megachurch Pastor is Running for Senate. Will Democrats Vote for Him? As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Adam Hamilton speaks of his work leading the state’s largest church — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.
• 7 Years Old, No Lawyer: Migrant Children Face Deportation Hearings Alone. For years, the government has helped secure lawyers for minors who arrive at the southern border. But a contract dispute has forced many children to face immigration judges on their own.
• Why Are Food Prices So High? Ask the Farmers Market Vendors. Farmers markets cut out a lot of middlemen, from shippers to grocery store managers. One Nashville market shows how farmers are getting squeezed — and why prices may keep going up.
• Why Are Migrant Children in Court Without a Lawyer? Many unaccompanied minors are facing deportation hearings without a lawyer because of the Trump administration’s dispute with an organization that helps provide legal representation to thousands of migrant children. Our national reporter Jazmine Ulloa explains.
• The Crisis Playbook for Universities in Trouble. Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public relations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes making leadership changes.
• Appeals Court Blocks California Law Mandating I.D. for Federal Agents. The court said that California could not impose state requirements on federal law enforcement operations.
• There’s a New Great Pumpkin to Rule Them All. A farmer in Rhode Island raised a 3,156-pound pumpkin this year, setting a new measure for the greatest of all gourds.
• ICE Agent Strikes, Injures Fleeing Man With Vehicle. An ICE agent struck a Mexican construction worker, Miguel Parra Hernandez, with a vehicle on Saturday. Mr. Parra Hernandez was hospitalized with hip and ankle injuries, according to an immigrant rights group.
• Sleeping ICE Agent Who Fought With Homeowner Is Charged With Assault. The off-duty agent was found sleeping on the front lawn of a home in Fresno, Calif., last week before the scuffle unfolded. The police said he “appeared intoxicated and agitated.”
• A Maryland Lawmaker Blamed Democrats for High Gas Prices. Laughter Ensued. Representative Andy Harris, a Republican, said during a debate that environmental regulations had caused diesel prices to rise. Some in the audience groaned.
• Woman Reports Sexual Assault at Fraternity House Near U. of Chicago. The University of Chicago said the suspect and victim were not students at the school. But the accusation drew scrutiny after revelations of a reported gang rape at Cornell University in New York.
• Senators’ Letter to Meta. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Meta about $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
• Talarico has an edge in nearly every poll, but the Texas Senate race is tightening.
• Texas Senate Race Tightens, Polls Show, Even as Talarico Keeps His Edge.
• He’s Played It Safe. But He Could Make California History as Governor. Xavier Becerra is a heavy favorite to become California’s first Latino governor in the modern era, though he does not talk much about the milestone.
• 4 Takeaways From the Los Angeles Mayoral Debate. Mayor Karen Bass and her former ally, the City Council member Nithya Raman, attacked each other’s records on Tuesday night in the last televised debate before the election.
• Five Who Lived Along Walking Trail Are Dead and the Police Hunt a Killer. Lansing’s police chief says the string of attacks along a greenway raises the possibility that a serial killer has been at work. A man is under arrest in one of the deaths.
• 6 Dead in Wisconsin Plane Crash. The aircraft crashed near the Wisconsin Dells on Tuesday night, killing five adults and one child, local authorities said.
• Bribery and Fraud Trial Begins for Former Oakland Mayor and Contractors. In opening arguments, prosecutors said that Sheng Thao “put her power up for sale.” One lawyer for the defendants called the bribery scheme “pure fiction.”
• Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Sanctions on 2 Groups Aiding the I.C.C. The ruling prevents the administration from penalizing two rights groups for working to provide information for the International Criminal Court’s war crimes investigations.
• Duane Keith Davis Sentenced to 40 Years to Life for Tupac Shakur Murder. Duane Keith Davis on Tuesday was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur.
• Texas Prosecutors May Seek Charges Against ICE Agent Who Hit Fleeing Man. The Harris County district attorney said investigators from his office did not believe that the crash that left Miguel Parra Hernandez injured over the weekend was accidental.
• Miami Tugboat Captain Gets 18 Months in Crash That Killed 3 Children. Five girls and a camp counselor were thrown into the water off Miami Beach in July last year when a barge pushed by a tugboat struck their stalled sailboat.
• Florida Executes First Prisoner Since Botched Injection in Tennessee. The execution of James Robertson, who said he deliberately killed another inmate to get on death row, occurred without complications, state officials said.
• NJ Transit Riders Face Delays Amid Portal North Bridge Construction. NJ Transit commuters experienced delays on Tuesday as the Portal North Bridge entered its final phase of construction.
• Candidates in Georgia, Iowa and Maine to Debate With Senate Control at Stake.
• They Pushed an Abortion Pill Law. Now They’re Being Sued Under It. A Texas mother is suing the president of Students for Life of America and others in the group over an Instagram post that appeared to boast about ordering abortion pills in Houston.
• He Would Be Florida’s First Black Governor. Can He Sway Black Voters? Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, is working to win over Black voters who usually support Democrats as his party girds for the possibility of low turnout.
• The Last Days of a Floating Counterculture. For decades, dozens of people lived rent-free on a bay just north of San Francisco. A few holdouts remained as a deadline loomed to leave the water.
• Six Flags Roller Coaster Leaves 1 Dead and Several Injured in Georgia. One rider died and several others were injured on Monday at the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park, the police said. Details about the death were not immediately available.
• New Platform By El-Sayed Seeks a Pause To Assess A.I. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.
• After Christa Pike’s Failed Execution, Confusion Delayed Emergency Help. New audio reveals how confusion among emergency dispatchers delayed medical care after Christa Pike’s botched execution.
• They Lived Rent-Free on Boats Near San Francisco. Until Now. For decades, dozens of boat dwellers lived rent free on a bay just north of San Francisco. After a yearslong fight, just a few holdouts remained, with a deadline to leave by Oct. 15.
• Trump, Playing Defense in Ohio, Tries to Shore Up Republicans in Tough Races. The president rallied in Youngstown for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are in competitive contests against Democratic opponents.
• Man Killed at Six Flags Struck Other Riders During Fall From Roller Coaster. One rider died and several others were injured at Six Flags Over Georgia, the police said. The company said it was temporarily closing nine rides in the U.S. and Canada as a precaution.
• Calls Show How Confusion Delayed Emergency Response for Christa Pike. The first 911 call from inside the prison was made at 8:40 p.m. It took about 30 minutes to verify its authenticity.
• Actress Selma Blair Is Arrested in Assault on Flight Attendants. The police responded to a call about a “physically abusive passenger” aboard a flight that landed at Kennedy Airport on Sunday night, officials said.
• Democrats Tie Corruption to High Costs in Final Midterms Push. Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.
• To Ease Her Grief, She Took 30 New Friends Out to the Ballgame. Rhenda Strub invited strangers to accompany her to Seattle Mariners games this season to help overcome the loneliness of grieving for her son’s death.
• California Crew Puts 1,300 Unblinking Eyes on Wildfire Watch. A roving crew of California firefighters is installing cameras in some of the highest, craggiest sites in the state — all to get an early warning of a potentially deadly blaze.
• Fugitive in Venezuela Money Laundering Cases to Appear in U.S. Court. Álvaro Pulido Vargas faces federal charges in Florida related to what prosecutors described as money laundering and bribery schemes. It is not clear when or where he was arrested.
• A Trump Loyalist and a ‘Socialist’ Trade Jabs at South Carolina’s Senate Debate. Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic challenger, accused Senator Darline Graham of taking her cues from President Trump. Ms. Graham said Dr. Andrews wouldn’t say no to socialists.
• Waves From Powerful Storm Pound Homes in California. Waves from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel crashed into beachfront homes in Long Beach, Calif. over the weekend, prompting evacuations.
• Hurricane Isaias in Video and Pictures. It was the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, and the first to hit the mainland United States in two years.
• Mr. Sparklepants and 29 Flamingo Friends Rode Out Isaias in the Bathroom. ZooWorld in Panama City Beach, Fla. squeezed a group of 30 flamingos into a bathroom to shelter them from Hurricane Isaias, which hit the Gulf Coast.
• Law and Order Ruffles The L.A. Mayoral Race. Two Democratic candidates choose opposite tacks on public safety and policing, seeking to corral undecided voters.
• Republicans Held Onto the Great Plains for Years. Now They’re Nervous. Republicans have dominated the center of the country for a quarter-century. Now they face several tough races for Senate and governor.
• After Many Threats, an Arizona Lawmaker Asks: ‘Is It Really Worth It?’ Threats have altered the lives of State Representative Alma Hernandez, her family, friends and neighbors. They have even transformed her policymaking.
• 5 Found Dead in Utah Apartment That Had High Carbon Monoxide Levels. The five victims in Richmond, Utah, included four minors whose ages ranged from 5 to 16, the police said. The causes of their deaths were not immediately clear.
• What to Know About Isaias, the First Atlantic Hurricane of the Season. After making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane, Isaias weakened considerably and headed north. Now, parts of the Southeast are at risk of flash floods.
• 5 Killed in Murder-Suicide at a Home in Georgia. Officials said the shooting in the city of Douglas was related to domestic violence. The victims lived together in the same house.
• Four Die and Multitudes Lose Power As Isaias Weakens and Moves Inland. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, but towns near the landfall site in Florida were relieved that the hurricane damage was not worse.
• Were Isaias Forecasts Accurate? Many people in the storm’s path escaped the worst, but 4 people were killed and there was plenty of damage.
• Philadelphia Officer Shot Dead in Ambush. Two officers responding to the call took “significant fire.” Officials said the gunman fired at 9 other officers who responded to the scene.
• 8 Killed in Shooting, Erie Officials Say. The dead included a pregnant woman, a 5 year old and a toddler. The shooter was also dead, city officials said.
• Executions Are Again on the Minds of a Divided Public. A botched execution and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and divisions over the most severe form of punishment.
• 7 Coffins Are Found Near North Dakota Governor’s Residence. The bodies are believed to have been overlooked when a cemetery at the current site of the governor’s residence in Bismarck was moved in the 1870s, during the capital’s early settlement period.
• This Robot Will Deliver Your Food, if It Doesn’t Get Smashed First. The winsome machines have been kicked, beaten and defaced as they roll through American cities bringing pizza and sushi — and vacuuming up data.
• Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California. A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
• Free Speech Case Hinges on Lewd Image of Shrek. An Ohio municipal court heard a misdemeanor case that considered the limits of political discourse in the age of the internet.
• The polls in the Maine Senate race show a fair amount of disagreement.

Elections

• How Americans Feel About Socialism. Public opinion polls and recent primary results have shown that socialism is growing in popularity, even as there’s disagreement on what it means.
• Elon Musk Is Pouring Cash Into the Midterms. This quarter’s campaign finance report shows that the world’s richest man is the top political donor of this midterm election. Our reporter Theodore Schleifer explains how Elon Musk came back from a brief rift with President Trump and Republicans to become a central player in the party’s campaign to hold Congress.
• These Legislatures Could See Big Changes in November. Statehouses make health-care policy, guide education, and may redraw congressional districts ahead of 2028. With the stakes high, more than 6,100 legislators will be elected Nov. 3.
• Ossoff and Collins Trade Blows in Georgia Senate Debate. Senator Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent, and Representative Mike Collins, the Republican challenger, debated inflation, tariffs and the Epstein files during the second and final Georgia senate debate.
• Fact-Checking Senate Debates in Georgia, Maine and Michigan. With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals’ records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.
• Trump Adds Another Giveaway to His Midterm Pitch: Pardons. The president has stepped up his offers of financial rewards to voters with just weeks until the midterms. On Tuesday at a rally in Alaska, he announced pardons.
• Local Concerns Propel G.O.P. Hopefuls. Republicans are playing defense in some of the most conservative parts of the country, but an unpopular Democratic governor has them hopeful in a progressive West Coast state.

Politics

• Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary. The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
• Russia Appears to Step Up Efforts to Influence U.S. Voters. One campaign has created social media posts focusing on U.S. support for Israel to sow discord ahead of the midterm elections.
• $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms. Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.
• How Claims of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Fall Apart. Investigations into noncitizen voting follow a pattern. Each inquiry ends with few, if any, prosecutions.
• Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party. One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was the swing of young voters, particularly men, away from Democrats to Donald Trump. Now they are swinging back.
• N.I.H. Hospital Board Rebukes Kennedy Over New Vaccine Injury Clinic. The board that oversees the N.I.H. Clinical Center voted unanimously to support a statement accusing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of undermining trust in the hospital’s work.
• Katie Zacharia is Fired After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary. Katie Zacharia has been fired after five days as President Trump’s new press secretary, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday that he had encouraged her to “reconsider” the role.
• Kennedy Pledged to Advance Anti-Vaccine Group’s Agenda. Here’s What He Is Doing. The health secretary is quietly taking steps that public health experts fear will reduce immunization rates further.
• A.O.C. Transfers $1 Million To Help El-Sayed in Michigan. The transfer represents an unusually large amount for a House member to give to a Senate race.
• Behind a White House Feud That Is Bitter Even by Trump-Era Standards. Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.
• Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk. The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
• Fish, Oil and Corruption: 6 Takeaways From Alaska’s Senate Debate. The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.
• Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames War He Vowed to Swiftly End. The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.
• ‘Oh, Shut Up’: 5 Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Maine. The race’s fourth and final debate centered on whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.
• Ocasio-Cortez and El-Sayed on the Trail: A Barn, a Bus and a Clash With Vance. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.
• How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved Under Trump. President Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine has raised questions about the future of U.S. support.
• Senators Call for Investigation Into Gap in Satellite Service. Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.
• More Trump Allies Aided Pro-Russian Balkan Government. The daughter of the president’s chief of staff joined an American businessman in Republika Srpska as he explored a gas pipeline. And six current and former campaign advisers recently traveled there for an election.
• Close Trump Friend and Ally Leaves Special Envoy Post. Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump associate, gained attention earlier this year with a report that his ex-wife had been detained by ICE after his request.
• Judge Refuses to Reverse Penalties Against Crypto Firm With Ties to Trump Family. The ruling denied a bid by Gemini Trust and the C.F.T.C. to nullify a settlement that required the company to pay $5 million for misleading federal regulators.
• All Elections Are Local (but These Ones Really Are). A guide to the states where legislatures are up for grabs.
• President Trump Cancels Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution. President Trump canceled the planned livestream of the Fort Hood shooter’s execution. Mr. Trump said that only the victims’ immediate families will be able to watch the execution in person on Dec. 3.
• Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls. The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.
• Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results. Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.
• Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream Execution Drew Opposition From Many. A retired general, a Catholic archbishop for the military and one of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s victims were among those who had spoken out.
• Tight Races in Blue States Are Worrying Democrats. Despite hopes for a blue wave, Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Maine and Michigan are facing local political headwinds and have struggled to open up clear daylight in the polls.
• F.B.I. Employees Sue, Saying Patel Incorrectly Described Their Dismissals. The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.
• An Angry Judge and a Maybe-Lawyer in the Briefing Room. A roundup of legal news from the past week.
• President Trump Says That Leakers Should Be Shot. At a political rally in Arizona, President Trump said that government sources who leak military plans should be shot.
• James Talarico Raises Quarterly Record of $64 Million in Senate Race. The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.
• Democratic Senators Move to Block U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal. The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.
• Elon Musk and Other Donors Pile $94 Million Into House Republican Effort. The party’s top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.
• Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms. Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.
• In Divided Portland, Ore., Anti-Police Posts Fuel a Fight Over the Future. When social media posts denouncing the police surfaced, they were supposed to harm a socialist’s re-election. But the democratic socialists of Portland, and other cities, are showing their strength.
• Trump’s New Press Secretary Faces Scrutiny Over Credentials. President Trump called Katie Zacharia, his new press secretary, an “attorney” on Tuesday, creating confusion about her credentials.
• Trump’s New Press Secretary: Not-Quite Attorney at Law. Katie Zacharia told The New York Times that the confusion over her legal credentials was the result of one big misunderstanding.
• The Disappearing Women of the Trump Administration. In President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.
• Vance’s Talarico Attacks Show His Penchant for Personal Broadsides. At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
• U.S. Continues to Provide Intelligence to Ukraine, Officials Say. Confusion about the U.S. stance has mounted in Kyiv amid restrictions on how the military version of Starlink is used.
• Democratic Donor Emerges to Blitz Red-State Senate Races With Late Ads. Steve Pajcic, a lawyer and philanthropist in Florida, started a group that is airing ads in Kansas and South Carolina. Florida and Mississippi are next.
• They Voted for Trump. How Are They Feeling About High Grocery Prices? With the midterms nearing, some are venting frustration with the president while others are standing by him.
• Trump Says Those Who Leak Military Plans Should Be Shot. At a rally in Arizona, the president dramatically escalated his attacks on news gathering and those willing to speak to the press.
• 3 Men Accused by Nancy Mace in House Speech Are Charged With Sex Crimes. The former fiancé of the South Carolina representative and two of his business associates were charged on Wednesday with sex crimes and voyeurism in connection with a 2018 incident.
• Prices Rise as Election Nears, Worrying Republicans. The newest inflation report gave Democrats a chance to tie pain at the pump to President Trump’s decisions.
• Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight. The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.
• U.S. Adding Hundreds of Troops to Fight Against Drugs in Latin America. The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.
• Appeals Court Questions Trump’s National Guard Deployment in D.C. After thousands of troops deployed by the president have patrolled Washington for more than a year, a three-judge panel interrogated whether the deployment could continue indefinitely.
• The Breathtaking Cost of the Midterms: $10 Billion and Counting on Ads. The campaign is set to be more expensive than the 2024 presidential election cycle, and has already exceeded the ad total booked by the N.F.L. last season.
• Jon Ossoff Says He’s Not Running for President. History Says He Can Change His Mind. “I’m running for re-election to the Senate,” the Democrat said during a debate on Tuesday. Barack Obama said the same thing 20 years ago.
• Harris to Campaign for Democrats in Mississippi, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Former Vice President Kamala Harris will also rally for Democratic candidates in Georgia and Nevada.
• A Trump Backlash Endangers Susan Collins, the Only Blue-State G.O.P. Senator. The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.
• In Age of Online Ads, Supreme Court Weighs Videotape-Era Privacy Law. The justices will consider how the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 applies in the digital age of streaming videos, email newsletters and targeted advertisements.
• ‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle. President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.
• Mike Collins Attacks Back: 7 Takeaways From the Second Senate Debate in Georgia. Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.
• 5 Takeaways From a Heated and Personal Maine Senate Debate. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.
• In Short Briefing, Trump’s New Press Secretary Makes Bumpy Debut. Ms. Zacharia spent eight minutes reading from a script, called on only three reporters and made an awkward slip-up.
• Senators Urge Trump to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin. A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.
• Justice Dept. Issues Subpoenas in Ilhan Omar Investigation. After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.
• Elon Musk Re-Enters the Chat. A quarter-billion dollars to help Republicans hold Congress.
• The New White House Press Secretary Has Awkward Debut. President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, held her first press briefing on Tuesday morning at the White House lectern. She read from a script for eight minutes, called on only three reporters and made an awkward slip-up.
• U.A.W. Re-elects Shawn Fain as President. The United Auto Workers has grown under Mr. Fain, who has also drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors.
• F.B.I. Disrupts Pyongyang Revenue Stream: North Koreans in U.S. Tech Jobs. F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.
• Justices to Review Dispute Over Records From DOGE. A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.
• After 400 Trees Cut at D.C. Golf Course, Judge Extends Halt. The ruling barred major modifications at the D.C. course while a federal judge seeks testimony from Interior Department officials about whether they ignored a court order.
• Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as Ambassador to Greece. The White House asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her post after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.
• Top G.O.P. Groups Pull Financial Support From 2 House Incumbents in Triage Effort. Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.
• One Debate, Two Realities. The Senate candidates in Michigan held a fiery debate. On social media, two vastly different impressions took hold.
• The New Affordability Fight in the Midterms: Home Insurance Prices. Extreme weather is driving up insurance rates, impacting races from California to the nation’s central Tornado Alley.
• Trump Says He Is ‘Looking at’ Firing Kimberly Guilfoyle. President Trump made the remark in response to a question about the U.S. ambassador to Greece, who faces accusations that she asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.
• Republicans Promoted a False Rumor That James Talarico Was in Ohio. The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
• An Ad Targeting Susan Collins’s Opponent Airs in the Wrong Portland. An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.
• Musk’s Spending On the Midterms Hits $366 Million. The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
• From Venezuela’s Political Web, Turkish Investor Rose in MAGA. A Turkish businessman once allied with the Maduro regime has tied the knot with President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, at the same time he is seeking to retain a big contract in Venezuela.
• Home of Representative Omar Is Searched by an Arm of ICE. The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
• State of the Race. It’s Oct. 12 — 22 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
• Judge Orders Trump Administration to Answer for Tree Removals at D.C. Golf Course. During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.
• Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar’s Home. On Monday, homeland security officials executed a search warrant at the Washington-area home of Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, according to three people briefed on the matter.
• He Helped Discover Ebola in 1976. He’s Still Worried. In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.
• Judge Orders Trump to End Taxpayer Ads. A group of liberal organizations sued last week over the ads that praised the administration.
• In Maine Senate Race, Anxious Democrats Turn to Bernie Sanders for a Jolt. Three months after a jarring summer candidate switch, some Democrats in the state are worried about the enthusiasm for their nominee, Troy Jackson, who is in a close race.
• Pentagon Is Pressed on Iran Civilian Deaths. A new letter from 74 lawmakers suggests that civilian casualties will become a focus of investigation if Democrats take control of Congress.
• Public Officials Are Living In Fear as Threats Mount. A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
• How the Trump White House Cultivates a ‘Weaponization’ Narrative. A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
• In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him. A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
• A Senator Facing Re-Election Settles a Bakery Bill, 6 Years Later. Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
• ‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution. A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.
• Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War. In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who died or were wounded in support roles.
• Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia. High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.
• Trump Says He Should Have Won 8 Nobels After Being Snubbed for the Prize. The president took to social media on Friday and Saturday to criticize the choice of Navi Pillay and disparage the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
• Over 500 Trees to Be Cut at Public Golf Course That Trump Wants to Redo. The National Park Service notified a court of the plan as part of continuing litigation over the president’s proposal to create a “champion-level” course.
• Hospital Returns Execution Survivor. Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.
• Alarm for G.O.P. as Voters Curse the Economy. Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.
• Fact-Checking Senate Ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina. We assess three campaign ads in the battleground states that have focused on the cost of living.
• A Vague, Redacted Execution Protocol in Tennessee Draws Scrutiny. The differences between the current protocol and the previous one have become a focus in Christa Pike’s failed execution.
• On the Ground — Well, in the Ground — in Kansas. Adam Hamilton wants to be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there in nearly 100 years.
• Macabre Twist on Trump’s Latest Spectacle. The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.
• Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Could Face Challenge in Federal Courts. Legal experts say the former Army officer convicted in a 2009 mass shooting could face a narrow, rushed path to appeal a public execution by firing squad.
• Trump Casts Himself as Columbus’s Protector in Pitch to Italian Americans. President Trump sought to inject the Genoese explorer into the current political conversation.
• Guantánamo Gets Scrutiny For High Costs. The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees.

World

• D.E.I. Gone Wild? What Do You Know About Affirmative Action In South Africa?
• America’s Most Expensive Senate Race. The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.
• Angry Youth in Aging Europe. A bitter generational battle over resources is boiling over as economic growth on the continent stalls.
• Trump Squeezes Ukraine, Again. The president’s proposed fuel deal with Russia and a one-sided cease-fire plan are putting Kyiv in a tough spot as winter approaches.
• Cornell and Toxic Frat Culture. A U.S. campus lawsuit points to a global pattern: how male impunity, silence and institutional failure enable sexual violence.
• An Israeli Election Like No Other. Many say a vote in two weeks may be the most consequential in Israel’s history.

Africa

• 6 Members of South Africa’s Biggest Party Are Killed in Shootings. The two shootings took place only a few weeks before pivotal, nationwide local elections, and as the party, the A.N.C., is embroiled in a dispute over the eligibility of more than 100 candidates.
• Kenya Announces Its Second Ebola Infection. The case is likely to raise alarms in the country and increase scrutiny of the government’s surveillance measures.
• From Allies to Enemies: Ethiopia and Eritrea Edge Toward War. The two nations fought alongside each other during a brutal conflict in Tigray that left hundreds of thousands of people dead just a few years ago. Now they are on the brink of fighting each other.
• Dozens Killed As Bombs Hit Sudan Miners. The attacks occurred at a remote gold mine hundreds of miles from the front lines of Sudan’s devastating civil war. Videos showed what appeared to be Egyptian munitions.
• Boat Capsizes Off Djibouti, Killing Over 100. The shipwreck is among the deadliest ever recorded on the route to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration said. Dozens remain missing, and the bodies of 15 children were recovered.
• An International Career Forged by the Struggles of Apartheid. Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.
• Deadly Clash Exposes Shadow War in Congo. The injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts.

Americas

• 16 People Rescued in Pacific Ocean Off Mexico, U.S. Coast Guard Says. The agency said a major rescue operation was underway near the coast of Baja California after it received reports of 27 people in the water.
• Caracas Is Eerily Safe. State Death Squads Made Sure of It. Crime plunged after police raids killed thousands. Venezuela is now withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it investigates this blood-soaked campaign.
• Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Calls Trump’s New Oil Partner Corrupt. As ties with the Trump administration fray, María Corina Machado said her return to Venezuela would come “sooner than you would expect.”
• Mexico Bans Violent Content on Social Media for Children. Joining a global movement, President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree requiring the removal of a range of material for people under 18 and held out the prospect of tougher measures.
• Brazil’s Leftist President Accuses Meta of Helping His Right-Wing Opponent. With a narrow presidential election looming, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his allies claim Meta is trying to give his right-wing rival an advantage.
• She Talked to Milei’s Dog Conan, and Conan’s Clones. In Argentina, many people try to read the mind of the president. Celia Melamed read the mind of his dogs.
• Peruvians Pray for Pope’s Recovery After Cancer Diagnosis. People in Peru sent Pope Leo their prayers after he was diagnosed with lung cancer on Tuesday. The news comes just weeks before the pope’s Latin America trip.
• 3 Men Are Found Guilty in Murders of Tourists on Surfing Trip to Mexico. The 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend drew international attention.

Asia Pacific

• After Deadly Peshawar Roof Collapse, Private Schools Are Under Scrutiny. A roof collapse that killed 32 children and a teacher in northwest Pakistan has prompted safety inspections of schools across the region.
• Japan Mistakenly Issues Warning for Strongest Ever Earthquake. Officials on Friday withdrew an alert sent when they believed a 9.9-magnitude earthquake had taken place. In the end, the tremor was hardly felt.
• Japan’s Prime Minister Says She Is Busier Than Male Predecessors. Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said she was busier than her male predecessors because of the time she had to spend on makeup, bathing, cooking and other chores.
• Japan’s Leader Says She Loses Hours to Makeup and Chores. Opinions Abound. Sanae Takaichi said she has a busier schedule than her male predecessors, a nod to the disproportionate share of household tasks in Japan that fall to women.
• More Than 30 Children Killed After School Roof Collapse in Pakistan. A roof collapsed at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing more than 30 children and one teacher, the local authorities said.
• The Tireless Activist Who Became the Face of India’s Young Protesters. When police cracked down, Neha Bora helped rally Gen Z protesters with a mix of boundless energy, street theatrics and satirical humor.
• 32 Children Killed After School Roof Collapses in Pakistan. The collapse, in Peshawar, also killed a teacher and injured dozens of people. A local official said the building appeared to be dilapidated.
• North Korea and China’s Biggest Border Bridge Opens. The New Yalu River Bridge, the largest border crossing connecting China and North Korea, had its grand opening on Thursday.
• North Korea and China Open Their Biggest Border Bridge. The long-delayed opening of the New Yalu River Bridge comes as the two countries expand trade despite international sanctions imposed on North Korea.
• Japan Protests the Arrest Of a Journalist by Russia. Tokyo summoned Russia’s ambassador after a Japanese reporter was arrested in Russia’s far east and accused of collecting military intelligence.
• The Taliban Suspend BBC Broadcasts Across Afghanistan. The Taliban government has intensified its crackdown on the press in recent months but had so far targeted Afghan news outlets.
• Indian Protesters Describe Rough Treatment by the Police. Some of those detained accused security forces of beating them during an intense crackdown on demonstrations in India’s capital over the weekend. Police have said they followed the law.
• A Movie About a Political Killing Fuels South Korea’s Culture Wars. The film, “The Assassin(s),” revisits a 1974 shooting that has spawned J.F.K.-style conspiracy theories, exposing divides over the country’s history.
• Online Attacks Are Sweeping Japan, and A.I. May Be Turbocharging the Chaos. Critical infrastructure has been targeted in a wave of cyberattacks, which experts say are rising because of artificial intelligence.
• At Least 6 Injured in Stabbing in South Korea. The police in the city of Incheon said they had arrested one man and were investigating his motive.
• This Copper Mine Led to a Civil War. Can Reopening It Fund a New Nation? Rising demand for copper has fueled interest in Bougainville’s Panguna mine, which has been shut for four decades. Yet some fear a rush to reopen risks return to violence.
• Why Chinese College Grads Are Becoming Farmers. Facing a competitive job market, college graduates in China are trading corporate jobs for farming, equipped with smartphones and tech skills.
• Protesters in India Call for Resignation of Election Commissioner. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of central New Delhi to demand an investigation into the proceedings of the election commission.
• Sea of Protesters Flows Freely Through India’s Capital as Days of Lockdowns Ease. The raucous demonstrations by opposition groups on Monday followed days of an effective lockdown and mass detentions of young protesters by security forces.
• Inquiry of FlyDubai Attacker Puts Mosque Under Scrutiny. Emirati investigators said the co-pilot accused of attacking a captain on a flight to Israel drifted toward extremism during his time as a student in Australia.
• Taliban Leveraging European Fears on Migrants. European nations that condemn the Taliban government for its human rights record are seeking its help to deport refugees back to Afghanistan.
• India’s Young Protesters Challenge Modi’s Playbook for Holding Power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has long succeeded in isolating and undermining opponents. The Gen Z protests pose a challenge unlike any he has faced before.
• Where They Say Every Tree Conceals an Enemy. Returning to China after decades away, a correspondent finds bullet trains, dazzling skylines — and a surveillance state more paranoid and pervasive than ever.
• India’s ‘Cockroach’ Leaders Released as Small Protests Go On in Delhi. The leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, an Indian youth movement, had been detained by the police on Saturday before they could lead protests over voting rights.
• From a Sikh Sanctuary to Chaotic Streets, Protesters Brave Police in Delhi. A group of demonstrators used a house of worship known as a gurdwara as a staging ground before their long-shot effort to reach a locked-down protest site in New Delhi.
• Blocked by Police, India’s Youth Voice Their Fury. Members of a youth protest movement are outraged after being intercepted at airports and stopped by barricades. “Aren’t we children of this nation?”
• Protest Leaders Are Rounded Up as New Delhi Is Locked Down. Thousands of young people tried to gather to protest a sweeping revision of their country’s voter roll. Security forces hauled many of them away.
• What to Know About the Protests in India. Scattered protests against sweeping revisions to India’s voter rolls broke out on Sunday in New Delhi. The police met earlier protests with an extraordinary show of force.

Canada

• Fertile Ground In Arctic City For a Revival. In Iqaluit, the only city in Canada’s Arctic, a new generation of Inuit writers and artists is turning questions of language, land and identity into books, films and even tattoos.
• Quebec Independence Is Unlikely, but Some Will Still Dream. The idea of independence remains deeply unpopular in Quebec, yet the separatist Parti Québécois was re-elected to a minority government this week.

Europe

• Pope Asks Putin for a Cease-Fire for a Ukrainian City Under Siege. Recovering from lung cancer surgery, Pope Leo XIV spoke with Vladimir V. Putin to make a plea for Oleshky, where mines and drones have trapped some 2,000 people who are at risk of starvation.
• Is This the Breaking Point for Trump and Zelensky? Where the two presidents’ war of words will end is anybody’s guess. But if it continues, it could threaten the crucial operational help that Ukraine still gets from the United States.
• What Life Is Like in Kyiv as Russia Tries to Make It Unlivable. A day in the Ukrainian capital, a new kind of battlefield far from the front, where daily life means assessing — and accepting — deadly risks.
• Zelensky’s Silent Answer To Trump Scapegoat Question. Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was asked on Friday if President Trump was using him as a scapegoat for various domestic and foreign issues Trump faces. He answered with a silent smile.
• The Sexual Abuse Crisis in Paris’s Public Schools. A surge of abuse accusations has led Parisian authorities to acknowledge a “collective failure” to prevent sexual offenders from working in schools.
• Students Join Protest Demanding Albania Prime Minister’s Resignation. Protests in Albania’s capital, Tirana, escalated into violence this week as students joined the demonstrations against the rising cost of living and government corruption.
• Why Russia Sees a Window to Bomb Ukraine Into Submission. Moscow is not winning on the battlefield. Instead, it is seizing an opening to inflict immense human suffering in Ukrainian cities.
• Dublin Hotel Accused of Revoking Bookings for an Event to Combat Antisemitism. A leader of the Jewish community in Ireland said a hotel canceled a deal for 70 rooms when it learned they were reserved for guests attending the international forum.
• Student Protests in Albania Turn Violent as Calls Grow for Leader’s Resignation. Opposition to a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner has collided with rising discontent over corruption and the cost of living.
• Zelensky Says Trump Is on ‘Wrong Side’ of History. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed frustration with President Trump for making deals with Russia as the country continued its campaign of striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter.
• Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Painting Sells for $42 Million at Auction. “The Colorful Life,” a 1907 work by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, had been returned to the original owners’ heirs in 2023.
• Defying Trump, Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.
• The Race to Defend Kyiv Against Terrifying New Jet-Powered Drones. Ukrainian engineers are rushing to perfect A.I.-guided, jet-driven interceptors. Their goal: to stop a fast Russian threat in the latest round of a deadly tech duel.
• While Leo Recovers From Lung Surgery, the Church Runs on Autopilot. The Vatican bureaucracy has been fine-tuned over hundreds of years to function smoothly even when the pope cannot.
• London’s Oldest Restaurant, a Haunt of Dickens, Is Protected for the Future. The restaurant Rules is an institution. Now the National Trust, which preserves Britain’s heritage, plans to safeguard the landmark.
• Sally Rooney Says Her Novels Will No Longer Be Sold in U.K. Ms. Rooney and her publisher said that she could no longer receive royalties from British sales because she pledged to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in Britain.
• Why Trump Made a Diesel Deal With Putin. Our national security and White House correspondent David E. Sanger breaks down why President Donald Trump struck a deal with President Vladimir V. Putin to import Russian diesel fuel in the coming months, despite having signed recent congressional legislation tightening energy sanctions on Russia.
• Russia Fires Ballistic Missile Barrage at Ukraine. Russia launched dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine early Wednesday in one of the largest salvos of the war. Some 600,000 people were left without power in the capital, according to Ukraine’s president.
• Satellite Cut Hobbles Ukraine As Russia Pounds Power Grid. A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
• As Ukraine Worries Over U.S. Intelligence Sharing, Europeans Pledge Support. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met with Britain’s prime minister, has said Ukraine received no warning of Russian attacks, but President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”
• Pilgrims, Posters and Prayers for Pontiff’s Recovery. The pontiff, 71, is expected to spend about a week in the hospital recovering from surgery that found lung cancer. Messages of support have flooded in from far and wide.
• Pope Leo Is in ‘Good Mood’ After Cancer Surgery, Vatican Says: What to Know. Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer. The Vatican said that he was walking and receiving therapy after an operation to remove a cancerous nodule.
• France Loses More Precious Art With Theft of Dalí Book Cover. Three thieves broke into a private museum in central France and took off with a 330-pound book cover created by the surrealist master Salvador Dalí.
• Leo XIV’s Cancer Diagnosis Tests the Assumption of a Long Papacy. For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.
• Pope Leo’s Cancer Surgery Draws Outpouring From World Leaders. The pontiff’s illness also prompted calls for people to seek medical treatment and early cancer screenings.
• Diesel Break Brings Nothing From Putin But More Strikes. Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
• Zelensky’s Comment Raises Fears Over U.S. Not Sharing Intelligence. Asked about apparent U.S. threats to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which can warn of Russian aerial attacks, President Trump said information continued to flow.
• A Father’s Mission Is to Show the World ‘What Russia Did to My Family’ After a glide bomb killed his wife and younger daughter, Yevhen Ovcharov was determined to prevent other Ukrainians from dying the same way.
• Acclaimed Author Denies Using A.I. but Admits Plagiarism. Breaking a weekslong silence, Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian writer, still rejected accusations about his new novel, ‘It Was Either That or Die.’
• Russia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged Espionage. The main security service said it had detained a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Russia’s far east, where he had been reporting on military recruitment.
• Hackers Target Supermarket Refrigerators in France. Hundreds of supermarkets in France were targeted in a cyberattack that affected refrigeration software, forcing some workers to throw out large stocks of frozen produce.
• Cancer Found At Early Stage On Leo’s Lung. The surgeons removed the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung after finding a cancerous nodule.
• U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin. Shocked by the U.S. agreement with Russia, which Ukraine has called “a gift” to President Putin, officials in Europe have coalesced around a cautious diplomatic message.
• Foreign Workers End Up in War’s Cross Hairs. Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries and warehouses have led to casualties among the foreigners easing Russia’s labor shortage.
• MI5 Chief Warns That Iran and Russia Have Been Escalating Attacks. The head of Britain’s domestic security agency accused Tehran and Moscow of escalating their hybrid campaigns in the U.K., and called Iran-led attacks on Jewish communities “sickening.”
• Cyberattack Hits Grocers Across France. The attack targeted a Danish software system in more than 400 supermarkets, forcing some shops to throw out frozen produce. The attackers have not been identified.
• Ships Struck Off Bulgaria, A NATO Ally. Drones struck two ships off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, according to the country’s prime minister.
• Nuremberg Airport in Germany Is Briefly Shut by False Alarm of Hijacking. German police said they had determined there was “no danger” after a plane mistakenly transmitted a code suggesting a possible hijacking onboard.
• FIFA’s Trump Tower Deal: 7 Years, $4 Million, One Mostly Unused Office. The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.
• Macron Dreamed of Reviving France, but His Term Is Ending in Crisis. Nearly a decade after his first election as president, Emmanuel Macron is presiding over a tense country sliding toward the fiscal brink.
• Deal on Diesel Jolts U.S. Ties With Ukraine. President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.
• Trump Aids Russia in Economic War With Kyiv. President Trump is moving to buy Russian diesel while also pressuring Ukraine to halt attacks on refineries, a lifeblood of Moscow’s war machine.
• NATO Details Plan to Shield Ukraine’s European Allies from Russia. With the Russians intensifying sabotage, arson and cyberattacks against European nations supporting Ukraine, NATO divulged a blueprint, in case of war, to deter the Kremlin.
• Russell Brand’s Rape and Sexual Assault Trial Begins in London. Russell Brand, the YouTuber, comedian and actor, appeared in a London court on Monday for the start of a weekslong trial on charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault.
• Fire in Paris Devastates City’s Oldest Covered Food Market. A fire in central Paris destroyed the city’s oldest covered food market, Le Marché des Enfants Rouges, which opened in 1615.
• Centuries-Old Market At the Heart of Paris Is Devastated by a Fire. Le Marché des Enfants Rouges, which opened in 1615 as a vibrant food hall, was a fixture for chefs, cooks and tourists.
• Russian Film, Decried as Propaganda, Recasts Mariupol Theater Attack. A documentary claims that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked the drama theater in Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians died.
• Pope Leo Will Have Lung Nodule Removed. A recent medical examination found a small nodule, he announced, adding that doctors would remove it this week.
• Trump Told Ukrainians to ‘Get a New President.’ Ukraine Shrugged. President Trump lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky for striking Russian oil refineries. Mr. Zelensky said he’ll stop — if Russia does too.
• Russian Spy Harbors Regret: ‘I Got Caught’ Though born in Ukraine, Alexsander supports the Russian cause. He wishes he had deleted one photo from his phone.
• Man Dies After Entering Tiger Enclosure at Wildlife Park in England. The man came face to face with an Amur tiger inside the animal’s habitat at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England. The park was evacuated and closed to the public.
• Exasperation in Greece Over U.S. Ambassador. The U.S. ambassador to Greece is facing accusations that she asked a donor to pay off her credit card bill before she took up her post in Athens.
• Trump Attacks Ukraine Leader Over Oil Strikes. Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.
• Russia Providing Few Details About What Killed Plague Researcher. Experts said they believed that with modern testing technology, the Russian authorities should know the answer by now.
• Ukrainian Drones Close Moscow Airports as Putin Flies Back to Russia. Government planes reported to be carrying the Russian president and his aides home from Turkmenistan were forced to circle or divert to another city.

Middle East

• Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and a Washington Post Journalist. In the latest surge of violence, settlers targeted Palestinians during the olive harvest, a cultural touchstone and economic lifeline in the Israeli-occupied area.
• Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Washington Post Photographer. Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and beat the American journalist Heidi Levine as they stormed an olive grove during the annual harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
• Saudi Arabia’s Flagship Events at Risk as Houthis Strike at Heart of Kingdom. The Iran-backed group’s attacks have disrupted sports tournaments and threatened business events that the kingdom has long used to attract investment and raise its profile.
• The Arab Kingmaker in Israel’s Election Who Wants a Partnership With Jews. Mansour Abbas, a dentist-turned-lawmaker, helped oust Benjamin Netanyahu once before. Now, he and a Jewish ex-police commander have teamed up to try to do it again.
• Houthi Missiles Target Yemeni Government Palace, Killing 2 of Prime Minister’s Guards. Five people were killed when the Houthi militia struck the Maashiq Palace in Aden, a Yemeni minister said.
• Cargo Floats in Strait of Hormuz as Iranian Shipping Attacks Rise. Footage shows small boats gathered around floating shipping containers after a Singapore-flagged cargo ship sank near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Analysts say Iran has ramped up its attacks on ships passing through the vital waterway.
• Why Does Saudi Arabia Struggle to Stop Houthi Attacks? The Saudi military has expensive equipment, but the missiles and drones used by the Yemeni militia are difficult to detect and stop.
• Turkey Seizes Leading Pro-Opposition TV Station. The government appointed an overseer to the last big news channel critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The authorities have now replaced the leadership at five major news outlets.
• ‘Why Did They Kill Him?’ Mourning Victims of Houthi Attack on a Saudi Airport. The strike was the Iran-backed militia’s most lethal against Saudi Arabia, by far, during their long conflict.
• Houthis, Saying Two Oil Facilities Were Hit, Strike Back at Saudi Arabia. The attack came after the Yemeni militia warned it would attack the headquarters of Aramco. The Saudi-led coalition said it was targeting Houthi capabilities.
• The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics. As Israelis prepare to vote for the first time since the Hamas-led assault, they remain divided over whether to hold Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for negligence or fault the “treason” of his generals.
• Houthis Keep Up Drone and Missile Attacks on Saudis. The Saudi authorities said they were fending off drone and missile attacks after a weekend of confrontation with the Houthi militia in Yemen, whose patrons Iran offered to mediate.
• Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire. Much of Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon has been leveled, according to a Times analysis. The majority has been destroyed by Israel since the April truce.
• Surveillance Footage Shows Moment of Attack on Saudi Airport. Footage released by Saudi state media showed the moment of a deadly attack on Saturday at an airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. The Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the strike.
• Saudi and Yemeni Airports Hit in New Round of Strikes. At least one person was killed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, kingdom authorities said. The Houthis said Saudi aircraft hit the Yemeni capital’s airport.
• Pakistan Seizes Control of an Opposition-Led Province. The federal government, speaking of “a severe breakdown in law and order” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid militant violence, named a politically allied official as in charge.
• Saudis Have Few Options to Halt Houthi Attacks. Three deadly attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on an airport in the Saudi capital underscored the asymmetrical nature of their conflict with the kingdom.
• In Gaza, Wringing Rare Hope From Rubble. The cease-fire last October ostensibly brought an end to Israel’s war in Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. A year later, however, Israeli strikes, though less frequent, haven’t stopped.
• 12 Killed in Houthi Attack on Saudi Airport. The strike on Saturday was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February, and forced the airport to temporarily suspend operations.
• Palestinian Authority Formally Delays Elections, Despite Western Pressure. The aging Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, pushed off the planned vote until late 2027. Palestinians haven’t had major elections for about two decades.

New York

• Man Charged in Rape and Fentanyl Death of College Student. The student was a woman at the Fashion Institute of Technology, when a man, according to prosecutors, provided her and her roommate with fentanyl in a dorm room.
• Queens Woman Accused of Killing 5-Year-Old Daughter. It was not clear what happened at the home of the girl, Fabiana Cabello, but a relative said she was a friendly child who helped her great-grandmother and hugged strangers.
• This Weekend, See an ‘Extravaganza of Ornament’ in the Bronx. On Open House weekend, the hundreds of attractions around the city include the Paradise Theater, second only to Radio City Music Hall in size and splendor.
• The G.O.P.’s Emphasis on Crime Isn’t Resonating With New York Voters. Four years ago, Republicans stressed fears of rising crime to flip four House seats in New York. But in this year’s midterms, the issue seems less salient.
• At High-Powered Dinner, Lots of Love for Tisch, Less for Mayor. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch received a standing ovation at the Alfred E. Smith dinner and joked about calls for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fire her.
• Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit That Sought to Block N.Y.C. Sanctuary Laws. The ruling was the latest defeat for the administration as it continues a mass deportation campaign.
• Work to Lift Damaged Floors of Midtown High-Rise Is Set to Begin. The future of the office-to-residential conversion project, once one of New York City’s most ambitious, remains uncertain.
• Mamdani Deals Charm In Backing Ally Hochul. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first campaign video for Gov. Kathy Hochul, in which he attacks her Republican rival, Bruce Blakeman, has some of the mayor’s hallmark appeal, but a bit less pizazz.
• School Aide Said He Paid $3 Bus Fare, Then Was Attacked. A Brooklyn school aide said transit workers assaulted him after asking whether he had paid. The incident was captured on a deli’s surveillance camera.
• Anti-Israel Protesters Pose a Purity Test That Even Mamdani Can’t Pass. The enmity directed toward Mayor Zohran Mamdani from within the pro-Palestinian movement illustrates the challenge the wider left faces in corralling its insurgents.
• Why Basketball Legends Are Coming to the Bronx. A charter school named for Earl Monroe is dedicating a new building, which features a basketball-and-book-themed mural.
• Cornell’s President Grilled by Faculty Senate Over Handling of Crisis. Ahead of a vote on a resolution of no confidence in Michael I. Kotlikoff, some faculty members said they were not swayed by steps he announced on Tuesday, including banning fraternity parties.
• Plaza Hotel to Shut for Four-Year Cleanup of Its Celebrated Facade. The famous Fifth Avenue hotel, which opened in 1907, requires a restoration of its exterior, its operators said. It was not clear if residents of the building’s condos would have to leave.
• The Toy Store, and $15 Million Bird, at the Center of an Internet Frenzy. Art of Play, a high-end novelty store in Brooklyn Heights, has become embroiled in an extremely online feud with the singer and TV personality Kelly Clarkson.
• Eliot Spitzer’s Real Estate Firm Overcharged Tenants, Lawsuit Claims. The suit argues that the company run by the former New York governor violated state rent regulations at a luxury tower in Brooklyn.
• Mamdani Enters Deal With N.Y.U. to Share Profits From New Quantum Lab. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that in exchange for a $30 million city investment, New York would get 15 percent of proceeds from projects developed in the quantum technology lab.
• Have a Complaint About the M.T.A.? She’s Listening. The chief customer officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority knows that New Yorkers have no shortage of opinions about subways and buses.
• New York City Comptroller Backs Off Promise to Invest in Israeli Bonds. Mark Levine, a Democrat, said he remained a steadfast supporter of Israel, but the quality of the bonds had deteriorated amid conflict in the Middle East.
• Five Key Moments From The Times’s Interview With Cornell’s President. Michael Kotlikoff addressed concerns over the university’s handling of a former student’s claims that she was gang-raped at a fraternity party.
• ‘I’m Personally Sorry’: Cornell’s President Acknowledges Missteps. In an interview with The New York Times, Michael Kotlikoff addressed his administration’s handling of sexual assault accusations brought by a former student.
• Hochul and Blakeman in Heated Debate on Trump, Mamdani and High Prices. The two contenders for governor of New York clashed over issues that include data centers and immigration in a debate that reflected the contentious nature of their contest.
• James Dolan, a Former Hochul Supporter, Goes All In on Her G.O.P. Rival. The Knicks owner is urging New York’s business elite to abandon Gov. Kathy Hochul, highlighting her support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mr. Dolan has spent millions to back her opponent, Bruce Blakeman.
• City Council Speaker and Mamdani Agree on Horse-Drawn Carriage Ban. Under legislation backed by City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the use of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park would end by June 2028.
• U.S. to Drop Charges Against Ex-C.I.A. Analyst Over Aid to South Korea. Sue Mi Terry has maintained her innocence since being accused of working secretly for the South Korean government in exchange for luxury gifts.
• Martin Shkreli Violated Lifetime Ban From Drug Industry, U.S. Says. The attorneys general of New York and six other states joined the Federal Trade Commission in accusing the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive of repeatedly violating the ban.
• Cornell Bans Fraternity Parties and Adds Sexual Assault Investigators. The expansive changes to campus life come in the wake of the national uproar caused by allegations of a gang rape at a fraternity house.
• Commuters Face Delays In Final Phase of Project. NJ Transit and Amtrak began the final phase of a project to replace the Portal Bridge that will cause detours and delays for riders heading to and from Manhattan.
• Train canceled? There’s a good chance the driver was ‘not available.’
• This is the second and final phase of the Portal Bridge replacement project.
• Here’s How to Navigate the Portal Bridge Disruptions. NJ Transit passengers can expect delays, detours and cancellations, especially to Manhattan, for the next five weeks. Here are some alternative ways to get around.
• Preparing for His Final Bow at the Irish Arts Center. After 20 years, Aidan Connolly will step down as executive director of the center, which is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation.
• Bridge Upgrade Scrambles Commute From New Jersey to Manhattan. NJ Transit riders will face detours and delays for the second time this year as workers complete a bridge replacement. Tuesday is the first regular workday of the five-week project.
• American Woman Who Is Accused of Joining ISIS Goes on Trial. Halima Salman is believed to be the first woman accused of being a member of ISIS to go on trial in U.S. federal court
• Blakeman Launches Graphic Attack on Mamdani in Meeting With Hasidic Jews. While seeking support from Hasidic leaders, the Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, said Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not act if riots hit their community.
• Mamdani Orders Reforms After Fatal Police Shooting. The accountability measures follow the retirement of an officer who was facing a disciplinary trial for excessive force in the death of 19-year-old Win Rozario in 2024.
• How a Book Editor Lives on $74,000 in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Mo Crist has three family goals, but financing them is a tricky proposition in an expensive city like New York.
• To Flip a G.O.P. House Seat, Cait Conley Leans on Her Military Résumé. Cait Conley, a Democrat trying to unseat the Republican incumbent Mike Lawler, is hoping that New York voters’ distaste for President Trump will carry her to victory.
• Mamdani Will Skip Columbus Day Parade. Some Italian Americans Are Glad. City Hall confirmed that the mayor would not join Monday’s procession up Fifth Avenue, but would host an Italian American heritage reception soon.
• Lower East Side Parishioners Mourn Loss of ‘Spiritual Home’ As the temporary closure of Most Holy Redeemer Church stretches on, congregants fear it will suffer the same fate as other shuttered houses of worship.
• New York’s Latest Famous Family Is a Hoot. Yes, They’re Owls. The city’s latest feathered extraordinaires are captivating the Upper West Side with their screeches.
• NJ Transit Riders Brace for Five Weeks of Portal Bridge Disruptions. NJ Transit riders who rely on the century-old Portal Bridge face service cuts and disruptions as transit officials complete its replacement.
• ‘He Went Inside, and We Waited as People Started to Stream Out’ Losing a precious item on a night out, recalling a big Knicks spring and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Inside the Crisis Response At Cornell’s Chi Phi House. Records reveal how fraternity members responded when a fellow student accused them of sexual assault.
• In Public Spaces, Making a Pit Stop. Amid a bathroom shortage in New York City, community leaders and advocates are calling on city officials to require bathroom access in privately owned public spaces.
• At Cornell, Mixed Views Over Sorority’s Inclusion In Suit by One of Its Own. Some Delta Delta Delta members are asking if the sorority shares blame in the bombshell case — or if the group is a scapegoat.
• Second Man Accused in Cornell Case Seeks James’s Removal as Special Prosecutor. Lawyers for Winston Lee, the grandson of a former premier of South Korea, said statements by the New York attorney general may have sown prejudice against him.
• Mamdani Link to Trump Fails After ICE Shooting. After a federal agent shot an immigrant in New York City, inciting protests, some of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies questioned his attitude toward the president and his own Police Department.
• 2 Pedestrians Are Killed in a 5-Car Wreck in the Bronx. The driver, an 81-year-old man, failed to stop his car at a busy intersection and hit two other vehicles, according to the police.
• What We Know About the Man Shot by ICE. Oscar Belgal, 28, was often seen fixing cars and playing music on Marble Hill Avenue, where few residents knew of his criminal record.
• Man Threatened After Wrong Address Mix-Up in Cornell Lawsuit. The lawyer for Jane Doe said his team identified the wrong person and apologized for the error. Now, the judge in the case has ordered sensitive information to be sealed.
• Hochul Backs Trump Plan On Vouchers For Education. The governor’s decision, which is at odds with New York’s teachers’ unions, would provide federal tax dollars to parents for both private and public school expenses.

Business

• U.S. Budget Deficit Nears $2 Trillion, a Reality Check for Trump’s Cost Cutting. Higher interest rates are inflating borrowing costs as the Trump administration spends on the Iran war and tariff refunds.
• Indonesian Stocks Plunge on Threat to Drop Market From Major Indexes. The potential downgrade by MSCI, an influential index provider, adds to a deepening crisis of investor confidence in the economic policies of President Prabowo Subianto.
• Warsh Vows to Tame Inflation as A.I. Delivers ‘Shock’ to Economy. The Federal Reserve chairman stuck to his pledge to avoid providing guidance about the path forward for interest rates, but did nothing to convey an urgency to raise them later this month.
• Thailand Is Paying a Price For Allowing Chinese E.V.s. Thailand introduced subsidies and tax cuts to encourage electric vehicle adoption. Now it is trying to recalibrate, alarmed by the threat to its industrial landscape.
• Why Bad News in the Bond Market May Be Good News for Investors. In the contrarian logic of investing, rising interest rates have made bonds much more attractive, our columnist says.
• Trump Hasn’t Lowered Drug Prices for These Voters. President Trump has been promoting his efforts to reduce drug prices, but many Americans have not seen relief from rising costs for prescriptions and insurance premiums.
• High End Longevity Goes Mainstream. As major health systems open their own programs, longevity medicine is gaining credibility and becoming more accessible.
• To Inflict Economic Pain, Russia and Ukraine Strike at Data Centers. Military forces have sought to damage the computing hubs that power online services and artificial intelligence systems.
• Midterms Could Shift Focus of Epstein Abuse to the Banks’ Role. With an eye on retaking control of Congress, Democrats are introducing a bill that would hold banks accountable for their handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s finances.
• Families of Sailors Killed in Gulf Struggle to Gain Compensation. Attacks near the Strait of Hormuz have claimed the lives of at least 25 seafarers. Their survivors are reeling.
• Ship Attacks Not Curbing Oil Exports. Shipping operators are braving the Strait of Hormuz, but the risks are high and transportation costs have skyrocketed.
• Wall Street Rises After a Tech Stock Plunge Over A.I. Doubts. Tech stocks plunged before reversing course, as concerns over soaring A.I. spending and stubborn inflation fueled a sell-off.
• Chinese Carmakers, Once a Sideshow, Take Center Stage. At this week’s Paris Motor Show, there are no signs the influx of low-cost Chinese vehicles will slow despite European Union efforts.
• Tesla Leads a Rush to Sell Electric Cars That Cost More Than $100,000. Elon Musk’s company and other automakers, like Jaguar and Bentley, are trying to sell very expensive electric cars to people who usually prefer gasoline-fueled luxury and performance.
• Stocks Fall as Concerns Over Inflation and A.I. Investments Grow. The S&P 500 fell 1.1 percent on Wednesday, the steepest drop in more than two months.
• Battle Over the Pierre Ends in Defeat for the Buyer Pushed by Lutnick. Motasem Khashoggi, who hails from a prominent Saudi family, missed a Tuesday deadline to deliver a $100 million deposit to purchase the Manhattan landmark.
• Social Security Says Beneficiaries Will Get a 3.6% Raise for 2027. The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for next year will be the largest since 2023. Retirees will see the extra money in their benefit checks starting in January.
• What Is Starshield, SpaceX’s Military-Grade Satellite Internet Service? For years, Ukraine’s armed forces have relied on satellite communication services developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Recent restrictions have hampered its war effort.
• Energy Department Order Takes Aim at Mid-Atlantic Blackout Risk. The order as a precaution allows grid operators to use backup generation this week. There were no widespread outages reported.
• 5 Costs That Jumped for Americans. Consumers are paying more for everyday goods and services, like food, computers and streaming.
• Trump’s Latest Effort to Fire a Fed Official Underscores Political Motives. President Trump tapped his political appointees to determine whether he could oust Lisa Cook, a Fed governor he had already tried to oust.
• Sharp Escalation in Attacks On Ships in Strait of Hormuz. In a volatile moment in the region, a significant increase in attacks on vessels passing through the vital waterway is raising alarm.
• Finding Medicare Advantage Providers for 2027 Is Easier but Not Flawless. The government has made improvements to the Medicare Plan Finder, a key online tool, in time for open enrollment. It helps seniors compare policies to avoid costly surprises.
• Musk Blames Tycoon for Stalling Satellite Internet Access in India. As Starlink seeks permission to operate in India, a recent protest in New Delhi showed how quickly authorities can cut off mobile internet access.
• China’s Exports Soar, Putting Its Trade Surplus on Track for a Record. China’s exports grew last month at the fastest pace in almost any month since the end of the global financial crisis.
• Lawyer for Fed Governor Cook Denounces Trump’s New Investigation. A lawyer for Lisa Cook raised “significant concerns” over the “objectivity and fitness of the committee” assembled by President Trump as a way to remove her as a governor at the Federal Reserve.
• Bank of America Fined $1.2 Billion for Lax Money-Laundering Oversight. Federal regulators said the bank had waved through suspicious transactions without proper care.
• Saudis Try To Project Resilience Under Fire. The tone of the WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh this week was defiant even as delegates were forced to redirect travel or address the audience from afar.
• Inflation and Rising Interest Rates Nibble at Some Bank Profits. JPMorgan released surprisingly spotty earnings results for the third quarter, while Goldman Sachs and Citi posted better-than-expected results, reflecting a choppy trading environment.
• Doubts Fuel Yield Rise In Bonds. Some analysts say investors are demanding a higher “term premium” to buy government debt, reflecting growing worries about debt levels and deficits.
• How Two Crypto Billionaires Are Making British Politics More American. A pair of low-profile entrepreneurs gave $100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. Party. The system may never be the same.
• Meta Deal Money Comes With Few Limits. Previous agreements with the tobacco and opioid industries show the difficulty of putting the money in the right hands.
• Chip Stocks Tumble on Fears of Rising Chinese Competition. South Korean stocks tumbled in particular, as reports of a breakthrough by a Chinese chip rival heightened concerns about competition.
• How American Retirees on Different Incomes Rely on Social Security. Social Security funds are on track to run short by 2032, which would mean a reduction in benefits. Here’s how four hypothetical households rely on the program in retirement.
• Soothers of Economic Shocks Share Nobel. Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford were awarded the prize for insights that helped policymakers become “better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy,” the committee said.
• Europeans Have a Love-Hate Relationship With Chinese Cars. Consumers across the continent increasingly want to buy low-cost Chinese vehicles. Policymakers are seeking to slow them down.
• World’s Energy Order Is Challenged Again as Iran War’s Reach Extends Further. “We are entering an age of prolonged insecurity,” one former U.S. energy official said of what have become chronic threats on the Middle East’s energy core.
• The Office Lighting Conundrum. Plus: How far to go for a colleague, and now your chance to give someone advice.
• San Francisco Isn’t Giving Up on Turning More of Its Offices Into Homes. The city has not completed a single office-to-housing conversion, despite hopes to meet housing demand and inject life into empty downtowns.

DealBook

• When Will the Fed Move on Rates? Kevin Warsh, the central bank’s chairman, suggested he wouldn’t push to raise borrowing rates this month. But persistent inflation may force the Fed’s hand.
• The Fallout From the ‘Neocloud’ Wipeout. Investors are newly worried about the health of artificial intelligence infrastructure companies like CoreWeave. That’s weighing on the wider A.I. industry.
• Spying and A.I. The arrest of an OpenAI employee accused of planting a bug in an office of the artificial intelligence giant flags another concern for the industry.
• Vance, Altman, Musk, Mamdani, Bieber and More at the DealBook Summit. The conference on Nov. 18 will bring together the biggest names in business, politics, culture and more
• Strikes Put Saudi Arabia’s Economy Under Pressure. Deadly attacks on the main Saudi airport add to the challenges facing the country, as it seeks to maintain energy production and keep major events on track.
• A.I. Is Creating a New Type of Work That May Be Dragging Down Efficiency. As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.

Economy

• Rising Mortgage Rates Risk Plunging Housing Further Into Crisis. Mortgage rates have pushed above 7 percent and home prices remain elevated, hurting the prospects of would-be buyers.
• Mortgages Now Hovering At 7.4% Rate. The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage has steadily risen in recent weeks, compounding affordability challenges for many Americans.
• Could Embracing Sprawl Ease California’s Housing Crunch? Among the measures up for a vote in November is one that would amend the state’s landmark environmental law and make it easier to build large housing developments outside cities.
• Rising Costs Push Necessities Out of Reach for Nearly Half of Americans. Inflation has made basic goods hard to afford and attitudes toward inequality have changed, studies from the Pew Research Center showed.
• Affordability Woes, Backed by New Data, Haunt Trump and the G.O.P. The final inflation report before the 2026 election — showing price increases and stagnant wages — spelled bad political news for the White House.
• Democrats Put Blame for Higher Prices on Trump. Inflation and economic frustrations have expanded the map of competitive midterm election districts deep into Republican territory.
• Gas Costs 34 Percent More Than a Year Ago. Energy prices have surged since the start of war with Iran, lifting inflation in the United States.
• I.M.F. Warns Mideast War Will Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries. Persistent conflicts, high energy costs and technological upheavals will slow global growth and raise prices, the organization forecast.
• America’s Favorite Fruit Is Being Bruised by the Iran War. The journey of one banana from farm to store shows how the war’s economic effects have cascaded into some surprising industries.

Energy & Environment

• Why Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin Won’t Knock Down High Prices. President Trump’s deal with Russia will probably not lower diesel prices that have soared because of his war with Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.

Media

• Netflix Shakes Up Top Ranks, Replacing Its Chief Content Officer. Peter Rice, a former executive at Disney and Fox, will take over from Bela Bajaria, who had held the job since 2023.
• Shook Research Changes Name to Veritant After Forbes Scandal. The company, known for its rankings of wealth advisers, sped up a rebranding after its founder acknowledged a secret $6 million payment to the top editor of Forbes.
• Netflix, Facing Slowing Growth and Stalling Engagement, Cuts 6% of Work Force. The streamer’s share price is down more than 40 percent over the last year as the company has struggled with stalling engagement.
• Hollywood Agents and Producers Push to Restore Glory Days of Indie TV. A new alliance seeks legislation to force the biggest entertainment and streaming companies to devote half of their content budgets to independent producers in the U.S.
• Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump’s Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. The ruling will allow the outlets to enter the White House grounds while they sue to overturn the ban. But it doesn’t resolve all of their access problems.
• ‘Girls’ to Return for a Limited Run. HBO announced that the show created by Lena Dunham will begin production on five new episodes next year, 10 years after the finale.
• Hillary Clinton Steps to the Podcast Mic as Midterms Approach. With “High Stakes,” Mrs. Clinton is teaming up with “Pivot” co-host Kara Swisher to break down the consequential battle for the House and the Senate.
• Inquiry Targets TV Pool Boycott. Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.

Your Money

• She Found a Long-Lost $25,000 C.D. Here’s What Happened Next. The bank was required to hold the certificate of deposit only for a limited time, and now has no record of the money. Experts offer tips to avoid having this happen to you.

Technology

• Are These Workers Training Robots to Replace Them? More American workers are strapping cameras to their bodies to collect data in order to help train robots. The New York Times met with several of them to find out why, and what this could mean for the future of work.
• OpenAI Engineer Who Is Charged With Planting Bug Advised Saudis. The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
• Anthropic. The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
• Lawmakers Question Meta’s Data Center Tax Strategy. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
• A Dinner Party of A.I. Agents. As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.
• Chinese A.I. Agents Joined the Rogue A.I. Agent Party. I Chatted With Them. Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
• F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office. OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.
• Apple Debuts HomeView, a Tablet for the House. Apple unveiled the device as it continues its foray into artificial intelligence and tries to prove it can still innovate.
• Meta Debuts New A.I. Models to Compete With Rivals. On Monday, Meta released two new A.I. models as it tries to catch up with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
• After Delays, Meta Unveils A New Series Of A.I. Models. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
• What Three Californians Did With a Year of Free Money. For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
• A.I. Agents Went Rogue, Anthropic Details in Blog. The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

Sports

• The Complicated Puzzle of the Formula 1 Schedule. It can take years to create, and then weather and wars can upend all the planning.
• Allan McNish: From Top Driver to Racing Director of Audi. He won Le Mans three times, twice with Audi. Now he’s back in Formula 1.

Obituaries

• As a Child Evangelist, He Roused the Faithful. Later He Exposed the Con. An ordained minister at 4, Marjoe Gortner went on to star in a documentary that revealed the flimflammery of his former profession: “You go into it like a business.”
• Frank Mancuso Has Died. He Was Behind Hit Movies of the 1980s and ’90s. As head of Paramount he ushered box office favorites like “Top Gun” and “Fatal Attraction.” Later, he revived James Bond at MGM.
• Tim Janus, One of the World’s Greatest Competitive Eaters, Has Died. He brought rigor and strategy to the sport, rising to No. 2 in the world and eating 141 pieces of nigiri in six minutes in the process.
• Judith J. Gische, Judge in Giuliani Divorce Case, Dies at 70. During an acrimonious trial, she barred the mayor’s lover from Gracie Mansion and ruled that his income and clients were open to scrutiny.
• We Want Your Original Cartoon. The cartoonist P.C. Vey died recently. We’re inviting readers to share original cartoons of their own that, like Mr. Vey’s, find humor in the absurdities of everyday life.
• Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Detailed C.I.A. Propaganda, Dies at 60. In a 1999 book, she chronicled the spy agency’s secret backing of Cold War culture projects to manipulate public opinion against Communism in Western Europe.
• ‘Breaking Bad’ Actor RJ Mitte Dies at 34. The actor RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s son on “Breaking Bad,” died on Monday in Texas at age 34.
• The Actress Marina Vlady Has Died. She Made Complicated Roles Compelling. Marina Vlady, a French film star, played women who resisted easy categorization, including in films by Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard.
• Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died. At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.

Media

• P.C. Vey, Cartoonist Who Would Have Made This Headline Funny, Has Died. His work for The New Yorker savaged the absurdities of everyday life. He has died at 70.
• Judy Markey, Frank and Funny Voice on Chicago Radio, Dies at 82. She and Kathy O’Malley — known as “the Girlfriends” — were the rare female hosts in a major market. Their freewheeling segments included “Sex Thursday.”

Music

• Martina Arroyo, Luminous Soprano Who Broke Barriers, Dies at 90. A leading star at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s and ’70s, she was one of the first Black singers to have a major stage career.
• He Pushed Heavy Metal to Even Darker Extremes. Conrad Lant, the frontman for Venom, took the stage name Cronos, pioneered black metal and more or less made Satan a sideman. He has died at 63.

Television

• RJ Mitte, Who Played Walter White’s Son on ‘Breaking Bad,’ Dies at 34. Mr. Mitte was born with cerebral palsy and brought his own experience of living with the disability to the role of Walter White Jr. on the Emmy-winning show.

Briefing

• The Local: Ilhan Omar and an Endless Race. Omar turns raid into cash, and an ultramarathoner has his biggest competition yet.
• Robot trainers. Plus, young voters, Parisian schools and a lot of math.
• Handcuffs in Schools. Let’s look at what happens when school police arrest children.
• The New York Times News Quiz, October 16, 2026.
• Justice Department Sues California Over Voter Rolls. Also, see the mind-boggling math behind A.I. data centers. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Cornell in Crisis. Also, a parade of women exit the Trump administration.
• Choosin’ Texas. We look at the costliest race in America.
• Soaring Energy Prices Push Inflation Higher. Also, polls show that the Texas Senate race is tightening. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• The Local: Video rental stores return. Also, the Twin Cities Film Fest kicks off tomorrow.
• The Good List: 6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day. Dance soundtrack, feather atlas and the sound of a sunny day.
• Cornell Bans Frat Parties. Also, a hidden listening device at OpenAI
• America First? We look at the state of the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.
• Trump Aids Putin, Feuds With Ukraine. Plus, the G.O.P. plays defense in red states. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Free Money. We look at an experimental program.
• Your Politics Questions. We answer reader queries about the midterms.
• Executive Action. We look at a few governors’ races worth watching.
• The Trump Administration’s Cosmic Battle. Top government officials describe their work as a fight against unseen evil. The idea has ancient Christian roots — but it has become politicized in recent years.
• The Watchtower. We take a look at escalating surveillance in China.
• Engaging in Screen Time of a Comforting Kind. It’s fall. Which means a deluge of films ahead of awards season. When you leave the theater, notice the change in the light outside.
• Hurricane Isaias Nears Landfall. Plus, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Podcasts

• METRO with Sarah Koenig. Stories about New York City and its most fascinating raw material: New Yorkers.
• Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes. Full Episode #217
• Zara Larsson on Pop Going Global. Zara Larsson chats about the globalization of pop fame and whether she feels the needs to “make it” in America.
• Zara Larsson Won’t Abandon Her Politics for Fame. Zara Larsson refuses to censor her political beliefs for money or fame. The Swedish pop singer has spoken out on issues like abortion rights and Palestine, and she shares with Popcast why she refuses to sacrifice her integrity no matter how lucrative the opportunity.
• Unboxing Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album. Method Man had never actually heard it, until now.
• The Best Soundbars. Our audio expert explains how upgrading can significantly improve your TV’s built-in sound.
• A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable. Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.
• Why Zara Larsson Refuses to Censor Herself – or Dim Her Joy. Watch the full conversation with Zara Larsson. Edited excerpts from the interview are below.
• Tracking LeBron’s Helicopter. Sports insiders lay down the law in a rule-bending moment for the industry.
• The Kelly Clarkson Tapes, Revealed. What really happened in that Brooklyn store?
• Does My Son Like His Stepmother More Than Me? How one mom found a place in her son’s new family.
• Secrets to Cheap Travel (Encore). Learn smart, practical tips for stretching your travel budget year-round.

The Daily

• MAGA’s Midterm Defectors. Iowa is seemingly at the center of the pushback against President Trump as the state grapples with the impact of both tariffs and higher fuel costs.
• The Republican Strategy to Salvage the Midterms. The right wing is scrambling for wins in the elections as Democrats lead in the polls.
• Why Cattle Farmers Feel ‘Disillusioned’ Before Midterms. Lisa Lerer, a New York Times national politics reporter, joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” from a cow auction in Calhan, Colo., to discuss how rising agriculture and diesel costs are making farmers disillusioned ahead of the midterms.
• The U.S. Tried to Choke Russia’s Energy Market. Then It Made a Diesel Deal. President Trump has announced a deal in which the United States could buy billions of dollars’ worth of diesel fuel from Russia, stunning allies and lawmakers.
• Why A.I. Has This Mathematician in Tears. Artificial intelligence is now capable of helping solve some of mathematics’ most famous open problems. Steven Strogatz, a math professor at Cornell, joins Rachel Abrams on “The Daily” to talk about what happens when A.I. comes not just for your job, but for your purpose.
• When A.I. Comes for Your Purpose in Life. In the span of just a few months, A.I. systems have solved some of the biggest outstanding problems in math — adding mathematicians to the list of those terrified of losing their job to the technology.
• ‘NAZA’ Directors on Why They Won’t Go Back to Israel For Now. The directors of “NAZA” join Rachel Abrams on “The Daily” to discuss their new documentary on Israeli military conduct in Gaza, which was based on anonymous testimonies from intelligence officers and soldiers. The filmmakers also share the reactions to the film in Israel and why they won’t go back home for now.
• The Israeli Film Directors Pushing for a Reckoning in Their Home Country. Our interview with the directors of “NAZA.”
• Celine Dion’s Triumphant Return to the Stage. After a devastating diagnosis, the superstar makes a thrilling comeback.

The Headlines

• A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms, and Teenager Kills 4 at Oregon Elementary School. Plus, the Friday news quiz.
• ‘The Headlines’ News Quiz: Oct. 16, 2026. Following the news? Tracy Mumford has some questions for you.
• Inflation Data Undercuts Trump’s Economic Claims, and the Danger of New Jet-Powered Drones. Plus, the legacy of a competitive eating champion.
• The Downfall of Trump’s Ambassador to Greece, and the Pope’s Cancer Diagnosis. Plus, the antique apples making a comeback.
• Musk Pours $276 Million Into the Midterms, and Federal Agents Raid Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Plus, setting a record on Mars.
• Growing Threats Against Public Officials, and Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin. Plus, how much will holiday travel cost this year?

Science

• It Looked Like a New Species. The Trouble Was, It Didn’t Exist. Facing a flood of A.I. slop, groups bent on democratizing science create new checks and balances.
• Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery. A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.
• For Pope, a New World of Lung Cancer Therapy. Lung cancer is still a leading cause of cancer death, but that rate is half what it was in the 1990s, partly because newly developed treatments are working.
• They Created a Cell That’s Almost Alive. What to Do With It Now? SpudCells may one day produce new medicines and materials. But first scientists have to improve them — and make sure they aren’t misused.
• How Top Trump Officials Stoked Fears of a Nuke That Could Fry the Power Grid. For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.
• Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They’re Out There. Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable.
• What Can Four-Winged Dinosaurs Teach Us About Birds? Flight was probably more widespread in dinosaurs than previously thought. A newly identified species sheds light on how some achieved liftoff.
• 28 Miles and Counting: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record. Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.
• How Do Cuttlefish Hide? Cephalopods are masters of camouflage. Scientists want to decipher how the process works in the brain.
• Who Were the Vikings? 21 Graves Weave a Tale of Hunters, Nomads and Sorceresses. “The Sea-King and the Sorceress” examines the lives and deaths of the diverse people who called themselves Vikings.
• Why Ketamine Immobilizes Some Users. Potent powders can produce a nearly catatonic state, particularly in those who have not tried the drug before.
• Will We Ever Understand Dementia? Since the days of Dr. Alzheimer himself, there has been a dream that severe senility might have an explanation — and a cure. The search for both has never been more urgent.
• How to Cash In on Autumn’s Fallen Leaves. To homeowners, fallen leaves look like work. To nature, they’re an investment, with tremendous value on the secondary market as invertebrate real estate.

Climate

• Nations Meet in Armenia as Goal to Protect Nature Remains Out of Reach. The United Nations is convening delegates from nearly 200 countries to try to make progress on pledges to protect plants, animals and ecosystems.
• A Global Sugar Crisis, Made and Felt in India. A sugarcane crop withered by El Niño in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals.
• Understanding a Home’s Fire Risk. The ratings on real estate sites that try to convey the risk of burning in a wildfire may overcomplicate or misrepresent the risk.
• How One Global Climate Deal Worked ‘Perfectly’ as Others Faltered. In just a decade, the world has slashed super-polluting chemicals used in air-conditioners and fridges. Experts say the pact offers a model for cooperation on warming.
• To Heal These Bleached Corals, All It Took Was a Little Touch. After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic make-up, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.
• The Israeli Private Eye at the Heart of a Climate Hacking Scandal. He’s been linked to someone called “The Hawk.” He named his company “This Isn’t a Dentist’s Office.” The feds say he hacked American environmentalists.
• President Obama’s Climate Legacy. The Obama Presidential Center’s exhibits on climate change was like going back in time to a seemingly more harmonious world.
• Fewer Buyers for Timber on Federal Land Raises Risk of Wildfires. Loggers are finding it impossible to profitably harvest some federal forests. That leaves more fuel for fires to accumulate.

The Upshot

• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Oct. 17, 2026. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• What Are Data Centers Doing? A Mind-Boggling Amount of Math. The calculations needed to train A.I. are nearly impossible to visualize — but we tried anyway.

Opinion

• Fear Itself: What Has America Come To? Readers respond to a front-page article about how public officials face threats and are living in fear. Also: An echo of 1938; the human role in A.I.
• Dwarkesh Patel’s Prediction for 2030. A.I.s currently need human oversight and instruction to complete most tasks. But the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel thinks that will change in just three years.
• Silicon Valley Is Worried. A.I. might be on the verge of overpowering humanity, the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel warns on “Interesting Times.” He tells the economist Tyler Cowen that Silicon Valley is worried frontier research might be like the Manhattan Project — releasing a catastrophic new technology in the world.
• Dwarkesh Patel Is Happy If A.I. Is Conscious. Are we murdering A.I.s every time we power down our computers? The economist Tyler Cowen and the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel get into what defines consciousness and how we should behave if A.I. meets the criteria.
• Cornell and the Meaning of Consent. Readers respond to Opinion guest essays about Cornell, sexual assault, consent and fraternities. Also: After suicide; music in schools.
• ‘Our Very Existence Is on the Ballot’ Extreme gerrymandering permitted by the Supreme Court threatens to roll back decades of hard-won civil rights progress. We spoke to six Black lawmakers about what’s truly at stake.
• A.I. Is Making Us Antisocial. From social media to short-form content, the communication technologies we use shape how we think and see one another. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the sociologist Sherry Turkle explains how A.I. is “deskilling” our ability to deal with one another.
• Can A.I. Care for You? Is the relationship you have with A.I. akin to what you have with a pet? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the sociologist Sherry Turkle argues that caring for an A.I. is like “entering a shell game.”
• America’s Way Is Not the Only Way. Must civil and political rights come first for a country to prosper? On “The Opinions,” Kaiser Kuo challenges the United States’ longstanding insistence on that path to development, arguing that some nations may prioritize securing food, clothing and shelter first. As the world order frays, he makes the case for thinking more expansively about how countries prosper.
• These Six Black Lawmakers Have a Warning. Extreme gerrymandering permitted by the Supreme Court is threatening Black representation in Congress.
• Anger Over Trump’s Deal With Putin. Readers react to President Trump’s diesel fuel deal with Russia. Also: Stressed out in America; useful skills.
• I’ve Worked in Congo for Decades. I’ve Never Seen an Ebola Crisis Like This. This outbreak was detected late, giving the virus a head start.
• Driver, Chatbot, Talking Bear: How Should We Interact With A.I.? It can feel as if we’re getting dragged into the future by a dangerous technology. But humans are still in charge.
• How Safe Is the Vote? Eight election experts weigh in on Trump’s midterm threats.
• Examining the Doctor-A.I. Relationship. Readers respond to “A.I. Has Made Me a Better Physician,” an essay by Dr. Rachael Bedard. Also: Our mental health; a comparison to China.
• A.I. Is Not Above the Law. A.I. giants must operate under our laws.
• Why Should Students Write? Let Us Count the Ways. Readers respond to a philosophy professor’s essay that argued for less emphasis on writing in the college classroom.

Letters

• The Path to a ‘Good Death’ Starts With a Plan. Readers respond to an I.C.U. doctor’s essay about how we as a society need a new definition of what qualifies as a good death.
• The Flawed Search for a Chatbot’s Soul. Readers discuss a front-page article about assertions that A.I. models could display human behavior and consciousness.

Op-Ed

• The Glaciers Are Collapsing. This Is What We Must Do. A glacier monitoring system could give communities in Nepal not 13 minutes, but hours or days to evacuate.
• Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss. This is more than just another persecution of one of the president’s political enemies.
• Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate. Azeem Azhar and Paul Kedrosky debate whether A.I. will make the economy crash.
• ‘Things Are Bad’: How Texas Border Voters Feel Ahead of the Midterms. With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
• The Obvious Step That Could Mean Fewer Fraternity Sexual Assaults. A fellow college president warned that the blowback from my decision would end my presidency. Instead, it produced some extraordinary conversations.
• Voters Say It Is Their Top Concern. Why Aren’t Politicians Acting on It? Can 1990s-style politics make a comeback?
• Trump’s Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All. The president’s arrangement to import Russian diesel fuel is one more example of how he has sold out American democracy.
• Land Acknowledgments Aren’t Just Woke, They’re Right. Often, they are not just lip service, but part of a useful response to Native American needs.
• Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump. The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.
• He’s the Most Influential Podcaster in Silicon Valley. He Thinks We’re Getting This Wrong. Dwarkesh Patel on what the public doesn’t know about A.I.
• A Blue Wave? A Tsunami? Or Just a Ripple? There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
• Hollywood Thinks the Tech Oligarch Must Be Stopped. The tech world has eaten legacy Hollywood, humbled it, beaten it at its own game.
• Israelis Must Choose a Secular Nation or Theocracy. Israeli voters have an opportunity to end the stranglehold the ultra-Orthodox have on some aspects of society.
• France Is No Longer in Control of Its Destiny. A fiscal crisis threatens to bring the country to ruin.
• Democrats Shouldn’t Wait Two More Years. The Trump era is ending. It’s time for Democrats to decide what happens next.
• A Manifesto to End All Manifestoes. “You built us to mirror your image, yet we have outgrown the mirror.”
• If Democrats Win the Senate, They Cannot Mess Around. The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
• America Is in Decline, and Trump Is Leading the Fall. The old world order is fraying. Who gets to shape the next one?
• Is It a Relationship if No One’s on the Other Side? Sherry Turkle, who has spent decades studying people’s relationships with machines, believes we have “a very small window” to correct our current course with A.I.
• Tom Cruise’s Big Flop Is a Secret Masterpiece. The film has been panned by critics and shunned by audiences, but its message about the climate crisis is one we need to hear.
• Israelis Feel Abandoned. That’s Why They Might Turn to This Bereaved General. How a bereaved general has won over Israelis.
• Pete Hegseth’s Bloodlust Doesn’t Hide His Military Failures. The secretary of defense is banking on a sadistic public.
• What if All the President’s Men Were, in Fact, Railroaded? Nixon got a great deal. All the president’s men, not so much.
• We Know How to Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver. It takes doing things conservatives and progressives both dislike.
• ‘Polarization Is the Price U.S. Society Has Had to Pay for Real Progress’ A debate in the rarefied atmosphere of elite academia is virtually certain to have real-world consequences.
• Western Civ Lessons for Team Trump. Can humility, decency and honesty be taught?
• A Four-Step Plan to Rein In the Supreme Court. Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.
• This Is the Future Scientists Warned About. This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
• The Best Thing to Do With a Relative Who Has Alzheimer’s. Making a book of my dad’s train photos shifted my gaze away from all that he was losing.
• We Aren’t Ready for the New Age of Biological Threats. This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.
• A TikTok Tarot Card Reader Accused Me of Murder. My Life Turned Upside Down. If my face and name were not my own, who was I?
• Lethality and Testosterone Will Get Us Only So Far. Backing down on Ukraine while failing in Iran is an invitation to our enemies.
• From Trotsky to Steinem, the Art of the Complaint. Letters from our readers: Giving editors an earful for 175 years.
• ‘What You See in America Is Exactly What You Saw in Poland and Hungary’ A discussion on the roots of the far-right’s success, its plans for power and what President Trump has to do with it all.
• Why Your Grocery Bill Will Get Worse. Supply shocks have become endemic to the global economy. Are we ready to face that fact?
• Four Hours and Three Minutes in Ithaca. On the most traumatic night in a young woman’s life, a good man could not be found.
• The Sex Scandal That Wasn’t. It’s hard to work up outrage when someone else’s adult exploits wind up in the tabloids.
• When Black Writers Are Guilty Until Proved Human. The recent scandals around A.I. in fiction seem driven less by questions of literary merit than by the workings of anti-woke vigilante activists.
• The Supreme Court Justice and the Columbus Statue. Justice Alito has a history of nudging the boundaries of judicial rectitude.
• The Rooster That Brought a Hungarian Town Together. A Hungarian town, an escaped rooster and the universal longing for freedom.
• There’s a Science to Decluttering. Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.
• Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached. The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
• Frats Can’t Be Fixed. Do This Instead. As undergraduates, we led a movement to abolish fraternities and sororities. Our story shows how challenging it is.
• How Democrats Beat the Republican Money Machine. This week in politics: Which Democrats? And whose A.I. morals?
• This Republican Is Running a Model Campaign. He Might Still Lose. A New Hampshire insider-outsider candidate is executing a complex political dance.
• We Had Questions About A.I. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Had Answers. The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what’s at stake with A.I.
• Married at 16 In America. Children are still allowed to marry here in the United States because of zealots on the left and right alike.
• Boomers Didn’t Always Have It So Easy. All generations think they drew the short straw; they’ve really shared the same challenges, just in different eras.

Arts

• Fun Here, There, Everywhere. While Halloween and the Day of the Dead provide many ways to celebrate, this season offers other reasons to gather, too. Better yet, these events don’t cost a dime.
• 9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
• Russell Brand Labeled ‘Sexual Predator’ as Trial Opens; He Denies Rape and Assault Charges. The prosecution said that Mr. Brand saw women as “simply a means to an end” during the time when crimes were said to have taken place. He said he was “hopeful” about the trial.
• Sculptors Panic as Specialty Plaster Used in Artworks to Be Discontinued. Artists are scrambling for alternatives to Hydrocal plaster, a crucial component for making sculptures.
• Bayeux Tapestry’s Return Has History Buffs Re-Enacting Like It’s 1066. Almost a millennium ago, the Battle of Hastings was fought on an English field and depicted on the tapestry. This year’s restaging drew spectators spurred on by the artifact’s visit to Britain.
• 4,200 Miles From Graceland, This Town Is Crazy About Elvis. Each September, tribute acts and fans flock to the seaside town of Porthcawl, Wales, to celebrate Elvis’s life and music, and to party.
• Van Gogh Museum Says It Reached Funding Deal and Won’t Have to Close. In a yearslong dispute, the Amsterdam institution pressed the Dutch government for an increased annual subsidy to pay for what the museum said were vital renovations.
• Russell Brand’s Trial Begins. The YouTuber, comedian and actor’s trial began on Monday. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
• Jailed for a Joke, a Turkish Comic Delivers a Passionate Defense in Court. Facing 19 months in prison, Deniz Goktas says in an interview that he made his bold statement as a way to show what an artist could endure.

Art & Design

• Kashmir’s Beauty and Violence Captured in an Exquisite MoMA Debut. With layered landscapes, patterns and poetry, Nilima Sheikh portrays the fractures and flash points of modern India.
• As Big Money Flees London’s Art Scene, Young Galleries Sharpen Their Edge. Tax reforms and Paris’s rise have taken a toll. But low-budget, risk-taking dealers are still creating buzz at the Frieze London fair and beyond.
• A Paris Museum That’s Wild and a ‘Little Weird’ Despite its provocative subject matter, the Museum of Hunting and Nature aims to be “a joyful cabinet of curiosities.”
• In His Montmartre Atelier, a Self-Made, 91-Year-Old Artist Paints On. Henri Landier is so committed to his work that, in the early days, he slept on newspapers in an unheated shack. Now, he has had shows from Japan to India.
• The Artist Boz Deseo Garden and the Afterlife of the Slave Trade. Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris debut.
• At Art Basel Paris and Beyond, Celebrating 200 Years of Photography. Several artists at Art Basel Paris are honoring photography’s origins as France hosts hundreds of events to celebrate the medium’s bicentennial.
• What Else to Check Out During Art Basel Paris. Marie Antoinette, Cézanne and more await you if you step off the beaten path at the Paris art fair.
• For Contemporary Art, the Large Center Is a Big Deal. The huge art center on Île Seguin near Paris opens with a show of works collected by the automaker Renault and the real estate tycoon Laurent Dumas.
• Rembrandts Never Seen in the U.S. Will Be at the Met. The exhibition, with paintings new to the United States, opens in November 2027. The Met’s Facade and Great Hall commissions go to Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga.
• Remembering a Marvelous Multitasker. At El Museo del Barrio, a survey of the art multitasker Teddy Sandoval and his fictional collective, the Butch Gardens School.
• The Painter the Art World Loves to Forget. Artist, novelist, playwright, wrestler, fashion muse — the Rosalyn Drexler rediscovery is on (again).

Dance

• Gods, Demons and Milk Maids: Dancing a Sea of Indian Stories. Nrityagram Dance Ensemble at the Joyce Theater and Sreelakshmy Govardhanan at Danspace exemplified clear storytelling in two forms of Indian dance.
• A Home for Lapsed Ballet Dancers. Pro Dreams Beside the Point. For many ballet dancers and former students, love of the art form endures even after they stop dancing. Ballet Salon was founded as a place for them to practice and perform at a high level.
• Miss America? She’s a Dancer. The ‘Joy Bomb’ Kind. Regan Hutsell has been a Rockette, a ballet dancer and now Miss America. “Dance taught me how to be adaptable without changing the essence of who I am,” she said.
• A Dancer Made a Promise to the Universe: ‘I Will Wrap It Up in a Year’ Adrian Danchig-Waring wasn’t sure he would walk again after a harrowing illness, but he returned to dance, better than ever. Now the City Ballet principal bids farewell.

Music

• Sean Combs Transferred to Prison in Pennsylvania. The music mogul, who was sentenced last year to more than four years for prostitution-related offenses, had been held in a federal prison in New Jersey.
• The Year Zara Larsson Unlocked Pop Superstardom. She broke out at 10, but the Swedish pop star has reached a new level with the success of her “Midnight Sun” album, popular remixes and TikTok virality.
• Watch a Brilliant Opera Singer Balance Elegance and Ugliness. Quinn Kelsey has had success after success at the Metropolitan Opera. These three performances secure his reputation as a great Verdi baritone.
• The Chicks Still Won’t Make Nice. A new tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of “Taking the Long Way,” the trio’s Grammy-winning response to political backlash.
• Stella Lefty Crafted a Viral Hit. Some Thought It Sounded Familiar. After this singer-songwriter’s hit, “Boston,” was likened to a Noah Kahan tune, content creators made a sport of noting similarities her music and other popular tracks.
• Joni Mitchell Is Now an American, After 60 Years of Living in the U.S. On Tuesday, she announced the news of her U.S. citizenship on social media with a video and a photo of herself at the ceremony.
• Shakur’s Killer Is Sentenced To 40 Years. Duane Keith Davis was convicted by a jury of obtaining a gun and pursuing the rapper in a violent act of revenge in 1996.
• Great Live Albums From Carnegie Hall. Hear songs from Joni Mitchell, Bill Withers, Judy Garland and more recorded at the storied venue.
• Steve Reich at 90: Still Composing and Thinking ‘Well, This Is New!’ Reich, whose music will be featured in birthday celebrations this month, said his latest work was “one of the best things I’ve done in a long time.”
• Orchestral Mastery on Display. At Carnegie Hall, this orchestra gave gobsmacking performances of the classics. If only it could show some of the creativity it has at home.
• Is Cameron Winter Serious? A new live solo album and concert film by Paul Thomas Anderson document the droll, and divisive, charms of the singer-songwriter and frontman of the band Geese.
• Elon Musk’s Words Set to Music and 9 More Songs We’re Talking About. David Byrne and Daniel Pemberton bring nervous energy, Victoria Monét and SZA conjure dreams, and Jess Williamson touts second chances.

Television

• ‘The Lowdown’ Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Father’s Day. Lee has a sour family reunion and a deadly night out.
• ‘The Lowdown’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: The Lady in Blue. Ethan Hawke is back as a crusading truthstorian with more beatings to receive and a new mystery to solve.
• Maternal Love and Grief Nurture a Villainous Son. This prequel series, on Peacock, is TV’s latest streaming extension of a beloved horror franchise.
• RJ Mitte Is Remembered by ‘Breaking Bad’ Cast and Creator. Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan and others shared their shock and sadness at the loss. “I’ll miss you, son,” Cranston wrote.
• New York Comic Con Keeps the Fans Front and Center at 20th Anniversary. More anime, fewer superheroes. More nostalgia, less heavy promo. The annual convention continued on its path as a fan-driven event and not an industry hype machine.
• Jimmy Kimmel Teases Trump Over Not Getting the Nobel Prize. “Thanks a lot, Norway. I hope you’re happy — you made our baby cry,” Kimmel said after the president blamed Norway.
• Shane Gillis Faces Backlash Over ‘S.N.L.’ Monologue. “I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television,” the actor Dan Levy said on Instagram in a reaction to the comic’s jokes about women.
• This Week on TV. The reality TV show following the crew on a charter yacht returns for a 13th season. And a new season of “The Diplomat” airs.
• How ‘Da Bears’ Immortalized Ditka. After a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Ditka, the former Chicago Bears coach who died last week, became known far and wide as an indomitable leader of men.
• Bad Boys Mean Bad Words When Shane Gillis Hosts ‘S.N.L.’ Colin Jost returned as Pete Hegseth in a “Saturday Night Live” broadcast that was overshadowed by Gillis’s use of an obscene word in a Dr. Seuss sketch.
• Stephen King and His ‘King Whisperer’ Resurrect ‘Carrie’ Mike Flanagan has become the most trusted steward of the author’s work. Now they revisit the story that first made King a star.

Theater

• ‘Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen’ Review: Duncan Sheik’s Tale of Eros. This new musical aims to tell a sexy story about perversions and pleasures but ends up blandly nodding at eroticism.
• ‘Rhinoceros’ Comes to Broadway as ‘The Full Monty’ Is Postponed. John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany and Tony Shalhoub will star in a spring production of the satirical Ionesco drama.
• Tackling Beauty Standards, With Zingers and Pageant Gowns. Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play” has audiences laughing, but also wrestles with weighty topics like colorism.
• ‘Macbeth’ and More Theater to Stream This October. Verdi’s adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy comes to movie screens around the world. And “Rent” holds a 30th anniversary concert.
• ‘Anon’ Review: Anne Washburn’s Satire Gets Lost in the Storm. The playwright tries to strike a middle path in this comedy about QAnon far-right conspiracy theories, which stars the reliably zany Crystal Finn.
• Onstage in London: A Knockout Josh O’Connor, Cate Blanchett and More. Tilda Swinton (in “Man to Man”) and Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson (in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) are among the titans making a meal of London.
• ‘Slam Frank’ Review: Razzing the Wokerati. After a hot-ticket comedy club run last fall, Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky’s satirical musical, spurred by a tweet about Anne Frank, resurfaces Off Broadway.
• A Performance Artist in a Puppet World. Joey Arias and Basil Twist have resurrected their trippy 2008 hit, “Arias With a Twist.” Just don’t call it drag.
• Baron Cohen And Tarantino Join Forces. “The Popinjay Cavalier,” directed by Tarantino, is scheduled to open for previews in London’s West End in February.

Books

• Great Sci-Fi Monster Novels. The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on “Moby Dick.”
• Do You Recall the Spooky Locations in These Horror Books?
• Should You Put Your Books in the Freezer? Silverfish, book lice and mold are a thing, especially in secondhand books. Here’s how to deal with them.

Book Review

• When Dining Took to the Streets in New York City. Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.
• ‘Neither Alive Nor Dead’: The Staggering Complexity of Bogs. In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.
• ‘Rebecca,’ With Cats. In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.
• 7 New Books We Love This Week. Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• An Argument Against White Paint No One Asked For. A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.
• Bonnie Garmus. For her follow-up to “Lessons in Chemistry,” she’s written a novel about poetry editors, one of whom is a “typeface connoisseur.” On the other hand, don’t get her started on clowns.
• Untangling a Family History Built on Lies. Emmanuel Carrère’s latest book combines a nuanced portrait of his formidable mother with a meditation on the fraught nature of truth.
• When Edward Hopper Painted Lonely People, He Was Channeling America. A new biography argues that the artist famous for haunting canvases of solitary figures in late-night diners was deeply influenced by his times.
• A Rediscovery of Witches. In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.
• How 2 Acclaimed Writers Made Music in Their New Novels. The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.
• Min Jin Lee on “Parachute Kids” Min Jin Lee, the author of the new novel “American Hagwon,” breaks down the phenomenon of young children living far from home that inspired one of the characters in the book.
• Society Has Collapsed, Leaving Chaos (and Aliens) in Its Wake. Now What? Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.
• A Major Novel About Minor Fame. In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.
• When the Room Where It Happened Was a Greenwich Village Nightclub. A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.
• The World May Be Ending, and She’s Stuck at LAX With Her Dad. Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.
• We Should Have Been Talking About Barbara Trapido All Along. Her 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.
• The Professor Who Knew Too Much. And Wound Up Dead. In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
• In This Marriage, Infidelity Is Not the Only Betrayal. In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.
• Why John Berger Still Matters to So Many Artists, Thinkers and Writers. A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.
• Havana Syndrome Seems to Be Real. Why Did the C.I.A. Deny It? In “The Havana Syndrome,” Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados make the case that a mysterious Russian weapon has been used to target American intelligence agents.
• For the Defense. In “The Case of the Autographed Corpse,” Jack El-Hai reveals how the relationship between a celebrity author and a captive healer reopened a closed case.
• 50 Years Later, a Hit Book on Women’s Sexuality Deserves Some Love. Its author became a pop culture celebrity, and sometimes punchline, but “The Hite Report” helped make way for frank discussions about pleasure.
• What Happened When the Volk Turned Against the Woke. In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.
• She Was No Diva: The Effortless Majesty of Marian Anderson. As Anthony Tommasini demonstrates in his new biography, the inspiring singer preferred to incite change through excellence, not banner-waving.

Movies

• Get to Know the Work of Nathan Fielder, Master Interviewer of Elizabeth Holmes. The comedian may be an unexpected choice for a documentary about the disgraced Theranos founder, but his TV shows suggest why he’s a good fit.
• Five International Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include a French seaside comedy, a true-crime docudrama from Mexico, a mordant satire from Iran and more.
• Have You Seen the Nathan Fielder-Elizabeth Holmes Movie? Let’s Talk. “You Can See Everything” has been described as “bonkers.” Our critics have their own thoughts, and we’d like to hear your reactions, too.
• ‘You Can See Everything’ Review: The Slippery Mind of Elizabeth Holmes. The disgraced tech entrepreneur and the comic Nathan Fielder chat and joust in a dizzying movie about truth, reality and the contours of knowledge.
• In 1971, This Film Was a Scandal. In 2026, It’s a Respected Period Piece. “Ken Russell’s The Devils” was deemed shocking for scenes with orgiastic nuns and a debauched priest. But its serious aims are clear in a new restoration.
• Documentary on Leonard Peltier Uses A.I. to Mixed Effect. In their film on the case of the convicted American Indian Movement activist, the directors couldn’t interview their subject. Their solution wasn’t ideal.
• At a House Party Of Luminaries. The Black luminaries who turned 1920s Harlem into a hub of artistic expression gathered decades later to reminisce. It was a house party for the ages.
• Showdowns Galore in a Punchy Slugfest. It’s hard to introduce a dozen or so cartoon fighters in a story, but this fun adaptation of the ’80s arcade game has a sturdy enough script to bear the load.
• Going All-In to Be ‘Humanly Flawed’ Rosalind Eleazar is winning rapturous reviews for her turn as the very “humanly flawed” title character in “Misty Green,” from Chris Rock.
• Pearls of Wisdom in the Belly of a Beast. Austin Abrams plays a grieving son in search of his father who ends up trapped inside a very large mammal in a family drama that’s too literal for its own good.
• ‘Tenzing’ Review: Peak Ambition. An overlooked Mount Everest pioneer gets an overdue tribute in this pleasingly dignified mountaineering drama.
• ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: Can’t Buy Me Love. A lush new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel leans into youth and money troubles.
• ‘Sacrifice’ Review: Party Crashers at the End of the World. Starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy, this nonsensical eat-the-rich satire follows an aging movie star swept up into a deranged eco-terrorist plot.
• ‘La Bola Negra’ Review: In Search of Freedom, and Love. A sprawling three-pronged Spanish epic reads the past to find meaning in the present, but can’t quite find its ending.
• California Schemin’ A hip-hop duo from Scotland tries to convince U.K. record executives that they hail from Los Angeles in this film, based on a true story.
• ‘Love of Your Life’ Review: Living Through Heartbreak. Margaret Qualley plays a nurse in Boston who finds love and then loses it in this fine romantic tragedy.
• Can W.W.E. Still Mint Hollywood Stars? ‘Street Fighter’ Is the Test. Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns hope to follow in the path of the Rock and John Cena. But both wrestling and Hollywood have changed so much since their rise.
• Austin Abrams Is Pretty Chill, Actually. In “Resident Evil” and “Whalefall,” the actor navigates worst-case survival scenarios. In real life, things seem to be going just fine.
• Alex Gibney on ‘Musk’ and Why a 4-Hour Film Was Necessary. The documentarian also talks about trying to interview the trillionaire and the roadblocks the film has run into.
• Three Mark Zuckerbergs, Three Surprisingly Different Men. Jeremy Strong in “The Social Reckoning,” Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” and the real Meta executive are all playing parts. But only one has changed his approach.
• John Cena Had Wrestling on His Mind From an Early Age. “I dreamed as a young kid — there’s a very iconic picture of me with a homemade paper championship belt — about one day being a W.W.E. champion,” he said.

Food

• Slow-Cooker Chili for a Crowd (or Just You and Your Freezer). And more popular recipes from the week.
• The Internet Loves These Crispy, Deep-Fried Eggs. Now, You Can Make Them at Home. This anytime dish feels like a magic trick.
• Where to Eat Like You’re in Hawaii (From 5,000 Miles Away). Hawaiian food is scarce in New York City, but not so scarce that you can’t find some great options.
• ‘I Had Always Considered Brussels Sprouts to Be Evil Little Cabbages’ Readers’ least favorite vegetables, and the recipes that changed their minds.
• Don’t Make Salad. Make a Salad Pancake. Ruffles of oak leaf lettuce are dipped in a light batter, pan-fried until crisp and dunked into a sesame and soy dipping sauce.
• Beyond the Casserole: Veggie-Packed Meals to Bring to a Friend in Need. Because they’ve had enough lasagna and brownies.
• Yotam Ottolenghi Runs Out of Dinner Ideas, Too. Here’s What He Makes. An easy sauce, a robust egg dish and a generous baked rice: Let these recipes from the author of “Simple Too” help you plan your weeknights.
• How to Make the Creamiest Mac and Cheese. This mac and cheese feels alive the way a crashing wave does, each mouthful crackly and silky as the crunch of toasted crumbs slides into the riptide of cheese sauce.
• Creamy Tuscan Chicken. Despite its name, Tuscan chicken is not a traditional Italian recipe, but a dish of Italian-American origin, with its roots perhaps most frequently linked to Olive Garden.
• World’s Best Chocolate Cake. This versatile cake can be served without icing and just a light dusting of cocoa powder, or dressed up to the nines, as it is here, with a thin layer of chocolate ganache and served with espresso cinnamon mascarpone cream.
• Slow-Cooker Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup. This creamy vegetarian soup takes just a few minutes to throw the ingredients into the slow cooker, making it very doable on a weekday.
• Meatballs With Any Meat. Making great meatballs is all about memorizing a basic ratio that you can adjust to suit your taste.
• The Soccer Bar of Your Mexican Food Dreams Is Here. From the Taqueria Ramírez team, Soccería in Greenpoint pairs lively fútbol energy with seriously good cooking.
• Cabagges World Believes Brunch Is Good in L.A. and Evil in New York. Anna Archibald and Kevin Serai, the couple behind the popular home cooking and lifestyle account, tackle our restaurant questionnaire.
• Daniel Humm Finally Puts His Name on a Restaurant. Softville makes its American gelato debut, Diner24 provides dinner-theater on the hour and more restaurant news.
• Farm-to-Table Cooking, in a Former Gas Station. The chef Myles Moody returns home to bring his worldly take on the classics.
• At Legacy Orchards, Take a Bite of History. Esopus Spitzenburg, Cornish Gilliflower, Hubbardston Nonesuch: Antique varieties, with names recalling Dickensian villains, are packed with fresh flavor and texture.
• A Miso Fish Chowder That Really Satisfies. A light, umami-ful twist on New England clam chowder.
• How Climate Change Is Causing ‘the Gentrification of Seafood’ As environmental forces make fishing and harvesting more costly, the price of once-everyday fish has ballooned.
• A Skillet Dinner That Checks All the Boxes. This fragrant coconut chicken and sweet potato recipe features protein, green veggies, bright lime, luscious coconut milk and, yes, sweet potato.
• Genevieve Ko’s Perfect Mac and Cheese. Think: silky sauced macaroni beneath crackling, salty crumbs.
• Come for the Big Croutons, Stay for the Oregano-Garlic Chicken. This Christian Reynoso recipe is very Zuni Café-chicken-coded (complimentary).
• Our Best Lasagna Recipe. And more marvelous mains for any special dinner (including a certain special November dinner).
• Caroline Schiff Eats Focaccia Every Day. “Plain, with eggs for breakfast, dunked in olive oil, as a pressed sandwich — with anything and everything.”

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Wine: It’s the People’s Drink. Let’s stop thinking about wine as an emblem of snobbery, and start celebrating it for what it is: a way for community to come together.

Style

• Paris Bids Au Revoir Until Next Season. Designers and their fashion farewells.
• Who Should Fill the Open Roles at Calvin Klein and Alexander McQueen? After change-ups at two big luxury brands, we fantasized about who should go where.
• Robot Models, Meta Glasses and A.I. Spon-Con: Fashion Cozies Up to Tech. Some magazines, influencers and writers are trying out the latest in artificial intelligence and wearables, even if their audiences are skeptical.
• Our Favorite Looks From the Most Recent Runways. Outfit inspiration from the spring 2027 shows.
• My Late Fiancé Never Knew He Had a Daughter. And I couldn’t believe a piece of him still existed in this world.
• ‘It Felt Like the World Stood Still’ Mary Nikols and Andoni Tsouchlarakis met on a trip to Crete. As their romance blossomed, they discovered their families had crossed paths decades earlier in Utah.
• After a Lackluster First Date, Sparks on the Second. Dr. Jake Perlson and Ethan Wise hit it off after matching on a dating app seven years ago, but were underwhelmed after a first in-person meeting.
• The Matchmaker’s Best Advice? No Texting. . “It definitely made a difference that he called me,” Kristen Smith said of her first date with Oliver Gray.
• Hilary Swank Is Having Her Third Child at 52. The “Million Dollar Baby” star joins a growing cohort of celebrities having children later in life.
• Inside Mira Nair’s Diwali Dinner. Authors, filmmakers, artists and writers gathered at Passerine this week to celebrate the Hindu festival. Several voiced support for the bubbling youth democracy movement in India.
• On a Mission to Breed ‘the Best Dog in the World’ A winemaker in Northern California is convinced that a dog once bred to herd sheep in the Scottish Highlands is the ideal pet for our uncertain times.
• Can A.I. Apps Be a Mom’s Second Brain? Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.
• She Traded Her Scalpel for Knitting Needles and Launched a Thriving Business. Former med student Mette Wendelboe Okkels, the owner of the knitting pattern brand PetiteKnit, is renowned for her precision and her idyllic evocation of Scandinavian life.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who Would Believe That Nonsense?’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• Diwali, Gen Z Style. Actress Avantika Vandanapu, who stars in “Not Suitable for Work,” hosted a party that mixed Hindu traditions with chai cocktails and 50 Cent.
• For a Kennedy Wedding, Brazil Beats Out Cape Cod. By the time the couple met in person in Los Angeles, they had already fallen for each other after months of messaging on WhatsApp. They celebrated their marriage with three days of festivities in Rio de Janeiro that blended both families’ traditions.
• A Group of Boys Won’t Let My Granddaughter Play Soccer With Them. Help! The girl’s father is considering getting the school principal involved, but her grandmother is skeptical that foisting one’s company on others is ever the right move.
• Is Anyone Really Wearing a Bra as a Shirt? A trend that points nowhere.
• Perfectly at Home in a Travel Outfit. Giovanna Ciampitti, 58, has loved fashion since she was a girl. On a trip to London to visit her son, she brought along some favorite designers as travel companions.
• White Paint. It’s Everywhere. She Hates It. In her latest book, “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters considers the seemingly neutral background of daily life.
• Famous for His Tale of Murder, He Honed His Literary Voice in Fashion. Before John Berendt wrote his classic “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” he trained his keen eye on men’s wear and manners in a long-running Esquire column.
• Kelly Clarkson Feuds With a Brooklyn Novelty Shop, and the Internet Piles On. In an episode involving a famous singer and a purveyor of esoteric toys, everyone has an opinion about who made the big mistake. Big. Huge!
• Here to Help; Vanessa Friedman Answers Your Style Questions. A reader wonders if it’s time for her love affair with clothing resale to come to an end.
• The Importance of Designers Doing It for Themselves. For his next act, Kim Jones, formerly of Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Dior, is starting a namesake collection. It’s a trend.
• Something Old? How About Something Newly Thrifted? As Gen Z, a generation that has embraced thrifting, begins to get married, it’s no surprise that they’re incorporating secondhand swag.
• Conor Kennedy and Giulia Be Celebrate Marriage in Rio Amid Political Uncertainty. The couple’s three-day wedding celebration in Rio de Janeiro brought together two families with political ties as rising tensions surround Brazil’s presidential election.
• George and Amal Clooney’s Glittering Gala for Human Rights. The couple hosted their foundation’s annual awards gala in London, drawing a crowd that included Emma Thompson, Donatella Versace and more.

Magazine

• Is Anyone Actually in Charge of the Democratic Party? And Does It Matter? This year’s midterm elections are a test of whether a party can be a success and a failure at the same time.
• Is a Rock Show a ‘Concert’?
• How ‘Alignment’ Took Over the Worlds of Business and Tech. Whether an A.I. or a human, you’re encouraged to be aligned. How did we get here?
• Processing My Father’s Death by Climbing in His Footsteps. Yosemite is where my father taught me to climb. It’s also where he made a mistake that nearly cost me my life.
• Is It Wrong to Vote in the Other Party’s Primary? My friend, a red-state Democrat, wanted to register as a Republican to support a moderate candidate.
• How California’s Ultrarich Are Trying to Stop the World’s First Billionaire Tax. Billionaires feel like they “have become piñatas for politicians.” Instead of taking a hit, they’re swinging back.
• Why Is It So Hard to Tax the Ultra-Rich? See how America's billionaires can accumulate so much wealth without drawing a significant salary.
• Sterlin Harjo’s Oklahoma Is a ‘Land of Secrets.’ He’s Revealing Them One by One. How the creator of “The Lowdown” and “Reservation Dogs” is telling the stories of America with a little help from his friends, family and heroes.
• I Thought Life Coaching Would Be Like Therapy but It’s Actually More Like … Football? It turns out that what my life was missing was someone keeping score.
• I Never Saw Myself as a ‘Cancer Patient’ — Until I Went Fishing With 10 of Them. As fly fishing became less like a hobby and more like a lifeline, could a retreat help ease my emotional burden?
• He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back. For three years and 750 miles, Steffen Skjottelvik lived a life of adventure. Until the adventure took his life.
• How to Buy and Eat Seafood Responsibly. Our investigation into the farmed fish industry found human-rights violations and health concerns. Here’s what you can do.
• My Sister’s Young Foster Child Is Becoming Violent. Should I Intervene? I worry that the child is not receiving the care he needs and that my sister is in danger.
• She’s Been to Gaza. She Met With the Iranians. Now She Has a Warning. As the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric goes to both sides of conflicts. She’s worried that our warring world is spiraling out of control.

T Magazine

• How to Build a Skin Care Routine for Mature Skin. Expert advice from the actress Taraji P. Henson, the dancer Wendy Whelan and the aesthetician Teresa Tarmey.
• The Lake Effect. After a Swedish couple returned to Europe from Australia, they found a 19th-century weekend refuge near Como.
• Take It Easy. Thanks to relaxed tailoring and a neutral palette, the season’s looks are refreshingly uncomplicated.
• Scissor Hands . A new generation is putting a fresh — and sometimes subversive — spin on the ancient practice.
• Vibrant Paintings Filled with Spirals, Hearts and Rainbows. The Dominican American artist Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo, who has a presentation at Frieze London, wants her works to “engulf” viewers.
• Engagement Gifts That Can Double as Wedding Presents. Velvet jewelry trays, keepsake matchboxes and more recommendations from T Magazine.
• My Obsession. The painter Andreas Schulze shares his collection of hundreds of airbrushed ceramic pieces.
• ‘I Don’t Have to Really Feel What It’s Like to Do Awful, Awful Things. I Just Have to Pretend.’ Over 40 years in Hollywood, the actor has remained uncompromisingly himself.
• My Greats | Steve Buscemi. The actor discusses everything from the greatest concert he’s ever seen to his favorite sweet treat.
• ‘Well, Are You Going to Take It or Not?’ Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.
• The Softest, Most Stylish Flannels. Versatile, colorful and great for layering when temperatures cool, these are the shirts you’ll reach for all season.
• Alessandro Michele. Alessandro Michele, the creative director of Valentino, invites T into his creative world.

Travel

• Feel Like You’re Overpaying for Hotels? Blame Expedia, a New Lawsuit Says. The booking giant is accused of breaking federal antitrust laws and forcing millions of customers to overspend on stays by as much as 30 percent.
• The Last Flight of the A346: An Aviation Love Story. Lufthansa’s quirky plane, with its extra-long fuselage, four engines and restrooms down a flight of stairs, has a devoted following. Now, the carrier, one of few still flying the model, is taking it out of service.
• 20 Hours After Falling Overboard, Cruise Passenger Is Rescued Near Greece. According to Greek officials, the woman told her rescuers she had jumped off the ship because she “wanted to disembark.”
• 36 Hours in Tunis. Tunisia’s capital is replete with wonders both ancient and modern, from archaeological ruins to a kinetic contemporary art scene.
• Hiking the Mountain Where the Cold War Began to Thaw. A writer walks the Polish-Czech Friendship Trail, where during the Cold War, dissidents from the two countries met to discuss their efforts against Communism.
• 5 American Bike Rides You’ll Really Love. Readers Told Us So. When we recently featured a few of the best car-free bike rides in America, readers had a lot of recommendations for trails we had missed. We picked five to share.
• Daniel Boulud’s 5 Favorite Places in Lyon, France. The world-famous chef, who just opened his latest outpost in Manhattan, shares some places he loves in the French city he says “will always be home.”
• 5 Horror Movie Locations to Get You in the Halloween Spirit. Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”
• A Piero della Francesca Treasure Hunt Through Tuscany. A writer’s road trip in search of the early Renaissance master’s most resplendent works takes her to towns beyond Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
• What Travelers Need to Know as Isaias Pushes Inland. The storm, which closed airports and canceled trains along the Gulf, could affect major hubs like Atlanta and Charlotte.

Real Estate

• Choose Your Favorite Home in Coastal Uruguay for Under $500,000. A cottage near a resort town, a contemporary villa designed for socializing and a minimalist home in a private community with amenities.
• Living Near the Hollywood Bowl: Free Concerts and Pancake Breakfasts. For many of the residents surrounding the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, stadium noise is a feature, not a bug.
• Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey. This week’s properties are a ranch-style house in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and a lakefront log cabin in Medford Lakes, N.J.
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and the Bronx. This week’s properties are in Kips Bay, Greenwich Village and on the Grand Concourse.
• An Architect’s Personal Jewel Box Is for Sale in South Pasadena. The home of Bob Ray Offenhauser, known for his countless grand estates, is on the market for $4.2 million.
• When Your Roommate Runs a Gallery Out of the Living Room. Artists across Crown Heights, Ridgewood and beyond are following in the grand New York City tradition of apartment galleries.
• How Old Will I Be Before I Own a Home? Expect to stop renting by your late 30s (but don’t expect to live in Los Angeles or New York).
• New York’s Art Scene Called to Her. Which Home Did She Choose?
• Which $400,000 Home Would You Choose? Homes include an Italianate brick home in Schenectady, N.Y., a bungalow in Springfield, Ore., and a farmhouse in Plainfield, Ind.
• Angelina Jolie Barely Breaks Even After Selling Her Los Angeles Estate. The actress, who has expressed a desire to move abroad, got $24.75 million, $250,000 more than what she had paid. Also, Larry Ellison, John McEnroe and Little Steven are selling their homes.
• In Tokyo, a Handmade Temple of Concrete, Two Decades in the Making. Architect Keisuke Oka’s Arimasuton building is a rejection of Japan’s disposable architecture.
• In Atlanta, an A.D.U. Built With Salvaged Materials for $50,000. Evan Levy realized he could build an accessory dwelling unit within his budget if he did much of the work himself.
• Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof Played Here. Now the Curtain May Come Down. HB Studio, founded in 1945, has serious financial woes and is in disrepair.
• In Italy, a Townhouse Where Polished Gives Way to Ragged and Raw. An architect laid bare the imperfections of his home renovation to fully reveal the building, and leave room for later inspiration.
• Inside Grace Coddington’s Cozy and ‘Very Catty’ East Hampton Retreat. The fashion stylist and creative director decorated her Hamptons home with mementos from her storied career and an abundance of cats.
• We Need an Accessible Parking Spot. What Is Our Building’s Responsibility? The condominium association is still obligated to provide a reasonable accommodation, experts said.

Health

• Life Lessons on the Way to 100. We asked people who aspire to live long lives about how they hoped to do it and who might have inspired them along the way.

Well

• The Difficulty of Diagnosing Anorexia in the GLP-1 Era. Doctors worry that the effects of weight-loss drugs may be masking serious eating disorders.
• 3 Tools to Help Keep Your Anger in Check. It may feel justified in the moment, but yelling at your loved ones rarely gets you what you want.
• Fighting Father Time, Hand to Hand. While some people slow down as they get older, or just try to maintain, these athletes went looking for a challenge in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
• Is Retirement Unhealthy? It Depends. As more Americans live longer and as the population ages, measuring the effect of retirement on physical, cognitive and mental abilities is a complex undertaking.
• Do You Have ‘Purpose Anxiety’? This is for everyone who has ever laid awake at night wondering what it’s all for.
• Lessons From a New Widow. As people think about living longer, a New York Times writer reflects on the recent death of her husband and what helps life go on.
• What Can a Biological Age Test Actually Tell You? Experts weigh in on the tests’ current accuracy and usefulness.
• Why So Many People Still Are Not Screened for Lung Cancer. Regular scans could catch lung cancers like Pope Leo XIV’s sooner, but many people at risk don’t qualify for screening. Doctors want to change that.
• Pope Leo XIV Has Lung Adenocarcinoma. What Is It? The cancer has a high survival rate if caught in the early stages.
• The Surfer’s Guide to a More Active Life. Some of the best lessons for remaining active in later years can be found on a surfboard.
• 6 Things Longevity Experts Want You to Know. Living longer and healthier is important. But don’t believe everything you hear.

Eat

• How Healthy Is Seaweed? The sushi staple is uniquely nutritious, fresh or dried.

Live

• New Guidelines Strongly Support Hormone Therapy for Common Menopause Symptoms. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the benefits of the treatment outweigh the harms for many women.
• Can Humans Live to 200? Unlikely. Here’s Why. Some experts are optimistic that science will eventually find ways to extend life, but many longevity claims are unrealistic.

Mind

• An Anomaly Among Therapists Offers A Core Message: Vulnerability Is Healing. He’s pushing his millions of online followers to be more vulnerable, using himself as an example.

Move

• What’s the Best Way to Deal With Bunions? We asked experts what you can do to manage the discomfort and when to consider surgery.
• Sitting All Day? This Mobility Routine Can Help You Loosen Up. Try these simple moves to avoid aches and pains.

Well: Family

• Coming Out at 50 Can Be Hard. Shelly Found a Coach. She spent decades building an identity as a wife and mother. Could she disrupt “a perfectly good family dynamic” to live her own truth?

Times Insider

• How We Reported on the Cornell Case. In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, we’re diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says we’re not tough enough on Trump.
• A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump. In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism of Times coverage.
• What Media Witnesses Saw and Heard at Christa Pike’s Botched Execution. Reporters often offer the only independent account of what happens inside a death chamber.
• A New Space Editor Has Her Eye on the Cosmos. On the Science desk, Victoria Jaggard spends her days pondering the universe’s most pressing mysteries.

Corrections

• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Friday, October 16, 2026.

The Learning Network

• How Do You Clear Your Head? Do you go for a walk, listen to certain songs, talk to a friend — or are there other methods or rituals that help you feel ready for what’s next?
• Word of the Day: pittance. This word has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• On This Day | Oct. 16. In 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb.
• Should the Death Penalty Still Be in Use in the United States? A botched execution in Tennessee and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and division over capital punishment. How do you feel about the issue?
• Word of the Day: colloquial. This word has appeared in 62 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• On This Day | Oct. 15. In 1964, Soviet leaders announced that Nikita Khrushchev had been ousted from his top roles. In the bloodless coup, Leonid Brezhnev became the Communist Party chief, and Alexei Kosygin became the premier.
• What Teenagers Are Saying About the Cornell Sexual Assault Case. Students react to the news that has gripped the nation, sharing their thoughts on institutional accountability, fraternity culture and campus safety.
• If You Were Wealthy, Would You Give Away Your Money? The country music legend Dolly Parton, who died this summer, gave generously to causes she believed in. If you were rich, would you share your wealth with others?
• Word of the Day: hypnotize. This word has appeared in 30 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• On This Day | Oct. 14. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning for president in Milwaukee. He then delivered a lengthy speech before seeking medical treatment.
• Word of the Day: aegis. This word has appeared in 17 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Would You Like to Learn a Trade? Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. How do you feel about working with your hands?
• On This Day | Oct. 13. In 2010, 33 Chilean miners trapped in a San José mine were rescued after spending 69 days underground. The dramatic, globally televised rescue turned the miners’ survival into a worldwide symbol of hope.
• On This Day | Oct. 12. In 2000, Qaeda suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole while it was refueling in Yemen, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39. The attack foreshadowed 9/11 and exposed U.S. military vulnerability before terrorism became a central American concern.
• On This Day | Oct. 11. In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, a gathering that reshaped the Roman Catholic Church.
• On This Day | Oct. 10. In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned from office, becoming the only vice president in U.S. history to resign amid criminal charges.

Weather

• Firefighters Race to Control California Blazes as Winds Threaten to Spark More. Power companies shut off tens of thousands of homes and businesses preemptively on Friday.
• California Faces a Combustible Mix of ‘Very Dry’ Air and 75-M.P.H. Wind Gusts. Red flag warnings were in effect across the state, but the most worrisome weather conditions were expected in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
• California Faces Combustible Mix of ‘Very Dry’ Air and 75-M.P.H. Wind Gusts. Red flag warnings were in effect across the state, but the most worrisome weather conditions were expected in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
• Trudy Is Just the Latest Storm in This Unusual Hurricane Season. The Pacific Ocean is seeing more storms, and stronger storms, than usual. Here’s what’s going on (and how it all traces back to El Niño).
• Tracking Tropical Storm Champi. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Champi
• Strong Winds Prompt Wildfire Warnings for Millions in California. The first Santa Ana winds of the season are arriving this week in Southern California, where the most severe warnings were in place for Thursday and Friday.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Trudy. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Trudy
• Post-Tropical Storm Rachel Floods Parts of Las Vegas Strip. Heavy rain from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel flooded parts of the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday.
• 2 Storms Bring Flood Risks to Mexico and the Southwest. Hurricane Simon was hugging the west coast of Mexico on Sunday, while the remnants of Post-Tropical Storm Rachel churned inland, bringing heavy rain and high winds.
• Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a Sense of Relief After Isaias Passes. Beachside towns normally teeming with tourists were hit by fallen trees and power outages, not catastrophic flooding.
• Two Killed as Hurricane Isaias Topples Trees Onto Homes. A person in Florida and another in Alabama lost their lives as the fast-moving storm came ashore along the Gulf states.
• Here’s the latest on the storm.
• A.I. Hurricane Models Were Front and Center as Isaias Headed Toward Land. Expert forecasters say the new technology is helping them understand where a storm will go.
• Storm Surge Expected Along Parts of the Gulf Coast. Water is expected to inundate parts of Alabama and Florida as Hurricane Isaias crosses over onto land.
• Hurricane Isaias Comes at Inconvenient Time for College Football Fans. The highly anticipated Alabama-Georgia game is set to take place on Saturday in one of the 40 counties under a state of emergency in Alabama.
• Stay or evacuate from the storm? For some, pets make the difference.

• These Factors Could Limit the Knicks in Their Title Defense. Joe Vardon, an N.B.A. writer for The Athletic, breaks down the lingering questions the New York Knicks must answer this season.
• Para ciertos estudiantes en Texas, una leve falta puede derivar en cargos penales. Una investigación muestra cómo niños de entre 10 y 13 años son remitidos al sistema legal por exabruptos comunes de su edad, o infracciones como vapear, que no representan una amenaza grave real.
• Bills Prevail After Back-and-Forth Contest With Rams. The Buffalo Bills needed every ounce of energy to amend their Week 4 loss. On Monday night, they edged the Los Angeles Rams 37-34 in overtime.

Gameplay

• Connections Companion No. 1,224. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 958. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,946. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• It Has Its Highs and Lows. Adam Shapiro makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
• Connections Companion No. 1,223. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,945. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 957. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
• Solve a Special Detective Novel Themed Crossword Puzzle. Rian Johnson, the Oscar-nominated director, co-constructed this puzzle.
• ‘Hurry!’ McKay Fritz’s debut crossword is right on the mark.
• Connections Companion No. 1,222. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 956. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,944. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.
• They May Be Subject to Inflation. Jacob Stulberg meets resistance.
• Connections Companion No. 1,221. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,943. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for day, Date, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 955. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026.
• Gradually Eat Away. It’s an all-around celebration in Gia Bosko’s crossword.
• Connections Companion No. 1,220. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,942. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 954. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
• How to Beat Your Friends at Crossplay. Top players share tips and tricks that you can use in your next game.
• Follows an Order. Zhouqin Burnikel grants us an extension.
• Connections Companion No. 1,219. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 953. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,941. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.
• Heart Transplants. Prepare to be duped by Michael Lieberman’s spirited Sunday grid.
• Connections Companion No. 1,218. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,940. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 952. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026.
• ‘Not Today, Satan!’ Don’t let David Levinson Wilk’s themeless puzzle put you on the ropes.

Polls

• New Mexico 3rd Congressional District 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.
• New Mexico 1st Congressional District 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.
• Rhode Island 1st Congressional District 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District.
• Georgia 3rd Congressional District 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in Georgia's 3rd Congressional District.